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Mapping a Path Out of Steve Jobs' Shadow — Like all companies, mighty Apple (AAPL) is not immune to bungling a new product, though its apologies haven't always seemed heartfelt. After slashing the price of the first iPhone by $200 only a few months after its debut in 2007 …
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Bob Mansfield stayed at Apple after CEO Tim Cook offered him ‘exorbitant’ $2M-per-month — A new look at the corporate culture of Apple before and after the death of Steve Jobs reveals that Senior Vice President Bob Mansfield went back on his decision to retire after being offered a large sum … | Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Steve Jobs Wanted To Drop Google Search From The iPhone — Interesting nugget from Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, and Peter Burrows at Bloomberg BusinessWeek: — At the time of his death, Jobs had come to loathe Google, which he felt was copying features of the iPhone while withholding … | Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Asia's Apple Suppliers Begin Mass Production on Mini iPad — TAIPEI—Apple Inc.'s Asian component suppliers have started mass production of a new tablet computer smaller than the current iPad, people with knowledge of the situation said, as the Silicon Valley company tries to stay competitive …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS agree on $1.5 billion T-Mobile merger — Apparently the “significant issues” that stood in the way of a prospective T-Mobile and MetroPCS deal couldn't have been too onerous. Just a day after acknowledging that talks were underway both boards have approved the deal according to the Wall Street Journal.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Google Moves Ahead in Fight to Dominate the Map Apps — Apple has been taking lots of justified heat for its decision to replace Google Maps on the iPhone with a fledgling, and flawed, maps app of its own. In my otherwise favorable review of the new iPhone 5, I called Apple's maps app …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Music to launch on October 26th with free ad-supported streaming — Spotify-like service on the way — Microsoft is preparing to launch its Xbox Music service on October 26th. Multiple sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have confirmed the new service will launch at the same time as Windows 8.
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LiveSide.net, CNET, Engadget, VG247, WinBeta and Gotta Be Mobile
| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Claims Jury Foreman Misconduct Tainted Apple Case — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) asked a judge to throw out Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s billion-dollar trial victory in August, saying the jury foreman failed to disclose a lawsuit and his personal bankruptcy when he was chosen for the panel.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Ellen Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Has Now Fired Her — Ellen Pao, the Kleiner Perkins partner who sued her own firm for gender discrimination and retaliation in May, has been fired, she said late Tuesday night. — In an update to a previous answer she had left on Q&A site Quora, Pao wrote, “I have been terminated from my job at KPCB.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Turning to Select Retail Store Employees to Help Improve Maps for iOS 6 — MacRumors has learned that Apple is piloting a program to tap into its vast number of retail store employees to help improve the company's new Maps app for iOS 6. Details on the initiative remain unclear …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia considers selling its Espoo headquarters for an estimated $250 million — Finnish company struggles to transition — Nokia's recent financial results show the company is clearly struggling to transition over to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, with CEO Stephen Elop admitting that Nokia … | Marcel Brown / Life, Liberty, and Technology: |
The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store — In 1983, Steve Jobs gave a speech to a relatively small audience at a somewhat obscure event called the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA).| Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits: |
Google Warns of New State-Sponsored Cyberattack Targets — In June, many Google users were surprised to see an unusual greeting at the top of their Gmail inbox, Google home page or Chrome browser. “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.”| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Tweetbot creator launches Netbot, a mature and polished App.net client for iPhone and iPad — Tapbots, the studio behind the popular Tweetbot client for Twitter, has brought its design prowess to the fledgeling communication platform App.net. The company's new app Netbot serves users …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, ReadWriteWeb and MacStories
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Rolls Out Surveys - And Reminds Us Why It Cares About “Consistent User Experiences” — Here's an interesting new feature for Twitter advertisers: The chance to survey users directly. — Twitter is rolling out the tool today, which it will provide for free to some of its biggest advertisers …
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CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Twitter Advertising
| Jon C. Ogg / 24/7 Wall St.: |
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Sold $130 Million in Shares over Last Week — The rise of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been monumental of late. Analysts have been forcing their price targets higher after Google keeps a huge lead in internet search and as Android keeps gaining market share in the smartphone universe.
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Marketing Land and Softpedia News
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
AOL looking to spin out Techcrunch's CrunchBase — AOL, the New York-based media company that is the corporate parent of The Huffington Post and TechCrunch, is looking to spin out CrunchBase, the Techcrunch-owned database of technology companies and people that has become a useful resource for the technology business.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Skype takes on BT and Sky with launch of new free WiFi service in the UK and Ireland — Traditionally offering free WiFi access to travellers in airports and during seasonal holidays around the world, Microsoft-owned VOIP giant Skype is looking to expand its wireless footprint in the UK … | Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Why Apple is launching the iPad mini, in one statistic — One in four US adults now owns a tablet computer, and two-thirds of those who own a tablet purchased them in the last year, reports The Economist's Leanback 2.0 blog. (This data does not reflect the introduction of the Google's new 7-inch tablet …
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Lean Back 2.0 and AppleInsider
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AT&T, Clearwire, HP, NTT DOCOMO And Others Join Via Licensing's LTE Patent Pool — Via Licensing, a fully owned subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, today announced that ten major players in the mobile industry have banded together to join the organization's new patent pool for standard essential LTE patents.
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Ars Technica, Digits and AllThingsD
| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Best Buy founder presses forward on possible $11 billion buyout plan — (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc founder Richard Schulze and at least four private equity firms have started examining the books of the world's largest consumer electronics chain, early steps toward what could become …
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CNET, TWICE, SlashGear and 24/7 Wall St.
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay Returns After 2 Days Downtime — On Monday The Pirate Bay went offline. By itself the downtime isn't really news as it happens every other week, but this time it took longer than expected to return. — The Pirate Bay was quick to inform TorrentFreak that they were dealing …
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TorrentFreak, Forbes, Softpedia News, Daily Dot, CNNMoney.com and TechSpot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories — 1000memories, the San Francisco-based startup which offers web and mobile applications for storing, organizing, sharing, and most importantly, digitizing, your print photographs, has been acquired.
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AllThingsD, GigaOM, silicontap.com and Techrockies.com
| Michael Isikoff / NBC News: |
Homeland Security ‘fusion’ centers spy on citizens, produce ‘shoddy’ work, report says — The Department of Homeland Security has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a network of 77 so-called “fusion” intelligence centers that have collected personal information on some U.S. citizens …
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New York Times, Network World and Wall Street Journal
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Square Launches A Merchant Directory To Help Customers Discover New Places — Square, the startup disrupting the payments industry with its easy smartphone/tablet card-reader, has today launched Square Directory. It is a web-based search engine that allows users to find new merchants … | Brad Reed / BGR: |
Four-inch Samsung Galaxy S III ‘mini’ rumored for launch next week — Intrigued by the Galaxy S III but are put off by its large 4.8-inch display? Don't worry, it looks like Samsung (005930) has apparently got you covered. Unwired View got its hands on a flier in Germany teasing the launch … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.1 update goes live with SMS, portrait email — RIM's attention around its QNX-based platforms might revolve around BlackBerry 10 as of late, but don't think that it's leaving BlackBerry PlayBook users behind. A PlayBook 2.1 update is rolling out today that fills in some of the gaps left by 2.0 earlier this year.
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