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Consumer Reports test results find iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed — We stress test Apple's new phones, plus comparable models from Samsung, LG, and HTC — Two days ago, the Internet erupted with photos of bent iPhone 6s, and a very-viral video of a guy creasing an iPhone 6 Plus with his bare hands.
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The Register, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, AAPL Orchard, Re/code, USA Today, Forbes, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Phones Review, CNET, AppleTell, TUAW, Business Insider, Mashable, Communications …, blog.chron.com, BGR, Engadget, Daring Fireball, Neowin, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Tech Times, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, App Advice, MacRumors, The Verge, MacDailyNews, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, MobileSyrup.com, The Daily Dot, The Digital Reader, TechnoBuffalo and Guardian
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Ello plans to charge for features, like a one-time fee of $2 to manage two different accounts — An audacious plan to fix the Internet's original sin — The social networking site Ello is just five weeks old, but damn if it hasnt made an impression. In the past week … | Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Unpaid programmer who maintains Bash may have inadvertently introduced Shellshock bug in 1992 — Security Experts Expect ‘Shellshock’ Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant — Long before the commercial success of the Internet, Brian J. Fox invented one of its most widely used tools.
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The Register, Inc.com, ABC News and Tech Times
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled “How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture …
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, VentureBeat, Re/code, 9to5Google, BGR, ZDNet, Guardian, Cult of Mac, Tech Times, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Guardian and Tech.pinions
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| Scot Wingo / Amazon Strategies: |
Amazon expands fulfillment center network, bypasses UPS sorting with own “sortation centers” — Update on Amazon's Fulfillment Center (FC) Network — Every year as we head into the fourth quarter holiday selling season, we roll up our sleeves and update our database of Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs).| William Alden / New York Times: |
Marc Andreessen says many startups with high cash burn rates will vaporize when market turns — Marc Andreessen Sounds Warning on Start-Ups Burning Cash — Fretting over a possible downturn in Silicon Valley is now a mainstream pursuit. — Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist …
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| Reuters: |
Alibaba pays $459 million for stake in Chinese hotel tech company — Traders work on the floor as they wait for a final price on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “BABA”, at the New York Stock Exchange in New York September 19, 2014.
Tweets: @jbaksht
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
RIAA: revenues from music streaming services have replaced those lost from online sales — Music Download Sales Drop, Replaced by Streaming: RIAA — For a very long time, any report on the state of the music business sounded like this: Digital download sales are rising, but not enough to make up for the drop in CD sales.
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New York Times, AllAccess.com, Billboard, Billboard and CNET
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft resurrects WinHEC conference after six years, to focus on PC, smartphone and tablet hardware — Microsoft resurrects its WinHEC conference for hardware companies — Microsoft has announced the return of its WinHEC conferences. The first of the new conferences will be March 18 …
| Julian Sanchez / Cato Institute: |
Why dire predictions of the perils of Apple removing its backdoor to user data on iOS are misguided — Old Technopanic in New iBottles — Gather around young'uns: Back in the antediluvean early 90s, when the digital world was young, a motley group of technologists and privacy advocates fought …
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Forget AOL — Activist Attack on Yahoo Is All About Forking Over Alibaba Cash — While the noisy late Friday afternoon attack on Yahoo by perennial shareholder attacker Starboard Value was designed to attract headlines, especially the suggestion that the Silicon Valley Internet giant merge with AOL … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
As Roku grows, it's moving towards pay-to-play for successful channels — Getting your app onto Roku's platform is free. But once you start to make real money, the company will ask you to sign a new deal — to the surprise of some publishers. — With 1,800 channels and growing …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
The Yahoo Directory — Once The Internet's Most Important Search Engine — Is To Close — For some, it may seem like there has always been Google, and it's always been the main way people have found things on the web. But before Google, there was the Yahoo Directory and its hand-compiled list of websites, organized into topics.
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Ars Technica, Fast Company, The Verge, ResearchBuzz, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Engadget, Geek News Central, PC Magazine, Bloggers Blog, Business Insider, Digital Trends, SlashGear, TechSpot, Reuters, Mashable, CNET, Gizmodo, The Register, PC World, Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet and The Next Web
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