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Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones — Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories.
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Tweets: @bougie, @rsarver, @benedictevans, @robertandrews, @mikeisaac and @whatthebit
See also Mediagazer| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself.
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| Businessweek: |
Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft may select new CEO next week, Satya Nadella Exec VP Cloud and Enterprise, most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams — Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competitor.
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MacRumors, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Telegraph and App Advice. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
SwiftKey gets its predictive keyboard onto iOS, with a little help from Evernote — The popular Android keyboard arrives on iPhone and iPad — Three and a half years after launching on Android, SwiftKey's popular predictive-software keyboard has finally come to iOS. iPhone and iPad users …
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Inquirer, pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, BGR, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Re/code, The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable and Android Central. Tweets: @stephenfry
| Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track Bitcoin with the rest of your finances — The wild ride of Bitcoin's value is slowing down, and we are beginning to see the effects of that stability. — Personal finance app Mint is integrating with Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase …
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SiliconBeat, Examiner, CoinDesk, Computerworld, Engadget, The Switch, Gigaom, The Verge, SlashGear and The Next Web. Tweets: @mariagrineva
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
The PC may be dying, but tablet growth is slowing as consumer saturation sets in — Summary: If you thought the tablet was the savior to the ailing PC market, we may need a better alternative if the latest tablet growth forecasts are to be believed. — Zack Whittaker| Larry Page / The Official Google Blog: |
Google CEO: Motorola to be better served at Lenovo, which is “all-in” on making mobile devices — Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility — We've just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. As this is an important move for Android users everywhere, I wanted to explain why in detail.
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @shiraovide, @reckless, @stratechery and @scepticgeek
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Will Shut Down AppUp PC App Store On March 11, Apps Will Stop Working By May 15 — So much for Intel's bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing AppUp, its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world's largest app store that nobody's ever heard of …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network — New Clues in the Target Breach — An examination of the malware used in the Target breach suggests that the attackers may have had help from a poorly secured feature built into a widely-used …
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| Signe Brewster / Gigaom: |
IBM researchers just built the best graphene-based circuit yet: it sends text messages — IBM researchers have created a graphene-based circuit that they say performs 10,000 times better than existing options; It was reliable enough that they used it to send and receive a text message.
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Gizmodo, CNET and VentureBeat
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Nintendo plans non-wearable health products, still has no interest in smartphone gaming — Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company President Satoru Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health.| Eric Pfanner / New York Times: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Rolls Out New, More Customizable iPhone & iPad Apps With Better Sync, Speed & Hopefully, Fewer Bugs — Evernote's ongoing plan to improve its technology platform is taking another step forward today with the release of updated apps for iPhone and iPad.
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Evernote Blog, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, The Next Web, SlashGear and iDownloadBlog.com
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion — President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Privacy advocates and business interests … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Why Hasn't Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back? — Yesterday Naoki Hiroshima, an Echofon developer, posted an article about how he lost his extremely short Twitter handle @N in an extortion scheme. Hackers compromised his GoDaddy account with social engineering (calling and lying to an account rep) …
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eWeek, Inquirer, BBC, PC World, SlashGear, The Next Web and Softpedia News. Tweets: @n_is_stolen
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