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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App — The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years. — The media giant, which also owns this Web site, said it will “cease standalone publication” of the app on Dec. 15.
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Business Wire, Reuters, Talking Points Memo, Deadline.com, Poynter, AdAge, CNET, BGR, Fortune, Guardian, Nieman Journalism Lab, TUAW, Quartz, Media Decoder, AppleInsider, Guardian, The Verge, Capital New York, TechCrunch, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Macgasm, Neowin, Pulse2, GeekWire, PandoDaily, iPhone Hacks, Forbes, Inside Mobile Apps, NBC Bay Area, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Mashable! and PhoneArena
Tweets: @reckless, @realdanlyons, @erickschonfeld, @rafat and @markzohar
See also Mediagazer| Peter Ha / Gizmodo: |
What It Was Like Launching the Doomed iPad Magazine The Daily — I was the 19th employee hired by The Daily. My first day as the tech editor was on November 1, 2010, and the plan was to launch the next month. Needless to say, I was scared s**tless. — “You know you're going to go work for the devil, right?”| Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: |
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Marco.org, GigaOM, John Pavlus, The Atlantic Online, ReadWrite, Jack Shafer and TPM IdeaLab
Tweets: @gaberivera, @antderosa and @mg
See also Mediagazer| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly — Although Tumblr is now cleaning-up pages which were affected by today's worm, SophosLabs was able to briefly explore how the infection spread. — It appears that the worm took advantage of Tumblr's reblogging feature, meaning that anyone who was logged …
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Computerworld, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, nbcnews.com and Mashable!
| Adrian Chen / Gawker: |
Hackers Behind Tumblr Worm Say They Warned Tumblr of Vulnerability Weeks Ago — Tumblr has been flooded by a worm that's spamming thousands of user's feeds with an anti-Tumblr rant. In an interview, a spokesman for the group that's apparently behind the hack claims they warned Tumblr weeks ago …
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CNET, Gizmodo, Guardian, Mashable!, Daily Dot, Washington Post, Engadget, Business Insider, CNNMoney.com, BetaNews, SocialTimes, SC Magazine, Neowin and Geekosystem
Tweets: @verge, @alexjamesfitz and @tumblr
See also Mediagazer| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpointing him to a location in Guatemala — Oops. Vice, an online magazine known for in-depth pieces on often salacious topics today bragged that it is with the embattled technologist John McAfee, keeping tabs with his him during his time on the run.
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Examiner, CNET, Naked Security, Wired, Mashable!, Guardian, PetaPixel and SocialTimes. Tweets: @simplenomad. See also Mediagazer
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
No, Facebook's Not Buying WhatsApp (But Keep an Eye on It) — WhatsApp hit the tech news circuit today because of a somewhat speculative article in TechCrunch asserting that Facebook has been sniffing around the mobile messaging company. — But the Facebook acquisition talks aren't happening, said multiple sources.
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digitaltrends.com, ReadWrite, Forbes, Mobile Marketing Watch, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, VatorNews, PC Magazine and Pocketnow. Tweets: @abrams
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Judge: Patents in Apple-HTC settlement deal can't be sealed — A California judge says the list of patents included in Apple and HTC's settlement cannot be sealed as part of Apple's court spat with Samsung. — Major details of the legal settlement made between Apple and HTC …
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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Nobody Is Crying For You When You Are Worth Billions — I did a talk with Bill Werde at Billboard's FutureSound conference a few weeks ago. The entire talk is online (in two parts) here. If you go to 7:45 minutes in on the first video (embedded below) you will get to a conversation …
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January — This coming January is likely to be the first time that anyone outside of a production facility will get a look at jOBS, the new biopic of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia — Ever since Google announced that it would publish the DMCA requests it receives as part of their transparency report, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof. — While the majority of the requests …
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The Next Web and Geekosystem
| The Mozilla Blog: |
Firefox Gets Social with Facebook — Today, we're excited to announce that Firefox is getting social with Facebook Messenger for Firefox, which is built on a new Social API for the Web. — Firefox is the Web browser of choice for hundreds of millions of people worldwide and as social sites …
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Digital Trends, PC Magazine, WebProNews, The Next Web, The Verge and SocialTimes
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Legacy iPhones Biting Apple in the ASP — The launch of Apple's iPhone 5 was unquestionably a successful one. The company sold more than five million units during the device's first three days of availability, setting a new opening-weekend sales record. Yet, by some metrics …
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AppleInsider, Wired, PhoneArena, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans' text messages — State and local law enforcement want wireless providers to store detailed information about your SMS messages for at least two years — in case they're needed for future criminal investigations. — AT&T, Verizon Wireless … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Users Have 7 Days Starting Now To Vote On Clarified Policy Changes And If They'll Keep Voting — Facebook has integrated feedback from regulators and users into a clarified set of site governance and privacy policy changes, and starting now, users will have seven days to vote for or against them.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
SEC Filing: Ray Ozzie's Startup Talko Raises $4 Million To Develop Cloud-Based Mobile Backend Services — According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Ray Ozzie's startup, Talko, has raised $4 million to fund the development of its mobile communications apps and services.
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GeekWire, Business Insider, GigaOM and PandoDaily
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
iTunes Event Taking Place In Moscow On Dec 4: Is Russia Finally Getting Apple's Music Service? — At long last, Apple appears to be approaching a launch date for iTunes in Russia — and it could come as soon as tomorrow. A tipster has forwarded us an email, in Russian …
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The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, PhoneArena, Macgasm, iMore.com, PadGadget, Mobile Marketing Watch and TUAW
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google launches new Maps API with better tablet maps, Google Play services, new layers and more — Google has today launched v2 of its Google Maps API, bringing along better support for maps on tablets, integration with Google Play services, new information layers and more.| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories’ settlement wins judge's approval — A federal judge gave preliminary approval Monday to a negotiated settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Facebook's use of its members' names and photos in online advertising, while a public interest lawyer vowed …
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Steam's TV-friendly Big Picture mode comes out of beta, Valve holds week-long sale to celebrate — Steam's Big Picture mode, which aims to carve Valve's gaming platform a presence in your living room, today moved out of beta and is ready for general public consumption.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Gmail update for Android 4.0 and 4.1 users adds resizable messages and swipe to archive feature — Gmail received a few nice updates when Android 4.2 Jelly Bean launched — at long last, emails resized to fit your device, and you could swipe a message to automatically archive it.
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The Next Web, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, GigaOM, Droid Life, Engadget, WebProNews, BGR and Softpedia News
| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Eric Schmidt's book on the future to be released April 23 — Alfred A. Knopf says it will print a first run of 150,000 copies for “The New Digital Age,” co-written with Google Ideas director Jared Cohen. — Eric Schmidt's treatise on the future will soon be hitting bookshelves.
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Knopf Doubleday, 9to5Google, The Verge and AllThingsD
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Verizon Shutting Down the Mobile Video Service It Launched in 2005 — Verizon Wireless is pushing the “off” button on the pioneering mobile video service once known as Vcast Video. — The service, which launched in 2005, will go dark on Dec. 15, although the carrier will continue …
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Computerworld, Engadget, VentureBeat, PC Magazine and GigaOM
| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
LG seeks to be major fabless chipmaker — LG Electronics is moving to transform itself into a major fabless chipmaker by hiring more qualified chip designers and giving authority to related divisions. — The Korea's technology giant has strengthened fabless semiconductor manufacturing …
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CNET, SlashGear, Android Authority, Engadget and Ubergizmo
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Meet Turntable's Piki, The First Music App To Do Social Music Sharing Right — Turntable today introduced Piki, a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with powerful Twitter-inspired social features. With Piki, the most impressive part is that Turntable is one of the first music startups to get social right.Sponsor Posts
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