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Apple iPad mini with Retina Display: Reviewed — I suppose there's only one way to start this review, and that's by looking back at last year's iPad mini review. In that review I had a section dedicated to the possibility of an iPad mini with Retina Display.
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Apple Stores to implement iBeacon location technology to improve service, boost sales — iOS 7's flashy launch earlier this year with an entirely new design and streaming music functionality overshadowed a breakthrough new feature: iBeacons, a location-based technology with profound implications for industries such as retail.| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Case of Georgia Tech professor illustrates risks in taking university research commercial — Reaching for Silicon Valley — Joy Laskar was not what you'd typically think of as a threat to public safety. — At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he was a professor … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Ditches Redesign Involving Swipeable Streams, Reverts Alpha & Beta Testers To Old, Four-Button Interface — Twitter's tests involving a new mobile interface that would do away with the app's standard four buttons in favor of a “swipeable” menu at the top, have come to a halt.
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Google opens Winter Wonderlab pop-up shops showcasing latest gadgets — Google is opening a series of pop-up shops for the holiday season to show off the Nexus 7, Chromecast, and the latest Chromebooks. The shops, called Winter Wonderlabs, are in six cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, Washington, DC, and Paramus, NJ.
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Exclusive: FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers — (Reuters) - Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Postmates Launches In Brooklyn And Adds David Sacks, Dave Morin, And Bill Lee As Investors — Postmates is expanding its service in the New York City area, crossing the bridge and making its mobile delivery service available in Brooklyn, as well as Manhattan.
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| Scott Sayare / New York Times: |
A tuition-free programming school in Paris promotes entrepreneurship and skirts tradition — A Computer Academy in France Defies Conventional Wisdom — PARIS — In a nation of schools typically christened with sensible acronyms or the names of dead Frenchmen, 42 seems an odd title for an institution of higher learning.| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Pandora pitches advertisers user segments based on registration data in move from cookies — Pandora Looks Past the Tracking Cookie By Mining User Data — Internet Radio Company Creating Segments Like Hispanic, Affluent Listeners — Pandora wants advertisers to know: No cookies, no problem.
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A sampling of the images Sina Weibo censors reveals the political points China's elite fear most — How to Get Censored on China's Twitter — The word “tank.” Photos and names of Chinese dissidents. Images of rubber ducks. Any mention of Tibetan protests or Bo Xilai, the disgraced senior member of China's Communist Party.| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
In Rejecting Facebook, Snapchat Still Extracts Value — Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel could have sold his two-year-old startup to Facebook for about $3 billion. But he said no. — When the Journal reported his rebuff on Wednesday, some in Silicon Valley and beyond thought Spiegel was crazy.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Lyft and Sidecar moving from requesting donations to requiring minimum fares in California — Lyft also will instate fares in California, ditching donation system — Despite receiving a cease and desist letter from Los Angeles, Lyft said it plans to continue to operate. (Lyft)
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Bitcoin Companies and Entrepreneurs Can't Get Bank Accounts — In the first week of July, Jay Shore got bad news. U.S. Bank and Chase informed him they were closing the accounts for his company, Coinabul, a San Diego-based precious metals buyer that sells silver and gold for Bitcoin.| Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal: |
Exclusive Interview: Steve Ballmer on His Retirement as Microsoft CEO … REDMOND, Wash.— Steve Ballmer paced his corner office on a foggy January morning here, listening through loudspeakers to his directors' voices on a call that would set in motion the end of his 13-year reign as Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive.
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