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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 … | DealBook: |
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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.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's iPhone 5s, the A7 Chip, and That 64-Bit Question — When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5s on Tuesday, the company touted as one of its tentpole features the 64-bit desktop-class processing power of its new custom-made A7 chip. “The A7 is up to twice as fast as the previous-generation system … | 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.| 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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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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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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Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is ‘the nature of our society’ — Tech giant's executive chairman calls for greater transparency but declines to ‘pass judgment’ on spying operations — Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry's call … | Edward Moyer / CNET: |
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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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Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand for $7 million over illegal spying, raid — New details emerge about the Mega-raid: including video cameras, secret pencams. — It was bound to happen sooner or later: Kim Dotcom has finally sued the New Zealand government over its admittedly illegal spying …
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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 … | Kevin M. Gallagher / Motherboard: |
What Do the Latest NSA Leaks Mean for Bitcoin? — Could the intelligence community have a secret exploit for Bitcoin? It's rather obvious that Bitcoin presents a very strong financial incentive to break its cryptography, since such a vulnerability could allow an attacker to claim large amounts of virtual currency for themselves.
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