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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Inside Apple University, the company's highly secretive internal training program — Inside Apple's Internal Training Program — Inside Apple's Internal Training Program — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.
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Tweets: @bryfitz, @nickbilton, @drtonywagner and @jamesdeantimes
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Inside Square's long-term plan, its quest for non-payments revenue, and the Starbucks disaster — Back To Square One — Jack Dorsey's dazzling startup promised to transform the credit and finance industry with a sweeping, digitized vision of the future. After losing $100 million, has his company lost its edge?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
BuzzFeed raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz, valuing company at $850M; Chris Dixon to join board; most revenues come from creating ads for other brands — A Move to Go Beyond Lists for Content at BuzzFeed — Here are three completely crazy insights about BuzzFeed, the viral content start-up:
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Tweets: @espiers, @gruber, @mathewi, @espiers, @cdixon, @shanselman, @gruber, @aschirtz, @antonioregalado, @jsnell, @sampullara, @fromedome, @mattrosoff, @peretti, @borthwick, @jbruin, @startupljackson, @rrhoover, @peretti, @brianstelter, @rafat and @pmarca
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Chris Dixon: BuzzFeed will be a new media empire as smartphone access grows; $850M is a bargain — How Jonah Peretti and BuzzFeed Got to $850 Million — We passed the billion dollar mark awhile ago. Today a hot tech company is worth multiple billions of dollars, easily.
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
If you ‘like’ everything on Facebook, brands and content mills will quickly replace humans in your News Feed — I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me — There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: “I think everybody should like everybody.”
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PandoDaily and WebProNews. Tweets: @peterstringer, @robpegoraro, @smc90, @jennydeluxe, @bobmcmillan, @nickbilton, @joshelman, @joshconstine, @jessmisener, @caseyjohnston and @caseynewton
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google is backing a new $300 million high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system between the US and Japan — Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google … | Nancy Scola / Washington Post: |
With former Google manager at the helm, the White House launches “US Digital Service” to institutionalize the process that fixed HealthCare.gov — White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ with HealthCare.gov fixer at the helm — President Obama participates …
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Tweets: @sylvinus, @jeffweiner, @mattcutts, @antheaws, @blakehounshell and @beep
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter Paid $134 Million for Gnip — Twitter pulled back the curtain on the financial details of its Gnip acquisition on Monday. The total: $134 million in stock and cash for the Boulder, Colorado-based startup. The package, outlined in a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
| GSMArena.com: |
Possible images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak, show leather-like back and metal frame — Detailed images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak — Here's what the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 may look like. While looking very similar to the front of the current Note 3 the back and sides look new.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Broadwell is coming: A look at Intel's low-power Core M and its 14nm process — You were fabbed in the long summer; you've never known anything else. — Aurich Lawson — Last week I flew from New Jersey to Portland, Oregon, to get briefed by Intel PR reps and engineers …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Yo wants to be a communications protocol, plans ability to send links and connect to RSS feeds — An App Like Yo Could Turn Out to Be Bigger Than Twitter — It Makes Use of Alerts, the Most Valuable Property in the Media Universe — Few apps in history have been as controversial and polarizing as Yo.
Tweets: @kashhill, @robinwauters and @joshelman
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reignites Mac vs. PC conflict for new Surface Pro 3 ads — Microsoft is bringing the Mac vs. PC battle back with full force today. While the company targeted the MacBook Air at the launch of the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft's latest ads place both devices head-to-head.
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Fiverr Raises $30M for Online Services Marketplace … Services marketplace Fiverr International Ltd. has scored $30 million from investors who believe the startup can make buying 1,000 Twitter followers, a voiceover with a French accent and other online services as simple as buying a book.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft teases ‘selfie phone’ Lumia 730 unveiling for September 4th — Microsoft is getting ready to unveil a new Lumia Windows Phone on September 4th. The software maker has started emailing invites to members of the press to tease a “ready for more” announcement.
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Engadget, BGR, VentureBeat, Geeky Gadgets, EyeOnMobility and Windows Phone Central
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Acer's new Chromebook 13 runs on Nvidia's Tegra K1 CPU, comes with up to 13 hours of battery life, has Full HD display option, and starts from $279 — Acer's new Chromebook 13 offers a high-resolution screen and all-day battery life — The first Chromebook with Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor promises …
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NVIDIA, Engadget, ZDNet, PC World, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Forbes, Electronista, 9to5Google, The Register, Gizmodo, BetaNews, CNET and DisplayBlog
Tweets: @backlon and @joannastern
| Erica Fink / CNNMoney.com: |
Lyft says 177 Uber employees have ordered and cancelled 5,560 Lyft rides since last October — Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides — Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to rivals.
Tweets: @edbott, @fmanjoo, @jack_regan, @dangillmor and @vplus
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
New Microsoft Project Turns Boring First-Person Videos Into Awesome Hyperlapses — There's barely a mountain biker, climber, skydiver or skier left who doesn't have a GoPro camera attached to his helmet. Nobody really wants to sit through an hour of video of you heading up and down the slopes, however.
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Microsoft Research, The Verge, VentureBeat, Next at Microsoft, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Mashable, GeekWire, Neowin, Lance Robotnik, The Next Web, Yahoo Tech, Digital Trends, Engadget, WinBeta, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk, Fstoppers, BBC, Daring Fireball, TechHive, prosthetic knowledge, ExtremeTech, memeburn, The Register and Windows Phone Central
Tweets: @peteratmsr and @monkbent
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
OpenTable expands its in-app mobile payments to New York, promises 20 more cities before end of 2014 — OpenTable has been gently testing ways to integrate its reservation service more deeply with users' dining experiences by including in-app payment of checks for more than a year already …
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OpenTable Blog, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Verge, Ubergizmo and TechHive
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