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Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won — ComScore research shows that while Apple suffered a PR disaster over maps, Google lost 23m iPhone users in the US — Apple's maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US - despite the roasting …

Larry Rulison / Times Union:

GlobalFoundries to make Apple chips in New York fab — Hello Malta. — GlobalFoundries is preparing to make chips for Apple's iPhone and iPad at its Fab 8 complex in Malta, according to a source close to the company. — Samsung Electronics, which currently makes the logic microprocessors used …

More: MacRumors, Digits, Gigaom, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, iLounge, Electronista and iClarified

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help — Experiment Is Web Retailer's Latest Speed Initiative … Amazon.com Inc. will begin delivering packages on Sundays in the nation's two largest cities later this month with an unlikely partner—the United States Postal Service.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon To Start Sunday Deliveries In LA, New York And London For Prime Customers

More: Wired, Salon, ABC News and Gotta Be Mobile

Kyle VanHemert / Wired:

Look Inside Apple's Spaceship Headquarters With 24 All-New Pics — Office life will spill into a verdant landscape on both the inside and outside of the ring. Image: City of Cupertino — The project was helmed by the firm of star architect Norman Foster. Image: City of Cupertino

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Valleywag, AppleInsider, Macworld, MacDailyNews, Laughing Squid, The Verge, Gizmodo, creativebits™, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and Softpedia News. Tweets: @mehan_j

Benedict Evans:

Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is looking strategically irrelevant — Instagram and Youtube — Instagram is looking like a great acquisition. It had 30m users when Facebook bought it in April 2012, and has now passed 150m, just 18m later. — (The change in colour signifies the acquisition.)

More: Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, Digits, I4U News, Technology Advice, Business Insider and Memex 1.1

Tweets: @benedictevans, @davemcclure, @mathewi, @paul_framp, @rianvdm, @dougw and @monkbent

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Fab Operating Chief Said to Be Leaving Company Amid Shakeup — Fab Inc. Chief Operating Officer Beth Ferreira is leaving the company, adding to a surge in executive turnover at the online retailer, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — Ferreira, a former Etsy Inc. executive …

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Forbes and Gigaom. Thanks:@mattlynley

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix + YouTube = Half Your Broadband Diet — There are lots of people who want to stream Web video to your house. But odds are that if you're watching a Web video during prime-time hours, it's coming from one of two places: Netflix or YouTube. — So said Sandvine, the broadband service company.

More: Sandvine, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Variety, Softpedia News, The Register, TIME, DSLreports, SlashGear, WebProNews and 9to5Google. Tweets: @ahmednassef

David Gilbert / International Business Times:

International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware Carried on Board by Russian Astronauts — Renowned security expert Eugene Kaspersky reveals that the International Space Station was infected by a USB stick carried into space by a Russian astronaut.

More: Gizmodo, Haaretz, The Atlantic Wire, TechWeekEurope UK, Motherboard, The Register, Inquirer and Graham Cluley

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Facebook joins GSMA, promises to be an ‘active’ member of wireless trade group — Social networking giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) joined the GSMA, signaling its intentions to become more deeply enmeshed in not only mobile devices but the standards and policy issues facing wireless carriers and vendors.

More: The Verge, Inside Facebook, TechnoBuffalo, CNET and dailywireless.org

Om Malik / Gigaom:

How much Kno sold for & why it failed — On Friday, November 8, 2013, Kno, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based e-learning startup was acquired by Intel, and the event got the usual news treatment. Friday is usually a day when you announce news for two reasons — you want the media to obsessively cover …

Tweets: @audreywatters

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

The Risky Groupon Initiative That Beat Back LivingSocial Perhaps Once and for All — Since Groupon's earliest days, there was always one constant: It would almost never take less than 30 percent of the proceeds from the daily deals it sold on behalf of its small-business clients.

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