Darren Orf / Gizmodo: LG V10 hands-on: solid build quality, second screen proves to be useful but awkwardly placed — LG's V10 Smartphone Is One Big Handful of Weird, But I Kind Of Love It — How do you make a smartphone different? Over the past decade, smartphones have evolved so that there's little room for surprise anymore.
Published: 2015-10-01 23:05:03
Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: My advice for startups: don't attend Web Summit, which relies on deceptive sales and marketing practices — Is Web Summit a scam? Well, if you have to ask ... After Neil's opinion piece about some of Web Summit's practices, the event organiser responded on its blog. In a way that triggered this response from us.
Published: 2015-10-01 22:35:06
Reem Nasr / CNBC: Experian reports data breach affecting personal information including social security numbers of about 15M T-Mobile customers — Experian reports data breach; more than 15M T-Mobile customers affected — Global information services group Experian announced that one of its business units has been hacked.
Published: 2015-10-01 21:25:02
Joan E. Solsman / CNET: Rhapsody rolling out Kids section in its apps with design, content, and features aimed at children — Rhapsody launches a kids corner — It may sound childish, but Rhapsody's new section dedicated to kids sets the streaming-music service apart from bigger rivals like Apple Music and Spotify.
Published: 2015-10-01 21:20:02
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube Addresses Complaints About Inappropriate Content In Updated YouTube Kids App — When YouTube first launched its dedicated “Kids” app earlier this year, parents welcomed the opportunity to be able to keep their children away from the more adult content found on the larger YouTube network …
Published: 2015-10-01 20:30:02
Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: Sources: Snapchat to sell “sponsored lenses” for selfies at a cost of up to $750K for peak days like Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Black Friday — Snapchat to launch new advertising format — Snapchat is preparing to launch a new advertising format that will allow brands to slip …
Published: 2015-10-01 19:50:02
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon adds 11 partners, including Samsung, GE, and August, to its Dash Replenishment Service, which lets connected devices automatically reorder supplies — Amazon's Supply Reordering Service Gets Integrated In Nearly A Dozen More Household Devices From GE, Samsung, Oster And More
Published: 2015-10-01 19:30:02
David Welch / Bloomberg Business: GM Tests Car-Sharing in Manhattan, Taking Aim at Zipcar and Uber — Let's Drive NYC starts pilot program at Ritz Plaza apartments — Automaker plans to expand service in another U.S. city as well — General Motors Co. can't sell cars to many apartment-dwelling New Yorkers, so it's testing a plan to rent them one.
Published: 2015-10-01 19:05:06
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: A growing number of new media companies like Vice Media, BuzzFeed, and Vox Media are avoiding automated ad sales from third-party firms — Publishers That Say No to Automated Ad Sales — Some websites believe they can make more money on their own and reduce annoyance
Published: 2015-10-01 18:40:04
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: Amazon to stop listing Apple TV and Google Chromecast for sale from October 29 citing the need to “interact well” with Prime Video — Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices — Amazon.com Inc. is flexing its e-commerce muscles to gain an edge on competitors …
Published: 2015-10-01 17:50:01
Laura Colby / Bloomberg Business: News Corp sells Amplify digital education unit to management team after letting 40% of its workforce go — News Corp. Sells Amplify Education Unit to Management Team — Joel Klein to step down as CEO, remain as board member — News Corp. sold its Amplify Inc. digital-education unit …
Published: 2015-10-01 17:15:02
Sam Byford / The Verge: Tweetbot 4.0 released as a new universal iOS app, adding activity tab and fully redesigned iPad version for launch price of $4.99 — Tweetbot 4 is the new best way to use Twitter on iOS — There was a time when I'd swear by Tweetbot. Tapbots' quirky iOS Twitter client won a ton of people …
Published: 2015-10-01 16:30:02
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Verizon's new mobile video service go90 launches with 8K titles and 35+ original series, available now on iOS and Android — Verizon's Mobile Video Service Go90 Launches To Public — Verizon's new mobile video service go90, which is aimed at capturing a younger demographic who spends …
Published: 2015-10-01 16:15:02
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: New Stagefright Bugs Leave More Than 1 Billion Android Users Vulnerable — In July, a security researcher revealed that Android phones could be hacked with a simple text, thanks to a series of bugs in the Android operating system that are now commonly known as Stagefright.
Published: 2015-10-01 15:35:01
Mark Scott / New York Times: Mike Lynch, Founder of Autonomy, Sues Hewlett-Packard for $150 Million — The legal wrangling surrounding Hewlett-Packard's much-maligned takeover of Autonomy, a British data intelligence company, shows no signs of ending. — On Thursday, Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy …
Published: 2015-10-01 15:00:15