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Niantic CEO says the company is going to add “sponsored locations” to Pokémon Go, letting retailers and other companies sponsor places on the virtual map — The developer behind Pokémon Go , the smash hit location-based mobile game that has dominated US …
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @film_girl, @wu_tang_finance and @unbibs
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Apple puts out open casting call for app creators for reality show “Planet of the Apps”, sheds more light on the series — Earlier this year it was announced that Apple was planning to launch its first original TV series about the “app economy.”
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Inside Facebook's Mobile Device Lab, which houses about 60 server racks to test its apps for performance and battery consumption on older phones — Deep inside Facebook's very first data center, located in a sprawling facility in the hills of Prineville, OR, lies a series of about 60 server racks.
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Facebook Code, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, SlashGear, The Next Web, ZDNet and Mashable. Tweets: @steipete
| Maureen Morrison / Ad Age: |
BitTorrent to launch live-streamed TV news network on July 18 at the Republican National Convention as part of broader effort to become a video content company — Move Is Part of Larger Effort to Refocus Business on Becoming Video Content Company — 6 Ways You Can Put Behavioral Automation to Work for Your Clients Today| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Tor Project replaces its board with a new slate of directors including Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze, in the wake of Jacob Appelbaum's resignation — SAN FRANCISCO — The Tor Project, a nonprofit digital privacy group, on Wednesday replaced its board with a new slate of directors as part …
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Tweets: @torproject, @xeni, @trevortimm and @asher_wolf
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Unity Technologies, which makes the game engine behind Pokémon Go and others, raises $181M at a $1.5B valuation — Most game players have never heard of Unity Technologies, but its software was used in the creation of a large number of the world's top mobile games, including the current hit Pokémon Go.| Tom Mendelsohn / Ars Technica UK: |
HP Inc. follows Dell in raising UK prices by 10% after Brexit weakens the pound; Lenovo and Cisco are reportedly still considering a price hike — HP plans to bump up its UK prices up by 10 percent across the board due to the pound's volatility against the dollar in the weeks following …
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Microsoft and Twitch announce capture card support for all Twitch Xbox One users broadcasting on Xbox Live — Today, in partnership with Twitch, we're pleased to announce capture card support for Twitch Xbox One broadcasters on Xbox Live. Previously, only Xbox One players broadcasting …
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Engadget, Tech Times, MSPoweruser, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, Twitch Blog and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @majornelson
| Andrew Byrne / Financial Times: |
Uber pulls out of Hungary, where it had 1,200 drivers, over government legislation that penalizes drivers, blocks access to “illegal dispatcher services” — Ride-hailing app Uber is pulling out of Hungary after the introduction of tough new laws by prime minister Viktor Orban which the company said put its drivers at risk.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Kifi, a sharing and recommendation app, team to join Spaces, app will be shut down over next few weeks — Google has made another small acquisition to help it continue building out its latest efforts in social apps. The search and Android giant has hired the team behind Kifi …
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On the Same Page with Kifi, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Tech Times, Computerworld, VatorNews, Android Central, The Next Web, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Ausdroid, Engadget and VentureBeat
Tweets: @connerdelights and @jeng24
| Krystina Gustafson / CNBC: |
Amazon's sales rise 60% YoY worldwide, 50% in the US, on Prime Day, making it the biggest sales day ever — So much for concerns that the second Prime Day event didn't live up to Amazon's expectations. — The online retailer said Wednesday that the self-created holiday was its biggest sales day ever …
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Tweets: @ccheddarberk, @kantrowitz, @brettmolina23 and @mylesudland
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
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