Amazon announces $50 7" Fire tablet, available in a six-pack for $250, and updated versions of Fire HD 8, HD 10, Kids Edition tablets, all shipping in October
Amazon introduces a slew of cheap tablets starting at $50, upgraded Fire TV — New devices include a bargain basement 7-inch tablet, as predicted.
Amazon announces updated Fire TV with Alexa and 4K support for $100, Fire TV Stick and voice remote bundle for $50, all shipping in October
Amazon's answer to Apple TV: a Fire TV box with Alexa and 4K video support — Last week Apple sucked up most of the air in the tech press with its newest gadgets …
Marco Arment launches Peace, a $2.99 privacy-focused content blocker for iOS 9 that uses Ghostery's robust tracker database
Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker — Running the Ghostery browser add-on in my Mac browsers has been illuminating:
Google hiring engineers, including three from Amazon's Lab126, for Project Aura, a new wearable tech initiative that builds on Glass
Google has hired a bunch of engineers from Amazon's Lab126 for a new wearable tech initiative called ‘Project Aura’ — Google is working …
Sources: Apple acquires mapping analytics and visualization startup Mapsense for $25M-$30M
Apple Acquires Mapsense, a Mapping Visualization Startup — Apple's steady stealth campaign to rival Google in maps continues apace. This month, the company acquired Mapsense …
T-Mobile and Sprint to Start Selling Apple Watch on September 25
While T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced last week that the carrier would begin selling the Apple Watch he did not provide a specific release date. MacRumors has learned that T-Mobile will begin sell...
Didi Kuaidi confirms $100M investment in Lyft; companies will share riders across countries
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Apple's first Android app ‘Move to iOS’ is now available in Google Play store
Apple's ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android — The first Android app credited to “Apple Inc.” has arrived. Apple's still working on Apple Music for Google's mobile OS …
Independent publishers are collateral damage in the war over ad revenues between Google, Apple, and Facebook
Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web — So let's talk about ad blocking. — You might think the conversation about ad blocking …
Software needed to run every Google internet service spans 2B lines of source code, all in a single repository available to all 25K engineers
Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place — How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price …
Pinterest discloses user numbers for the first time, says it crossed 100M monthly active users
Pinterest Crosses User Milestone of 100 Million — Pinterest said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 100 million monthly active members, in a milestone for the digital scrapbooking start-up …
Didi Kuaidi and Lyft in discussions with India's Ola and Singapore's GrabTaxi to expand ride share alliance internationally
Uber Rivals Form International Alliance — San Francisco's Lyft, China's Didi agree to allow their apps to work in respective countries
Apple will ask Supreme Court to hear its ebooks price-fixing case
Defying the expectations and desires of some—who thought it might be time to move on—Apple AAPL will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge's finding that it conspired to fix the price...
Google Files Suit Against SEO Firm Accused Of Robocalling, Launches Complaint Center For Users
After years of near inaction, Google is stepping up to take on robocallers that claim affiliation with the company in order to prey on small businesses. In addition to launching a new page …
Malicious Cisco router backdoor found on 79 more devices, 25 in the US
SYNful Knock implant appears to be much bigger than first reported, researchers say. — The highly clandestine attacks hitting Cisco Systems routers are much more active than previously reported.
iRobot's WiFi-connected Roomba 980 maps your home via camera and can be controlled with an app, available in October for $900
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Federal appeals court rules Apple is entitled to a narrow order that blocks Samsung from using Apple's patented tech in its devices
Apple Wins Ruling to Force Samsung to Change Products — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that may force Samsung Electronics Co. to stop using some features in its smartphones and tablets.
Cablevision acquired by European telecom company Altice for $17.7B including debt
Update Liana B. Baker / Reuters : Cablevision to be bought by Altice for $17.7 billion, including debt - source Cynthia Littleton / Variety : Cablevision to Be Sold to France's Altice for $17.7 Billio...
Facebook to allow Shopify merchants to sell products directly through a new Shop section on Facebook pages in coming weeks
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Microsoft makes Send hybrid texting-email app available for Android, expands availability for iPhone users to UK, Brazil, and Denmark, adds features for iPhone
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Germany's HelloFresh raises $85M, values Rocket Internet company at $2.9B
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter :
Facebook will likely launch a freemium version of its workplace product Facebook at Work by the end of the year in attempt to compete with Slack, Yammer
Kurt Wagner / Re/code :
Salesforce and Microsoft broaden partnership, which will include integration of Skype, OneNote, and new Salesforce 1 Mobile app for Windows 10 for cloud tools
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Fitbit becomes HIPAA compliant, signs up Target to offer device to 335k workers in enterprise push
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Comcast to create new unit to offer data services to Fortune 1000 businesses nationwide, including those outside its service area
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Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets
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Oracle Q1 profit of $1.75B exceeds expectations, but revenues miss due to strong dollar and weaker software license sales
Abhirup Roy / Reuters :
China asks US tech firms to pledge compliance for questionable practices including sharing user data and intellectual property
Paul Mozur / New York Times :
Microsoft brings Start Menu to Windows RT devices in new update
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French ride-hailing startup BlaBlaCar raises $200M from Insight, Lead Edge, and Swedish firm Vostock, at a valuation of about $1.5B
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :
US Department of Justice approves Expedia's acquisition of Orbitz for $1.3B after six month investigation; EXPE up 5.6% in after-hours trading
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