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| James Galbraith / Macworld: |
Intel's Iris graphics boost 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro GPU performance by more than 50% — Benchmarks: Upgraded graphics boost new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro — The first of the new MacBook Pros unveiled on Tuesday are in the Macworld Lab, and the results show that the internal updates …
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Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, I4U News, Electronista, MacRumors and AppleInsider
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Next on Deck for Snapchat and Pinterest: Some Sales Help? — Earlier this week, AllThingsD broke the news of two major fundings of a pair hot startups: Scrapbooking service Pinterest and messaging service Snapchat. — Pinterest's round of $225 million at a $3.8 billion valuation was confirmed …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Qualcomm marketing exec Chandrasekher reassigned after calling Apple's 64-bit A7 a “gimmick” — After Apple 64-bit A7 criticism, Qualcomm exec reassigned — The 64-bit Apple A7 chip is now being used in all of Apple's marquee iOS products, including the newest iPhone and iPad.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Global Nerdy, Cult of Mac and Guardian
| Thomas Gryta / Digits: |
AT&T's Plan Revamp Signals the End of Voice Minutes — The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell phone plan are nearly gone. — As of today, AT&T is dropping the availability of its old plans for new smartphone subscribers, and all of the remaining plans include unlimited calling … | John Knefel / Rolling Stone: |
Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters — Promotional materials for private spy companies show that mass surveillance technology is being sold to police departments as a way to monitor dissent — The documents leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom: |
Amazon Publishing reportedly retreating in NYC. Thank (or blame) Barnes & Noble — When Amazon Publishing launched its general trade imprint in New York in 2011, the goal was to go head-to-head with the big traditional publishers here. The company announced in May of that year … | Sanjay Bhatt / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon's plans for spherical building in downtown Seattle approved by city design panel — Amazon's bubble building gets OK from design panel — A city panel on Tuesday signed off on Amazon.com's design for a five-story office building formed by three intersecting spheres … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
How Rizvi, Sacca purchased shares from Williams, other Twitter employees to claim major stake — Friendship Formed Foundation of 15.6% Stake in Social-Media Company — Evelyn M. Rusli … The largest stake in Twitter Inc. first came together seven years ago at a posh Caribbean resort.
Tweets: @wsjmarkets
| Bloomberg: |
Apple, Google Must Face Group Antitrust Hiring Lawsuit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and two other Silicon Valley companies must face a group lawsuit representing more than 64,000 technical employees claiming their incomes were held down by the companies' agreements not to recruit one another's workers.
| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Google could be building a massive floating data center near San Francisco's Treasure Island — Is Google building a huge floating data center in SF Bay? — This large structure, which is likely being built by Google, could be a floating data center. It is located on a barge …
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Softpedia News, 9to5Google, TIME, SiliconBeat, Mashable, ReadWrite, The Register, Valleywag, Gizmodo and New York Times. Thanks:@paulsloan
| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Won't Launch Auto-Play Video Ads This Year — If you're an advertiser waiting to hand Facebook a bag of cash to start running video ads on the social network in time for the holidays, it sounds like you're out of luck. — Sources tell AllThingsD that Facebook has been advising …
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ReelSEO Video Marketing, Forbes, App Advice, Softpedia News, SlashGear, BGR and The Next Web. Tweets: @pkafka
| Bloomberg: |
DirecTV, Time Warner Cable Said to Consider Aereo-Type Services — DirecTV (DTV), Time Warner Cable (TWC) Inc. and Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR), taking a page from Aereo Inc., are considering capturing free broadcast signals from TV networks to avoid paying billions of dollars …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Deadline.com and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Payments Startup Flint Raises $6M Series B Led By Digicel Group — Mobile payments startup Flint has been keeping a low profile for much of this year, but it's looking like that quiet period is finally over. The company just recently launched support for Android in a bid to widen its reach …
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bizjournals, Gigaom, Street Fight, VentureBeat, UTRConf and silicontap.com
| Peter Cohen / iMore: |
Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation — On Tuesday evening Apple posted updates to its iWork apps for Mac - Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Featured during Apple's iPad and Mac event in San Francisco, the new versions of iWork apps sport new features … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
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