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A letter from Tim Cook on Maps — To our customers, At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration …
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| John Boudreau / Mercury News: |
Apple taps obscure Asian suppliers to bring the iPhone and other products to the masses — BADE, Taiwan — On a November afternoon two years ago, a taxi pulled up to the gate of Ta Liang Technology, one of countless nondescript companies that make up the global gadget supply chain.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's excessive work hours progress: tracking 800k, 97% 60-hour work week compliance — Apple has updated its Labor and Human Rights page to detailing its efforts to curtail excessive work weeks in its suppliers factories, like Foxconn in China. — The updates include the fact …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google's Spring Cleaning program removes AdSense for Feeds and decreases Drive storage — As part of its effort to minimize resources while also focusing on products that they feel could improve users' lives, Google announced that it was continuing its spring cleaning program and shared … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: |
Urban Outfitters Says It Will Never Buy Another Cash Register Again — All Sales Will Be Done On iPods And iPads — Retailer Urban Outfitters had its first ever annual analyst day today. — You can listen to the whole presentation here, but about halfway through CIO Calvin Hollinger makes … | Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Apple's plan to have music-streaming service built into iPhone 5 scuttled by royalty fight with Sony/ATV — Apple's plan to have its own music-streaming service built into the iPhone 5 was dramatically dashed when talks between the tech giant and Sony/ATV hit a last-minute snag, The Post has learned.
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| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Amazon breaks down its Kindle Paperwhite light technology (video) — Amazon's certainly not the first company to deliver an illuminated e-reader, but the mega-retailer's psyched about its new Kindle Paperwhite nonetheless, and after playing around with the device a bit, it's easy to see why.
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SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile and WebProNews
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Neil Young reveals Pono music player, promises ‘the best sound anyone can get’ — Hardware coming next year and will play back master recordings — Neil Young has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote Pono, a high-quality digital music service that will launch next year.
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Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations, While A New Leadership Team Re-Tools — Sources tell us there is turmoil at the executive levels of Color Labs. As you may know, the startup launched with a focus on photo-sharing but quickly became the poster child of Silicon Valley hype … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon.com Planning Online Wine Sales — Amazon.com Inc. is planning an online marketplace for wine sales directly to consumers, said executives for several California wineries, marking the Seattle Web giant's second foray into the business in three years. — Amazon hosted a workshop …
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Mashable!, Wine Spectator Home, WebProNews, GeekWire and Stark Insider
| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
FCC kicks off effort to reclaim TV spectrum for wireless — The FCC started the process for making rules for the upcoming incentive auction as it tries to free up more wireless spectrum from broadcast TV providers. The target date for the complicated auction, which has three distinct parts, is June 2014.
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New York Times, Hillicon Valley, Computerworld, Engadget, The Next Web, Ars Technica and GigaOM. Tweets: @digiphile. See also Mediagazer
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Stripe partners with Chilling Effects to report the legal complaints it receives against users — Following the lead of Google, Twitter and GitHub, US-based payments startup Stripe has just announced a partnership with Chilling Effects to report the “take-down” requests that it receives from third parties.
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Stripe Blog, Wired and Lucas Gonze's blog
| Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't — Coupons, Pitches Tied to Smartphone Search Get a Yes; Don't ‘Spray and Pray’ — In 2010, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, “Mobile advertising really sucks.” Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is slowly being written.
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Internet2Go and AdExchanger
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
iPhone 5 estimated to cost 41 cents per year to charge — A new estimate says Apple's newest iPhone costs 41 cents a year to recharge if you do it once a day. — A new estimate claims Apple's latest iPhone costs 41 cents a year to keep charged, less than a third of its sibling, the iPad.
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AppleInsider, Phones Review and Electricpig.co.uk
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