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Sources: Apple scrambles to land pricing deals with Hollywood on 4K content for its upcoming Apple TV; Apple wants to charge $20/movie, studios want $5-10 more — Tech giant wants to have major Hollywood films available in ultra-high definition on the new device
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Tweets: @pkafka, @shiraovide, @djtgallagher, @wsj, @reneritchie, @ow, and @stroughtonsmith
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple, continuing its fight with media partners, will likely only succeed with TV when it brings its original shows to market — 4K movies? Sure. But that's not where Apple wanted to be in 2017. — Here's a head fake of a story: Apple and Hollywood studios are wrangling over pricing for …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, Business Insider, and AppAdvice.com. Tweets: @jank0
| Chris Kirkham / Wall Street Journal: |
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says he plans to accept Uber CEO job and that the contract is still being finalized — Dara Khosrowshahi described his relationship with Travis Kalanick as ‘budding’ — In his first public comments since Uber Technologies Inc. selected him as its new chief executive …
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Sources: DoJ opens preliminary probe into whether Uber executives breached Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; Uber says it's working with DoJ on the probe — Justice Department opens preliminary probe into whether managers at ride-sharing firm breached Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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USA Today, The Register, Bloomberg, Reuters, TheStreet, Engadget, Recode, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET, MarketWatch, Forbes, and CNBC
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Amazon now lets Echo play music across multiple rooms, debuts API to let Alexa control music on third-party connected speakers — Amazon Echo devices can now handle music playback across multiple rooms. The company announced today Echo users can now synchronize music across devices in their home.
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Tweets: @kevinctofel, @gigastacey, @reckless, and @benbajarin
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Preview of six AR apps coming to iOS 11 using ARKit, from GIPHY, Walking Dead, Ikea, Food Network, and more, and thoughts on AR controls and other conventions — Over the past few weeks I've been steeping myself in the developer and investor community that is quickly sprouting up around ARKit.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google debuts preview of ARCore, a platform for Android devs to make AR apps, following Apple's ARKit, to first target Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S8 phones — Last week in San Francisco, Google showed me an app called Oz. Oz is a kind of augmented reality picture book …
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Tweets: @google, @jacob, @tomwarren, @reneritchie, @panzer, @panzer, @panzer, @panzer, @jandawson, @panzer, and @mehedih_
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube gets a redesign, including easier access to navigation tabs, new Library and Account tabs, variable speed playback on mobile, and a new logo — Earlier this year, YouTube introduced a major redesign of its desktop website which delivered a cleaner look and new features like a “dark mode” for nighttime watching.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher uncovers open server with 711M email addresses and other credentials, including passwords and email server info, used by a spambot to send malware — The spambot has collected millions of email credentials and server login information in order to send spam through “legitimate” servers, defeating many spam filters.| Tina Moore / New York Post: |
NYPD scrapping 36K Nokia-made Windows phones given to staff in last two years as part of $160M program, will replace with iPhones by end of year — The NYPD has to scrap the 36,000 smartphones it gave cops over the past two years because they're already obsolete and can't be upgraded, The Post has learned.
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Tweets: @johnwilander, @thurrott, and @reckless
| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
WhatsApp pilots verifying businesses, indicated by adding green check mark, and code analysis shows work on standalone app for companies to chat with customers — WhatsApp is going corporate. — The Facebook-owned messaging app has started verifying business accounts and is preparing …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources detail Uber CEO process: Immelt withdrew early, Whitman overplayed her hand by negotiating for more control, then board went decisively to Khosrowshahi — SAN FRANCISCO — By last Friday afternoon, most of Uber's eight directors had gathered in San Francisco for a board meeting.
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Digital Trends. Tweets: @williamalden, @penenberg, @mhbergen, @danieljsanchez_, @puiwingtam, and @mikeisaac
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Interview with Tim Cook on his US mini-tour, Apple's “moral responsibility” to grow economy, political gridlock, climate change, more — AUSTIN, Tex. — “The reality is that government, for a long period of time, has for whatever set of reasons become less functional and isn't working at the speed that it once was.
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| Bloomberg: |
Google says it's sharing a plan to comply with EU shopping search demands today; the search giant had initially said it “respectfully disagreed” with the ruling — EU gave Google until Tuesday to draw up shopping search plan — Google risks daily fines if it doesn't comply by Sept. 28
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Apple and consulting firm Accenture partner to help companies integrate better with iOS, build new tools for IoT and legacy app migration — Accenture to Create Dedicated iOS Practice Within Select Accenture Digital Studios; Apple to Co-Locate Experts with These Teams
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Google Maps rolls out “parking difficulty” icon to 25 more cities worldwide and adds a “find parking” option on Google Maps for Android in select cities — Back in January, Google rolled out a “parking difficulty” icon in Maps which, as its name suggests … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Western Digital plans to buy hybrid flash storage firm Tegile Systems, which has raised $178M with last round led by Western Digital, adding 1,700+ customers — Financial terms were not disclosed. — Western Digital just announced that it plans to buy flash storage vendor Tegile Systems.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Okta adds two-factor authentication for all single sign-on customers, strengthens security features for its cloud-based Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication — Okta says it's trying to bring modern authentication and identity management practices to companies stuck with legacy systems.
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BetaNews, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Fortune, VentureBeat, and diginomica
| Lisa Baertlein / Reuters: |
Analysis of 100+ products at Whole Foods in Princeton, NJ shows avg. price has dropped just ~1% since merger, with 78% of item prices unchanged from last week — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whole Foods shoppers may be premature in cheering Amazon.com's steep price cuts on staples like bananas … | Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Sources: Whisper loses board members, including Roelof Botha of Sequoia and Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, as co-founders try to plan a buyout of early investors — The anonymous social networking app Whisper, available at the Google Play Store. Two high-profile board members …
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Vanity Fair and TechCrunch
| Paige Thelen / Instagram: |
Instagram adds ability to post landscape or portrait photos to albums — Starting today, you can choose landscape and portrait formats when sharing multiple photos and videos in one post. — After we first rolled out in February, these posts could only be made up of squares.
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MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Adweek, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, MSPoweruser, Mashable, TechCrunch, and AppAdvice.com. Tweets: @kevinweil
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
On-demand app and site development startup Gigster raises $20M Series B led by Redpoint and joined by a16z and Michael Jordan — Gigster is shifting from letting anyone outsource full-stack app development to building next-gen tech projects for big companies.
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