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Facebook, With a Focus on Mobile, Works on Project for News Via Users — Facebook Inc. is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. — The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers …
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Snapchat Closes $60 Million Round Led by IVP, Now at 200 Million Daily Snaps — Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging service that has grown extremely popular over the past year, has closed its $60 million dollar Series B round of venture funding, the company announced on Monday morning.
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Siri takes initiative to learn how to pronounce names in iOS 7 — When Siri first launched, many users found lots of names were pronounced incorrectly and couldn't do much beyond adding phonetic spellings manually for each contact. With iOS 7, it appears that Siri can now take initiative for learning proper pronunciations.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, 8.0 and 7.0 Coming To The U.S. July 7 For $399, $299 And $199 — Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 line has been official for a little while now, but U.S. availability and pricing was up in the air until today. The relatively cheap tablets are going to be $199 … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch) — Things didn't go exactly as I'd expected at WWDC. I spent the week before the show at Computex, talking to PC OEMs, who had all just launched their Haswell ULT based Ultrabooks. With a couple of exceptions however, the bulk of Haswell ULT systems …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Duck Duck Go's Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search — Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows …
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Apple notifies iTunes users of $100M in-app purchase settlement details, $5 credit to those inappropriately charged under $30 — Parents of kids who racked up hundreds of even thousands of dollars in in-app purchases can now begin to seek compensation for their bills.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Prototype iPhone 5S Based on New A7 Chip — Last week, we shared a pair of photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 5S, revealing a few details such as a larger-capacity battery and a new dual-LED flash system for the rear camera. At the time, we had some questions about the main chip from the device …
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Medicine That Monitors You — SAN FRANCISCO — They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin. But if your physician writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché …
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AOL Reader hands-on: An unexciting but solid Google Reader replacement to rival Feedly — We knew AOL was planning its own replacement to the soon-expiring Google Reader, and now we're able to share a complete look at the upcoming service. — Pitching with the slogan “all your favorite websites …
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Hard drive maker Western Digital to buy SSD experts sTec for $340M — Western Digital, one of the oldest (and biggest) hard drive makers says that its wholly owned subsidiary, HGST will acquire Santa Ana, Calif.-based sTec, a company that specializes in making enterprise solid state drives (SSDs).| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Pumps $700 Million Into Iowa Data Center — The mysterious company behind the $700 million “Project Mountain” data center in Des Moines, Iowa, finally has a name. And it's not Apple or Amazon. — It's Microsoft. — Late on Friday, the Iowa Economic Development Authority … Sponsor Posts
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