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Sources: Apple to hold an event on September 9 to unveil new iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — Apple's Fall iPhone Event To Be Held Sept. 9 — Oh, one more thing: Apple TV. — BuzzFeed/ Warner Bros. — Apple hasn't yet officially announced its annual fall media event …
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Verizon eliminates subsidized phones and contracts, offers 4 plans with 1-12GB of data for $30-80 per month and a $20 per month smartphone access fee — Verizon kills off service contracts, smartphone subsidies — In a radical shift, the company will only offer new plans …
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Square IPO bankers make preparations in case Jack Dorsey leaves to be full-time Twitter CEO — Dorsey's Dilemma: Running Twitter Seen Complicating Square IPO — Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim CEO of Twitter Inc. and founder and chief executive officer of Square Inc. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Dick Costolo plans to step down from Twitter board by end of year or when new CEO is appointed — Dick Costolo Reportedly Plans to Step Down From Twitter's Board — Dick Costolo, the former chief executive of Twitter, plans to leave the company's board of directors by the end of the year … | BBC: |
Hackers may have accessed personal details of 2.4M Carphone Warehouse customers, along with 90K encrypted credit card records — Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach — Personal details of up to 2.4m Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says.| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Sources: European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion between Apple and major music labels to quash free music streaming services — EU Finds No Evidence of Apple and Music Labels Colluding to Kill Free Music — The European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion among …
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Sidecar, trailing behind Uber and Lyft, becomes mainly a delivery service for other businesses — Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots To A Mostly-Deliveries Company — The U.S. ride-hailing market may have room for two players, but apparently not for three.
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Microsoft releases Translator, an app that translates typed or spoken words in 50 languages, for iOS, Android, Apple Watch and Android Wear — Microsoft challenges Google with its own translator app — The new app is covering all the bases, launching for iOS, Android and even the Apple Watch and Android Wear smartwatches.| Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg Business: |
NPD: Apple helped US watch sales fall 14% in June, the biggest drop in seven years — Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years — U.S. watch sales fell the most in seven years in June, one of the first signs Apple Inc.'s watch is eroding demand for traditional timepieces.| Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: |
LG joins Samsung and Google in committing to monthly security updates for its devices — Big Android Makers Will Now Push Monthly Security Updates — The Stagefright bug has quickly frightened cell phone manufacturers into action. It's been just over a week since researchers alerted … | Josh Horwitz / Quartz: |
Chinese smartphone brands Vivo and Oppo make up roughly 15% of domestic shipments, gained by a focus on traditional retail — Two little-known smartphone brands are creeping up on Samsung and Xiaomi in China — This post has been updated with breaking market data. — First it was Xiaomi.
Tweets: @jonrussell and @iankar_
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps adds Night Mode to iOS, providing a darker color scheme for directions at night — Google Maps' “Night Mode” Feature Makes It Easier To Navigate In The Dark — A new update to the Google Maps iOS application promises to make it easier to navigate when it's dark outside … Sponsor Posts
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