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iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Arrive in 36 More Countries and Territories This Month — Apple's Fastest-Ever iPhone Rollout Includes India, Mexico, South Korea & Thailand — Apple® today announced that iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history … | John Paczkowski / Re/code: |
No Retina MacBook Air at Thursday Apple Event — // HAPPENING TODAY — Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference kicks off in San Francisco. — The November issue of Vogue China hits newsstands with Apple's iWatch on its cover. — Retina MacBook Air Rumors to Continue for Foreseeable Future| Matt Clinch / CNBC: |
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb blames Apple for the country's credit rating downgrade — How Apple prompted this country's downgrade — Finland's Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says the iPhone killed the once-dominant Nokia and the iPad killed the country's paper industry …
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Apple Pay setup detailed & retailers begin training as service launches at Apple HQ — The launch of Apple Pay, Apple's NFC and Touch ID-based mobile payment solution, is upon us. Apple has begun preparing for the launch by kicking off Apple Pay training programs for its own group …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's supplier contracts include $50M penalty for leaking future product info — Details from Apple's supplier non-disclosure agreements are beginning to leak thanks to the bankruptcy proceedings of GT Advanced Technologies, with the sapphire maker arguing that even more should be published …
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| Fred Pals / Bloomberg: |
Dutch police arrested, will fine four drivers in Amsterdam for using Uber app to provide taxi services — Dutch Police Arrest Drivers Using Uber App in Amsterdam — Dutch police arrested four drivers in Amsterdam early Sunday after they were found to be improperly using the Uber app for taxi services …
| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Reddit's general manager Erik Martin departs following $50M raise — One of Reddit's longest employees, Erik Martin, has decided to depart from his position as general manager after six years with the company. — Martin, who made the news official in a tweet this morning …
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Snapsaved confirms their site was breached, 500 MB of Snapchat images affected, no personal info leaked — Third-party Snapchat site claims pics were hacked from server — Developers behind Snapsaved.com, which stores Snapchat pictures, claim user photos were stolen …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Delivery Hero Buys Brazil's Subdelivery As It Beefs Up In Asia And LatAm — Delivery Hero, the startup that is now valued at over $1 billion and is raising a lot of cash to compete heavily against the likes of Just-Eat and FoodPanda in the food delivery market outside the U.S. …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Hopes To Ride Analytics Wave With New Business Intelligence Service — Salesforce.com will unveil a new analytics service tomorrow morning they have dubbed Wave. The product will be introduced by CEO Marc Benioff at the company's Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco …
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ZDNet, Forbes, VentureBeat, New York Times, Data Center Knowledge, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha and bizjournals. Tweets: @qhardy
| Tor Ekeland / Wired: |
US should follow UK and Ireland in meting out punishment to hackers that is proportional to the harm they cause — America Must End Its Paranoid War on Hackers — “How did you get caught?” I ask Darren Martyn, aka Pwnsauce, the former member of LulzSec. — “Bad Opsec. Really, really bad Opsec,” he says.| Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland Considers Closing Corporate-Tax Loophole — Multinationals Gird for Possible ‘Double Irish’ Changes; Google, Facebook Would Be Affected — Multinational companies are bracing for their last serving of the “Double Irish.” — Ireland is expected on Tuesday to announce changes …
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