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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
New Nexus 7 up for pre-order at Best Buy with Android 4.3 and $229.99 starting price — As if that Best Buy Nexus 7 flyer wasn't enough, the big retailer is stepping up its efforts to preempt Google's tablet announcement by posting its pre-order pages for the device ahead of the official launch.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
New Nexus 7 (Codename Razor) Fully Detailed And Benchmarked - 2GB Of RAM, Snapdragon S4 Pro, And 1920x1200 Screen — Google is set to (probably) announce the new and improved Nexus 7 tomorrow, but we've been taking a look at the device ahead of time. Some of the specs from previous rumors were dead on, and some not so much.| Dan Frommer / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again? — Apple's stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to accelerate, far surpassing its competitors.
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Sales of 31 Million iPhones Set New June Quarter Record — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 third quarter ended June 29, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per diluted share.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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| Jeff Elder / The Technology Chronicles: |
Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform — What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform? — Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 1020 review — There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago. Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device would be a show-stealer — in 2012?| Ron Amadeo / Android Police: |
[APK Teardown] Google Play Music v5.1 - Beam Music To Devices With Chromecasting, And A Hack For SD Card Support! (A Download Link, Too) — Google jumped the gun just a little bit and shipped tomorrow's version of Google Music today, which means we've got about 12 hours to spoil … | CNET: |
Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2 — Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private. — Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, investment firm Silver Lake …
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| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Facebook to Let You Say Why You Hide News Feed Posts — It's not exactly a dislike button, but Facebook soon plans to roll out ways to better understand why you don't like something in your News Feed. — Currently, when you hide something in your News Feed, Facebook begins feeding …
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| Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: |
The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers — In a terse statement late Tuesday evening, the White House blasted the so-called “Amash Amendment” that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to collect data on personal phone communications …
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| Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg: |
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| Chitika Online Advertising Network: |
June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84% — Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.
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Tech.pinions, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget, I4U News, GigaOM, AppleTell, SlashGear, Internet2Go and Marketing Land
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia Brings Kepler To Mobile, Offers Same Graphics Power As iPad 4 With One-Third The Battery Drain — At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter — There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
BlackBerry's upcoming A10 flagship leaks in photos and video — BlackBerry is reported to be working on a bigger and faster flagship smartphone called the A10, and a new series of leaked photos have provided one of our best looks yet at the upcoming device.
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CrackBerry.com, VentureBeat, BGR, I4U News, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com and Ubergizmo
| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
Symantec spots two Android apps using ‘master key’ vulnerability — Hackers are now using a critical vulnerability in Android to modify legitimate smartphone applications, putting users at risk of being spied on. — Security vendor Symantec wrote on Tuesday that it found two applications …
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
LG sells a record-breaking 12.1m smartphones in Q2 2013, revenue up 10.1% YoY to $13.6b — LG announced today its second-quarter earnings of KRW15.23 trillion ($13.6 billion), up 10.1 percent year-over-year due to sales increases in most of its business units.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
NYT Reporter's Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue — Something Twittery this way comes. — The upcoming book detailing the backstory on Twitter, penned by New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton, was listed for preorder on Amazon this morning.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
As Q2 Earnings Approaches, the Street Stays Bullish on Facebook's Mobile Prospects — Facebook's S-1 filing in early 2012 came with a rude awakening we're all quite familiar with by now; the world is going mobile, and Facebook's ad business needed to adapt fast in order to keep up with it.
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Digits, Washington Post, ABC News and MarketWatch
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
IBM, Pivotal team up on open governance model for Cloud Foundry — Summary: The IBM-Pivotal partnership includes establishing an advisory board as well as co-hosting a conference this September. — IBM is teaming up with EMC's Pivotal Initiative on establishing a new open governance model for the Cloud Foundry community.
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Digits, Data Center Knowledge, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, The Register, Cloud Foundry Blog and DevOpsANGLE. Tweets: @wattersjames
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Updates Its Breadcrumb Payments App With Deal Redemptions, Offline Mode And More Customization Beyond Restaurants — In May of this year, to raise its game against the likes of Square and PayPal, Groupon relaunched its Breadcrumb point-of-sale app — originally conceived as a payments app …
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AllThingsD, Payments RSS and App Advice
| Curt Woodward / Xconomy: |
We're Number 9! U.S. Slips in Internet Connection Ranking — Here's something to add to your decline-of-the-empire files: the U.S. is falling further behind in world rankings of average Internet connection speeds. — That's the verdict from the latest State of the Internet Report by Akamai …
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Akamai, Lastest ITProPortal news, blog.chron.com, MediaNama, TechSpot, nextbigwhat.com and Quartz
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Granted 49 Patents Covering Lightning, Mac mini, Cameras plus an Interesting Euro Patent with an iPhone Camera Shift — It's a huge day for Apple in respect to newly granted patents. The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 49 granted patents for Apple this morning.Sponsor Posts
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