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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 …
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| 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 …
| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.)
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| Nathan Grayson / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: |
Picking Up Steam: Humble Launches Full Storefront — Well, this all feels a bit inevitable, doesn't it? After oodles, kaboodles, and toaster strudels of bundles - not to mention “store” functionality utilized by many indie developers - Humble Bundle has finally launched a full-blown storefront, ala Steam or GOG.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google launches App Translation Service, lets Android developers buy translations from pre-qualified vendors — Google today launched the App Translation Service, first previewed at its Google I/O 2013 conference, to all Android developers. The new offering lets developers browse a list …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. — At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments … Sponsor Posts
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