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November 12, 2013, 7:25 AM

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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 …
Larry Rulison / Times Union:
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 …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Don't Get Too Excited About GlobalFoundries and Apple — At Least, Not Just Yet  —  Don't get too excited about an intriguing story from the Albany Times Union saying that chip-manufacturing company GlobalFoundries may soon start turning out chips for Apple's iPhones and iPads at a factory in upstate New York.
Kyle VanHemert / Wired:
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
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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
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.
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.
More: Fortune
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.
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.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Netflix is now available on TiVo set-top boxes for Virgin Media subscribers in the UK  —  Virgin Media subscribers in the UK can now access the on-demand movie and TV streaming service Netflix from their TiVo set-top box, following a successful trial that kicked off a few months ago.
More: Engadget
Russ Pitts / Polygon:
The birth of Xbox Live … There was a dream that was a box.  —  Part sci-fi, part nostalgia, this box would unite people from around the world and provide a platform for entertainment that would drive the future.  In young computer scientist J Allard's dream, this box would change the world.
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.

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