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Apple's U.S. and Canadian Black Friday Sales Go Live Online With Gift Card Deals — Apple's online stores for the United States and Canada have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and like its stores in Australia and New Zealand, the company is using bonus gift cards rather …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website — Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? Probably. If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: “Bitcoin Black Friday.”
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The Best Deals We Can Find — Because we think we can make a small difference by being picky, here are some great deals on solid pieces of gear. … We'll always put the newest deals at the top of the page. We've also redesigned the deals page to be a more permanent addition to the site …
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Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case — Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawyer has had a higher rate …
| Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android — Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them — On March 26, 2012, a new media startup called Upworthy launched. Now it has 50 million monthly unique readers. — Almost all of its readers come from Facebook. The headlines, which Upworthy's editors toil over … | Chris Bell / Telegraph: |
The internet mystery that has the world baffled — For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems. But to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Who Will Own The Next Great Instant Messaging Service? — The social media era was about what we make public. Now, it's about what we don't. The race to own the next great back channel. — Instant messaging is the center of the internet. Everything else is a temporary distraction.
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| Kevin Begos / Phys.org: |
New research aims to teach computers common sense — Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. — The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning.
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Board Said to Lean to Mulally, Nadella in CEO Hunt — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s board is focusing on Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally and internal executive Satya Nadella as part of a group of more likely candidates to become the next CEO of the world's biggest software company … | Loek Essers / Computerworld: |
Google's privacy policy violates Dutch data protection law, Dutch DPA says — Google's practice of combining personal data from different Google services violates the Dutch data protection act, the Dutch data protection authority (DPA) said Thursday. But Google will not face any enforcement actions for now.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
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