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Apple suppliers begin production of new iPads, 9.7-inch to feature anti-reflective coating — Apple's Suppliers Said to Begin Production of New IPad Tablets — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter … | Erica Fink / CNNMoney.com: |
Lyft says 177 Uber employees have ordered and cancelled 5,560 Lyft rides since last October — Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides — Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to rivals.
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Inside Square's long-term plan, its quest for non-payments revenue, and the Starbucks disaster — Back To Square One — Jack Dorsey's dazzling startup promised to transform the credit and finance industry with a sweeping, digitized vision of the future. After losing $100 million, has his company lost its edge?
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| Nancy Scola / Washington Post: |
With former Google manager at the helm, the White House launches “US Digital Service” to institutionalize the process that fixed HealthCare.gov — White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ with HealthCare.gov fixer at the helm — President Obama participates …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Smartphone ‘kill-switch’ bill headed to California governor — A bill requiring smartphone makers to include antitheft software on devices sold in California is one step away from becoming law. — State Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon introducing the bill during a press conference in February.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils blazing-fast 64-bit Project Denver processor for Android devices — Graphics chip maker Nvidia revealed the architectural details of its codenamed Project Denver processor for mobile devices. — The custom-designed central processing unit (CPU) combines both processor and graphics capabilities on the same chip.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter Paid $134 Million for Gnip — Twitter pulled back the curtain on the financial details of its Gnip acquisition on Monday. The total: $134 million in stock and cash for the Boulder, Colorado-based startup. The package, outlined in a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
| Cam Bunton / TmoNews: |
T-Mobile introduces new value Pay-as-you-go plans, $0.10 per text/min flat rate — On August 17th, T-Mobile will be launching a brand new Pay-as-You-Go plan, making it simple and more affordable and - in the process - the lowest offer amongst the major nationwide carries .
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| Ben Casselman / FiveThirtyEight: |
Corporate America hasn't been disrupted: startup rate continues decline as failure rate grows — Corporate America Hasn't Been Disrupted — Talk to anyone in Silicon Valley these days, and it's hard to go more than two minutes without hearing about “disruption.” Uber is disrupting the taxi business.
Tweets: @natesilver538 and @codinghorror
| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Fiverr Raises $30M for Online Services Marketplace … Services marketplace Fiverr International Ltd. has scored $30 million from investors who believe the startup can make buying 1,000 Twitter followers, a voiceover with a French accent and other online services as simple as buying a book.| Kevin Collier / The Kernel: |
An interview with convicted LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond on how he got caught by the FBI — The fall of the FBI's most-wanted cybercriminal — On an unseasonably cold Saturday afternoon in March 2012, Jeremy Hammond, one of the most destructive hackers in American history … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google is backing a new $300 million high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system between the US and Japan — Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google …
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| GSMArena.com: |
Possible images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak, show leather-like back and metal frame — Detailed images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak — Here's what the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 may look like. While looking very similar to the front of the current Note 3 the back and sides look new.
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PhoneArena, Greenbot, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phandroid, Geeky Gadgets, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, TechSpot, DailyTech, Android Beat, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, Geek.com, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, CNET, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Neowin, BGR, SamMobile, Android Authority and Phones Review
| Mat Honan / Wired: |
If you ‘like’ everything on Facebook, brands and content mills will quickly replace humans in your News Feed — I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me — There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: “I think everybody should like everybody.”
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Skully AR-1 smart motorcycle helmet launches on Indiegogo, with heads-up-display, GPS, rear-view camera, for $1,399 — The Skully Smart Motorcycle Helmet Sharpens Your Senses On The Road — The stats around motorcycle safety in the United States are pretty bleak, but the folks at Skully …
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BGR, PC World, Android Authority, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, Phandroid, Droid Life, Android Central, 9to5Google, Wearable World News, CNET and Engadget. Tweets: @arrington
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Where Congress failed this year: patent lawsuits, privacy, anti-hacking, surveillance, immigration, “right to unlock” — The six tech policy problems Congress failed to fix this year — August isn't the top time of year for thinking about tech policy.
Tweets: @binarybits and @binarybits
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
A16Z's Chris Dixon: BuzzFeed, which could reach 10X-100X the audience of past media empires, is a bargain at $850M valuation — How Jonah Peretti and BuzzFeed Got to $850 Million — We passed the billion dollar mark awhile ago. Today a hot tech company is worth multiple billions of dollars, easily.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Nuance misses Q3 revenue, posts net loss of $54.2M, admits to weak demand for Dragon Naturally Speaking mobile app — Nuance Q3 misses on revenue, profit still hinges on healthcare division — Summary: The voice and language software maker said growth was outpaced by lower … | David Harris / Boston Business Journal: |
Storage-as-a-service firm Nasuni raises $10M Series C funding — Nasuni, a Natick-based maker of software that provides data storage as a service for enterprises, said Monday that it raised $10 million in Series C funding to increase as it increases its investments in engineering, sales and marketing.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Yo wants to be a communications protocol, plans ability to send links and connect to RSS feeds — An App Like Yo Could Turn Out to Be Bigger Than Twitter — It Makes Use of Alerts, the Most Valuable Property in the Media Universe — Few apps in history have been as controversial and polarizing as Yo.
Tweets: @kashhill, @robinwauters and @joshelman
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter Revises User Metrics To Show Larger Ad Pool, Fewer Bot Users — Investors loved Twitter's numbers last quarter, except for one metric that raised eyebrows. Now Twitter has revised that metric, and added another. Net result: Twitter says its user numbers are better than they looked a couple weeks ago.Sponsor Posts
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