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| Sam Grobart / Businessweek: |
Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share—and the New iPhones — Apple's doomed. — This is what you hear and read. Sure, it was a hell of a run—iPhone, iPad, all that—but it's about to end, and fast. If you need any proof, just look at China: the world's largest smartphone market …
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| USA Today: |
Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain — The reclusive and prolific Jony Ive, the man behind the Apple iPod, meets with USA TODAY for a rare interview about Apple's once and future mission — CUPERTINO, Calif. - The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft now offers up to $350 in iPhone/iPad trade-in promotion, adds Android and BlackBerry devices — Microsoft ups the ante on its iPhone, iPad trade-in promotion — Summary: A new Microsoft Corporate Buyback promotion, seemingly open to anyone, allows users to get up to $350 to use …
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| Dann Berg / The Verge: |
HP's new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion — Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP's new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless. The Envy has Leap Motion's gesture recognition technology built directly into the palmrest … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
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| BBC: |
Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85 — Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman credited with transforming Nintendo into a world-leading video games company, has died aged 85. — Mr Yamauchi ran the firm for 53 years, and was its second-largest shareholder at the time of his death.
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
California regulators approve ride-sharing guidelines — The new rules require driver background check, training, and insurance coverage, and let the state collect fees from the ride-sharing companies. — A California regulatory agency has approved the first statewide guidelines …
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Google Wallet finally makes its iOS debut, sans NFC — Hey iPhone users, Google Wallet is here! The payments app has finally arrived for iOS devices, bringing with it transfers to friends, loyalty card tracking and nearby offers. Tap-to-pay is notably absent, as iOS devices don't support NFC …
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| DealBook: |
Nokia's Former Chief to Collect $25.5 Million From Microsoft Deal — It was Stephen Elop who, as Nokia's chief executive, deepened the Finnish telecommunications firm's ties to Microsoft by agreeing to bind itself to the Windows Phone operating system. — Now that Microsoft is buying full control …
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| Keza MacDonald / IGN: |
Sony Plans To Launch Gaikai PS3 Library in 2014 — Sony will use the cloud technology to provide PS3 games to stream to PS4 and Vita. — In a roundtable interview at Tokyo Game Show today, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that Sony plans to launch Gaikai cloud services …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iOS 7 Adoption Already As High As 35% In One Day, Apple And Developers Reap The Rewards — Apple's big iOS 7 update rolled out to devices yesterday, around 1 p.m. ET, and while many users encountered a lot of frustrating server errors trying to get it, the numbers show that a lot of people were successful in updating.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Target matching Walmart's $79 iPhone 5c deal, preorders start today — While the iPhone 5c will begin selling in stores tomorrow starting at $99 on contract through most retailers, we've just learned that Target will be matching the $79 offer that Walmart recently announced for preorders of the iPhone 5c.
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| Mahesh Sharma / TechCrunch: |
Deliv Raises $6.85 Million To Bring Same-Day Delivery To A Store Near You — Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy Buys Afternic To Beef Up Its Domain Registry Marketplace — GoDaddy has made another acquisition, its fourth in 14 months: it has bought Afternic, a specialist in aftermarket domain sales — that is, reselling domain names that are already owned. Afternic was owned by NameMedia … | Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Plaid launches with $2.8M and an API for financial data — Plaid, a San Francisco startup that aims to make an API available for banks to share financial data with developers has launched with $2.8 million from Spark Capital, Google Ventures, NEA, Felicis Ventures and Homebrew Capital.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all, bringing Microsoft Office editing to the mobile masses — Google today announced it is making Quickoffice free for everyone. That means Android and iOS users can edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go without paying a dime.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Resurrects The Personalized Homepage With “My Yahoo” Revamp — Yahoo's rollout of new products and redesigns continues today, with the release of an updated My Yahoo homepage featuring the same, more modern look-and-feel which accompanies all its online and mobile properties as a part of the company's …
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Nielsen to Add Data for Mobile TV Viewing — Firm Also Will Roll Out Service That Measures TV Tweets — Nielsen has long been a kingmaker in the TV industry. Its ratings data, which tracks viewership of shows, determines how advertisers shell out some $66 billion annually.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Gartner: 102B App Store Downloads Globally In 2013, $26B In Sales, 17% From In-App Purchases — Ongoing trends in smartphone adoption — which this year finally outnumbered the amount of non-smartphones getting purchased — will drive 102 billion app store downloads this year … | Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Moto X Coming to Republic Wireless for $299, New $5 Monthly Plan — Now this is more like it. Republic Wireless is adding the Moto X to is phone lineup this November for just $299 off contract, $300 less than competing carriers. The device will tap into Republic Wireless' service …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back — A brand new vision for iOS, Android, Mac, and web — Mike Johnston had an itch. — Simplenote, his once-beloved note-taking app, had been gathering dust for the better part of two years. Johnston had been spending … | Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Google Glass Not Expected To Reach Europe For Years — Google's slow rollout of Google Glass, not to mention one big technical challenge, means it'll be years before the device is available publicly in Europe. — That's what two reports are saying after Google hosted a show-and-tell about Glass in Brussels on Monday.Sponsor Posts
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