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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.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon To Start Sunday Deliveries In LA, New York And London For Prime Customers — Amazon is already crazy busy during the month of November, and particularly towards the end, when U.S. shoppers go absolutely off the rails. Now, it's planning to ship on Sundays, in addition to every …
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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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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.)
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| 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 …
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. — At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments … | 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.
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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Unlike the PS4, the Xbox One won't support 3D Blu-ray playback at launch — Now that Microsoft has adopted Blu-ray for its upcoming Xbox One, some of you might have been wondering if this next-gen console will support 3D Blu-ray movies. Well, the answer is no, or at least not yet.
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