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BlackBerry Is Said to Warm to Idea of a Breakup — BlackBerry (BBRY) Ltd. is more open to a breakup of the company amid concerns that Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH) may be unable to line up funding or partners for a $4.7 billion buyout, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store — Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider. It will rake in about $75 billion this year. For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone spoke to hundreds of current and former friends of founder Jeff Bezos.| Jason Inofuentes / Ars Technica: |
Acer's $249 C720 Chromebook launched: Thinner, longer lasting, and Haswell — The Chromebook C720. — Acer — Chrome OS aficionados have long pined for a Haswell processor to drive one of their Chromebooks, imbuing the line with the longevity they've been missing out on. That wait has come to an end.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment — Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot …
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| Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine: |
T-Mobile International Data vs. the Competition: Rates Compared — Data Cost — Voice Calling Cost — AT&T — $30 per 120MB / $120 per 800MB (Global Add-on Package) — $30 / month for $2.00 per minute (Rest of World Plan) — Sprint — $40 per 40MB / $80 per 85MB (Multi-country Data Roaming)
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Fitbit Force brings smartwatch features to a fitness tracker — Fitbit is making its latest device to quantify your activity, the wrist-worn Force fitness tracker, official today. The Force is an evolution of the Flex, Fitbit's other wrist-worn tracker, and offers an OLED display and altimeter …
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Microsoft Board Said to Work on Hiring New CEO This Year — Microsoft Corp.'s board is working toward having the successor to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer in place by the end of this year and is winnowing a list of candidates, said people with knowledge of the discussions.
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| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Best Buy trade-in offer to take any working smartphone for at least $100 toward iPhone 5s, 5c — Electronics retailer Best Buy appears on the verge of kicking off another trade-in program aimed at getting iPhone 5s and 5c customers through its doors, this time offering a minimum of $100 toward …
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| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Bye, Bye Cookie: Microsoft Plots Its Own Tracking Technology to Span Desktop, Mobile, Xbox — Redmond Joins Google, Apple, Amazon and Others In Plotting the Cookie's Demise — Microsoft is set to become the latest tech giant to develop its own tracking technology to replace the ubiquitous …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Rogers Agrees to Carry BlackBerry's Newest Flagship Phone — Looks like Rogers Communications will sell the BlackBerry Z30 after all. — A week after announcing its decision to forgo BlackBerry's latest flagship phone, the Canadian wireless carrier has reversed course following outcry from its customers.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages — I've been thinking about this piece by Ben Thompson, “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong in His Theory of Low-End Disruption”, since he published it two weeks ago. … In a sense, there are two rational Apple bear arguments.
| Elizabeth Guider / Hollywood Reporter: |
MIPCOM: Al Jazeera to Launch Online Global News Net — The Doha-based news network will focus on English service first. — CANNES - Qatar-based news operation Al Jazeera will go live online with a 24-hour news, current affairs and human interest channel in early 2014 called Al Jazeera Plus.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
CenturyLink to expand its forthcoming gigabit fiber internet service into Las Vegas this fall — Super-Speed Internet Rolls Into Las Vegas — CenturyLink — the third largest telecommunications company in the U.S. — announced today that it will expand its forthcoming gigabit fiber internet service into Las Vegas this fall.| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
GE teams up with AT&T and Intel to conquer the industrial internet. Here's its plan. — Two years ago GE made some big bets on the internet of things — what it calls the industrial internet. It opened an office in San Ramone, Calif. and started articulating a vision of connected sensors sending data …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gartner: PC shipments slip 8.6% to 80.3m units in Q3 2013, the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008 — The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since 2008.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google begins offering financial rewards for proactive security patches made to select open-source projects — Google today started to provide financial incentives for proactive improvements to open-source software (OSS) that go beyond merely fixing a known security bug.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Archos GamePad 2 tablet gets official, ships to the US in Q4 for $200 — That was fast — just days after a retailer's leak, Archos has announced the GamePad 2. As hinted earlier, the second-generation gaming tablet is a big improvement over the original.
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| Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com: |
Apparently a lot of that TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) talent left BlackBerry Sweden to start a new company called TOPP... When companies acquire other companies, it's usually for one or more of a few reasons, including: to grow market share (and take out a competitor a long the way), to acquire technology and/or to acquire talent.| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT — Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge — Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first. Still.... While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …
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