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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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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Uber Filing in Delaware Shows TPG Investment at $3.5 Billion Valuation; Google Ventures Also In — According to a Delaware filing by Uber Technologies, it has sold stock in the fast-growing privately held transportation service to private equity giant TPG. In addition, according to sources …
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Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever — A Certificate Of Incorporation unearthed by AllThingsD today shows that Uber has closed $361.2 million in its latest round. It's unknown why TPG, which picked up 775,092 shares, paid a lower per-share price than the other participants.
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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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See also Mediagazer| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1 — During this afternoon's earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening that was announced back in February. — This is actually the second time Pandora …
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Pandora, MacRumors, The Verge, PhoneArena, TechHive, ReadWrite, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Engadget and The Next Web
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon Is Said to Have Tested a Wireless Network — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has tested a new wireless network that would allow customers to connect its devices to the Internet, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — The wireless network, which was tested in Cupertino …
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CNET, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, SlashGear, dailywireless.org and Electronista. Tweets: @bloombergtech
| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The Nexus 7 (2013) Review — Truth be told, Google has made (or at least directed the making of) some of the best tablets on the market today. The original Nexus 7 was groundbreaking in that it offered a totally usable platform, married to the latest version of Android, for $199.| 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.| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
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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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Google applies for location-based security patent, locks down your phone on the go — Google's knack with location services helps us to get around, but hopefully, that same tech will serve to keep our devices safe in the future. Mountain View has applied to patent a system that modifies …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Android Community, IntoMobile, Electronista and GigaOM
| 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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Exclusive: Edward Snowden leaks reveal UK's secret Middle-East internet surveillance base — Data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn web project still being assembled by GCHQ — Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities … | Rafat Ali / Skift: |
Travelocity Gives In, Sites To Be Powered by Expedia — Travelocity, the online booking site owned by Sabre, has given in to the intense competition in the online booking sector, and gone with the least risky option short of actually selling itself off: it has done a deal with once-competitor Expedia … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Sorry Twitter: Your IPO won't be ‘low profile’ — Twitter has an unreasonable request for its prospective IPO bankers. — FORTUNE — Twitter is beginning to speak with bankers about its inevitable IPO, according to the New York Post. No real surprise, except for this quote: … Say what now?
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New York Post, ZDNet and PandoDaily
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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 … | 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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Pokki Blog, Bloomberg, The Next Web, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Computerworld, The Register, Engadget, Examiner, PC World and CITEworld. Thanks:@johnhcook
| 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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AllThingsD, TechHive, The Windows Blog, Engadget, NYT Bits, WebProNews, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Computerworld, POPSUGAR, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, The Verge, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Electronista. Thanks:@drizzled
| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Spotify in Talks With Brands To Create Twitter-Like Follow Feature — Music Service Plotting a Busy 2014 for Marketers — Spotify is in talks with brands to beta-test a “follow” feature so that marketers can push content like branded playlists to the music-streaming service's users.
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Business Insider, Softpedia News and hypebot
| Martyn Williams / PC World: |
Xerox releases patch for scanning error issue — Xerox has issued the first software patch intended to fix a problem in some multi-function printers that causes characters to be incorrectly reproduced when scanned. — The problem first came to light in early August when a German computer …
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Real Business at Xerox, The Verge, The Register, Electronista and D. Kriesel
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
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