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GlobalFoundries to make Apple chips in New York fab — Hello Malta. — GlobalFoundries is preparing to make chips for Apple's iPhone and iPad at its Fab 8 complex in Malta, according to a source close to the company. — Samsung Electronics, which currently makes the logic microprocessors used …
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Google Glass Will Expand Its Features Into Music — To sell Glass, its augmented-reality form of eyewear, Google has already tried to make it a fashion accessory and a must-have video device for any parent or sky diver. Now it is also presenting this $1,500 piece of wearable technology as a way to interact with music.
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Look Inside Apple's Spaceship Headquarters With 24 All-New Pics — Office life will spill into a verdant landscape on both the inside and outside of the ring. Image: City of Cupertino — The project was helmed by the firm of star architect Norman Foster. Image: City of Cupertino
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won — ComScore research shows that while Apple suffered a PR disaster over maps, Google lost 23m iPhone users in the US — Apple's maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US - despite the roasting …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
iPad mini with Retina display on sale now starting at $399 — Three weeks after its announcement, the iPad mini with Retina display is now available for purchase in the online Apple Store. The release follows that of the larger iPad Air earlier in the month; both tablets feature … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Finds Surprising Growth Market in Japan — Tech Company Gets Boost From Carriers' Price War, Local Anti-Samsung Bias … Apple Inc. is striking gold in an unlikely place: Japan. — In the past two years, Japan has emerged as Apple's fastest-growing region, far outpacing its home market …
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| Gabriela Vatu / Softpedia News: |
Google Files for Patent of Neck Tattoo with Built-In Microphone — It's been proven numerous times over the years that Google is not always the creator of the most conventional products and the fact that it often has its eyes on the future is quite easy to notice.
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Motorola Plans Low-Cost Phone; Sales of Moto X Disappoint — Google's Motorola unit is set to introduce a relatively low-cost phone Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter, amid weak sales and a price cut of its flagship high-end model. — Details of the new …
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| David Gilbert / International Business Times: |
International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware Carried on Board by Russian Astronauts — Renowned security expert Eugene Kaspersky reveals that the International Space Station was infected by a USB stick carried into space by a Russian astronaut.| Kadhim Shubber / CoinDesk: |
$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes — Bitcoin is surging in China, but the explosion in digital currency trading has been accompanied by possible fraud and theft. — GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform that claimed to be based in Hong Kong …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Messaging App Line Now Brings In Nearly $100M A Quarter, But No Official Word On An IPO — Line, the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two-and-a-half years, is now bringing in nearly $100 million in revenue a quarter. — The app, which spun out of its parent company NHN earlier this year …
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| Paul Gagnon / DisplaySearch Blog: |
Apple's Long-Rumored TV Ambitions on Hold Again? — According to sources in the TV supply chain, it appears that Apple's long-rumored TV plans, which were far from concrete anyway, have been put on hold again, possibly to be replaced by a rollout of wearable devices.
| Horace Dediu / asymco.com: |
Average iOS user contributed about $48 to Apple's iTunes revenue in the last 12 months — What's an Active User worth? — Apple has sold 700 million iOS devices. Google claims one billion Android device activations. Microsoft has about 1.5 billion Windows users and Facebook about 1.19 billion.
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Malone's Liberty Global Said in Talks to Buy Intel's TV Service — John Malone's Liberty Global (LBTYA) Plc, the European cable operator, is in talks to acquire Intel Corp. (INTC)'s online pay-TV service under development, said three people with knowledge of the situation.
| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Chrome 32 lets you easily find and close those noisy tabs — Tabs in Chrome 32 Beta will notify you via icons when they're streaming audio. — (Credit: Google) — If you've ever wondered which of your 200 browser tabs is making all that racket, the latest Chrome Beta can lend an ear.
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Google Chrome Releases, Engadget, The Register, The Next Web, 9to5Google, AllThingsD and Mashable
Tweets: @joshconstine and @pkedrosky
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Email Productivity Startup Yesware Makes Its First Acquisition, Buys San Francisco-Based File-Sharing Service Attachments.me — Yesware, an email productivity startup for salespeople, which just this fall raised an additional $13.5 million in Series B funding, has made its first acquisition.| Alex Pham / Billboard: |
NMPA Targets Unlicensed Lyric Sites, Rap Genius Among 50 Sent Take-Down Notices — The National Music Publishers Association on Monday fired an opening salvo at lyric sites that it believes have not obtained licenses to publish those lyrics, including Rap Genius, a high-flying New York startup … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Fab Operating Chief Said to Be Leaving Company Amid Shakeup — Fab Inc. Chief Operating Officer Beth Ferreira is leaving the company, adding to a surge in executive turnover at the online retailer, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — Ferreira, a former Etsy Inc. executive …
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Forbes, Business Insider and Gigaom. Tweets: @om. Thanks:@mattlynley
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft revamps Bing Music Video Search with inline results from YouTube, Vimeo, MTV, Artist Direct, and more — Microsoft today launched a completely revamped version of Bing's search section for music videos. The company says it has been built from the ground up to simplify exploring … | Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
The Risky Groupon Initiative That Beat Back LivingSocial Perhaps Once and for All — Since Groupon's earliest days, there was always one constant: It would almost never take less than 30 percent of the proceeds from the daily deals it sold on behalf of its small-business clients.
Tweets: @gsterling
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft details SkyDrive photo and video streaming on the Xbox One (video) — We already knew the Xbox One would have a built-in SkyDrive app, allowing you to view stream whatever media you had stored there. Until now, though, all we'd seen was a relatively informal unboxing video from Larry … Sponsor Posts
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