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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Fixing the Nexus 5: with a new version of Android, Google tackles the camera — Android 4.4.1 is coming to help you take better pictures — Only a few years ago, Dave Burke remembers, cellphone users were just happy to have a camera at all. But expectations have changed.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Bank of America says Bitcoin could become a ‘major means of payment’ — Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch issued the bank's first research report today on Bitcoin, the virtual currency that approximates cash on the internet, concluding that the currency has the potential to become a …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alan Mulally, considered a candidate for Microsoft CEO, commits to Ford through end of 2014 — Ford's Mulally Not Leaving Company, Board Director Says — Ford Motor Co. (F) Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, considered one of the leading candidates to take the top job at Microsoft Corp. … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Ryan Seacrest invests $1 million in Typo iPhone keyboard case, will debut CES 2014 — Ryan Seacrest Wanted a Keyboard for His iPhone, So He Invested $1 Million in One — Well-known entertainment personality and producer Ryan Seacrest said he had invested in a startup, which he also co-founded … | Reed Albergotti / Digits: |
Big Data, Big Bucks: Palantir Valued at $9 Billion — Palantir Technologies, the “big data” miner that the counts the CIA and the FBI among its clients, is poised to announce a new round of funding that will value the company at roughly $9 billion, according a person familiar with the matter.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Instagram invites press to ‘share a moment’ at NYC event — CNET today received a mysterious invite — sent via FedEx, not e-mail — from Instagram for an event it's hosting next week. — The package, wrapped with brown paper and a white ribbon, contained a wooden block …
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TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, Los Angeles Times, Android Beat and SlashGear. Tweets: @sfiegerman. Thanks:@jbruin
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
New York Times brings print edition to tablets and computers with Today's Paper web app — The daily print edition of The New York Times now has a home of its own on digital devices. A new web app called Today's Paper, released today, offers solely the articles and sections that go to print every …
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| Jason Karaian / Quartz: |
Half of Twitter's board members don't tweet regularly, including newly appointed Scardino — Twitter's new board member isn't the only one who rarely tweets — When Twitter announced the appointment of Marjorie Scardino as a board member, it did it, naturally, with a tweet.
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Spotify Will Launch Limited Free Mobile Access At Dec 11th Event, Source Confirms — Spotify plans to make mobile access to its music service free, The Wall Street Journal reports. Now a source confirms with TechCrunch that the free mobile tier will launch December 11th at a press event in New York.| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters: |
Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
House of Representatives passes widely supported bill to fight patent trolls — A bipartisan bill that cracks down on potentially frivolous suits from “patent trolls” has passed the House of Representatives. Rep. Bob Goodlatte's (R-VA) Innovation Act passed committee in November and reached …
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The Switch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Gigaom and ZDNet
| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook Admits Organic Reach Is Falling Short, Urges Marketers to Buy Ads — Brands Urged to Think of Fan Acquisition As Way to Enhance Performance — Facebook is being more blunt about the fact that marketers are going to have to pay for reach. — If they haven't already …
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Bing Maps Preview Arrives on Windows 8.1 — A first step in introducing a new way to explore the world, the Bing Maps Preview app hits the Windows Store today. Built from the ground up for clarity, detail and scale, the app provides a seamless and dynamic way to experience mapping.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Snapchat Is Raising $54.5 Million On A Valuation Of Up To $2 Billion, This Regulatory Filing Says — The sleuths at VC Experts, a site that tracks the financial information of private companies, have done it again. They uncovered a new regulatory filing that shows Snapchat is about to raise …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare 7.0 Brings Scannable Design And Expands Proactive Recommendations To All Users — Way back in the ancient prehistory of 2009, Foursquare made its first foray into push notifications, at a time when using push at all was still rare. Two years later, it made an attempt to capitalize …
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| Reuters: |
JPMorgan warns 465,000 card users on data loss after cyber attack — (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co is warning some 465,000 holders of prepaid cash cards issued by the bank that their personal information may have been accessed by hackers who attacked its network in July.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself — An iPhone app called Heyday launches today — it compiles a record of its owner's life, based on places visited and photos taken. — This is a topic I've been particularly interested in, as it becomes more evident … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
comScore: Apple takes 40.6% share as top US smartphone maker, Samsung hits 25.4%; Android stops losing share — In the US, Apple's dominance as the top smartphone OEM appears to have peaked at just above the 40 percent mark. In the last three months, Samsung gained share faster than its main competitor … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Job-Review Site Glassdoor Hints at IPO Aspirations While Raising $50M More — Glassdoor, the job-review site that has also become a job-listings and recruiting platform, wants to go global. That is, more global than it is today — the Sausalito, Calif.-based company says 25 percent of its traffic already comes from outside the U.S.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Verizon quietly unleashes its LTE monster, tripling 4G capacity in major cities — We've already logged a few sightings of Verizon's powerful new LTE network in New York and other cities, but in the last few months Verizon has been rapidly working behind the scenes on upgrading its LTE infrastructure across the country.
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Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless Promotions, Android Central and ZDNet. Thanks:@kfitchard
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google now lets you download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data — Google today rolled out a long-requested feature: being able to download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data. The new feature means you can now back up your emails and calendars, or just export … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 74% Based On App Store Usage Numbers — Apple has just updated its developer website for the iOS App Store to show the distribution of devices on different versions of iOS, and iOS 7 now commands a significant league, with 74 percent of devices using … | Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Online Retail Giant's Grocery Delivery Service AmazonFresh May Launch in San Francisco Next Week — Another online grocery delivery service seems set to launch in San Francisco, and it's a big one: AmazonFresh. — All signs are pointing to Amazon publicly launching the same- and next …
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Ubergizmo, GeekWire, The Verge, TechCrunch and VatorNews
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