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October 27, 2014, 10:15 AM

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Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Early iPhone 6/6 Plus orders in Korea reportedly top Galaxy Note 4 launch numbers by over 3X  —  Koreans Snap Up iPhones in Presales  —  Is Apple Inc.'s smartphone market share set to increase in Samsungland?  Presales figures for the U.S. company's latest, large-screen models in South Korea suggest so.
David Carr / New York Times:
As Facebook considers hosting content on mobile, publishers worry about losing control  —  Facebook Offers Life Raft, but Publishers Are Wary  —  For publishers, Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park.  More often than not, it's hard to tell whether he wants to play with you or eat you.
Scott Stein / CNET:
Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Surge unveiled: Hands-on with Fitbit's new wearables  —  Fitbit dives into all-day heart-rate tracking with its new Charge HR and Surge, but you'll have to wait til early 2015 to buy them.  We went wrists-on.  —  Fitbit is the runaway leader in the fitness-tracker market …
Lee Gomes / IEEE Spectrum:
Interview with AI expert Michael Jordan on big data, machine learning, and our current limits  —  Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts  —  The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable …
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
The ugly afterlife of crowdfunding projects that never ship and never end  —  An all-terrain camera slider, successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2012 and effectively abandoned by the creator in 2013.  —  Kickstarter  —  The public life-cycle of a Kickstarter rarely ends in tragedy.
Tweets: @jbrodkin
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Data suggests Foursquare usage continues to decline after relaunching as two distinct apps  —  Will the check-in survive?  Foursquare's controversial relaunch, by the numbers  —  It's been two months since Foursquare relaunched, and things aren't looking good.  App usage and downloads are down.
Tweets: @caseynewton
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
EU Court rules that it is legal to embed copyrighted content without rightholders' permission  —  Embedding Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules  —  One of the key roles of the EU's Court of Justice is to interpret European law to ensure that it's applied in the same manner across all member states.
More: SlashGear and The RegisterTweets: @kritik4l
Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica:
Apple, once eager to promote new music artists, now pushes more established acts  —  “Oprah” for indie bands: Apple once loved unknown acts—what changed?  —  In April 2007, only diehard Broken Social Scene fans salivated when band member Leslie Feist released a solo album titled The Reminder.
Krisztina Than / Reuters:
Thousands of Hungarians protest against tax on Internet traffic  —  (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Sunday against a planned new tax on Internet data transfers, which they said would not only increase the tax burden but would also curb fundamental democratic rights and freedoms.
Michelle Quinn / Mercury News:
Sean Parker building an app aiding beachgoers as part of his settlment with Coastal Commission  —  Sean Parker s novel restitution - a statewide beach access mobile app  —  Sean Parker is working on a California public access mobile app as part of his settlement last year with the state Coastal Commission over his wedding at Big Sur.

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