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Twitter Polls start rolling out to everyone, remain live for 24 hours, votes remain private — Introducing Twitter Polls — We're excited to share that in the coming days, everyone will be able to create polls on Twitter. And, with just a couple of taps, people can weigh in on all the topics they care about.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Twitter previews redesigned Twitter for Mac client, to launch in the coming months — Twitter Revamps Twitter For Mac Desktop App — Today at Twitter Flight, Twitter's developer conference, the company announced that it had revamped and updated the Twitter for Mac client.
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Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes To Developers, Says He Wants To “Reset” Relations — Twitter's epic bust up with developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company's rocky history, so now, as the social media company is working to reboot the business under new CEO Jack Dorsey …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Twitter announces new Publish service and partnerships to improve curating and posting tweet collections, lets anyone join waitlist for its Curator tool — Twitter makes it easier for anyone to curate and post tweet collections — When Twitter launched Moments, it talked briefly … | Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
Twitter adds nine new SDKs to Fabric including Stripe, AWS, Optimizely, Nuance, SendGrid — Twitter just added nine new SDKs to Fabric — Twitter is weaving more services into Fabric, encompassing everything from mobile payments to scaling infrastructure.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, allows offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally — Red Dawn — A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden — YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal — YouTube made its top video creators an offer … | YouTube Blog: |
YouTube announces exclusive original content for YouTube Red from popular figures including PewDiePie — Introducing YouTube Red Original Series and Movies from your favorite stars — Last year, we announced an initiative to invest in the creativity of our top YouTube stars.
| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
| Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal: |
Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion — Western Digital is facing challenges to its core hard-disk-drive businesses from flash and solid-state drives — Western Digital Corp. agreed to buy SanDisk Corp. for about $19 billion in cash and stock, a deal that positions the company …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Surface Book review: really does replace your laptop, great screen, keyboard, and trackpad, but can get very expensive — Surface Book review: The hybrid that really does replace your laptop — It ain't cheap, but it is pretty. — This is the machine that I've wanted Microsoft … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, reddit, Twitter, Wikimedia, join Google, Facebook, and Yahoo in voicing opposition to current CISA proposal days before vote — Apple says it's against a key cybersecurity bill, days before a crucial vote — Apple said Tuesday that it opposes a controversial cybersecurity bill that …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 9.1, bringing Apple News to UK, Live Photos improvements, new emoji — Apple Releases iOS 9.1 With New Emoji, Live Photos Improvements — Apple today released iOS 9.1 to the public, marking the first major update to the iOS 9 operating system that launched in September.
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, BetaNews, ZDNet, Macworld, 9to5Mac, iMore, Engadget, CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, BGR, The Verge, Telegraph, The Next Web, iClarified, O'Grady's PowerPage and Mashable. See also Mediagazer
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Windows veteran Joe Belfiore taking one year off to spend time with family, will return to role after year out — Microsoft Windows veteran Joe Belfiore takes a year leave-of-absence — Joe Belfiore, one of Microsoft's key lieutenants on Windows, is taking a year's break. What gives?| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Wikileaks publishes documents from CIA director John Brennan's personal email account — Wikileaks has published data from CIA director John Brennan's private email account, in a release the group is calling The CIA Files. The documents include a form provided for background investigation …
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Shopping Insights tool offers retailers product search data from over 16K US cities — Google Discloses More Search Data to Woo Retailers — Shopping Insights tool shows products searched for in more than 16,000 U.S. cities — Google is offering retailers an unusual peek …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
HP Sells Network Security Business TippingPoint To Trend Micro For $300M — On the heels of Dell buying EMC for $67 billion and Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billion, HP is selling off its TippingPoint network security business to TrendMicro for $300 million.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With Customer Care, Twitter Wants To Sharpen Its Profile As A Platform To Do Business — Twitter is on double time these days when it comes to rolling out new products and pressing ahead under new CEO Jack Dorsey — a strategy that will likely get a decent gust of air Wednesday during the company's Flight developer conference.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Apple Music Trials Wrap, Spotify Snags The #1 Top Grossing Spot In US App Store For First Time — Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday may have been touting the number of Apple Music music paying subscribers - 6.5 million, but at the same time rival Spotify was quietly hitting a milestone of its own.
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Tech Insider, App Annie, 9to5Mac, NEWS.com.au, Tech Times, Cult of Mac, Forbes, USA Today, Computerworld and CNET. Tweets: @iamziad. See also Mediagazer
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Huawei Nexus 6P review: uncommon USB Type-C, photo processing can be slow, but great camera, fast and accurate fingerprint reader, the best Android phone yet — Nexus 6P review: the best Android phone — The Nexus 6P is a premium phone. — “Premium” is a funny word when it comes to phones.Sponsor Posts
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