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EBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash — Ebay's PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree, in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on the block, with Square and PayPal both in acquisition talks for the company.
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Seriously, Samsung? Sorry, roamers, but the new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked — People buying the unlocked Galaxy Note 3 in regions such as Europe or North America will not be able to a SIM card from another region in it, meaning they will have to pay exorbitant roaming fees if they travel outside the region.
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Apple's Jonathan Ive and Craig Federighi: The Complete Interview — Perhaps you've already read our cover story on Apple and its three wise men: Chief Executive Tim Cook, chief designer Jonathan Ive, and software head Craig Federighi. Perhaps you read the outtakes from those interviews … | Reuters: |
T-Mobile US will no longer stock BlackBerry in stores — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc, the No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider, plans to stop carrying BlackBerry Ltd smartphones in its stores and instead ship the devices directly, according to an executive for the company.| Eric Chemi / Businessweek: |
Listen Up Apple Haters: iPhone Sales Eclipse Microsoft and Amazon — Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken plenty of flack for running a company that is supposedly well past its glory days—and the iPhone smartphone franchise is sometimes dismissed as a spent force, losing ground to other more innovative brands like Android and Samsung.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Hopster Promises Netflix for Kids, and No One Else — If you're a certain kind of parent, then you know that Netflix is a pretty excellent babysitter. But Netflix, and rival services like Amazon's Instant Prime, have lots of movies and TV shows that aren't aimed at kids.
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NSA reform bill to trim back US surveillance unveiled in Congress — Ron Wyden says Snowden disclosures have ‘caused a sea change’ and announces most comprehensive package so far — Four senators at the vanguard of bipartisan efforts to rein in US government spying programs announced …
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Evernote and 3M to announce partnership to help you digitize Post-it notes — The Post-it Note Goes Digital on Evernote — Rather than fight the digital revolution, the time-tested Post-it note is joining it. — 3M Co., which makes about 50 billion of the sticky paper notepads each year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
JustFab Raises Another $40M Led By Hong Kong's Shining Capital To Take Its Fashion Subscription Commerce Model To Asia And Beyond — Hot on the heels of its merger with rival ShoeDazzle (yes, pun intended), subscription-based fashion commerce site JustFab, now with 35 million users …
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Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients — Summary: [UPDATE] Be careful what you say over Google's instant messenger, as they may be sent to the wrong person. Google has acknowledged an issue and is looking into it. — Michael Lee — [UPDATE] Google's Hangouts … | Ian Austen / New York Times: |
BlackBerry Cancels Call to Discuss Its Results — OTTAWA — The management of the ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry canceled a conference call scheduled for Friday to discuss the company's quarterly financial results. — While BlackBerry said on Wednesday evening that those results …
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Nest Labs To Open Up Its Learning Thermostat To Developers — The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's co-founder and CEO, just detailed an API that's aimed at developers looking …
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AppleInsider, Nest, MacNN, ZDNet, Forbes, TUAW, AllThingsD, Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, everythingiCafe and jessica lessin. Thanks:@elinblesener
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Google tightening SSL security in Chrome — Summary: Always a leader in advancing SSL security, Google will be flagging certificates that don't meet the Baseline Requirements of the CA/Browser Forum, and adding requirements for Certificate Transparency. — In a post to the CA/Browser Forum …
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cabforum.org, Netcraft, Web Host Industry Review and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @virusbtn
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Meet the machines that steal your phone's data — The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only US government agency using controversial surveillance methods.
Tweets: @csoghoian
| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
Tech Giants Fear Spread of Patent Wars to Europe — LONDON — The technology industry is expanding its fight against patent trolls to Europe. — In the United States, technology companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft have spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars … | Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Who Are The 15 Percent Of Adults Who Don't Use The Internet? — According to new survey data from the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of US adults don't use the internet or email. If there are roughly 250 million adults in the US that would mean just under 38 million people are “non-internet users.”
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Duolingo Takes Online Teaching To The Next Level, By Crowd Sourcing New Languages — Duolingo's founders Luis Von Ahn and Severin Hacker; photo via Duolingo — The makers of language-learning software Rosetta Stone should take heed: the crowd is coming. — Duolingo, a free … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
The Second Coming of Java: A Relic Returns to Rule Web — Biz Stone called it “one of the most special days in the history of Twitter.” And as it turned out, it was also a notable day for Java, a relic of the 1990s that is once again remaking the internet.
Tweets: @aows and @sampullara
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV ‘Touch To Set Up’ Via iOS 7 Devices — Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a newer Apple set-top box … | Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition Arrives Oct. 10 for $549 — With the iPad 5 just around the corner, Samsung has announced the pricing and availability of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. The pen-enabled tablet will go on sale October 10th for $549, $50 more than Apple's current slate.| Phil Muncaster / The Register: |
China's lifting of internet blockade denied by state media — Party mouthpiece says Great Firewall will stay in Shanghai zone — Hopes that the Chinese government was about to relax its strict internet censorship regime in Shanghai appear to have been dashed after state-run media ran stories denying previous reports.
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Engadget, globaltimes.cn, Tech in Asia, Digital Trends, Shanghaiist, BBC and Salon
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Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake — Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few errors. — Bill Gates chats with David Rubenstein, Harvard Campaign co-chair.| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
SecondMarket goes all-in on Bitcoin, launching a private trust — Barry Silbert has been obsessed with Bitcoin. Obsessed. His priorities in life, he says, are ordered as such: his wife, his company, and Bitcoin. The crypo-currency is the first thing he has seen like it since the Internet.
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Pebble Selects AT&T as Exclusive Smartwatch Carrier — AT&T has inked a deal with Pebble to serve as the smartwatch's exclusive carrier. — After breaking Kickstarter records last year by earning $10 million, the watch this summer landed in Best Buy stores and became available online at getpebble.com.Sponsor Posts
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