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| Rana Foroohar / TIME: |
TIME Exclusive: Icahn Files Apple Shareholder Proposal — The richest man on Wall Street is opening a new front in his quest to persuade Apple to part with more of its massive cash stockpile. — Veteran investor Carl Icahn is opening a new front in his quest to persuade Apple to part with more of its massive cash stockpile.
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Tweets: @carl_c_icahn, @davidfaber, @danprimack, @time and @qthrul
| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Leaked: Uber's Internal Revenue and Ride Request Numbers — Valleywag has obtained detailed internal financial information indicating that Uber, the e-hailing app that has spawned a hundreds of half-baked pitches, is making a lot more money than its investors had anticipated.
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Digits, VentureBeat, Business Insider and IntoMobile
Tweets: @mikemadden, @stammy, @pkafka, @danprimack, @benpopper, @nickconfessore and @conorsen
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Tweets: @moiraforbes and @fmanjoo
| Wall Street Journal: |
China Mobile signs deal with Apple, bringing iPhone option to 700 million+ subscribers later this month — Apple, China Mobile Sign Deal to Offer iPhone — Tie-Up Would Give Apple Access to 700 Million Subscribers … China Mobile Ltd. has signed a long-awaited deal with Apple Inc …
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9to5Mac, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, Fortune, Tech Trader Daily, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Mashable, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, App Advice and iClarified
Tweets: @hblodget, @ampressman and @yunheekim22
Thanks:@mrinaldesai| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Next USB plug will finally be reversible — Work has begun on a new generation of USB that will break compatibility with existing connectors in order to improve ease of use and allow for thinner devices. The new connector, called Type-C, is an addition to the existing USB 3.1 specification … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iBeacons Used To Deliver Location-Based Access To iOS Newsstand Publications — iBeacon, Apple's hyperlocal trigger tech in iOS 7, is an innovation that holds a lot of promise, and that will probably continue to make waves in the retail industry for a long time to come.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Search for Android gets app listings, surfacing results from inside apps on your device and Google Play — Google today announced a big update to Google Search for Android that will make it a lot easier to find information. In short, the company has added app listings …
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Inside Search, ZDNet, BetaNews, Android Community, SlashGear, Engadget, Android Beat, Search Engine Land, Android and Me, 9to5Google, pocketnow.com, Phandroid and Droid Life
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's New Cloud Desktop Service, Amazon WorkSpaces, Arrives On iPad — Amazon WorkSpaces, the company's recently announced virtual desktops service and competitor with VMware, has now arrived on the iOS platform, or more specifically, on iPad. The new app will allow those who have access … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Is About To Officially Launch Retargeted Ads — Twitter is ready to roll out retargeted ads fueled by browser cookies, sources confirm. Twitter could make the announcement as soon as tomorrow, expanding retargeted ads beyond the “experimental” phase that started in July.
Tweets: @novaspivack and @cjc
| Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
Verizon wins approval for $130 billion takeover of Vodafone's share of its wireless network — Months after Verizon confirmed its $130 billion buyout of Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless, the FCC has given its approval. With the commission's blessing, Verizon will have complete control … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Plex for Chromecast: new clues hint at imminent launch — One of the most-requested features for Google's Chromecast streaming stick has been support for local file playback, and it looks like Chromecast users won't have to wait much longer: Media center app Plex could get support for Chromecast very soon …
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MacStories, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Google, iClarified and Phandroid
| Washington Post: |
NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show — The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials …
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Tweets: @postpolls, @repfitzpatrick, @rj_gallagher, @micahflee, @kevinbankston, @csoghoian, @bradheath, @koxinga21, @mattbuchanan and @jackshafer
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC chair: ISPs should be able to charge Netflix for Internet fast lane — Newly anointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said this week that it would be OK for Internet service providers to charge Netflix and other companies for a faster lane to consumers.| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid Aaron Swartz — The door to the network closet pops open and a slender figure enters, a bicycle helmet hanging from one arm. He sheds his backpack and pulls out a cardboard box containing a small hard drive, then kneels out of frame.
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| Zach Walton / WebProNews: |
Google May Have Lost NORAD, But It's Still Tracking Santa This Year — After years of collaboration with Google, NORAD decided to partner with Microsoft instead last year to release its Santa Tracker app exclusively on Windows 8. That's not going to change this year, but Google will be releasing … | AllThingsD: |
Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda Departs for Roles at Kleiner Perkins and eBay — John Maeda, the former MIT professor who is a director on the boards of Sonos and Quirky, is leaving his job as president at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design to take a role at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Beats Music Streaming Service Launches January 2014, Fires Up Username Reservations — The new Beats Music streaming music service will launch January 2014, according to CEO Ian Rogers. The service also launched a ‘name claiming’ site today that lets you snag a primo username early.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Publishing Platform Medium Keeps Iterating With New Photo, Layout Tools And Collection Controls — Medium, the blog publishing platform from Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has today released new features and a few design changes. — Medium has sprouted from a seedling to a full-fledged media tool …
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Medium, Gigaom and The Verge
Tweets: @baconmeteor, @evanatmedium, @stevekovach and @anildash
Thanks:@mjburnsy. See also Mediagazer| James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tech's space appetite eclipses highs of dot-com boom — Technology companies have leased 40 percent more San Francisco office space since the start of 2010 than during the five-year dot-com boom. — That's just one eye-catching statistic in a comprehensive new report analyzing …
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @timishungry, @richard_florida, @fisherucb, @owashb, @aarieff, @jtemple and @nytimesbits. Thanks:@techchronicle
| Omer Horvitz / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme finally posts stories to its Facebook page — You may not know this, but Techmeme's had a Facebook page since 2007. And it has garnered many “likes”, including Mark Zuckerberg's. (You may have heard of him!) Unfortunately, and perversely, Techmeme never actually posted anything to this page during all those years.
Tweets: @eldon
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Video on Demand Pushes TV Viewing Up - Nielsen — No one watches TV anymore. — You don't, and no one you know does, and it's just a matter of time before the TV Industrial Complex folds in on itself and disappears. — Except ... it turns out that people are. Still. Watching. TV.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Intuit Buys Docstoc for a Price of Up to $50 Million to Round Out Small Business Services — Intuit has acquired Docstoc, the electronic document service aimed at the sale and storage of a wide variety of documents for businesses. — While the well-known Silicon Valley-based business software company …
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