Google Play now lets Android app developers offer open betas, closed betas using only email addresses
With over 10,000 businesses signed up, Android for Work expands to carriers for the first time
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Gunderson Dettmer Announces Addition of New Partners in San Diego and Los Angeles: Jeff Thacker and Ross Burningham
Glow launches Ruby, an iOS app to help women better manage their health and sex lives
Gallery Doctor uses algorithms to free your iPhone from bad photos
Facebook launches Security Checkup tool globally to teach you what you should already know
G2 Crowd report finds the two email marketing tools with the highest user satisfaction
GoButler raises $8M to get you anything you want by sending a text
Salesforce helps Autopilot land $7M to ‘grow the pie’ of marketing automation
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Amazon nabs former Top Gear presenters for a new car show exclusive to Amazon Prime
SoftBank’s emotionally intelligent ‘Pepper’ robot launches for enterprises on October 1
U.S. likely to scale back planned limits on intrusion-software exports
Samsung plans to ‘adjust’ Galaxy S6 and S6 edge pricing in response to poor quarterly earnings
Samsung profits drop for fifth straight quarter, company blames tough mobile business environment
White House calls for upgrade to law protecting consumer cloud data from law enforcement
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B2C marketing automation vendor BlueShift lets ecommerce marketers reach “segment-of-one” personalization
More Instagram ads on the way, but Facebook promises to tread lightly
Catawiki raises $82M to grow its online auction house for collectibles such as dinosaur bones
GitHub confirms that it has raised $250M, led by Sequoia Capital
Volkswagens with CarPlay and Android Auto will begin arriving in showrooms this week
Nearly half of Facebook’s users only access the service on mobile
Twitter now lets you preview a user’s bio when you hover over their avatar
Facebook revenue jumps 38% to $4.04B in Q2 as daily active users grow 17%
Facebook now has 1.49B monthly active users, up 13% from last year
AT&T says it notified consumers that it would throttle ‘unlimited’ data service
Adobe launches no-code app publishing tool, promises it will not make sausages
Developers can now submit Windows 10 apps to the Windows Store
Y Combinator-backed Foxpass helps small companies manage employee access to internal systems
Flipboard starts offering its first magazine paywall integration with The New Yorker
Twitter’s new Windows 10 app shows tweets directly in the Start menu
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Amazon’s AWS Device Farm will let developers test iOS apps from August 4
Yahoo unveils silent video chat app Livetext, launching in U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, and France tomorrow
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Nimble Named a 2015 Hot Vendor in Social Selling By Aragon Research
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