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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 6s breaks traditional tick-tock release cycle with 3 marquee features: innovative 3D Touch, impressive 4K video shooting and editing, and Live Photos — Review: Apple's iPhone 6s And 6s Plus Go ‘Tick’ — Tick, tock. Tick, tock. This is the familiar sound of Apple's iPhone.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 6s review: 3D Touch is fun and useful, terrific camera and great performance, but battery life could be better — iPhone 6S review — Big screens won. — For the past three years, the most meaningful change to the iPhone has been the size of its screen.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @dsilverman and @caseynewton
| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
iPhone 6s Plus' snappier performance and camera improvements are nice, but 3D Touch makes it worth upgrading — Yet Another iPhone 6s Review — Should you buy an iPhone 6s? Should I? — RC Rivera for Buzzfeed News — It's Wednesday evening and I have a question for my wife: Should I get an iPhone 6s?
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft announces worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows and Mac — The new Office is here — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team. — It's here! Today is the worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Office 2016 arrives with collaboration features, real-time co-authoring, Cortana integration, and improved search — Office 2016 arrives with features meant to take on Google (and everyone else) — Office 2016 is out of preview today, and in a sentence, it represents Microsoft's … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100 At A Cost Of $35M, Shutters Operations In 7 Countries — Some significant downsizing is underway at Groupon, the daily deals and local-commerce site. The company is today announcing that it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and taking a pre-tax charge of $35 million in the process.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join — Facebook Ramps Up Its Instant Articles, and the Washington Post Is All In — Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times …
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Facebook Developers, The Next Web, The Verge, Mashable and Poynter
Tweets: @benthompson and @pkafka
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Netflix-like e-book subscription service Oyster to shut down; part of team moving to Google Play Books, including CEO and co-founders according to sources — Oyster, a Netflix for Books, Is Shutting Down. But Most of Its Team Is Heading to Google. — Oyster, a company that provides …
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Tweets: @andrewdumont, @sdkstl, @pkafka, @kaetrin67, @mikeisaac and @pmarca
See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL/Verizon Completes Spinout Of CrunchBase Funded By Emergence Capital — CrunchBase, the database of startups, other tech companies and the people who work in them that was originally developed alongside TechCrunch, is spinning out as an independent company.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Loses Its Sr. Director of Engineering, Growth and International Team To Uber — As we've heard before, Twitter is losing some talent lately...specifically to the company a few blocks over, Uber. Today, Akash Garg announced that he was leaving Twitter for the logistics company:
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| Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
Starbucks mobile ordering now blankets the U.S., with coverage in San Francisco, New York and more coming today … Starbucks new mobile ordering service, which allows customers to skip the line by ordering in advance from their phone, is launching nationwide today to bring on board …
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The Verge, ABC News, Gizmodo, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Fortune, VentureBeat, Android Central and Engadget
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will sell off its Wink smart home platform, likely to Flextronics for $15M — Quirky files for bankruptcy, will sell off its Wink smart home platform — As part of a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing …
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Quirky Blog, Wink Blog, Fortune, The Next Web, ReadWrite, Engadget and SlashGear. Tweets: @scottmaustin
| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
RIAA finds streaming revenues grow 23.2%, downloads fall 4%, vinyl sales grow 51.3%, in first half of 2015 — Record Label Revenue Flat in First Half of 2015 — Big gains in paid digital access and ad-supported streaming services kept things from going underwater.
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Re/code, Bloomberg Business, CNET, Music Week and Associated Press
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches Mi 4c in China with Snapdragon 808, 5-inch 1080p display, and USB Type-C for $205 — Xiaomi's new $200 Mi 4c has everything you need in a smartphone — Earlier this year, Xiaomi introduced the Mi 4i for India, and today it's launching the Mi 4c for China.| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Following invites from several major tech companies, clockmaking teen Ahmed Mohamed gets VIP treatment at Google's Science Fair — Ahmed Mohamed, handcuffed for making clock, is VIP at Google Science Fair — SAN FRANCISCO — Young scientists showed off projects that are finalists in the Google science fair on Monday.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Broadband is a “core utility” like electricity, White House report says — US must take action because millions lack broadband access, White House says. — Broadband Internet service “has steadily shifted from an optional amenity to a core utility” and is now “taking its place alongside water …
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Digital Trends, DSLreports and whitehouse.gov
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Formlabs debuts $3,499 Form 2 3D printer with better resolution and smarter prints — It's estimated that the 3D printing market will grow to $16.2 billion by 2018, a compounded annual growth rate of 45.7 percent over the five-year period. One company eagerly looking to capture …
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