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Exclusive: Apple Buys (Another) Map App, Embark — Apple Inc. keeps snapping up mapping companies. — The latest: Embark Inc., a small Silicon Valley upstart that builds free transit apps to help smartphone users navigate public transportation. — We don't know how much Apple paid …
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| Quartz: |
Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and others to come along — Years of halting negotiating with cable companies haven't gotten Apple much closer to its grand vision for television. But a newer strategy of talking directly to content providers seems more promising.
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steven @ a16z — As a reader of this blog, you probably notice the two big themes of learning (by shipping): (1) learning about new technologies, new ways to do things, and new products and (2) improving how products are made from an engineering and management perspective.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Former Windows Head Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Board Partner — Steven Sinofsky, the high-profile Microsoft exec who most recently led its flagship Windows efforts, will be joining Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner. — The tech exec — who has been an entrepreneur in residence …
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| Reuters: |
Insight: At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution — (Reuters) - Shortly after signing on as chief operating officer at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg was looking to connect with people in a similar role - No. 2 to a brilliant and passionate young founder. She called Tim Cook.
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Login feature opens up to all, requiring apps to ask for permission to post to Timelines — Facebook certainly has grown offer one of the most widely used login connections in the world. Through the feature formerly known as Facebook Connect, the social networking company …
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Ubuntu Edge: founder says failure isn't the end of the dream — Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth tells Guardian: US carriers and Asian handset manufacturers are interested in building phones with Ubuntu Mobile to capture 25% of smartphone buyers — The Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding project … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki — Lenovo, which recently took the title of world's largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer to the traditional Start Menu in its Windows 8 machines, in addition to letting users sidestep …
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Google Now updated with car rentals, concert tickets and more — Traffic and weather updates are great, but Google Now never shines better than when you're on vacation. To that end, Mountain View has taught the feature a few new tricks, equipping it with cards for keeping track car rental and concert ticket.| Microsoft: |
Windows Phone, Latin America's second most widely used mobile platform — In one year, the operating system went from fourth to second place with good growth figures, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. — This press release has been edited post publication to provide clarity on time frames.| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
MakerBot's $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October — The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they're just about ready push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little knick-knacks …
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| C. Custer / Tech in Asia: |
‘Xiaomi is now worth $10 billion,’ confirms CEO Lei Jun after new funding round — Titans of industry: Kingsoft, YY, and Xiaomi execs apparently celebrating the finalized deal. — Last June, Chinese mobile startup Xiaomi had netted an additional $216 million in series C funding that gave … | Matt Hunter / CNBC: |
Nasdaq resumes trading after three-hour shutdown — Trading resumed on the Nasdaq exchange after a three-hour shutdown that halted trading in such high-profile companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. A problem affecting quote dissemination starting at 12:14:03 ET froze trading …
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
New Nexus 7 Receiving Update to JSS15Q, Should Address Multitouch Issues — The new Nexus 7 has had a couple of issues to deal with out of the gate that has most certainly frustrated early adopters. First it was a GPS issue, but more recently the focus has moved onto multi-touch issues with the device's display.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage — Alex Polvi is living the great Silicon Valley archetype. Together with some old school friends, he's piecing together a tech revolution from inside a two-car Palo Alto garage. — He's like Dave Packard or Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin — at least up to a point.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
‘Kamcord’ iOS gameplay recording platform adds new user community, hits 1B videos, & picks up $1M in funding — Kamcord, the Y Combinator-backed startup offering a free SDK that makes it easy for iOS devs to offer in-game recording functionality to their users, is today announcing …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Flying high: Delta equips 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phones — Still not seeing too many people using Windows Phone? You will if you take a flight on Delta: The airline announced on Thursday that all 19,000 of the company's flight attendants will have a Windows Phone on board.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Makes Ads Prettier With Shutterstock Partnership To Offer Free Stock Images In Ad Creator — When ads look bad, Facebook, users, and advertisers all lose. So Facebook today announced a partnership to bake Shutterstock into its ad creator, allowing marketers to select from millions of free stock images for their ads.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Photo-Sharing App Cluster Snags Instagram Seed Investor Steve Anderson & Others To Lead $1.6M Round, Launches Version 1.0 — Cluster, a mobile photo-sharing app which helps users collaborate on albums with their friends, is today announcing $1.6 million in seed funding in a round led … Sponsor Posts
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