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First Data debuts contactless card reader that accepts mag stripe, EMV, and NFC payments

Shippo raises $7 million to further its goal of being Twilio for shipping

FAA ‘strongly advises’ against using Samsung Galaxy Note7 in-flight

BlogHer cofounder starts conference to help women founders scale their business

President Obama reportedly to name retired Air Force general as first cybersecurity chief

Box teams with cloud vendors to launch coalition supporting crisis response groups

Uber launches redesigned rider music program with Pandora and Spotify

Salesforce’s Community Cloud gets Lightning templates from Accenture, Deloitte, others

LinkedIn adds conversion tracking for sponsored updates

Twilio targets the enterprise with plan offering more security and regulatory controls

Menlo Ventures brings back Shawn Carolan as managing director of its consumer practice

Nest’s new Sightline feature highlights key moments captured from your Nest Cam

Intel teams with TPG to spin out McAfee security unit in deal valued at $4.2 billion

Apple bringing Apple Pay to Japan in October

Pinterest hires Google’s former head of image search to lead engineering

Twitter testing Periscope feature that pulls video from external sources

Samsung begins ‘thorough inspection’ of Note7 following reports of exploding batteries

Facebook Messenger now lets you easily switch to video within any mobile conversation

Facebook fixing ‘bug’ showing vomit sticker when searching for ‘liberals’ or ‘feminism’

Samsung unveils Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier smartwatches

Uber president Ryan Graves steps down, replaced by Target CMO

Snapchat makes it easier to design geofilters with customizable templates

Okta giving away identity cloud platform to nonprofits for free, up to 25 employees

Flipboard’s new marketplace lets brands buy ads programmatically

Twitter now lets U.S. creators add pre-roll ads to videos

Uber is giving free rides to Visa cardholders who shop locally

Why Venrock Partners gave free room and board to 12 startups without taking any equity

Square extends platform further with TouchBistro and Vend point-of-sale integrations

Math Camp shuttering Shorts and Roll apps on August 30, following Pinterest acquisition

Facebook stops employing humans to write trending topic descriptions

LinkedIn for Android and iOS now lets you search by topic, article, or hashtag

Twitter is working on a ‘permanent’ page for streaming live events

Twitter launches button letting you send direct messages from any website

LinkedIn’s ProFinder service to find freelancers now available to all in the U.S.

The House Fund unveils Berkeley startup incubator and $2 million philanthropic round

Instrumentl helps match scientists with the best research grants

Pinterest acquires Instapaper to improve article discovery

Former Facebook Live product manager launches Alively for private video livestreaming
