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Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients, tightens API rules to direct users to official apps — Twitter has today announced user caps for third-party Twitter clients, effectively limiting the maximum number of users any outside client can ever have.| Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Shares Fall to New Lows as Lockup Ends — Facebook Inc. shares sank 6.3% to a record low on Thursday, falling below $20 a share on a day when some early investors were allowed to unload their stakes, adding further pressure on the beaten-down stock.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
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Apple's TV Vision: Sharing, Full On-Demand, Icons — TV Device Interface Would Simplify Programming; Company Faces Hurdles With Cable Operators — Apple Inc.'s vision for a new device that can be used as a set-top box includes features designed to simplify accessing and viewing programming … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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Why Apple really bought AuthenTec: It wanted “new technology” for upcoming products, and quickly — On July 27, seemingly out of nowhere, security company AuthenTec announced in a regulatory filing that it had agreed to a $356 million acquisition offer from Apple, making it one of the Apple's biggest mergers in its 36 year history.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Debuts Monthly Pricing Option For Small Businesses With Zero Swiping Fees — On the heels of announcing a mega-deal with Starbucks, mobile payments processing company Square is announcing another piece of key news—specialized, lower pricing per swipe for small businesses.| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
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Hipsta-dramatic: Hipstamatic lays off all but core employees, including designers and engineers — Toy camera app company Hipstamatic has fired all but 5 of its core staff, including engineers and designers, The Next Web has learned. The company had been staffed up and working on a new release … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Yes, We Need All These Witnesses, and No, I'm Not Smoking Crack — Already frustrated with the amount of paperwork in the Apple vs. Samsung case, Judge Lucy Koh boiled over with frustration on Thursday after lawyers for the sides filed a new round of objections over witness testimony.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
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Why I Changed My Mind On Klout (And Invested) — Klout has been one of my go to punchlines for some time now. For example - in May I wrote a post titled “My Detailed Thoughts On Klout” that contained a single word in the post itself: “Why?” — The problem I had with Klout … | Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Three years later, deleting your photos on Facebook now actually works — It has been more than three years since Ars first started covering Facebook's inability to remove “deleted” photos from its servers, but this particular saga appears to be coming to an end.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo Conducting a Search for a COO as No. 2 to Mayer — According to several sources, Yahoo is now on the hunt for a COO — with special emphasis on someone with turnaround experience — presumably to be a worker-bee No. 2 to product-guru CEO Marissa Mayer.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Instagram 3.0 bets on location with Photo Map, adds infinite scrolling — Looking forward, Systrom envisions an Instagram that instantly pipes photos into one location-tagged stream for concertgoers, or one stream of photos tagged in front of the Eiffel Tower. “All sorts of cool things hapen once people use geodata,” he said.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Diaspora's Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io — If you were to come across a group of people sitting in a room together, all with their own laptops out, sending each other jokes online, you might think that was a little weird, right? — “Antisocial” is one word that comes to mind.| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
[Updated: Screenshots] Google Is Gearing Up To Finally Introduce Play Store Gift Cards And A Wishlist [APK Teardown] — A new Google Play Store v3.8.15 apk started rolling out to Android devices today, but upon running through its UI, I was unable to uncover anything different from the versions before that.| Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
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Lenovo dings Microsoft Surface: We'll provide better hardware — Lenovo executives believe it can beat Microsoft on hardware and claims not to be worried about Microsoft's Surface tablet. — During Lenovo's first fiscal quarter 2013 earnings call, executives didn't mince words in attacking Microsoft's Surface strategy.
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