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Apple to Buy Radio App Swell for $30 Million — Apple is close to buying the Pandora-for-talk-radio app Swell, according to multiple sources. — The deal is worth about $30 million, these sources say. — Swell had raised $7.2 million from investors including DFJ, Google Ventures and InterWest Partners.
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Reddit, still unprofitable, looks to grow ad revenues without alienating users — Can Reddit Grow Up? — Since its founding nine years ago, Reddit has stuck to its own weird guns. — The site, where users find, share and talk about web links and photos, has been faithful to an antiquated design … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon apparently set to launch Square-competitor in August as it develops biometric payment solutions — Amazon could be preparing to launch its own mobile credit card reading hardware in the coming weeks, according to internal Staples documents hinting at such a launch that we've obtained.
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A history of the undersea cables that carry much of the world's international internet traffic — Messages in the Deep - The Remarkable Story of the Underwater Internet — In October of 1971, in the midst of the Cold War, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Halibut entered heavily guarded Russian waters in the Sea of Okhotsk.| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook's privacy pivot: Mark Zuckerberg's plan to win back trust — Why Mark Zuckerberg is trying to win back users' trust. — Remember when Mark Zuckerberg didn't believe in privacy? When he argued that it was “no longer a social norm”? When Facebook employees wouldn't even use the word … | Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
How Your Security System Could Be Hacked To Spy On You — On a recent Friday evening, Logan Lamb and his girlfriend turned up at a co-worker's birthday party in Knoxville, Tennessee with a 12-pack of cheap beer, 4 craft beers for the birthday boy, and some hacking tools, namely a software-defined radio … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores to soon open up iPhone sales via AT&T Next, T-Mobile JUMP, & Verizon Edge — Apple is preparing a significant expansion of its iPhone sales capabilities in its official retail stores, according to sources. Late in August, many Apple Stores in the United States will kick off …
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Snapchat stars begin making lucrative advertising deals to create “authentic” branded content — Snaps To Riches: The Rise Of Snapchat Celebrities — Shaun McBride takes no risks when drawing a Snapchat. He takes screenshots instead, to protect his works in progress in case of calamity.| Robin Sloan / Medium: |
Why Minecraft is a phenomenon: it requires its players to co-create it — The secret of Minecraft — And its challenge to the rest of us — It's almost inevitable: I encounter Minecraft somewhere online—it's easy to do, because there's a lot of Minecraft out there—and I end up convinced I'm doing the wrong thing with my life.
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Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 includes support for folders and interactive cases — Microsoft is planning to release its first update to Windows Phone 8.1 soon, and the company has started detailing some of the upcoming features to phone manufacturers. One of the main visual changes with Update 1 …
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MacRumors, BetaNews, Inquirer, Softpedia News, NPU, Wpxbox, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Engadget, WMPoweruser, WMPoweruser and Softpedia News. Tweets: @tomwarren
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Behind “GoodGoogle”, a service for depleting your competitor's AdWord budget via click fraud — Service Drains Competitors' Online Ad Budget — The longer one lurks in the Internet underground, the more difficult it becomes to ignore the harsh reality that for nearly every … | Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: |
Watson's first consumer-facing use: advising military members on transition to civilian life — USAA Taps IBM's Watson as Military Veterans Advisor — For the first consumer-facing application of IBM's Watson cognitive computing technology, USAA, the insurance and financial services firm … Sponsor Posts
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