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Apple's wearable will come with an App Store; major social network and service companies already have access to a pre-release SDK — Apple wearable to run third-party apps, big developers already seeded SDK — Apple's upcoming wearable device, based on iOS, will run third-party applications and …
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| Christina Farr / Reuters: |
Apple has invited several top fashion editors and bloggers to its Tuesday media event — Apple courts fashionistas as smartwatch expectations mount — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has invited top fashion editors and bloggers in unprecedented numbers to its Tuesday launch gala …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apparent Working 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Reveals Home Screen Layout, Passbook Icon With Payments [Updated] — Chinese site cnBeta highlights a series of photos posted by Weibo user zzray showing what is claimed to be an official, functional, and activated iPhone 6.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Dominating Shipping Capacity Out Of China With New iPhones — According to several sources, Apple has already begun flexing its supply chain muscles by shipping so many units of upcoming devices from its manufacturing facilities to sales outlets that it is causing delays for other manufacturers.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Disney stores add NFC credit card readers and Apple stores upgrade iBeacons ahead of iPhone launch — Apple and Disney Stores upgrading iBeacons and NFC scanners ahead of iPhone 6 launch — Apple and longtime partner Disney this week are bolstering their stores with upgraded versions …
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| David Barboza / New York Times: |
A profile of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, whose personal interests increasingly overlap with the company he firmly controls — The Jack Ma Way — At Alibaba, the Founder Is Squarely in Charge — At the resplendent China World Hotel in Beijing, scores of cameras snapped as colorful confetti floated down from the ceiling.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
An Inside Look At The Development Of Samsung's Gear VR At Oculus With CEO Brendan Iribe — Oculus VR is the key platform partner behind Samsung's new Gear VR, having co-developed the hardware and having built the Oculus Mobile software development kit and first party demonstration apps entirely in-house.
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A quantitative view of how Amazon reinvests its cash to capture an ever-growing share of commerce — Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works) — (I also did a podcast with Ben Horowitz discussing these themes: see here) — Amazon has a tendency to polarize people.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Reddit bans infamous subreddit used as a hub for stolen celebrity photos after a week of “whack-a-mole” for moderators — Reddit Bans Celebrity Photo Forums After a Week of “Whack-a-Mole” — Six days after stolen naked photos of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence …
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Netflix may add short-form content to increase mobile usage — Most people don't spend 90 minutes watching whole movies on their phones, which is why Netflix may soon serve them two-minute clips of the best scenes. — Netflix has always been all about TV shows and movies, but soon …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Nieman Lab and Consumerist
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
John Martinis: the expert building a full-time quantum computing research team at Google — The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer — John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information … | Todd VanDerWerff / Vox: |
#GamerGate explained: why the gaming world is fighting about the treatment of women and game journalism ethics — GamerGate: Here's why everybody in the video game world is fighting — Over the past several weeks, the online video game community has become ground zero for a series …
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