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American Airlines Launches Real-Time Baggage Tracking Service For Travelers (Ashlee Kieler/Consumerist)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:45:02 +0000

Ashlee Kieler / Consumerist:
American Airlines Launches Real-Time Baggage Tracking Service For Travelers — After a long day of traveling the last thing you want to deal with is lost baggage, but, unfortunately, that's a very real situation for millions of consumers: over the last five years, the Transportation Security …

Tinder rolls out Super Like globally; tests show users are 3x more likely to find a match, and conversations last 70% longer when the feature is used (Lauren Hockenson/The Next Web)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:40:13 +0000

Lauren Hockenson / The Next Web:
Tinder rolls out Super Like globally; tests show users are 3x more likely to find a match, and conversations last 70% longer when the feature is used — Tinder takes the ‘Super Like’ Worldwide — Tinder is adding an extra swipe for eager folks looking to make connections.

Logitech announces Logi Circle connected camera for the home, with Wi-Fi, streaming video, pre-order today for $200 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:05:02 +0000

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Logitech announces Logi Circle connected camera for the home, with Wi-Fi, streaming video, pre-order today for $200 — Logitech Debuts New ‘Logi Circle’ Home Monitoring Camera — Logitech today announced its entry into the home security and monitoring market with the Circle Portable Home Connection Camera …

Task management startup Asana rolls out major redesign for web and mobile and Track Anything, a new spreadsheet-like tool (Jordan Novet/VentureBeat)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 03:15:06 +0000

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Task management startup Asana rolls out major redesign for web and mobile and Track Anything, a new spreadsheet-like tool — Task management startup Asana is launching a major revamp — Task management app Asana today is rolling out a major revamp to all users on web and mobile.

LG announces Watch Urbane with LTE, the first Android wear device with cellular, and the V10 smartphone with secondary display and dual front-facing cameras (Steven Musil/CNET)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 02:50:13 +0000

Steven Musil / CNET:
LG announces Watch Urbane with LTE, the first Android wear device with cellular, and the V10 smartphone with secondary display and dual front-facing cameras — LG unveils new V10 smartphone, Urbane smartwatch — The new smartphone features an independent second screen …

Likes and @Mentions coming to Outlook on the web (Office Blogs)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:50:13 +0000

Office Blogs:
Likes and @Mentions coming to Outlook on the web — Over the last several years, social networks have changed the way we communicate. In our personal lives, we show our approval by “Liking” a friend's status update on Facebook and we “@Mention” others in a Twitter post to call attention to it.

Interview with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams on new media investors and firm's intent to work with publishers (Joseph Lichterman/Nieman Lab)

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:45:06 +0000

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams on new media investors and firm's intent to work with publishers — Nuzzel, with a new batch of news-savvy investors, wants to bring social curation to publishers — If you live in certain media and technology circles, there's a very good chance you're already using Nuzzel.

Jamaican-based wireless operator Digicel will soon block ads except on some popular local news sites, saying firms like Google, Facebook should pay to serve ads (Jack Marshall/Wall Street Journal)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:40:04 +0000

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Jamaican-based wireless operator Digicel will soon block ads except on some popular local news sites, saying firms like Google, Facebook should pay to serve ads — Mobile Operator Digicel Will Block Advertising Across Its Network — Online ad companies will have to pay to have ads displayed

French trial against two Uber execs on six charges including deceptive practices and illicit data storage delayed until February (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:55:02 +0000

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
French trial against two Uber execs on six charges including deceptive practices and illicit data storage delayed until February — Uber Wins Delay of Trial Against Two Top Executives — Prosecution lays bare tension between Silicon Valley and European governments

Unit of Chinese state-controlled Tsinghua University agrees to buy 15% of Western Digital for $3.8B, Western Digital shares up 15% on the news (Tim Culpan/Bloomberg Business)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:10:05 +0000

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business:
Unit of Chinese state-controlled Tsinghua University agrees to buy 15% of Western Digital for $3.8B, Western Digital shares up 15% on the news — China's Tsinghua Buys Western Digital Stake for $3.8 Billion — Tsinghua's Unisplendour paying 33% premium to latest close

Google to host event next Wednesday in New York, likely to unveil its open-source project similar to Instant Articles (Mark Bergen/Re/code)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:25:09 +0000

Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google to host event next Wednesday in New York, likely to unveil its open-source project similar to Instant Articles — Google Plans to Unveil Its Version of ‘Instant Articles’ Next Week — Three weeks ago, we told you about plans Google was hatching to launch a publishing tool to serve up articles on mobile devices.

Google, Microsoft drop about 20 lawsuits in the US and Germany, resolving global patent fight over phones and Xbox (Bloomberg Business)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:50:03 +0000

Bloomberg Business:
Google, Microsoft drop about 20 lawsuits in the US and Germany, resolving global patent fight over phones and Xbox — Google, Microsoft Resolve Global Patent Fight Over Phones, Xbox — Tech giants to drop about 20 lawsuits in U.S. and Germany — Companies say they will collaborate, work together on patents

Google: advertisers will pay only for 100% viewable Google Display Network ads, starting in next few months (Jordan Kahn/9to5Google)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:35:01 +0000

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Google: advertisers will pay only for 100% viewable Google Display Network ads, starting in next few months — Google says it won't make advertisers pay unless ads are 100% viewable — Google today announced changes to its display ad network that will ensure advertisers only pay for ads that are 100% viewable.

Coding school General Assembly raises $70M Series D led by Advance Publications, owner of Condé Nast (Douglas MacMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:40:13 +0000

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Coding school General Assembly raises $70M Series D led by Advance Publications, owner of Condé Nast — Tech-Boom Bet: Coding School General Assembly Raises $70 Million — In a new video game, a thimble-sized character in pajamas wanders around a disheveled bedroom floor blasting demonic bunnies and elephants with a rifle.

Amazon introduces Merch by Amazon, a self-service tool for creating and selling branded t-shirts, aimed at app developers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:15:02 +0000

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon introduces Merch by Amazon, a self-service tool for creating and selling branded t-shirts, aimed at app developers — Amazon Introduces Merch By Amazon, A Way For Game Developers - Or Anyone - To Sell Print-On-Demand Tees — In a clever move that combines Amazon's prowess …