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Samsung's Analyst Day: Custom ARM core, 560 PPI displays in 2014, and 4K phones in 2015 — Samsung just finished hosting their second ever analyst event in South Korea. Admittedly I didn't listen to all seven of the presentations given due to time constraints, but I did download … | Juro Osawa / Digits: |
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Google Says Its Mystery Barges May Be Used As Interactive Space Where People Can Learn About Its Technology — Google has issued a statement (finally?) about its months-long mystery barge project. The barges, which are anchored in both Portland, Maine and San Francisco …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook redesigns the Like button for the first time — When you're redesigning the Like button, which appears on over 7.5 million websites, the details count. Every pixel you change, color you swap, and drop-shadow you alter will get seen 22 billion times per day, Facebook says.
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Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services — Blockbuster to close remaining U.S. company-owned stores, DVD By Mail services by early-January 2014 — ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov 06, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) —Franchised and licensed stores in the U.S. and abroad to remain open for business
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
‘Silk Road 2.0’ Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web — The Silk Road is dead. But the dark web dream lives on. — On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2. came online, promising a new and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs … | Nadia Damouni / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist; Mulally, Elop make the cut — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has narrowed its list of external candidates to replace Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to about five people, including Ford Motor Co chief Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Adds Suppliers to Boost Smartphone, Tablet Production — Technology Firm to Broaden Assemblers of iPhone 5C — HONG KONG— Apple Inc. is adding new contract manufacturing partners in Asia to boost production of its smartphones and tablets, people familiar with the supply chain said …
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App Advice, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Electronista, Softpedia News, BGR, iLounge, Gigaom, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com and AppleInsider. Tweets: @monkbent
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Google tech duo thank Snowden for revealing snooping, issue the NSA ‘a giant f*** you’ — The revelations that the NSA has seemingly managed to infiltrate and spy upon individuals are bad enough for most of us, but some members of the Google tech team that work specifically on how to keep hackers …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Refreshes Its Finance Service With Updated iOS Apps And A New Website — Today Yahoo refreshed the iOS application and website of its Finance service. The updates are worthy, and will help Yahoo remain relevant in the financial space, and perhaps support the continued growth of its mobile userbase.
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| @andrewchen: |
When a great product hits the funding crunch — Today I read a well-done article by The Verge on the shutdown of Everpix, a photo startup that's gained a small but loyal following. It's a great read, and I'd encourage you to check it out. There's a lot of things to comment on …
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| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Pinterest Hires San Francisco Chronicle President Joanne Bradford to Lead Advertiser and Media Partnerships (Updated) — If Pinterest's recent advertising test with “promoted pins” wasn't a clear enough sign that it's ready to generate some revenue, its latest hire surely is.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nipping At Spotify, Deezer Passes 5M Paying Subs, Adds ‘Hear This’ And ‘Explore’ For Music Discovery, Unveils New Mac App — Spotify may be the world's biggest music streaming company, but rival Deezer is inching closer to its terrain: today the company revealed that it now has 5 million paying users globally …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
AOL Smacks Startup for Using CrunchBase Content It Gave Away — Can you release content under a free Creative Commons license, then change your mind and take that material back? — That's the question posed in a simmering battle between media giant AOL and a three-person startup called Pro Populi …
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Info @ CrunchBase and Business Insider. Tweets: @stevenwalling, @carnage4life, @philosophygeek, @synedra and @evrystockphoto
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Backed By Sequoia, Zomato Closes $37M Series D To Expand Its Restaurant Discovery Service Internationally — Zomato wants to eat Yelp's lunch. The Indian restaurant discovery service has been chipping away at the space since 2008, mostly in its home market.| James Temple / The Technology Chronicles: |
Firefox cookie blocking effort delayed again, as Mozilla commitment wavers — Follow @jtemple Mozilla's plans to automatically block certain cookies in its Firefox browser earned praise from privacy advocates and disdain from the ad industry when it was announced earlier this year.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia's 6-inch Lumia 1520 coming to AT&T on November 15th for $199 — Nokia's Lumia 1520 looks set for a release on AT&T next week. The Microsoft Store is now accepting pre-orders with a release date of November 15th for $199 on contract. Following similar deals for the Lumia 900, 920 … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Addresses iWork For Mac Criticism By Pre-Announcing The Return Of Many Features — Apple has posted a new page on its site, detailing features of iWork that it says it will be restoring over the next six months. This is likely in response to the outcry by power users of its products …
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Inventory tracking site Apple-Tracker.com gets DMCA takedown notice from Apple, shuts down — Apple Takedown Notice Makes iPhone 5s and iPad Air Less Easy to Find — Unprecedented pre-launch hype and massive day one queues are things that Apple thrive on and are achieved at pretty much every major product launch.
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| Shreyas Gandhe / Neowin: |
Google Apps dropping support for IE9 — Google has announced through its Google Apps blog that it will be dropping support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser in the coming weeks. — The blog post highlights Google's policy for browser support which includes the latest …
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
KitKat shows caller IDs from Google Places, Apps customers; adding personal accounts in early 2014 — Google formally introduced KitKat, the newest flavor of Android, last week, but the company is still revealing new features of the platform: today it confirmed that the phone app is undergoing … | Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
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