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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Investigating Worker-Abuse Charges at “iPhone C” Supplier — Apple hasn't even launched the less-expensive iPhone it's rumored to have in the pipeline, but already a company involved in its manufacture stands accused of labor violations. — In a report published Thursday …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
PayPal's new digital wallet app is powerful but baffling — Will anybody ever get mobile payments right? — Hill Ferguson ordered a smoothie. Using a newly redesigned app for iOS and Android, PayPal's lanky director of product selected a peach concoction and paid for it with a couple taps on his smartphone.
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PayPal: Forward, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Associated Press, PC Magazine, TechHive, VentureBeat, NYT Bits, Engadget and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @qthrul
| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Falling China Share Complicates iPhone Deal — Apple is accustomed to dictating terms to carriers for its iPhone. As it seeks a deal with China Mobile to sell the handsets, it's the operator that is in command. Audio Download: Bloomberg's Butler Discusses Low Cost iPhone Enlarge …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Japan's largest carrier DoCoMo & Apple reportedly agree to iPhone partnership, sales start this fall — Japan's largest mobile carrier, DoCoMo, will finally begin selling the iPhone this fall, according to Nikkei. Apple and DoCoMo reportedly recently came to an agreement, and reports regarding the discussions emerged late last month.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Ping for iPhone: does merging email and instant messaging make sense? — You've got mail, instantly — The battle for email is very clearly in full swing. Apps and services seem to debut every day that destroy email, or subvert it, or merely help you rearrange it.
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PandoDaily, TechCrunch, The Next Web, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, BuzzFeed, AllThingsD and Mashable. Tweets: @hamburger
| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Paypal freezes $45,000 of Mailpile's crowdfunded dollars (Updated) — Update: Paypal has contacted Ars Technica and informed us that they have released Mailpile's funding. Their statement is below. — Mailpile is a crowdfunded e-mail client written by a small group of folks in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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| Guardian: |
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet — • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records — • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
Tweets: @bcappelbaum, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @guardian and @stuartmillar159
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
China's Xiaomi unveils its new flagship Mi-3, with the 16GB version retailing for $327 — Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi's founder Lei Jun took to the stage today in Beijing to launch the company's latest brand new flagship phone — the Xiaomi Mi-3.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge: |
Google's Trojan horse: how Chrome Apps will finally take on Windows — The web alone is not enough — Today, on Chrome's fifth birthday, Google is announcing the rollout of what it's calling Chrome Apps. Don't feel bad if you're confused by the name. Chrome has been serving …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Its Card-Style Layout To Drive For iOS — Google uses its card-style layout across the majority of its mobile apps, but until now, the Google Drive app for iOS had lagged behind. Today, however, Google is launching a new version of Drive for iPhone and iPad that brings …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
No, seriously: Oyster comes pretty close to being a Netflix for ebooks — A lot of startups want to be the Netflix (or Spotify, Pandora, whatever) for ebooks. That is, they want to provide unlimited access to ebooks for a flat monthly fee. — But this is really hard to pull off … | Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
A Bloody Ballmer and Stalled Discussions on the Long Road to a Nokia Deal — SEATTLE — “We are on different planets.” — That was the response of Risto Siilasmaa, the chairman of Nokia's board of directors to Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, after a team from Microsoft presented …
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Thanks:@nickwingfield| Kathy Savitt / Yahoo!: |
Introducing Our New Logo! — We're excited to share the new Yahoo logo with you. It will begin appearing across Yahoo properties globally tonight. — We wanted a logo that stayed true to our roots (whimsical, purple, with an exclamation point) yet embraced the evolution of our products.
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| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
Simple.TV partners with SiliconDust: new hardware, 2.0 software update on the way — The new Simple.TV box will feature dual-tuning capability and a more traditional set-top box look. — It's been a while since we've heard anything from Simple.TV and its quirky over-the-air DVR …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Hearsay Social Raises Another $30M To Help Businesses Grow Sales Through Social Media — Hearsay Social, a startup offering for reaching sales leads and customers on social networks, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding. — CTO Steve Garrity told me Hearsay has had …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Lenovo Vibe X stuffs 5-inch 1080p display, quad-core chip into slim and light body — While Lenovo's Snapdragon 800-powered phone has yet to make an official appearance, the Chinese company's gone ahead and unveiled its other quad-core flagship device: the Vibe X aka IdeaPhone S960.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Lenovo doubles down on convertible PC bet; Yoga-tizes lineup — Summary: Lenovo is betting that all laptop buyers will go multimode and meld tablets and PCs. To Lenovo, Yoga DNA should go everywhere. — Lenovo is making a big bet on convertible PCs and betting that consumers and businesses …
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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm — Stanford University is going to start directly investing in students' companies. Stanford is also giving a $3.6 million grant to StartX, a non-profit startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs.| Mike Shields / Adweek: |
Pressure Mounts on Yahoo's De Castro COO needs to deliver results or could face ouster by end of the year — Yahoo finally got its latest ad savior yesterday when the company officially announced that former AOL executive Ned Brody will become svp of Americas, reporting directly to chief operating officer Henrique De Castro.| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
The Terrifying Search Engine That Finds Internet-Connected Cameras, Traffic Lights, Medical Devices, Baby Monitors And Power Plants — Marc Gilbert got a horrible surprise from a stranger on his 34th birthday in August. After the celebration had died down, the Houston resident heard … | Reuters: |
China's Huawei rules out acquisitions to grow in smartphones — (Reuters) - China's Huawei will not buy another mobile phone maker, such as Blackberry, to grow its market share in smartphones, senior vice president and board member Chen Lifang said on Wednesday.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pew: 86% Of U.S. Adults Make Efforts To Hide Digital Footprints Online; Fear Of Creeping Ads And Hackers Outweighs Spying — In one of the latest developments in the fallout of the PRISM story, the ACLU is currently suing four officials in the Obama Administration to try to get federal courts … Sponsor Posts
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