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Sam Grobart / Businessweek:
Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share—and the New iPhones  —  Apple's doomed.  —  This is what you hear and read.  Sure, it was a hell of a run—iPhone, iPad, all that—but it's about to end, and fast.  If you need any proof, just look at China: the world's largest smartphone market …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Apple CEO Tim Cook Says The Windows/Mac Comparison To Android/iOS Doesn't Fit  —  In a new interview published by Businessweek this morning, wherein Sam Grobart sits down with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and SVPs Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, Cook comments on a number of things …
Brad Reed / BGR:
Apple CEO Cook: ‘We never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone’  —  Tim Cook is sorry if you're disappointed that the iPhone 5c isn't a budget phone aimed at consumers in emerging markets but he never meant to give you the impression that it would be.  In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek …
Dann Berg / The Verge:
HP's new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion  —  Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP's new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless.  The Envy has Leap Motion's gesture recognition technology built directly into the palmrest …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
HP fills out its tablet lineup with four Android slates and two Windows models  —  When HP announced its first Android tablet, the Slate 7, we were surprised (and a little disappointed) to see the company attacking the low end of the market.  Where were the high-end tablets, we wondered?
BBC:
Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85  —  Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman credited with transforming Nintendo into a world-leading video games company, has died aged 85.  —  Mr Yamauchi ran the firm for 53 years, and was its second-largest shareholder at the time of his death.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft now offers up to $350 in iPhone/iPad trade-in promotion, adds Android and BlackBerry devices  —  Microsoft ups the ante on its iPhone, iPad trade-in promotion  —  Summary: A new Microsoft Corporate Buyback promotion, seemingly open to anyone, allows users to get up to $350 to use …
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Google Wallet finally makes its iOS debut, sans NFC  —  Hey iPhone users, Google Wallet is here!  The payments app has finally arrived for iOS devices, bringing with it transfers to friends, loyalty card tracking and nearby offers.  Tap-to-pay is notably absent, as iOS devices don't support NFC …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy Buys Afternic To Beef Up Its Domain Registry Marketplace  —  GoDaddy has made another acquisition, its fourth in 14 months: it has bought Afternic, a specialist in aftermarket domain sales — that is, reselling domain names that are already owned.  Afternic was owned by NameMedia …
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back  —  A brand new vision for iOS, Android, Mac, and web  —  Mike Johnston had an itch.  —  Simplenote, his once-beloved note-taking app, had been gathering dust for the better part of two years.  Johnston had been spending …
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride  —  Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made.  More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history.
More: Cult of Mac.  Tweets: @panzer.  Thanks:@panzer
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Before and after: The best iOS 7 app redesigns (Updating)
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Apple quietly doubles cellular app download limit to 100MB  —  Users can now download over-the-air iTunes and App Store content up to 100MB in size, up from the previous 50MB limit.  —  Alongside iOS 7's arrival today, Apple has quietly doubled the size of apps users can download while away from Wi-Fi.
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Watch Mark Zuckerberg Talk With Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet  —  Below, you can watch the full video of Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet's interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of Facebook, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Full editorial coverage is available …
Douglas MacMillan / Tech Deals:
Decade-Old StumbleUpon Finds Profits in the Mobile Era  —  Since StumbleUpon debuted more than a decade ago, the online bookmarking service has never had its breakout Facebook or Pinterest moment.  The startup quietly chugged along with a loyal fan base and steady sales trickle.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Killer app: why do anonymous Q&A networks keep leading to suicides?  —  Ask.fm could have learned from Formspring's mistakes — but didn't  —  Teens bullied through an anonymous question-and-answer site.  A spate of suicides among the young people who used it.
Tweets: @krelnik
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Ex-Facebookers' Mobile App, Shadow Puppet, Brings Voice Narrative to Photo Sharing  —  A picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words.  —  But what if sometimes that isn't enough?  —  This occasional deficiency of sorts is the proposition behind Shadow Puppet …
Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:
BlackBerry to Slash Its Workforce by Up to 40%  —  TORONTO—BlackBerry Ltd. is preparing to make deep staff cuts by the end of the year via layoffs that could cost up to 40% of its employees their jobs, people familiar with the matter said.  —  The layoffs will cut across all departments …

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has picked HBO content chief Casey Bloys to oversee streaming operations following Paramount's acquisition of WBD

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: David Fincher won't renew his Netflix deal when it expires in 2027; he isn't leaving for a rival studio and could still make his next movie at Netflix

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