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Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook — Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter. — The offer, and rebuff, came as Snapchat …
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple's $10.5B on Robots to Lasers Shores Up Supply Chain — Apple Inc. is putting a record $10.5 billion to work in new technology — from assembly robots to milling machines — that consumers will never see. — To get a jump on rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. and lay the groundwork for new products … | Polygon: |
PlayStation 4 review: focus on gaming is undermined by lack of compelling software at launch — PlayStation 4 Review — In the seven years since the introduction of the PlayStation 3, we've seen our gaming consoles transform into living room hubs through constant evolution and software updates.
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Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked — On-Demand Photography Marketplace Scoopshot Snaps $3.9 Million Series A — Motorola held a special event today to reveal its new Moto G, a spiritual sibling to the Moto X and a way for the Google-owned smartphone maker …
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iPad Mini Retina Display Teardown — Lots of new tech ensures the iPad Mini Retina Display is a worthy successor to both the iPad Air and last year's iPad Mini—but will it carry the familial low repairability? Follow along as we reveal the inner workings of this compact new Retina device.| Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog: |
Amazon WorkSpaces - Desktop Computing in the Cloud — Once upon a time, enterprises had a straightforward way to give each employee access to a desktop computer. New employees would join the organization and receive a standard-issue desktop, preconfigured with a common set of tools and applications.
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Microsoft's Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Previews Browser-Based Code Editor — Microsoft today launched the latest version of its Visual Studio tools for developers at an event in New York City. The new version includes a number of user interface improvements … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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Verizon admits network faces traffic pressure in big cities — The wireless carrier is pouring money into the problem, and a top executive says the issues will dissipate by the end of the year.—Verizon Wireless is feeling the crush of all of those LTE-enabled devices on its network.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Best Buy halts all HP Chromebook 11 sales, other retailers ‘out of stock’ — Best Buy is ordering its employees to remove HP's Chromebook 11 from stores. Sources at the retail chain have revealed to The Verge that urgent instructions have been sent to store managers to remove existing stock of the devices.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Netflix introduces one unified TV interface to rule them all — The streaming video giant turns into a TV channel programmed just for you — Watch Netflix instant streaming on your television and you know what content you'll get — but you likely won't know how you'll find it.
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Apple under investigation in Italy for alleged tax fraud: source — (Reuters) - U.S. tech giant Apple is under investigation in Milan for allegedly hiding more than 1 billion euros ($1.34 billion) from the Italian taxman, a judicial source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, confirming a local media report.
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Dropbox Hits 200M Users, Unveils New “For Business” Client Combining Work And Personal Files — A Pin On Pinterest Is Worth 25% More In Sales Than Last Year, Can Drive Visits & Orders For Months — CEO Drew Houston today announced that Dropbox has hit 200 million users, up from 175 million in July.
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Google Is Now Bigger Than Both The Magazine And Newspaper Industries — Google has become so big that sometimes it's difficult to understand just how big it is. It's on course to do $60 billion in revenue this year, almost all of that from advertising. But how big is that in terms of the media it competes against for ad dollars?| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects A7-based Apple TV in 2014, television set in 2015-2016 — Ever since hearing that Steve Jobs had “cracked” the TV industry, Apple fans have been waiting for the day the company would release an actual television set. For now, Apple has given us the Apple TV set-top box …
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In fight over gag orders, US tech industry files complaint over FBI legal tactics — Lawyers for Google, Microsoft and other tech firms that are squaring off with the FBI before America's spy court say they're stuck in an unfair fight: the government, which is opposing a petition … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
WikiLeaks publishes secret draft of Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty — An international trade agreement that would create stricter laws governing digital copyright and freedom of speech has been in the works for a few years now, and today WikiLeaks has published a leaked draft of a recent copy.| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
LivingSocial Is Still Down, More Than 20 Hours Later (Updated) — More than 20 hours after its website and mobile apps stopped working, LivingSocial properties are still down in the U.S. — The deals site and its mobile apps have been down since at least 2:45 pm ET on Tuesday.
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| Alex Colon / Gigaom: |
A week with the Jawbone UP24: One of the best activity trackers gets better — I like to think I'm a relatively health-conscious kind of guy. I go to the gym a few times a week, walk across the Brooklyn Bridge almost daily, sleep upwards of seven hours a night and eat boatloads of kale.
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Foursquare's Longtime Head of Product Leaves, Midway Through a Huge Product Rollout — Foursquare is saying goodbye to its product head, a longtime employee whose ties to CEO Dennis Crowley go back many years. — Yesterday, Crowley told employees that Alex Rainert, who was the mobile discovery app's 10th hire, is leaving.
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