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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets — As highlighted in a few reports shared in the MacRumors forums, a small but growing number of iPhone 6 Plus owners have reportedly bent their phones after carrying the devices in their pockets just days after launch.
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BuzzFeed, Geek.com, iMore, BGR, Daring Fireball, Business Insider, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Mashable, DISPLAYBLOG, iLounge, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, TUAW and Electronista
Tweets: @cdharrison, @davechensky, @panzer, @mattbuchanan, @apollozac, @panzer and @samfbiddle
| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Say hello to Talko: Ray Ozzie's startup wants to reinvent the phone call, starting with an iPhone app — What has Ray Ozzie been focusing on since leaving his position as Microsoft's chief software architect? Here's the answer. A new app and online service called Talko …
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The Verge, Re/code, Re/code, Fortune, Medium, New York Times, Disruptive Telephony, Wired, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Gigaom, Medium, The Register, Engadget and The Next Web
Tweets: @ev, @rozzie, @erickschonfeld, @fmanjoo and @toddbishop
Thanks:@johnhcook| Steven Levy / Medium: |
Former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie wants to make phone calls more like collaborative documents with Talko — Brave New Phone Call — Ray Ozzie's new app Talko hopes to give people their voices back — I. … It's not an abstract subject for the 58-year entrepreneur.
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Laughing Squid, Fast Company, CNET and Boing Boing
Tweets: @monkbent, @tcarmody and @jonrussell
Thanks:@sarablask| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450 4-core GPU, enhanced Cyclone CPU cores, 4MB L3 Cache — Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache & More — One of the more enjoyable rituals with Apple's annual iPhone launch is the decapping, deconstruction, and photographing of the processor die at the heart of Apple's newest SoC.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
iPhone 6 costs an estimated $200 to $247 in parts and labor to build, 6 Plus $216 to $263; profit margins 69-70%; Samsung supplies 40% of A8 chips — Teardown Shows Apple's iPhone 6 Cost at Least $200 to Build — Apple spends $200 to $247 in parts and labor to build an iPhone 6 …
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iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, PhoneArena, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, App Advice, Quartz and Digital Trends
Tweets: @ryan, @johnpaczkowski and @benedictevans
| Electronista: |
UPS Store expands 3D printing services to nearly 100 locations — In-store 3D printing facilities offered in more markets — Delivery company UPS is making its 3D printing service more widely available at its stores across the United States. After an initial test with six markets …
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UPS, CNNMoney.com, ZDNet, 3DPrint.com, PC World, Engadget, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha, Ubergizmo, Mashable, Gizmodo and WebProNews
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FTC sues Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs, alleging fraudulent and deceptive practices — Feds say Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs ran “systematic deception” [Updated] — Sonny Vleisides (right), is Butterfly Labs' co-founder and largest shareholder.
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Federal Trade Commission, Gigaom, Data Center Knowledge, The Verge, Valleywag, Electronista, TechSpot, CoinDesk and NEWSBTC. Tweets: @bobmcmillan
| Chris Martin / PC Advisor: |
Samsung exits laptop market in Europe “for now” after decline in PC market — Exclusive: Samsung exits laptop market including Chromebooks — Following in the path of Sony and its Vaio PCs, Samsung has decided to exit the laptop market stopping sales of Ativ Windows … | Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Radius Raises $54.7 Million to Improve Sales Leads Using Big Data … Marketing automation software, which delivers sales prospects to customers, has generated some big companies-last year, Marketo Inc. went public and has a market cap of $1.26 billion, and HubSpot Inc. filed in August to raise up to $100 million in an IPO.
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Re/code, TechCrunch, Business Wire, PE Hub Blog, and VentureBeat
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Home Depot's former security architect was convicted of sabotaging his ex-employer's network — Home Depot's former security architect had history of techno-sabotage — “We sell hammers” was the justification Home Depot managers gave for cheaping out on security to IT employees. — WestportWiki| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role As Google VP And Fellow — Sebastian Thrun has left the building — the Google X building, that is. The founder of search giant Google's factory to develop and build “moonshot” technologies, who launched the company's driverless car project … | Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
California autonomous vehicle regulations go into effect; Google wins 25 car permits, Audi and Mercedes-Benz get two each — Google's self-driving cars are now allowed on all roads in California — Google won 25 DMV permits for testing autonomous vehicles; Audi and Mercedes each received two
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Reuters, Washington Examiner, T4 Magazine, Daily Titan, dmv.ca.gov and TechnoBuffalo
| Bloomberg: |
Samwer Brothers' Rocket Internet sets price range for its IPO in Germany, will raise up to $1.8B at a valuation of about $8B, begins trading October 9 — Samwer Brothers' Rocket Internet Kicks Off German IPO — Rocket Internet AG, the technology investor known for replicating businesses …
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Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times and Reuters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Currents For iOS Now Called Google Play Newsstand Following Big Redesign — Google Currents, Google's magazine-like news reading iOS app and a competitor to Flipboard, is rolling out a redesign and a handful of new features, including a way to subscribe to topics you're interested in …
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9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, iMore and The Next Web
| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Microsoft announces $59.95 Wireless Display Adapter for streaming Miracast devices to your TV — Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter connects your Miracast devices to HDTVs — The first 10 to 15 minutes of any presentation usually involves trying to figure out which cable connects to the TV.
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Microsoft Store, Android Police, PC World, Engadget, GeekWire, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Tech Report and WinBeta
| iClarified: |
Apple Announces iOS 8 Adoption Has Already Reached 46% — Apple has announced that iOS 8 adoption has already reached 46%. First spotted by iClarified, Apple quietly revealed the statistic on its App Store Distribution page. — The company says iOS 8 adoption reached 46% on September 21, 2014.| Ellen Huet / Forbes: |
Eduardo Saverin Leads $14 Million Funding Round For Silvercar, An Audi Airport Rental Startup — Billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has found a new place to focus his entrepreneurial energies: airport car rentals. Audis, specifically. — Saverin led a $14 million Series B round … | Zach Rodgers / AdExchanger: |
Millennial Media To Buy Nexage, Mobile SSP And Exchange, For $108M — Millennial Media needed a good story around programmatic, and now it has one. — The publicly-traded mobile ad tech platform has signed an agreement to buy mobile exchange player Nexage for $107.5 million in cash and stock.
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Business Insider and Xconomy
| Chad Bray / New York Times: |
Philips plans to split into 2 companies: one focused on health care and tech, one on lighting — Philips to Split Into Two Companies as Part of Overhaul — LONDON — Philips, the Dutch electronics giant, said on Tuesday that it planned to split itself into two companies …
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Philips, Gigaom, Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, Reuters, Forbes, Business Insider, Fortune and Wall Street Journal
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Branch Metrics Raises $3 Million From NEA For More Intelligent Deep Links That Make Apps Work Like The Web — Palo Alto-based Branch Metrics has just raised $3 million from NEA and others to address a series of challenges affecting the mobile app ecosystem today.
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AdExchanger, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and silicontap.com
| John Brownlee / Co.Design: |
iPod Mastermind Tony Fadell On The Death Of The iPod: “You Can't Get Too Nostalgic” — After 13 years, the iPod Classic is dead. Google's Tony Fadell tells us what killed the iPod, and why we shouldn't be bummed about it. — What does it feel like to lose your design child?
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Business Insider, MacNN, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, MacRumors and ReadWrite
| Cromwell Schubarth / bizjournals: |
Aussie startup Invoice2Go raises $35M led by Accel, moves to Palo Alto — Aussie startup moves to Palo Alto, hires ex-eHarmony CEO and raises $35M — Australian mobile B2B startup Invoice2Go's first venture round is a big one, in more ways than one. — The 10-year-old Sydney company founded … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Rackspace knocks out patent troll that claimed monopoly on rotating smartphone displays — A troll called called Rotatable claimed a patent monopoly on the use of rotating mobile screen displays. Rackspace won a victory for everyone by destroying its patent.
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The Official Rackspace Blog, SlashGear, theWHIR.com, The Register and Android Police. Tweets: @mattcutts
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google Structured Snippets Officially Live In Search Results — Earlier this month, we caught Google testing a form of knowledge graph data within the search results snippet. This feature is now officially being confirmed by Google on the Google Research Blog.Sponsor Posts
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