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Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores — Apple® today announced that Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, will be joining Apple in a newly created position, as a senior vice president and member of our executive team, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook talks hiring of Angela Ahrendts as Retail chief, says she is ‘best person in the world for this role’ — Last night, Apple announced that it had finally found a new Head of Retail: Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts. Ahrendts has been CEO of the fashion retailer for several years …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover” — Apple this morning distributed invitations to a special event at which it's expected to unveil the next iterations of the iPad and iPad mini. And it's to be held on October 22, just as AllThingsD said it would.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google Watch is happening soon, heavy into Kit Kat/Google Now functionality — I recently heard word that Google was putting the finishing touches on a Watch product. Details are slim but the person seemed to think that Google Now functionality would be at the center of the product.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is not killing the Windows Phone back button — Recent rumors suggest that Microsoft may be planning to kill off the back button in Windows Phone 8.1. While the requirement for a hardware back button will likely be dropped, sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed …
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| Dann Berg / The Verge: |
Nike announces new and more colorful Nike+ FuelBand SE — Nike has announced the new Nike+ Fuelband SE at an event here in New York City. The band now has some color, with the options of yellow, pink, or red accenting an otherwise black body. — The announcement comes shortly …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Earnings and Revenue Down — Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Quarter — Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings today. — The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34 cents … | Antoine Gara / TheStreet.com: |
Irish Budget Proposes End to Apple Tax Shelter — Stock quotes in this article: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT — NEW YORK TheStreet — The Irish government said on Tuesday that it will consider eliminating a treatment that allows firms such as Apple (AAPL) to be taxed as a “stateless” … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy Buys Media Temple To Build Up Its Business With Web Professionals — Domain registration and hosting company GoDaddy is continuing on its acquisitions roll, with the announcement today that it acquired Media Temple, a premium domain hosting and website services company based …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Intel Beats The Street In Q3 2013 With $13.5 Billion In Revenue And $0.53 EPS — Well, it's that time again — famed chipmaker Intel has just reported its fiscal Q3 2013 earnings and they're just a bit better than expected. The company reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion …
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| Reid Hoffman: |
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs — At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn't matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we're considering an investment, or whether we're casually meeting for the first time.| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Dave Morin Laid Off 20 Percent of Path Employees Today — Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees today, which represents 20 percent of the company's staff. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs, saying, “We're working to realign the company to support continued innovation and Path 4.0.”| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
T-Mobile to replace grandfathered plans with new rates — Many loyal T-Mobile customers will have to kiss their grandfathered plans goodbye. That's because the carrier is sunsetting legacy plans and moving subscribers to new ones, Big Magenta has confirmed to Engadget.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
HTC to make future Amazon phones, according to report — Rumors of an Amazon smartphone have circulated for well over a year now, but a new report out today says that the retail giant will use HTC to make its upcoming devices. Three different smartphones are said to be in development …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Build SB Nation, the Verge, Polygon — Tech investors are supposed to avoid content businesses. But they do make exceptions: The people who brought you Huffington Post, for example, have been able to raise a ton of money for BuzzFeed.
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Supercell Dominates The Realm: Game Maker Sells A 51%, $1.53B Stake To SoftBank and GungHo Online — Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Vimeo PRO gets 1TB of storage, unlimited HD plays, support, and more for $199/ year in plan refresh — Vimeo is updating its premium-tier service in a way that it claims will put “more power in the hands of creative professionals and businesses.” Starting today, Vimeo PRO subscribers …
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Salesforce Identity rocks the boat for startups like Okta and Ping — There's a shakeup looming in the fledgling cloud identity and access management market. — Salesforce today is making its identity and access management service, known as Identity, generally available.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Announces It Will List On The NYSE Under TWTR, Now Has 2,300 Employees — Twitter has amended its S-1 filing to note that it will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the TWTR symbol, a detail that was omitted from the original filing. The new document was uploaded to its EDGAR archive today.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Android 4.4 KitKat will let you choose your own default texting app — Android users will be able to choose third-party apps to handle their text messaging by default when the operating system's next big update, version 4.4 KitKat, eventually launches. On its developer blog …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook announces tools to let advertisers target people who visited their site or used their mobile app — Facebook today announced new custom audience features that let advertisers and market target users who have previously visited their website and or used their mobile app.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Flickr redesigns individual picture pages with 25 percent larger photos — Flickr has been all about putting big, bold, beautiful photos front and center since the website's massive redesign in May, but Yahoo just found one more place to make those photos bigger and more beautiful: individual photo pages.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Flextronics Hiring 1,700 Workers in Austin for ‘Next Generation Desktop Computer’, Likely New Mac Pro — The Austin American-Statesman reports that Flextronics America is currently in the middle of a hiring effort that will see the company employing as many as 1,700 workers to build a … | Mikael Ricknäs / PC World: |
VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available — VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone.
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| Christopher Heine / Adweek: |
Foursquare Ads Are Now Available for All Businesses — Foursquare is rolling out its self-service ads for all companies after letting some 800 merchants test the platform in the last two months. The New York-based social-mobile firm has 1.5 million businesses using its free platform …
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| Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD: |
Sony's Latest Xperia Phones, SmartWatch 2 Launch in U.S.; No Carrier Announcements Yet — After making the rounds in Europe and Asia, Sony announced today the U.S. availability of its Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 smartphones, and the SmartWatch 2. But a word of caution: If you're eyeing one of these phones, it's going to cost you.
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