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iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million — Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system. iPhone 5 …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple's 5 million iPhone 5 sales: What analysts are saying — First weekend sales set a record, but Wall Street found them disappointing — FORTUNE — Smartphone sales, like presidential debates, are a game of expectations — although in the case of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5, it's one the analysts played but the not the company.| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Gave Few Phones to Other Retailers — Apple Inc.'s AAPL -1.35% new iPhone 5 remained a hot item following the sales kickoff Friday, with customers flocking to stores to buy the new handset. But they seemed to have little luck finding the gadget at the Silicon Valley company's retail …
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Foxconn Plant Closed After Riot, Company Says — SHANGHAI — Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to some of the world's electronics giants, including Apple, said it closed one of its large Chinese plants early Monday after police were called in to break up a fight among factory employees.
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Facebook raises fears with ad tracking — By Emily Steel in New York and April Dembosky in San Francisco — (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores.| David Breger / LinkedIn Blog: |
Introducing Endorsements: Give kudos with just one click — On LinkedIn, you have many smart, talented, and skilled professional connections. Starting today, we are introducing Endorsements, a new feature that makes it easier to recognize them for their skills and expertise.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Beloved email client Sparrow will get yet another post-acquisition update to support iPhone 5 — The much-loved email client Sparrow will be getting another compatibility update, adding support for the iPhone 5′s larger screen. The news came from a tweet by Sparrow founder Dom Leca today.| Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail: |
Flatlining user base spells end of RIM's growth story — A decade after Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its first smartphone, the tribe of BlackBerry users has stopped growing. — RIM is in the midst of a long-running slump in sales, but despite that, it has still managed to sell enough devices …
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Groupon Has Bought Restaurant Reservations And Discount Provider Savored — Groupon continues its acquisition march to beef up its service and take itself beyond daily deals. Today it announced that it has bought Savored, a restaurant reservations and discount meal provider.
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Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don't Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won't Be Long Coming — Intel's second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges. At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone reference design running its Medfield x86 Atom SoC.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple warns ex-MobileMe users with 20GB free iCloud storage of ‘downgrade’ coming Sept. 30 — Apple has begun sending last-minute reminders to users currently enjoying 20GB of free iCloud storage, warning that from September 30, it will downgrade their accounts unless they take action.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps — Apple is going after people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams. Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy …
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google shares hit all-time high — (Reuters) - Google Inc shares set an all-time high on Monday, with the Web giant's reliable advertising business back in vogue among Wall Street investors disenchanted with younger social media companies. — The stock reached $747.84 around noon eastern time …
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Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies — Publishers are seeing mobile audiences growing fast - but revenue is yet to catch up, and it's the ad industry taking the blame. — Mobile makes up a fifth of reader traffic for 87 percent of publishers …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
eBay Debuts Setify, Its Own Pinterest-Like Tool To Share Collections Of Items — eBay has just debuted a new tool, called Setify, which allows users to basically allows people to create collections of items on eBay. — Setify, which is in private beta (but you can request an invitation) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Mobile Payments Via Carrier Billing (And Bango) Now Live In U.S., UK And Germany — Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S. … | Rachel Metz / Technology Review: |
Even Sleeping Smartphones Could Soon Hear Spoken Commands — Nuance is working with chipmakers on technology that would enable “persistent listening” apps. — Speech recognition software company Nuance is working with chip makers on how to build a chipset for a mobile device that would let users …
| James Glanz / New York Times: |
Data Centers in Rural Washington State Gobble Power — QUINCY, Wash. — Set in the dry hills and irrigated farmland of Central Washington, Grant County is known for its robust harvest of apples, potatoes, cherries and beans. But for Microsoft, a prime lure was the region's other valuable resource: cheap electrical power.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
New Zealand Prime Minister orders enquiry into “unlawful” spying of Kim Dotcom — The Kim Dotcom saga continues to unfold in New Zealand after the country's prime minister ordered a full enquiry into claims that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) unlawfully spied on the Megaupload founder.Sponsor Posts
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