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Twitter's internal 2013 growth target was 400m users, sources say it now has 240m — Twitter User Growth Slower Than Internal Goals — Is Twitter growing fast enough? — This seems like an odd question to ask, since the company has just told the world it's getting ready to go public.
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Twitter Doles Out Stock Grants to Keep Top Talent — Twitter's eventual day in the IPO sun is closer than ever. And the company is doing all it can to keep the forecast as pleasant as possible — including keeping its top employees happy. — Twitter has handed out stock grants to a number …
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A Short Post, a Big Splash: #TwitterIPO — Twitter, which began as a side project in a small but failing start-up seven years ago and grew into one of the world's largest platforms for public conversation, is about to take its biggest step yet into maturity: selling stock to the public.
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Online iPhone 5s orders open at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Sept. 20, in-store sales begin locally at 8 a.m. — While it won't be available to preorder, the iPhone 5s will hit Apple's online store at 12:01 Pacific next Friday, Sept. 20, while Apple's retail stores will begin selling the device when they open at 8 a.m. local time.| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Some Thoughts about the iPhone 5S Camera Improvements — One of the big improvements that comes with the iPhone 5S is a new camera system, with a faster aperture for more light throughput, bigger 8 MP sensor with correspondingly bigger pixels, dual LED color temperature matching flash, and improved ISP.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Unlocked 16GB Yellow iPhone 5c is first to sell out, available to ship by 9/25 (Update: 1-2 weeks in Hong Kong) — We have our first sellout! — Following pre-orders going live today for Apple's new iPhone 5c, shipping times for the yellow, unlocked model of the device have just slipped …
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iPhone 5C pre-orders available from Apple, carriers, and retailers — Pre-order your iPhone 5Cs now! Or don't. No one's forcing you either way. — As it promised during Tuesday's announcement, Apple has officially begun accepting pre-orders for the sort-of-new iPhone 5C in its online store as of 12:01am PT today.
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Twitter Releases Spotify App — Remember when Twitter bought We Are Hunted, whose creators then built Twitter's #music app, which was initially super popular in part due to its cool design and the fact that everybody uses Twitter, but then it ran into a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem?
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Has Acquired Natural Language Processing Startup Indisys, Price “North” Of $26M, To Build Its AI Muscle — Intel has quietly made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on naturual language recognition.
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Insight: In Silicon Valley start-up world, pedigree counts — (Reuters) - When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States without speaking English …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
PayPal revamping its policies to better support crowdfunding — PayPal's commerce system wasn't built for crowdfunding, and that has created problems for some startups — the company recently (if briefly) froze $45,000 of Mailpile's assets, for example. The PayPal team is determined to set things right … | Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Founders' Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk — Questions Raised about Founders Use for Non-Government Flights — Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended …
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T-Mobile promo on new iPhones: iPhone 5s for $99 down, 5c for $0 down — T-Mobile boasts record August as it preps for iPhone 5S, 5C — The company sets a promotional price on both the iPhone 5S — $99 down — and the iPhone 5C, which doesn't require any money down. — T-Mobile had a good summer.
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