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New OS X beta suggests iPad Mini 4 will be faster and support split-view apps — El Capitan file hints at faster iPad mini 4 with full split-view apps support — One of iOS 9's marquee additions is support for split-screen applications on the iPad. This allows users to operate two iPad applications simultaneously, side-by-side.
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| Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair: |
Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder and other dating apps — Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse” — As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren't liking what they see. — It's a balmy night in Manhattan's financial district …
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| Bryan Logan / Business Insider: |
Tinder's PR just went ballistic on Twitter over a Vanity Fair exposé — Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair. — The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
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| Neil Irwin / New York Times: |
Three pathways that Alphabet could take, based on analogues of Berkshire Hathaway, GE, and AT&T — Is the New Google More Like Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric or AT&T? — Google's decision to restructure is the strongest signal yet that it intends to be a 21st-century innovator … | Robert D. Hof / MIT Technology Review: |
Why Google's Alphabet Is Nothing like Berkshire Hathaway - and Much Riskier — Google's new structure has few historical precedents, in tech or outside it. — Before Apple's Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much.
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| Maren Kate / Medium: |
Zirtual announces it has been acquired by startup launch platform Startups.co, and will resume service — Zirtual: What Happened and What's Next — First, let me start by telling you a story... Over four years ago I moved to San Francisco from Reno, Nevada, with a backpacker's pack …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Facebook is working on a Twitter-like app that lets publishers send mobile breaking news alerts to the masses — Facebook is working on a stand-alone mobile news application that seems to be part of its Facebook for Business initiative. — This product, which sounds similar to Twitter …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
8 of our favorite startups from 500 Startups' 13th batch — Check off another demo day by startup accelerator 500 Startups. — At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., 42 startups — a mixture of early-stage and post-seed level — made their pitch in front of a room filled with investors.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Events Performance Monitor DoubleDutch Raises $45 Million In Series E Funding — DoubleDutch is hoping to make measuring the success of your event as easy as skipping rope, and now they've got some more cash to make it happen. — The company announced Wednesday that they had raised $45 million in Series E funding.| Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: |
Rdio to add 460 AM/FM stations owned and operated by Cumulus Media to its service Wednesday amid increasing competition — Rdio cues up traditional radio stations, hoping to get an edge on competition — The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look a little more like old-fashioned radio.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers hack a Corvette's brakes via an insurance dongle used in many modern vehicles to monitor speed, location; affected systems are receiving OTA updates — Hackers Cut a Corvette's Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget — Car hacking demos like last month's over-the-internet hijacking …
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| Andy Weir / Neowin: |
Source: unlocked Lumia 830 likely to be phased out, just 10 months after first going on sale — The end of the road approaches for Microsoft's Lumia 830 — In September 2014, the last smartphones to bear the Nokia logo (for now) were unveiled, following the acquisition of the company's devices … Sponsor Posts
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