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The Inside Story of the Moto X: The Reason Google Bought Motorola — THE PHONE THAT REVEALS WHY GOOGLE BOUGHT MOTOROLA — lmost exactly two years ago, Google announced its purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. It was the company's biggest deal ever, far exceeding previous big buys … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
A ‘Google Play’ version of the Moto X is coming soon — Five major US carriers will sell the Moto X when it comes out later this year, but those who want a truly pure and unlocked version of Motorola's latest will be glad to hear that Google will be selling the device as well.
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Moto X finally official: Motorola X8, 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED, custom finishes, assembled in the USA from $199 — Well, you've gotta hand it to Motorola — the company has managed to build an unprecedented amount of buzz surrounding what's turned out to be a relatively mundane mainstream smartphone launch.
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The Next Web, CNET, Computerworld, TechHive, Ars Technica, GigaOM, ABC News, LAPTOP Magazine, Associated Press, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, BGR, TechCrunch, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile and IntoMobile
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| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
A Quick Look at the Moto X - Motorola's New Flagship — Since being acquired by Google, there's been a lot of speculation about what's coming next from Motorola. Last week they announced their Droid lineup for Verizon, this week they're ready to talk shop about the much-rumored …
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New York Times, The Verge and Engadget
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Moto X coming to all major US carriers, but AT&T nabs exclusive on color options — The Moto X is coming to every major carrier in the United States. Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile will all be offering the handset starting at $199.99 on contract, with smaller provider US Cellular …
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Exclusive: Apple Recently Acquired Low-Energy Chipmaker Passif — As the smartphone wars heat up, Apple has acquired a key technology in the arms race. — The company in recent months purchased Silicon Valley-based wireless chip developer, Passif Semiconductor, according to people briefed on the deal.
| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo? — Marissa Mayer is sitting in URLs, the Yahoo! (YHOO) cafeteria, making the case for the future of a company that almost everyone in Silicon Valley views as doomed. Employees swarm around her, assembling rows of chairs for the afternoon's FYI …
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Business Insider, The Verge and The Atlantic Wire
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BBM For Android/iOS Betas Rolling Out In The Beta Zone — It seems that BlackBerry are moving forward with the cross-platform version of BBM as we have learned that there are a small number of users that are getting the chance to test out the Android, and iOS versions of BBM.| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's Next iPad Mini Will Likely Have ‘Retina’ Display From Samsung — TAIPEI—Apple Inc.'s suppliers are gearing up for mass production of a new iPad mini in the fourth quarter that will likely feature a high-resolution screen from Samsung, people familiar with the matter say …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
HootSuite Raises $165M Series B Round From Insight, Accel And OMERS To Go Large On Enterprise Social Media Monitoring — It was a little over a year ago when we reported that Vancouver-based HootSuite, the platform that lets enterprises manage social media accounts, was raising a $50 million round at a $500 million valuation.
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GigaOM, CNET, BetaKit, PandoDaily, The Next Web, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Forbes, We Are Social and silicontap.com. Tweets: @spencerchen. Thanks:@fredericl
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google extends Windows Phone calendar and contacts syncing until December 31st — Google has granted new Windows Phone users another extension to access its Sync service until December 31st. The company had originally planned to drop support for the Exchange ActiveSync protocol on January 30th … | Guardian: |
Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ — • Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden — • GCHQ expected to ‘pull its weight’ for Americans — • Weaker regulation of British spies ‘a selling point’ for NSA| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Netflix individual profile rollout brings up to five unique experiences per account — Netflix is finally ready to deliver individual profiles for its streaming service, meant to satisfy households with shared accounts by providing everyone their own settings, viewing history and (where available) queue.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Experiments With Its Own Take On Pinterest Called “Amazon Collections” — Amazon has quietly launched its own direct challenger to Pinterest with the debut of a feature called “Amazon Collections.” It's a more attractive, image-heavy website where consumers can save … | Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Apple fixing bug that allows fake charging stations to hack iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's next software update for its iPhones and iPads will fix a security flaw that allows hackers to engage in spying and cyber crimes when the victim connects the device to a fake charging station, the company said on Wednesday.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Notifying Former MobileMe Customers of Impending iCloud Storage Downgrade — In 2011, when iCloud replaced MobileMe, Apple gave paying MobileMe customers an additional 20GB of iCloud storage as a thank you for their purchase. That storage was to be discontinued in September of 2012 … | Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
AT&T unseats Verizon in the J.D. Power rankings for the 1st time — Verizon Wireless may be losing some of its edge when it comes to subscriber goodwill. Verizon has long dominated J.D. Power's customer care rankings for mobile carriers, but on Thursday the global rankings company crowned …
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| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Pinterest Now Sends Alerts When Price Drops on Pinned Items — Instead of viewing Pinterest as a site to collect more stuff you want but just can't afford, you might start to think of it as a place to help you save money. Starting today, the social network is adding a new feature that alerts users when prices on pinned items drop.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
LinkedIn Beats Again as Revenue Jumps to $364 Million — Another earnings season, another beat from the Internet company that can seemingly do no financial wrong. — LinkedIn reported second quarter earnings results on Thursday, with earnings per share of .38 on revenue of $364 million.| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Stores Suffer From Sameness — With No Head of Retail for 10 Months, iPhone Meccas Lose Some Luster — By - IAN SHERR And - JOANN S. LUBLIN - … An Apple store in Santa Monica, Calif. — Apple Inc.'s search for a new head of its retail stores is dragging into its 10th month … | John McDermott / AdAge: |
Foursquare Selling Its Location Data Through Ad Targeting Firm Turn — Check-in Data Being Used to Contextualize Ads on Facebook — As part of its efforts to generate new sources of revenue, Foursquare is working with ad-tech company Turn to allow advertisers to use its treasure-trove …
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Foursquare Blog, Business Insider, Marketing Land and AdExchanger
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| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
Albumatic takes another whack at getting photo-sharing right, announces $4.2 million Series A — Albumatic launched back in February as a way for friends all attending the same event to share photos with each other when they're together and taking photos. Seems simple enough, right?
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Laughing Squid
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu Plans to Hook Subscription Service Into Google Chromecast — Online TV joint venture says it is ‘actively working’ with Google to add Hulu Plus access to $35 streaming adapter — Google's cheap Chromecast Internet TV adapter already lets users stream free Hulu content to their televisions … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Senators Caution White House Over ITC's Looming iPhone Ban — On Aug. 5 — Monday of next week — an International Trade Commission import ban on older iPhones and iPads found to infringe one of Samsung's standards-essential patents will go into effect — unless the White House overturns it.Sponsor Posts
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