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Twitter Buys MoPub For $350M To Up The Ante In Mobile Advertising — MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on moble platforms.
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Driving mobile advertising forward: welcoming MoPub to the Flock — We're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising exchange. MoPub's technology lets mobile application publishers manage their inventory and optimize multiple sources of advertising …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft holding Surface 2 event on September 23rd in New York City — Microsoft is preparing to launch its next-generation tablets at an event in New York City on September 23rd. The software maker has emailed press invites to the media today, asking them to save the date for a Surface event.
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ReadWrite, Examiner, Touch Arcade, PC Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, WinBeta, Digits, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch and Business Insider
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| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Surface 2: no “RT” branding, Tegra 4, 1080p, possible white model — Surface 2 Details Emerge — Surface RT no more, but still Windows RT on the inside where it counts — Less than a week after the first report about the next generation Surface Pro 2 tablet … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, and wildcards for tomorrow's Apple event — With Apple's media event scheduled for tomorrow, we have rounded up what Apple is likely due to introduce. We previously published a round-table of 9to5Mac author hopes for the event, but this roundup will focus on our specific expectations for the keynote address.| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
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| Ann-Christine Diaz / AdAge: |
Apple Hires Creatives in Major Marketing Department Expansion — Move Comes Amid Industry Trend of More Marketers Bringing Agency Services In-House — Apple is looking for a few good creatives as it works to bring more of its advertising and marketing in-house.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Arrington to grill Valley leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt over silence and complicity with NSA — (Trying To) Face Down The Evil At TechCrunch Disrupt — I'll be on stage in just a couple of hours at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. I'm interviewing a lot of people over the next three days …
| Spiegel Online: |
iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data — The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.
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iPhone Hacks, VentureBeat, CNET, Techdirt, PC World, iDownloadBlog.com, SiliconBeat and iClarified
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PayPal Debuts Its Newest Hardware, Beacon, A Bluetooth LE Enabled Device For Hands-Free Check Ins And Payments — One of David Marcus's biggest challenges when taking on the role of President of PayPal was extending the platform into point of sale, and making it easier to pay with PayPal than swiping your credit card.
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PayPal: Forward, Digits, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat, eBay Inc, The Next Web and GigaOM. Tweets: @gusfuldner
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post — Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Last week, Green authored a long and interesting blog post about the recent revelations … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Launches Embeds, Starts To Highlight WordPress.com And TypePad Authors Who Sign In With Google+ In Search Results — Starting today, Google+ users will be able to embed their posts anywhere on the web. The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts …
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn CEO: We're aiming for 3B profiles and a map of the world's economy — SAN FRANCISCO — Today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner spoke about his company's future, and his vision is absolutely huge in the scope of its ambition. — “Our longer-term vision is ... to build the world's first economic graph … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
New Nexus 7 32GB with LTE now available on Google Play in the US for $349 — Google promised a version of its Nexus 7 (2013) with LTE would be available in a few weeks, and today is the day. Those interested can pick up the 32GB tablet with a T-Mobile SIM (and 2GB of data service for one month) …
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TmoNews, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile and The Next Web
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Moto X ‘Lazy Phone’ ads highlights ‘no touch’ interface, quick look camera — LOL. Great new ads by Motorola highlights the abilities of the Moto X to respond to voice commands without touching the device. Two more goodies below showing the shake to camera and quick look features. Both are great.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Livefyre Acquires Storify, Says The Social Curation Service Will Still Operate As Standalone Product — Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify. — The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic Recording — It's not just planar NAND that's running into physical limits lately. According to Seagate, its latest 1TB platter 3.5" drives have shrunk read/write heads as small as they can physically go.
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Electronista and TechSpot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 now available on MSDN and TechNet following developer complaints — Microsoft is reversing course today, allowing developers to download a final copy of Windows 8.1 ahead of its October 18th release. After originally announcing the finalization of the OS update last month … | Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
Udacity teams up with Google, AT&T and other tech giants for Open Education Alliance — Udacity and other massive open online course (MOOC) providers may have mixed support among academics, but the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup sure has a lot of allies in Silicon Valley.
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TechCrunch, Udacity Blog, GeekWire, Engadget and VentureBeat
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NVIDIA Tegra TAB coming with Tegra 4 chip, 7-inch display, stylus — Thanks to another revealing pass through the FCC, we now know more about NVIDIA's upcoming P1640 mystery tablet, starting with a likely name: the Tegra TAB. An internal photo shows that it'll have a Tegra 4 variant we've not seen before …
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Softpedia News, TechSpot, LAPTOP Magazine, IntoMobile, Geek.com, AndroidGuys, Android Community, SlashGear, TechHive and GigaOM
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Cota By Ossia Aims To Drive A Wireless Power Revolution And Change How We Think About Charging — Wireless power. It's less sci-fi sounding than it once was, thanks to induction charging like that based on the Qi standard, but that's still a tech that essentially requires contact, if not incredibly close proximity.| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Outbrain plans IPO valued at $1 billion for 2014 - reports — Outbrain, the biggest in new type of firm known as content engines, will reportedly seek $200 million from Wall Street in 2014. — Outbrain, a start-up that helps publishers like CNN and USA Today serve ads to readers …
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Yahoo Launches New Screen App And Viacom Partnership For Lean-Back Tablet And Smartphone Video — Yahoo launched a new mobile application this morning called “Yahoo Screen,” designed for Apple iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The app is meant to serve as a mobile home …
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