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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 …
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Tweets: @ajs, @benedictevans, @amir, @dannysullivan, @mattrosoff, @hamburger, @tim, @chrisnuttall and @jimaley
| USA Today: |
Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain — The reclusive and prolific Jony Ive, the man behind the Apple iPod, meets with USA TODAY for a rare interview about Apple's once and future mission — CUPERTINO, Calif. - The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Bypass iPhone's Lockscreen To Hijack Photos, Email, Or Twitter — Forget the debate around the security or insecurity of the iPhone 5s's fingerprint reader. The latest version of the iPhone's operating system currently offers a huge, gaping hole in its old-fashioned passcode lockscreen.
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Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Examiner, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, Threatpost, MacNN, TUAW and App Advice. Tweets: @c7five. Thanks:@thealexknapp
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| Ben Silbermann / Oh, How Pinteresting!: |
Pinterest begins monetization; “experimenting” with “promoted pins” from select businesses — Planning for the future — Just over a year ago, my wife and I welcomed our son into the world. Since his first day, I've been pinning fun things we can do together …
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TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Engadget, AdExchanger, Digits, ReadWrite, The Verge, VentureBeat, ZDNet, GigaOM, Forbes, The Next Web, TechHive, AllThingsD, Mashable, internetretailer.com, Ubergizmo and WebProNews. Tweets: @tim
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
AllThingsD parting ways with Dow Jones — AllThingsD and The Wall Street Journal call it quits. — FORTUNE — Influential tech site AllThingsD is severing its ties with founding owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. (NWS). A formal statement is expected later today.
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| 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 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all, bringing Microsoft Office editing to the mobile masses — Google today announced it is making Quickoffice free for everyone. That means Android and iOS users can edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go without paying a dime.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And “App Launcher” Style Nav Menu Official, Will Roll Out Over The Next Few Weeks — Google just got a refreshed flat logo and the black navigation bar is gone. Earlier this morning, we reported that Google's new “App Launcher” style navigational menu was just weeks away from launch.
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Inside Search, BetaNews, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web and WebProNews. Tweets: @ephshi
| 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.
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| 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: |
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| 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 …
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Google Commerce, TechHive, Computerworld, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, The Next Web and Electronista
| DealBook: |
Nokia's Former Chief to Collect $25.5 Million From Microsoft Deal — It was Stephen Elop who, as Nokia's chief executive, deepened the Finnish telecommunications firm's ties to Microsoft by agreeing to bind itself to the Windows Phone operating system. — Now that Microsoft is buying full control …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Target matching Walmart's $79 iPhone 5c deal, preorders start today — While the iPhone 5c will begin selling in stores tomorrow starting at $99 on contract through most retailers, we've just learned that Target will be matching the $79 offer that Walmart recently announced for preorders of the iPhone 5c.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Engadget and App Advice
| Donna Tam / CNET: |
California regulators approve ride-sharing guidelines — The new rules require driver background check, training, and insurance coverage, and let the state collect fees from the ride-sharing companies. — A California regulatory agency has approved the first statewide guidelines …
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TechHive, The Next Web, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Verge and Ars Technica
| Mahesh Sharma / TechCrunch: |
Deliv Raises $6.85 Million To Bring Same-Day Delivery To A Store Near You — Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary …
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Business Insider, AllThingsD and VentureBeat
| Keza MacDonald / IGN: |
Sony Plans To Launch Gaikai PS3 Library in 2014 — Sony will use the cloud technology to provide PS3 games to stream to PS4 and Vita. — In a roundtable interview at Tokyo Game Show today, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that Sony plans to launch Gaikai cloud services …
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PlayStation.Blog, GigaOM, BGR, Engadget, GamePolitics blogs, DSLreports, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News and GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @virtuame
| AppleInsider: |
Apple brings iCloud bookmark syncing for Chrome and Firefox to Windows PCs — Alongside the rollout of iOS 7 Wednesday, Apple issued an update to its iCloud Control Panel for Windows with support for bookmark syncing in Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox Web browsers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Nielsen to Add Data for Mobile TV Viewing — Firm Also Will Roll Out Service That Measures TV Tweets — Nielsen has long been a kingmaker in the TV industry. Its ratings data, which tracks viewership of shows, determines how advertisers shell out some $66 billion annually.
| Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Moto X Coming to Republic Wireless for $299, New $5 Monthly Plan — Now this is more like it. Republic Wireless is adding the Moto X to is phone lineup this November for just $299 off contract, $300 less than competing carriers. The device will tap into Republic Wireless' service …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Plaid raises $2.8M to provide a simpler, uniform API to banking data — Plaid launches with $2.8M and an API for financial data — Plaid, a San Francisco startup that aims to make an API available for banks to share financial data with developers has launched with $2.8 million from Spark Capital …
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