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eBay Is Launching A Same-Day Shipping Service Called eBay Now — eBay today invited some San Francisco users to a new same-day shipping service called eBay Now. An iOS app, eBay Now's beta will let SF residents get $5 same-day shipping on products from local stores. It's now signing up users for an “exclusive beta”.
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| Christopher Jackson / The Next Web: |
Y Combinator's first batch: where are they now? — From small seeds grow mighty oaks. — When a tree grows, at what point do you say it has achieved success? When it has reached its full height, and stopped growing? When it has dropped seeds of its own, to produce new shoots to hopefully grow into their own huge trees?| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Case Against Samsung in Three Pictures — Since it first sued Samsung for patent infringement, Apple has derided the Korean company as a “copyist” whose Galaxy devices “slavishly” ape the original designs of the iPhone and iPad. — “Samsung chose to copy Apple, not to innovate,” …
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Saving Private RIM — Over the past couple weeks, we've read a number of bedtimes stories about RIM's next move. They all start with the same trope: Once upon a time, late last century, Apple was on the edge of the precipice and still managed to come back — and how!
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Huawei: The company that spooked the world — The success of China's telecoms-equipment behemoth makes spies and politicians elsewhere nervous — BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake … | Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Apple Wants To Buy Pinterest Rival, The Fancy — Apple is in talks to acquire The Fancy, a fast-growing social commerce site backed by cofounders of Twitter and Facebook, Business Insider has learned. — The objective: to secure a role for Apple in the growing e-commerce market …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Succès De Scandale: Olympics Suspension Fiasco Drove Signups — There's no such thing as bad publicity. A source tells TechCrunch that mainstream news mentions of the temporary suspension of an NBC Olympics coverage tweeter / hater gave Twitter's signup rate a boost.
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| Tadhg Kelly / TechCrunch: |
Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?) — Significant losses, declining ARPUs, failing mobile acquisitions and shareholder selloffs. A stock price down to $3.01. A product catalog repeating previous mistakes. Media coverage ranging from the mystified to “I told you so”.
Tweets: @jussil, @tim_oneil, @pyplatini and @daveg
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Zillow and Other Sites Broaden Their Mission to Include Businesses — SEATTLE — For the first few years of its existence, the only thing Zillow cared about was getting people to come to its real estate Web site to snoop on the market value of neighbors' homes and other properties.
Tweets: @jeffweiner
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked MPAA Memo Reveals TV-Shack Press Strategy — Last year Richard O'Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that listed user-submitted link to TV-shows. — The UK student has since fought a looming extradition to the US, but thus far without success.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account — On Friday, Wired writer Mat Honan recounted the tale of how his iCloud account was hacked which resulted in his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air getting remote wiped. — The point of entry appeared to be his iCloud account …
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Softpedia News, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, Examiner, Mashable!, Naked Security, Gizmodo, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile and Emptyage. Tweets: @mat. See also Mediagazer
| Randall Stross / New York Times: |
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