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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 …
| 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 …
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| 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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| Gabriela Vatu / Softpedia News: |
Google Files for Patent of Neck Tattoo with Built-In Microphone — It's been proven numerous times over the years that Google is not always the creator of the most conventional products and the fact that it often has its eyes on the future is quite easy to notice.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Finds Surprising Growth Market in Japan — Tech Company Gets Boost From Carriers' Price War, Local Anti-Samsung Bias … Apple Inc. is striking gold in an unlikely place: Japan. — In the past two years, Japan has emerged as Apple's fastest-growing region, far outpacing its home market …
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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.| Kadhim Shubber / CoinDesk: |
$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes — Bitcoin is surging in China, but the explosion in digital currency trading has been accompanied by possible fraud and theft. — GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform that claimed to be based in Hong Kong …
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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 … | 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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| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Chrome 32 lets you easily find and close those noisy tabs — Tabs in Chrome 32 Beta will notify you via icons when they're streaming audio. — (Credit: Google) — If you've ever wondered which of your 200 browser tabs is making all that racket, the latest Chrome Beta can lend an ear.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft details SkyDrive photo and video streaming on the Xbox One (video) — We already knew the Xbox One would have a built-in SkyDrive app, allowing you to view stream whatever media you had stored there. Until now, though, all we'd seen was a relatively informal unboxing video from Larry … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
Malone's Liberty Global Said in Talks to Buy Intel's TV Service — John Malone's Liberty Global (LBTYA) Plc, the European cable operator, is in talks to acquire Intel Corp. (INTC)'s online pay-TV service under development, said three people with knowledge of the situation.
| Alex Pham / Billboard: |
NMPA Targets Unlicensed Lyric Sites, Rap Genius Among 50 Sent Take-Down Notices — The National Music Publishers Association on Monday fired an opening salvo at lyric sites that it believes have not obtained licenses to publish those lyrics, including Rap Genius, a high-flying New York startup … | 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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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Google reverses course, allows Nielsen to measure ad views on YouTube — Google Relents on YouTube Ad Measurement — Nielsen to Begin Tracking Viewership of Videos — For about two years, Google Inc. refused to let Nielsen Holdings place measurement tags on ads running on YouTube … | 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 … | Reuters: |
Deutsche Telekom to offer firms ‘clean pipe’ against hackers — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom said it would launch a secure internet service next year for smaller companies that find it hard to pay for defenses against sophisticated forms of cyber crime. — The firm presented the plan … | 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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