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| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
To live and die in public: That's Twitter — My affair with Twitter, the idea, began over seven years ago. — It was at a party, a few blocks from where I live and work — San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. I was hanging outside, sucking on a stogie, and chatting with Twitter's forgotten co-creator, Noah Glass.
Tweets: @narendra, @jasonhiner, @raanan, @jocke and @joshmedia
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
The Three Reasons Twitter Didn't Sell To Facebook — Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg tried to acquire Twitter not once but twice, through official channels and via co-founder Jack Dorsey. The details of the efforts are revealed in Nick Bilton's new book Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
IPad Air Has Spendier Display, Costs Less to Make Than Earlier Models — There's a new iPad in town, and that means that folks at the research firm IHS are once again doing what they do best: Taking it apart for a look inside. — In the latest of its teardown analysis reports obtained by AllThingsD …
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, LAPTOP Magazine, Business Insider, CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacNN, everythingiCafe, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, PhoneArena, Electronista and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @hblodget
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test — Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9: Apple's new iPad Air has a good display, but it's not as good as the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9's, according to DisplayMate Technologies. — (Credit: Amazon) — The iPad Air is getting plenty of rave reviews … | The Independent: |
Revealed: Britain's ‘secret listening post in the heart of Berlin’ — Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out — Concerns were raised tonight that Britain operates a top-secret listening post from its Berlin embassy to eavesdrop on the seat of German power.| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Responding to MacKenzie Bezos's One-Star Slapdown — One of the gratifying and terrifying things about writing a book in 2013 is that anyone can immediately publish their review of it. Yesterday, a reader of my book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, did just that.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Introduced at iPhone 5s event, M7-integrated Nike+ Move fitness app launches — Introduced by Apple at the September 10 iPhone 5s event, Nike has launched its Nike+ Move application for the iPhone 5s. The app was originally scheduled to arrive on November 6th alongside the new FuelBand SE hardware …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now — Helpouts, Google's fusion of Google+ Hangouts, Google Wallet, and its identity tools is now live. A ‘Helpout’ is a Hangout-like video chat, but instead of speaking with a friend …
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
LG's G Flex actually flexes (video) — We've known for a while that LG's upcoming G Flex smartphone features a pretty noticeable arc from top to bottom, but thanks to a source who's spent some time with the device, we now know that the phone is more aptly named than we first suspected.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Target Offering $200 Gift Card for iPad Trade-in, Including First Generation — From November 3 to November 9, Target is running an in-store promotion for its trade-in program that provides customers with a gift card worth at least $200 for any iPad, including low value first-generation models. iPads … | iFixit: |
Nexus 5 Teardown — KitKats, snapdragons, unlocked? Google is making us feel like we've got the golden ticket, as we head into Willy Wonka's—er, the Nexus 5. Will Google's latest smartphone be a sweet treat? Or will we be having nightmares of green-haired Oompa Loompas mocking us in rhyme?
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Justin Bieber invests $1.1m in teen-focused social network “Shots Of Me”, launching this week — Exclusive: Justin Bieber invests in new social network — Justin Bieber backs new teen-focused platform from founders of RockLive games. — FORTUNE — A new teen-focused social …
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
HTC Quarterly Sales Forecast Misses Estimates on Weak Demand — HTC Corp. (2498), the Taiwanese smartphone maker which had its first loss on record last month, forecast sales that missed analyst estimates for a second straight quarter as new models fail to spur demand.
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Acer CEO resigns as company posts record loss — Just 24 hours after one tech heavyweight lost its CEO, another has been forced to bow out of the game. After his company posted a huge loss and wrote off a chunk of value from sub-brands Gateway and Packard Bell, Acer CEO and Chairman JT Wang has decided to resign.
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China Buys Its Way Into Silicon Valley — Tencent's Push for Stake in Snapchat Is Latest Effort to Gain Foothold in U.S. — China's homegrown Internet giants are buying their way into Silicon Valley. — The Chinese firms, which have little consumer business outside their home market … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
T-Mobile US: 1M net customers, 5.6M smartphone sales — Summary: The fourth largest U.S. cell network posted positive results for the second consecutive quarter, thanks to strong net customer additions and smartphone sales. — Zack Whittaker — For the second consecutive quarter as a public company …
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| The Switch: |
How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data — The Washington Post reported last Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been tapping into the private links that connect Google and Yahoo data centers around the world. Today we offer additional background …
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| Brendan Sasso / The Hill: |
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Google Search iOS app gets massive update w/ ‘OK Google’ handsfree voice search, notifications, reminders, much more — The Google Search iOS app has received a huge update today that brings a number of new features including the ability to activate voice search handsfree.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to build new manufacturing facility in Arizona with solar-power, will create 2000+ jobs — The State of Arizona today announced that Apple is planning to build a new manufacturing facility in the city of Mesa, Arizona. The facility will create 700 jobs for manufacturing …
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| Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: |
The Airbnb Economy in New York: Lucrative but Often Illegal — Tama Robertson is an artist who sells paintings and makes jewelry, but this being New York City, she also works in real estate. She has worked as an associate broker and invested in some properties of her own, but in recent years … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Q3 Beats Street On Sales Of $561M; Net Income Weighed Down By $25M Patch Restructuring — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) today reported its Q3 earnings with a 6% rise in revenues over a year ago to $561 million, led by growth in its advertising business, specifically around the premium ad formats …
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| Tim Worstall / Forbes: |
Even Paul Allen Thinks That Microsoft Should Be Broken Up — This is an interesting intervention into the discussion about what the next CEO should do with Microsoft . The investment house that manages Paul Allen's money, including his stake in Microsoft, is suggesting that they …
| David Berlind / ProgrammableWeb: |
Why The Attack on Buffer Was A Serious Wake-Up Call For The Web — On October 26, 2013, users of both Facebook and Twitter discovered that their accounts were responsible for spamming both social networks with unauthorized posts, many of which promoted a weight-loss scheme.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Full-service selling app Sold shuts down as the team joins Dropbox — The team behind Sold, an app that was supposed to make selling things easier, is closing the service and joining Dropbox. — Beginning today, Sold will no longer accept new items. Users with existing items in the system …
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