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PayPal integrates with Skype's mobile app to enable sending money to users in 22 countries including, US, UK, Canada, and others in Europe — The PayPal partnerships keep coming. The still growing payments giant today announced a new deal with Skype that will allow users in 22 countries worldwide …
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Sources: Facebook is working on a video chat device with wide angle lens and large touchscreen, which could be announced at F8, and a standalone smart speaker — Product would make it seem like people are in the same room — Device aligns with Zuckerberg goal of bringing users closer
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Report: Snap in talks to buy Zero Zero Robotics, best known for its Hover Camera Passport Drone, which uses facial recognition to photograph users from the air — Snap is still trying to get into the drone business. After reportedly buying LA-based drone company Ctrl Me Robotics earlier this year …
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Senators debut a bill requiring IoT devices sold to government are patchable and conform to basic security best practices, like avoiding hard-coded passwords — Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government's purchase … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft debuts Surface Plus hardware subscription program for trade-in upgrades after 18 months and no-interest financing for two years — Microsoft is launching a new subscription program for buying Surface computers and tablets in much the same way that many people now purchase smartphones … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple reported Q3 revenue of $45.4B, up 7% YoY, net profit of $8.7B, down from $10.7B YoY, and gross margin of 38.5% vs. 38% last year; stock up 6%+ — Apple today announced financial results for the third fiscal quarter of 2017, which corresponds to the second calendar quarter of the year.
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How Facebook unevenly silences posts about discrimination, censoring important conversations, while often allowing racist content to remain — Francie Latour was picking out produce in a suburban Boston grocery store when a white man leaned toward her two young sons and …
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Instagram says users under 25 use the app 32 minutes on average per day, while half of the businesses on it produced a story in the last month — Instagram Stories has blossomed from a Snapchat clone into an integral part of the world's largest dedicated visual communication app in the first year since its launch.
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Recode, Instagram, CNNMoney, Bloomberg, Axios, Refinery29, Mashable, and CNBC. Thanks:@joshconstine
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Sources: SoundCloud to sell stakes to Raine Group, a boutique bank, and Temasek, Singapore's state investment firm, by end of this week — SoundCloud Ltd. is close to selling stakes to the Raine Group and Temasek Holdings, deals that would help stabilize the owner of the popular music-streaming service … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Twitter to SEC on why it doesn't disclose DAU count: showing growth is more important, and revealing DAUs would invite unfair comparison to Facebook — Company says rate of growth more important than actual metric — Twitter's monthly user number stagnated in the second quarter| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla adds new features to Firefox add-on Test Pilot, including voice search, note taking, and a tool to send self-deleting 1GB files — Firefox is due for a comeback. A lot of the work the team spent on refactoring core parts of the browser is starting to pay off, and …
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The Mozilla Blog, Inquirer, Neowin, The Register, The Next Web, bit-tech.net, BleepingComputer.com, and YouTube. Tweets: @dunglas
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Dell announces 27" Canvas touch display and input system available now at $1799, updates towers, racks, and laptops of Precision Workstation line — This year, Dell is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their Precision Workstations. The first Precision workstation, the Workstation 400 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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