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Inside Amazon's pricing war with Hachette, which is making some publishers and authors anxious — Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It's Fed — Vincent Zandri hails from the future. He is a novelist from the day after tomorrow, when Amazon has remade the worlds of writing, printing …
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| Jessi Hempel / Fortune: |
Behind the post-acquistion evolution of Instagram, which says 25% of users use Direct monthly — Instagram is ready to take its shot — The photo-sharing social media service has a fast-growing, hyper-engaged user base that advertisers love. Now it just needs to figure out how to make money for corporate parent Facebook.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Snapchat tests collaborative ‘Our Story’ feature with all users for the World Cup final — Surprise Snapchat experiment shares stories from the World Cup final — Snapchat may be best known for its “ephemeral” messaging, but the company is experimenting with a new way to share live events.
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Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+ — Hulu to Stream ‘South Park’ as More Players Jostle for Online Rights — While the media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, jockeyed for parking spaces for their jets …
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Apple-designed iBeacon hardware hits FCC: for Apple Stores, developers, or consumers? — On July 4th of this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made filings public from Apple regarding an Apple-branded piece of iBeacon equipment. The hardware is shown above to be a rounded hub …
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TUAW, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat and App Advice. Thanks:@mikebeas
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Unable to fork Android and keep Google services, Samsung faces commoditization similar to PC-makers — Unbundling innovation: Samsung, PCs and China — It seems pretty clear now that the Android OEM world is starting to play out pretty much like the PC world.
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Stowe Boyd. Tweets: @mblumenthal, @ppkarppi, @fmanjoo, @stevesi, @bmann and @marinperez. Thanks:@srikardr
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Exclusive: YouTube weighs funding efforts to boost premium content - sources — (Reuters) - YouTube has embarked on a new round of discussions with Hollywood and independent producers to fund premium content, two sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters, a move that could bolster … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Inside Dark Wallet: two crypto-anarchists' user-friendly system for anonymous Bitcoin transactions — Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money — Amir Taaki and — Cody Wilson are cruising north through Texas on Interstate 35 in the 4:30 am predawn darkness.| Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Accuses Chinese Executive of Hacking to Mine Military Data — Man Charged With Industrial Espionage Targeting Boeing, Other Defense Contractors — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has charged the owner of a Chinese aviation technology company with stealing reams of information …
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Curated Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square For $100 Million — Curated food delivery startup Caviar is in talks to be acquired by Square in a deal that could be worth at least $100 million, according to several sources. While we've heard the deal is slated …
Tweets: @alex and @danprimack
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Just Like Facebook, Twitter's New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What's Tweeted — Twitter has new analytics available that let anyone understand exactly how viewed their tweets are. Those stats also clear something else up. Just like Facebook, what you share on Twitter isn't seen by all your followers.
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Conversation Agent. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer
| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
Beats sues Chinese counterfeiters for billions as Apple sale nears completion — Headphone maker Beats has filed suit against a number of Chinese counterfeiters, alleging trademark infringement and seeking damages that could run into the billions of dollars just weeks before the company officially becomes an Apple subsidiary.Sponsor Posts
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