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Major iOS/OS X updates in the same year show Tim Cook is bringing operational efficiency home to Cupertino — Only Apple — 1. — “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook's closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes. Here's what he said at the end of last week's WWDC keynote: … Is this true, though?
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AT&T discloses that SSNs and other personal data for an unspecified number of customers was exposed in April — AT&T says customer data accessed to unlock smartphones — Social Security numbers were accessed in a bid to unlock smartphones — Personal information …
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Google Fiber franchise approved in Portland, Google to evaluate local regulations, topography next — Google Fiber franchise wins approval from Portland City Council — Here's what's next — Kansas City, where this office is located, was Google Fiber's first market.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
In SEC filing, AT&T claims merger with DirectTV will bring “downward pressure on prices” of broadband + TV bundles — AT&T: We need to buy DirecTV because U-verse TV is a failure — Unlike Comcast, AT&T claims it will lower prices after merger.
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Uber co-founder Garrett Camp teases “a better dining experience” with new startup Reserve — The Co-Founder Of Uber Is Teasing A Secret New Startup That Looks Like An OpenTable Killer — Garrett Camp, founder of Uber and StumbleUpon, is working on a bunch of new projects under an umbrella company, Expa.| Caleb Chen / CryptoCoinsNews: |
Bitcoin Mining Pool Ghash.io Is Unapologetic Over Risk Of Theoretical 51% Attack — Ghash.io is a Bitcoin mining pool that has been around for over a year. In the last year, Ghash.io has steadily grown a too-loyal backing of miners taking advantage of their large size and 0% fee structure.| Hayley Ringle / TechFlash: |
Private equity firm Tuition Build bids $645M to take CDN provider Limelight Networks private — EXCLUSIVE: Limelight Networks the target of $645 million hostile takeover bid — Tuition Build Inc., a Silicon Valley private equity company, submitted a $645 million hostile takeover bid Friday afternoon …
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| Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
Google Glass scorned again as The Daily Show convenes and mocks a panel of notable “Glassholes” — VIDEO: The Daily Show Mocks Google Glass (and Glass Explorers) — Comedy Central's The Daily Show finally got around to skewering Google Glass (and Glass Explorers) on Thursday night's show.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Netflix to shut down third-party API access on November 14 for all but a few select partners — Netflix Will Shut Down Public API Support For Third-Party Developers On November 14 — Netflix is getting a lot stingier with the way that third-party developers can use its content …
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| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Twitter's mobile apps now let you embed tweets inside tweets — In what looks like an effort to clean up how tweets appear in your timeline, Twitter for iOS and Android both actually embed tweets that have been linked in a tweet. — To embed a tweet in a tweet, just drop the link of the update's URL in the tweet you're composing.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Judge Orders DOJ To Hand Over FISA Court's Justification For Bulk Data Collection On Americans In FOIA Lawsuit — Late Friday, a judge in California ordered the DOJ to hand over key rulings from the FISA Court concerning the legality of the bulk records collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Handicapping the Winners and Losers in the Twitter Shakeup — While companies are not games, it's not hard to want to handicap the winners and losers in any major management shift or executive shakeout. — So, let's dispense with the niceties and get down to the brass tacks of what happened …
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