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Facebook unveils Autoscale, its load-balancing system that achieves an average power saving of 10-15% — Facebook today revealed details about Autoscale, a system for power-efficient load balancing that has been rolled out to production clusters in its data centers.
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China refutes claim of government ban on Apple purchases — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) products such as laptops and tablets are not banned from Chinese government procurement lists, according to the country's chief procurement center, refuting a report claiming Apple was blacklisted on national security concerns.
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EU is asking companies to provide evidence by Sept. 12 that Google imposed app bundling, exclusivity requirements on Android device makers, carriers — Google's Tough European Summer: Android and Online Search Probes — Google Inc. isn't having a good summer.
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Exclusive: Twitter-Mining News App SmartNews Raises $36 Million from Atomico and Gree — Japanese newsreading app SmartNews has raised $36 million in new funding, in a round led by growth-stage investment firm Atomico and mobile-social gaming company Gree. — The app is available on both iOS …
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Exclusive: Tango secondary financing values company at around $1.5 billion — (Reuters) - Tango, the mobile messaging company, is arranging a financing transaction that would value its business at around $1.5 billion, roughly one-third more than the valuation it received just five months ago … | Mat Honan / Wired: |
Stewart Butterfield set out to build a game and failed; instead, he created Flickr and Slack — The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup — Stewart is hungry. He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table …
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Twitter has quietly removed Bing translation from its mobile apps and web platform — A useful translation feature (albeit poorly executed at times) appears to have disappeared from Twitter's platform, less than two months after the company quietly rolled it out.
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Public Wi-Fi users in Russia will have to log on with ID, reports say — Russia's clampdown on internet freedom continues, this time with a measure designed to counter “those interested in destabilization.” However, there is some confusion over the details.| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Windows Phone Store hits more than 300,000 apps — And Microsoft expects the number to get much larger with the arrival of “universal” Windows apps. — Microsoft's Windows Phone Store has reached a new milestone with more than 300,000 apps on its virtual shelves.| The Coinbase Blog: |
Wikimedia Foundation Receives More Than $140,000 in Bitcoin Donations in First Week — Since it was founded in 2001, Wikipedia has provided tremendous value to the world by making it easy and free for anyone with an Internet connection to consume information.
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| Joel Stein / Businessweek: |
Silicon Valley Tech Entrepreneurs: Behind the Stereotype — Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots. He's 29, but even the most laissez-faire bartender would card him. His hand is forever grabbing his hair while he thinks, making it stick up in Einsteinian tufts.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
The NFL Now app is a treasure trove of video for football fans — A few weeks before the 2014 season starts, the NFL has launched a new video network called NFL Now. First announced in January, it's made to bring the huge troves of football video into one place: highlights, interviews …
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9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, Android Police, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Consumerist. Thanks:@d_ghiglieri
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Google Tests Way to Track Consumers From Mobile Browsers to the Apps They Use — For Advertisers, One Mobile User Has Previously Often Looked Like Two — Ebook — Advertising Age Essentials — Google has come up with a way to overcome the ad-targeting gap between mobile web visitors … Sponsor Posts
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