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Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …
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Leaked Photos Of A Motorola Pre-Production Device: This May Be The Moto X+1 — We've been hearing rumors and seeing at least some evidence of a new Motorola flagship for the past few months. The Moto X was released in August of last year, which makes it just about time for a refresh in the current yearly phone cycle.| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
How later IPOs and other big trends are changing the structure of the VC industry — The Changing Structure of the VC Industry — There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. — On the surface the narratives have been| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
With photo-based key-copying services like KeyMe, simply allowing others to view your keys poses a security problem — The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor's Home — When I broke into my neighbor's home earlier this week, I didn't use any cat burglar skills. I don't know how to pick locks.
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| Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom: |
Max Levchin's latest: Homer, a creepily intimate look at what apps your friends use — Max Levchin's latest product, Homer, lets you see your friends' phone screens to discover new apps. It also unwittingly provides a fascinating window into their lives. — My gchat pinged. “Why do you have Glow?
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Thanks:@bizcarson| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Rolls Out A YouTube-Like “Video Shorts” Section On Instant Video — Amazon's Instant Video service has traditionally been thought of as both a rival to iTunes and Netflix, in terms of offering movies and TV shows for rent, purchase or for free streaming via the company's Amazon Prime membership program.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Why Doesn't Facebook Want to Brag About Its Billion-Dollar App Ad Business? — Did you think that Facebook's amazing mobile ad story — mobile was a big, troublesome zero two years ago, and 62 percent of the company's ad revenue yesterday — was fueled by app install ads?
Tweets: @jason_kint, @reedalbergotti and @mhbergen
| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
Lyft CEO John Zimmer on the Company's New York Debut, Regulation, and the Taxi Industry — “I do think the pace at which we’re moving to create something new and the pace at which rules are created are at odds.” — Coming to New York as an idealistic, wide-eyed upstart can be dangerous.
Tweets: @felixsalmon, @kevinroose and @mdudas
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
China's Baidu follows in Google's footsteps as it reveals it's working on partial self-drive cars — Google took the wraps off its self-driving cars in May, and now Baidu — commonly known as China's Google — has also revealed that it is working on a similar project.
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Social networks Bubblews and Bonzo Me pay users for posts that attract traffic and advertisers — Get paid for posts? Social networking's new twist — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and most other social networks are built on the premise that just about everything should be shared -except the money those posts produce.
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Bose sues Beats over headphone noise-cancellation patents — (Reuters) - High-end sound system and headphone maker Bose Corp is going after the newer kid on the block, Beats Electronics, with a lawsuit accusing Beats of infringing several patents related to noise-cancellation technology.
| Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
House votes to allow cellphone ‘unlocking’ — The House on Friday passed legislation allowing people to “unlock” their cellphones and switch from one carrier to another, sending the bill to the president's desk. — The bill won unanimous support in the lower chamber and has been widely backed …
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