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Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos — Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions between the two companies …
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @jbrodkin, @mg, @nickbilton, @dannysullivan, @hunterwalk and @mathewi
See also Mediagazer| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Instagram CEO feels Twitter card removal is ‘the correct thing for our business’ — Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom just took the stage at the LeWeb conference and is speaking directly to this morning's controversial change that removed Twitter card support. Right off the bat, Systrom made it clear that …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration: We Want Images Viewed On Instagram.com — Instagram has turned off Twitter Cards integration, leaving Instagram users on the short-winded social network with cropped, less-than-perfect copies of their masterwork in iPhonography.| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Explainer-in-Chief Can't Explain Apple — As Google Inc. battles rivals ranging from Apple Inc. to Internet companies that allege it fixes its search results, Eric Schmidt has become the search giant's peacemaker and explainer-in-chief. — Google's former CEO and current executive chairman met … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Unveils Latest Windows Phone 8 Device: Lumia 620 Packs 3.8 Inch ClearBlack Display, NFC, Costs $249 (Before Taxes) — Marko Ahtisaari, Executive VP of Design, Nokia, has unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 device: the Nokia Lumia 620. The product design chief was speaking at the LeWeb conference taking place this week in Paris.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat — Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, PadGadget, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Apple trader arrested in $1 billion wire fraud — Summary: A trader for Rochdale Securities has been arrested over allegations of fraudulent schemes relating to purchases of Apple stock. — Charlie Osborne — David Miller, a trader for Rochdale Securities, Stamford …
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Reuters: |
Apple shares tumble 4 percent in heavy trade, on mix of reasons — (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc tumbled 4 percent in heavy, midday trading on Wednesday, rounding off a bleak ten weeks for the most valuable company in the United States, with analysts citing a mix of reasons for the drop.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
NSFW: Apple's Russian iTunes launch plagued with bug displaying escort/pornography sites — “In Soviet Russia, Porn blocks Apple.” — It appears Apple's launch of iTunes music and movies in Russia is running into a bit of controversy with several Russian users noticing advertising …
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Gizmodo, Betabeat, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and Media Decoder
| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Rethinking Mobile First — I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago. In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion. — There have been a number of startups that have taken that approach and done well with it.
Tweets: @jamesjyu
| Neil McAllister / The Register: |
Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers — Top app earners carve up $60m pie — Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue for their developers, according to research from analyst firm Canalys.
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP announces the EliteBook Revolve, a Windows 8 convertible for the business crowd (video) — See that laptop up there? Basically, HP has announced something like that every year for we don't even know how long. It's always a convertible PC of the traditional sort, one with a fixed screen …
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ZDNet, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, BetaNews, SlashGear, The Droid Guy, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon brings one of its flagship Kindle features, X-Ray for books, to its iOS app — One of Amazon's flagship features, X-Ray for Books, has finally arrived in its iOS version. Thsi is enormous as it's one of the main reasons I love reading books on my Kindle and the Kindle Fire so much better than my iPad.
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Engadget, The Verge, WebProNews, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors and SlashGear
| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Nokia Maps digitises streets to battle Google's threat — Nokia is combining data gathered by lasers and cameras to make interactive 3D images of cities — Nokia smells an opportunity. Maps have become one of the most closely-watched battlegrounds in tech after a user-backlash led Apple …
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Philips, LG Electronics, 4 others fined $1.92 billion for EU cartel — (Reuters) - Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Google Street View and Maps coming to Wii U in January 2013 — During today's Nintendo Direct presentation, Iwata-san had plenty of game footage to show to Japan-based fans, but also casually mentioned that Google-powered maps and street vistas will arrive on the Wii U at the end of January 2013.
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CNET, WebProNews, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint
| Craig Lloyd / SlashGear: |
Verizon to start targeted advertising this week, will be optional — If you're a customer of Verizon's, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for an email, text message, or notification mentioning the carrier's new “Verizon Selects” program. In exchange for sharing your data usage …
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Verizon Wireless, The Verge, IntoMobile and FierceMobileContent News
| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
Your AT&T Bill Will Soon Be a Video — Deciphering wireless bills requires a degree of patience only slightly lower than interpreting the Constitution, so we're very happy to see AT&T making theirs a lot more human-friendly. Starting today, AT&T is explaining your monthly costs with a simple video.| Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon Using Sandy Repairs to Upgrade Wireline Network — Verizon Communications Inc. is replacing copper wire damaged by superstorm Sandy with fiber-optic cable, a move that allows the company to sell more services to customers. — The accelerated installation of fiber cable …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Sonos for iOS adds direct device streaming, takes PCs out of the equation (hands-on) — Sonos has been steadily reducing our dependency on the computer as the cornerstone of its multi-room audio system, but there's been one link left to cut: local music. Outside of an AirPlay workaround …
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TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, AllThingsD, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo
| Jake Smith / 9to5Google: |
Google adds horizontal carousel for web based iPad searches about local places — Google updated its web experience for U.S. iPad users who search for local places, such as bars and restaurants, on Google Search. The Mountain View-based company called the new feature a “horizontal carousel” …
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Search Engine Land, TUAW, Marketing Pilgrim and Softpedia News
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Prismatic Gets $15M From Jim Breyer And Yuri Milner To Attack The Impossible Problem Of Bringing You Relevant News — News aggregation is a glory-less pursuit, where even the companies that do succeed have to grapple with the fact that no algorithm is ever going to be as good as the human brain …
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| Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill: |
House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands — The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a Senate resolution introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that calls on the U.S. government to oppose government control of the Internet. — The 397- vote was meant to send …
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, And More — Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service that offers movies, games, and books for the kids. The launch follows the recent software update to Kindle Fire …
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Amazon.com, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Mobile Magazine, Gizmodo, USA Today, Mashable!, ABCNEWS, GeekWire, The Verge and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer
| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung promotes son and heir closer to top job — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co pushed the anointed heir of the company Chairman closer to the top job on Wednesday as the it cemented a global lead in smartphones with a stock price that is close to record highs.
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