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Amazon opening first brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan in time for holidays, will handle pickups and returns — Amazon to Open First Store — The New York City Location to Handle Same-Day-Delivery Inventory, Product Returns — Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open …
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Carl Icahn says Apple is “dramatically undervalued” in open letter to Tim Cook, asks for an accelerated stock repurchase program — Sale: Apple Shares at Half Price — “IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION” — As a large Apple shareholder with approximately 53 million shares …
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Apple suppliers postpone production of 12.9" iPad from December to early 2015 in order to cope with strong iPhone demand — Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed — Apple Suppliers Concentrating on Meeting Demand for New iPhones — Apple Inc. suppliers have pushed back plans to mass produce … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon — Snapchat, the popular mobile app for disappearing messages, is close to launching its first disappearing ads as the company sets out to prove its $10 billion valuation. — Evan Spiegel, the startup's 24-year-old co-founder …
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Vanity Fair, The Verge, VentureBeat, Business Insider, VatorNews, PC Magazine, Fortune, SocialTimes, Product Reviews Net, Mashable, Marketing Land, FierceWireless, WebProNews, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Daily Dot and TIME. Tweets: @danprimack
| Sarah / The Imgur Blog: |
Imgur now converts GIF uploads to more compact MP4 format, increases upload limit 10X to 50MB, plans to standardize new “GIFV” container format — Introducing GIFV — GIFs are no longer about .GIFs-the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Unity game development platform is up for sale: presentation pitching the company circulates at potential acquirers like Google — Unity, one gaming development platform to unite them all, up for sale — A presentation pitching Unity has been circulating around the games industry, sources say.
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Joystiq, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Electronista and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @mattrix. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes slew of commitments to get businesses hooked on Surface — Microsoft today made a slew of announcements as part of a new commitment to Surface for business. — The company says firms have been asking it about a longer-term commitment to Surface for businesses of all sizes.
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Surface Blog, ZDNet, The Next Web, LiveSide.net, BGR, Network World, GeekWire, Gigaom, MSDN Blogs, Ars Technica, WinBeta, The Verge, WindowsITPro, SuperSite for Windows and Neowin. Tweets: @edbott
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Google's Eric Schmidt: US spy programs may “end up breaking the internet” if not reformed — US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says — PALO ALTO — You own your data. And the government needs to start respecting that.
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CNET, The Hill, SiliconBeat, Washington Post, Inquirer, Washington Post, Digital Trends, Los Angeles Times, Fox Business, Fortune, The Register and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @williamlidwell
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype's new design on Windows and Mac focuses on messaging — Mobile look and feel reaches the desktop — Microsoft's Skype client has traditionally focused on video and voice calls, but with the rise of mobile it has started to shift to target instant messaging.
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Skype Blogs, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Ubergizmo and TUAW
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Google launches Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows and Chrome OS — Google today launched a new Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows as well as Chrome OS. You can download the app now directly from the Chrome Web Store. — The release brings Google's chat service to the desktop in a new way.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple outlines Apple Pay, NFC operation in comprehensive patent filing — For a major mobile payment platform on the verge of launch, not much is known about the nuts and bolts behind Apple Pay. A new patent application discovered on Thursday, however, offers a detailed look at how NFC …
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Revealed: How Google engineer Neel Mehta uncovered the Heartbleed security bug — Google engineer Neel Mehta found the Heartbleed bug — The media-shy Google engineer who found the Heartbleed computer security vulnerability has spoken out for the first time, revealing how he found the serious bug … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
WeatherSignal, OpenSignal's crowdsourced weather reporting app, comes to iOS 8 — OpenSignal brings its crowdsourced weather reporting app to iPhone — In May last year, we brought you news on WeatherSignal, a new crowdsourced weather reporting tool. The Web and Android app came courtesy …
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Google asks US Supreme Court to overturn lower court in Oracle's Java API copyright case — Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight — (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into contentious litigation against Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Business subscribers of Quip productivity suite can now integrate spreadsheets into documents — Quip: Make Numbers Dynamic, Too — Quip, a fast-moving start-up that makes collaborative software for mobile workers, has an important new addition to its product: Spreadsheets.
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PC World, Fast Company, VentureBeat, FierceMobileIT News, ReadWrite, Wired, TabTimes, The Next Web, Forbes and Business Insider. Thanks:@ashleymcarlson
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Mini-Marketing Lessons For Startups With New Mobile App, Google Primer — Google has rolled out a new iPhone app called Primer, aimed at teaching startups the fundamentals of marketing - with a Google spin, of course. The new app, available only on iOS for now …
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The Next Web, Marketing Land, 9to5Google and iMore
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Yahoo still wants to poach YouTube stars, hopes to host their new channels on Tumblr — Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan For Tumblr Revealed: Make It YouTube — Just after Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in the spring of 2013, several of Marissa Mayer's top product and media executives presented …
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Foursquare's new Swarm widget for iOS lets you check-in with a swipe and tap — Checking in is finally just one swipe away — Foursquare's new Swarm widget takes great advantage of iOS 8 — Checking in should have always been automatic — a feature every phone ships with that lets …
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The Foursquare Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, iMore and Business Insider
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Alibaba Invests $50 Million in TV Remote App Peel — Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, continues to place financial bets outside of its core e-commerce focus, investing $50 million into entertainment app maker Peel. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup makes apps for smartphones …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Google+ polls, putting its Polar acquisition to use — Today Google announced a new feature for its oft-ignored social network: polls. — The introduction of this feature comes with little surprise, as it closely follows Google's high-profile purchase of Polar …
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image — Google today released the x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image, allowing developers to start testing their 64-bit apps. You can download the emulator image now from the Android NDK page.
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Android Developers, BGR, Android Police, SlashGear, ExtremeTech, Electronista, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says — The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first time.
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