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Siftery, A Database Of What Services Companies Are Using, Raises $4M

When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily be paralyzed by choice.

That’s why Vamshi Mokshagundam decided to start Siftery, a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks.

The hope is that as more companies share what services they use, Siftery will be able to recommend the best service…

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Let’s Talk About The Square IPO Hackers Use Radio Waves To Trick iOS And Android Into Responding To Voice Commands You Can Now Jailbreak Your iOS 9 Devices (But You Probably Shouldn’t) …

Hermo, One Of Southeast Asia’s Top Beauty Sites, Lands $2M Series A Shopping for beauty products should be relaxing, but anyone who has visited a makeup counter knows that you often weather a deluge of upselling before finally escaping with a purchase.

Hackers Use Radio Waves To Trick iOS And Android Into Responding To Voice Commands An ingenious hack could allow unwanted access to Siri commands by simply sending radio waves to a pair of unshielded iPhone earbuds.

GoDaddy Reveals Salary Gender Gap In New Twist On Diversity Reports A GoDaddy compensation analysis released Wednesday exposed female executives were paid at a rate almost 4 percent less than their male counterparts.

Watch This Self-Steering Tesla Model S Drive Itself (And Us) Down The Highway

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Hands On with Tesla’s Auto Steering Model S

For months now, Tesla has been saying that their cars would soon pick up a whole new trick: autopilot.

Later this week, the first of those features will hit Tesla’s fleet — but we’ve already taken them for a spin.

One big thing to make clear: these features don’t turn the Model S into a full blown self-driving car.

Elon Musk says he…

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13 Apple Products You Probably Never Knew Existed While Apple’s product line is now pretty consolidated, it wasn’t always that way. Source link

iMovie Updated for iOS and Mac As Apple Continues To Unify Creative Experience Across Devices

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Apple just unveiled some new updates with their iMovie video-editing software for Mac and iOS that, among other things, capitalize on the capabilities of their new slew of iDevices and add some pretty major improvements to how the software communicates across platforms.

Both iterations of iMovie are also seeing upgrades to the quality of video that can be edited in projects.

Most…

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Square Files For IPO On $560.6M In Half Year Revenue, Slim $77.6M Loss

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As expected, Square has filed to go public.

In short, Square grew at a decent clip, while manage a minor reduction in losses.

The company’s reported half-year gross profit of $164.6 million, compared to its total revenue underscores how competitive, and expensive the payments business is.

Square, as of the end of its second quarter in 2015, had cash and equivalents of $197.9 million,…

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You Can Now Jailbreak Your iOS 9 Devices (But You Probably Shouldn’t)

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Over the years, Apple has introduced features to its mobile operating system, iOS, that made jailbreaking your device in order to customize and tweak your phone or tablet less appealing.

But a core community of iOS jailbreakers remains, and now they have a way to jailbreak their iOS 9 devices, thanks to a hack from a Chinese hacking team called Pangu released today.

The jailbreakcurrentl…

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Uber Pickups Replacing Taxi Pickups In Manhattan Like any empire, Uber has been fighting battles on multiple fronts. The reason for de Blasio’s intent to limit Uber…

Clustree Grabs $2.9 Million To Match Internal Talent With Job Positions French startup Clustree has just raised a new funding round of $2.9 million (€2.5 million) with…

Google Drops Notification Center From Chrome, Cites Low Usage

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Google is making a change to how Chrome pushes notifications to users.

“With the growth of web push, notifications are an increasingly important way for users to engage with web pages they care about,” Google software engineer Justin DeWitt writes today.

It’s worth noting that ChromeOS will still feature the notification center.

Google has no plansto support the built-in Action Center in…

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Zwipe Banks $5M To Get Its Biometric Payment Cards To Market In Early 2016 Norwegian startup Zwipe, which is taking aim at payment card PIN codes and passwords with an embedded fingerprint reader technology to authenticate card payments, has closed a $5 million Series B funding round.

Amazon Shuts Down Its Hotel Booking Site, Amazon Destinations Amazon is apparently exiting the travel business, only months after testing the waters with its hotel booking resource,

The Computer Show By Sandwich Will Expand Your Mind Into The New Computing Horizon

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Some people say computers are here to stay and others aren’t so sure.

Lisagor, also known on the CB as Lonely Sandwich, and his wife have created a series of helpful videos to help you navigate the world of computer.

The show is set in 1983 and styled to look like a popular video series called Computer Chronicles.

We sat down with Lisagor and his wife at a Big Bite sandwich shop to…

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