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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Early Xbox One delivery reveals 500MB initial update, 17 second startup — then banned (update 3) — Now that there are Xbox Ones in the wild — thanks to Target's apparently leaky pre-order system — we're finding out more and more about the system. Moonlight Swami has been busy messing around …
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Kotaku, The Verge, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Kotaku, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, PC Magazine, Cinema Blend Games, Polygon, Forbes, Joystiq, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central, Kotaku, VG247, T3 News, Electronista, GamingBolt.com, The Verge and Engadget
Tweets: @moonlightswami, @tomwarren, @majornelson and @supermtw
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
How Twitter's largest outside investor tricked me — Twitter's largest outside investor used a brilliantly simple way to avoid detection. — FORTUNE — When Twitter (TWTR) unveiled its IPO registration last month, a lot of folks were stunned to learn that the company's two largest institutional owners …
Tweets: @rsarver and @gusfuldner
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Three 20-year-olds build their own version of Healthcare.gov — A trio of programmers in San Francisco have built their own version of Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace that has had serious technical issues since launching on October 1st, over the course of “a few late nights.”
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| John McDermott / Digiday: |
Google tracking location on Android and iOS to find when searches lead to retail store visits — Google Takes Its Tracking Into The Real World — Tech companies large and small have long been trying to use smartphones to connect consumers' online activity to what they do in “real” life.
| Brendan Sasso / TheHill: |
White House considers civilian for NSA chief — White House is considering whether to name a civilian to lead the National Security Agency for the first time ever. — No decision has been made yet, but officials have drafted a list of possible civilian candidates for the post …
| Matt Richtel / New York Times: |
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams hopes Medium will surface rationality in the cacophony — A Founder of Twitter Goes Long — Between downtown San Francisco and the new Twitter offices six city blocks to the west, things get sketchy. There is a strip club, a budget motel with weekly rates and …
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Scripting News. Tweets: @davewiner, @brianstelter, @palafo, @buzzfeedben, @stevelohr, @rsarver, @alex and @plattypants. Thanks:@narendra
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple v. Samsung: The patent retrial of the century starts Tuesday — An Apple victory could result in the second largest patent infringement award in history. — FORTUNE — If you thought that the one billion dollars a jury awarded Apple (AAPL) last year had been cut nearly in half, you may be forgiven.
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AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog and FOSS Patents
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Senator wants end to demand letters from “bottom feeder” patent trolls — An anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in Congress two weeks ago and debated at the House Judiciary Committee last week. Yesterday, a Senate committee convened to talk about one of the nastier sides of the patent wars …
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Politico and GamePolitics blogs
| DealBook: |
Price Cost Twitter Cash but Gave It Credibility — Twitter's stock gained 73 percent in its first day of trading, adding more than $10 billion to the company's market capitalization. — If the company had sold its 70 million shares at $45.10, the price of the first trade, instead of at $26 …
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Currency, Tech Trader Daily, Salon, bizjournals, Forbes and TechCrunch
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Can Twitter Fix Its Product Problem? — A handful of times a year, clusters of Twitter engineers will line the walls of the company's cavernous main hall, gathering around smartphones, monitors or poster board setups. The large, open-air room buzzes with excitement as employees show off …
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @pkafka and @fmanjoo
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
“Because Marissa Said So” — Yahoos Bristle at Mayer's QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs” — According to a multitude of top-ranking posts on an anonymous internal message board used by Yahoo to vent their frustrations to top staff, employees there are becoming increasingly upset … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An App “Middle Class” Continues To Grow: Independently Owned Apps With A Million-Plus Users Up 121% Over Past 18 Months — It may be getting harder for mobile developers to break into the top charts in the various app stores, but there is a healthy and growing “middle class” app economy …
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