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IBM buys Y Combinator-backed cloud database startup Compose

Slack gets Google Calendar integration to remind you about your next meeting

The madness approaches: ChinaJoy trade show will draw 250K gamers to Shanghai

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Personalized marketing: What works, what doesn’t — and what consumers love and hate (webinar)

CultureSphere lets companies harvest winning social media content from employees
Hometeam to Open 15 Offices in Nine States in the Next Year

Bulletproof, the company that puts butter in coffee, just raised $9M

Creators of Talking Tom app unveil multiplayer bubble shooter Mars Pop

Episodic adventure game Life is Strange passes 1 million sales

IDC: Samsung shipped the most smartphones in Q2 2015, but Apple and Chinese competitors are gaining

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Nolan Bushnell talks educational games, the future of jobs, and Five Nights at Freddy’s

Facebook, Microsoft, and Dropbox team up to make tech more accessible to people with disabilities

Fallout Shelter was the No. 4 most downloaded iOS game in June

Product Hunt adds another category, this time curating new and undiscovered books

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Mobile Success Landscape: 250 companies, $25B investment, and 15 billion-dollar startups

WordPress issues critical security release to fix vulnerability that could’ve exposed websites to hackers

Google pushes Cloud Storage Nearline out of beta, offers 100 PB credits

Advertisers, here’s yet another massive ad fraud. Mobile users, here’s what you can do.

Predictive lead scorer Leadspace, founded on data tactics used against terrorists, captures $18M

Party Hard, the award-winning game about mass killing, gets an August release date

European cloud computing startups get $120M boost thanks to fresh Notion Capital fund

Xiaomi will let Uber users in Asia buy the new Mi Note smartphone directly through the Uber app

9 tips for how big companies can compete with startups (hint: Innovate or die)

South Korea’s Netmarble sinks $130M into SGN, ‘fastest-growing major mobile studio in U.S.’

Flipboard confirms it has raised $50M in new funding

Street Fighter V beta doesn’t support PlayStation 3 fighting sticks, Capcom confirms

Python distribution vendor Continuum Analytics raises $24M

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Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer

Pebble Time firmware update brings brighter backlight, milder haptic buzz, new controls

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Stop hiring data scientists until you’re ready for data science

Leaked images of new Moto X suggest front-facing camera flash

Super Smash Bros. pros at Evo ‘loved’ Hyperkin’s new GameCube-style Wii U controller

Y Combinator president Sam Altman shares his morning ritual

The Grand Tournament is Hearthstone’s next expansion with more than 130 new cards

Y Combinator-backed StyleBee launches its ‘beauty on demand’ app

Uber 1, De Blasio 0

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s multiplayer beta hits Xbox One, PC a week later than PS4
