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First Weekend iPhone Sales Top 10 Million, Set New Record — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced it has sold over 10 million new iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models, a new record, just three days after the launch on September 19. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus …
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China's stricter restrictions on foreign internet services make it difficult for Google's business — China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Companies Like Google — Credit: Illustration by Sam Manchester/The New York Times — HONG KONG — Google's problems in China just got worse.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Behind the precarious rise of Zenefits, which makes software to simplify HR and employee benefits — Zenefits' Leader Is Rattling an Industry, So Why Is He Stressed Out? — Parker Conrad's start-up, Zenefits, is thought to be one of the fastest-growing companies in recent Silicon Valley history … | Businessweek: |
Tim Cook Q&A: The Full Interview on iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch — Tim Cook was jubilant. It was Sept. 10, a day after the introduction of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch at the Flint Center in Cupertino, Calif., and Apple's (AAPL) chief executive officer couldn't have been happier about reactions from the audience and the media.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Profile of Cisco's team behind several key products, financed via the unusual “spin-in” model — Why Cisco Has Showered These 3 Men With Billions Of Dollars — There are three legendary engineers at Cisco known as “the heart, soul and brains” of the company: Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, and Luca Cafiero.| New York Times: |
Home Depot slow to react to security concerns despite warnings as early as 2008, say ex-employees — Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable — The risks were clear to computer experts inside Home Depot: The home improvement chain, they warned for years, might be easy prey for hackers.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Amazon has held a secret retreat for authors called “Campfire” for four years, but this weekend some Hachette supporters weren't invited — A Writerly Chill at Bezos' Fire — When Jeff Bezos tells writers to keep quiet, they obey. — Every fall, Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon …
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Stripe's integration with Apple Pay marks another big win for the 5-year-old startup — Stripe Lands Apple in Quest for $720 Billion in Payments — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s list of partners for its new Apple Pay service reads like a Who's Who of the payments world, including Visa Inc. and First Data Corp.
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
US banks are reluctant to partner with Bitcoin startups, especially those without VC backing — How Bitcoin's Banking Crunch is Holding Back US Startups — Following its May launch, QuickCoin captured attention with its novel integration of Facebook's ubiquitous social media platform …
Tweets: @coindesk
| Austin Mann: |
Photographer extensively tests new iPhone cameras in Iceland, praises low light improvements — iPhone 6 Plus Camera Review: Iceland — v — This year I had the opportunity to be at Apple's Keynote where they announced the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and the Watch.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Reuters: |
KNFB Reader is a $99 iOS app that lets the blind listen to an audio readback of printed text — New smartphone app gives sight to the blind — (Reuters) - Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the fridge.| Adriene Hill / Marketplace from American Public Media: |
How record-keeping and tracking technology common in schools leads to data-mined students — A day in the life of a data mined kid — Education, like pretty much everything else in our lives these days, is driven by data. — Our childrens' data. A whole lot of it.| Nancy Scola / Washington Post: |
Bitcoin advocacy group Coin Center launches with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, USV, others — Bitcoin gets an industry-backed advocacy group — The cryptocurrency Bitcoin — and the technologies around it — has a newly organized group of advocates behind it, headed by someone …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus Reveals Its New “Crescent Bay” Developer Kit With 360-Degree Head Tracking And Headphones — Oculus gave the world the first look at its new developer kit Crescent Bay today at Oculus' Connect conference, which you can watch live here. Crescent Bay has a faster frame rate …
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