Business Stories from June 18, 2016 (Change date)
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Startup will help landlords, employers mine intimate data from your Facebook pageJun 20, 2016 6:30 am - There's a scene in the dystopian scifi novel "Ready Player One" in which the protagonist glimpses the dossier of personal information a major tech company has gathered o...
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App reviews: Sprightly, TodayJun 20, 2016 6:30 am - Sprightly Microsoft's Sprightly is a simple app for those who want to make something more than a cut-and-paste job for fliers and cards. The app gives you a handful...
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6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, study saysJun 20, 2016 1:07 pm - On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of "lorem ipsum" text under a frightening headline: "Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the hea...
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App review: SeatGeek is just the ticketJun 20, 2016 6:30 am - SeatGeek is an event ticket marketplace and aggregator that collects and sells tickets from third-party vendors, such as Fanxchange, UberSeat and AJ Tickets, kind of lik...
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What the world needs now is a dinosaur emojiJun 18, 2016 7:15 am - The Unicode Consortium will soon release 72 new emoji into the world. None of them is a dinosaur. Dominik Schwarz, a self-described "internet rando" with a deep and abid...
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The self-retweet has officially arrivedJun 18, 2016 7:15 am - This is how to retweet yourself on Twitter: Go to one of your own tweets, click the little loopy "retweet" button, choose whether to quote yourself or simply retweet you...
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Apple Pay introduces long-awaited option that works on websitesJun 20, 2016 6:30 am - Apple's mobile-payment service Apple Pay will now work on websites, a long-awaited feature that will pit the company directly against companies such as PayPal Holdings I...
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Virtual reality revolutionizes the roller coaster thrillJun 21, 2016 6:04 am - Before the new Superman: Ride of Steel Virtual Reality Roller Coaster takes off, riders strap on their headsets, and the cityscape of Metropolis materializes before them...
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Snapchat will show ads between 'stories'Jun 18, 2016 7:05 am - Snapchat Inc. said it will soon introduce advertisements that play between users' Stories, monetizing one of the messaging app's most popular features. The new Snap Ad f...
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US just took one step closer to privatizing a core part of the InternetJun 18, 2016 7:05 am - Every time you type "Google.com" into your browser, what you get is a search engine used by billions. What you don't see? A complicated string of actions kicking into hi...
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