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November 11, 2013, 7:50 PM

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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 …

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 …

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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

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Valleywag, MacDailyNews, Laughing Squid, AppleInsider, The Verge, Gizmodo, creativebits™, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Macworld, TUAW and Softpedia News. Tweets: @mehan_j

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help — Experiment Is Web Retailer's Latest Speed Initiative … Amazon.com Inc. will begin delivering packages on Sundays in the nation's two largest cities later this month with an unlikely partner—the United States Postal Service.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon To Start Sunday Deliveries In LA, New York And London For Prime Customers

More: Wired, ABC News, Salon and Gotta Be Mobile

Benedict Evans:

Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is looking strategically irrelevant — Instagram and Youtube — Instagram is looking like a great acquisition. It had 30m users when Facebook bought it in April 2012, and has now passed 150m, just 18m later. — (The change in colour signifies the acquisition.)

More: Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, Digits, Technology Advice, I4U News, Business Insider and Memex 1.1

Tweets: @benedictevans, @davemcclure, @mathewi, @paul_framp, @rianvdm, @dougw and @monkbent

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 …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Forbes and Gigaom. Thanks:@mattlynley

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.

More: Motherboard, Gizmodo, Haaretz, The Atlantic Wire, TechWeekEurope UK, Inquirer, The Register and Graham Cluley

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

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix + YouTube = Half Your Broadband Diet — There are lots of people who want to stream Web video to your house. But odds are that if you're watching a Web video during prime-time hours, it's coming from one of two places: Netflix or YouTube. — So said Sandvine, the broadband service company.

More: Sandvine, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Computerworld, AppleInsider, Variety, Softpedia News, The Register, TIME, DSLreports, SlashGear, WebProNews and 9to5Google. Tweets: @ahmednassef. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Mirror.co.uk, Business Insider, Computerworld, bizjournals, Metro.co.uk, TIME and The Atlantic Online

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Facebook joins GSMA, promises to be an ‘active’ member of wireless trade group — Social networking giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) joined the GSMA, signaling its intentions to become more deeply enmeshed in not only mobile devices but the standards and policy issues facing wireless carriers and vendors.

More: The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Inside Facebook, CNET and dailywireless.org

Om Malik / Gigaom:

How much Kno sold for & why it failed — On Friday, November 8, 2013, Kno, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based e-learning startup was acquired by Intel, and the event got the usual news treatment. Friday is usually a day when you announce news for two reasons — you want the media to obsessively cover …

Tweets: @audreywatters

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Gmail's “Quick Action” Buttons Now Support One-Click Access To Google Offers, Seamless, OpenTable, Dropbox & More — Google today is expanding the functionality of Gmail's “quick action” buttons, which will now allow users to press a button next to emails in their inbox in order to take additional actions …

More: BetaNews, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Gmail Blog, Engadget, SlashGear and 9to5Google

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google launches App Translation Service, lets Android developers buy translations from pre-qualified vendors — Google today launched the App Translation Service, first previewed at its Google I/O 2013 conference, to all Android developers. The new offering lets developers browse a list …

More: Android Developers Blog, Engadget, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, Droid Life and WebProNews

Nathan Grayson / Rock, Paper, Shotgun:

Picking Up Steam: Humble Launches Full Storefront — Well, this all feels a bit inevitable, doesn't it? After oodles, kaboodles, and toaster strudels of bundles - not to mention “store” functionality utilized by many indie developers - Humble Bundle has finally launched a full-blown storefront, ala Steam or GOG.

More: iMore, TechCrunch, AnandTech, Humble Mumble, Kotaku and Engadget

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