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Apple Says SVP Bob Mansfield “No Longer” on Executive Team, but Gives No Explanation as to Why … Early Sunday afternoon, Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of technologies, disappeared from the company's Web site, his biography removed from its executive profiles page without explanation.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video — Lee Hutchinson has a problem. My fellow Ars writer is a man who loves to watch YouTube videos—mostly space rocket launches and gun demonstrations, I assume—but he never knows when his home Internet service will let him do so.| CJ Heres / GTV Hacker: |
Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google. — On Wednesday, July 24th Google launched the Chromecast. As soon as the source code hit we began our audit. Within a short period of time we had multiple items to look at for when our devices arrived.
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| Jon Callaghan / True Ventures: |
The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters — Almost exactly six years ago, Apple launched the first iPhone. It was a small device that many dismissed as a toy. In reality Steve put a supercomputer in our pocket — we just didn't know it. And like super computers before …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Patent War Adds Front in U.S. — Obama Administration Faces Veto Decision on Ruling in Apple-Samsung Fight — By - BRENT KENDALL And - IAN SHERR - — Smartphone rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. have dueled over patents in courts around the globe.
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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Why Robots Are Stealing Your Dinner Reservations — High-frequency trading comes to the restaurant world. — Image courtesy of Threadless. — Like a lot of young foodies in San Francisco, Diogo Mónica works in tech. And as an engineer at Square, the payment company, he knows how to code.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Franken-Yahoo No. 19? Yahoo Eyes E-Commerce App Platform Lexity. — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to buying e-commerce app platform Lexity. — While it is not clear how close the deal is to fruition, it would return to Yahoo one of its well-regarded techies, Lexity CEO and founder Amit Kumar.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon announces 5,000 new fulfillment jobs in advance of Obama visit — Inside an Amazon fulfillment center. — Amazon.com, which has already more than tripled its workforce over the past three years, says it will add another 5,000 full-time jobs at its U.S. distribution facilities …
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Worker Group Alleges Abuses at Apple Supplier in China — China Labor Watch Alleges Safety and Pay Issues at Pegatron Plants — BEIJING—A new report from a Chinese workers-rights group alleges labor abuses at a major Apple Inc. contractor the company has been using more as it shifts some work from longtime supplier Foxconn.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History — A revolution began here. And this is what is left over. — The precise center of Silicon Valley when it was the most important manufacturing region on Earth is now home to Super Space Self Storage. — I was able to map this location thanks … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
WeChat took Facebook's mantle in China and now it's going global — It's been a positive past few days for Facebook. The world's most popular social networking site announced an impressive set of results for Q2 2013 which were well-received by investors, particularly its spike in usage and revenue from mobile.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Android top US smartphone platform with 52% of sales, Windows Phone charts highest growth: Kantar — Analyst firms have already pored over smartphone industry figures for Q2 2013 — noting that top guns Apple and Samsung lost market share to lesser rivals — and now Kantar has released …
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