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Apple Poaching Talent from AmEx, PayPal, Google — for Loyalty Program — Apple has been filling out its payments team for the past few months, poaching a number of executives from PayPal, American Express, and others - but not just to prep for Apple Pay's launch this week.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay Details: Apple Gets 0.15% Cut of Purchases, Higher Rates for Bluetooth Payments — Apple's ambitious new mobile payment initiative, Apple Pay, was announced on Tuesday during the company's iPhone event. Many questions still linger about the service, but information is beginning …
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Tim Cook on Charlie Rose: no plans for social networking; Apple's top competitor is Google — Tim Cook says Apple could have made a bigger iPhone ‘years ago’ — Apple CEO tells Charlie Rose the company's been patient — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company could have made a larger iPhone long ago … | Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Source: Microsoft will announce $2.5B deal to buy Minecraft maker Mojang on Monday — Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions — (Reuters) - Microsoft's impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple Users Download Free U2 Album Two Million Times — Some of you do not want the U2 album Apple is giving away. But lots of you were willing to download it. Or, at a minimum, your iPhones and MacBooks did. — iTunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies of “Songs of Innocence” … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Accessory makers hit delays as iPhone 6 production eats up Lightning connector supplies — Record shipments of Apple's new iPhone 6 models unveiled this week might mean more headaches for companies building accessories with Apple's Lightning connectors. Several sources tell us in the lead … | New York Times: |
JPMorgan hack investigation finding dozens of the company's servers breached over two months; one source says SSNs and account data not stolen — After Breach, JPMorgan Still Seeks to Determine Extent of Attack — The headache caused by the attack on JPMorgan Chase's computer network this summer may not go away anytime soon.
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Glympse Keyboard launches for Android to help you share your location from any app — Glympse has long since cemented its position as one of the most popular real-time location-sharing apps for mobile. — If you're new to it, it works like this: you decide which of your contacts can see where you are …
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Microsoft announces new Xbox 360 console and game bundles for holiday season, including Blue and Kinect options — Big on blue? Microsoft expands palette with new Xbox 360 bundle — The $249 bundle includes two games, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and a free month of Xbox Live Gold.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Kevin Rose's ephemeral photo and video sharing app Tiiny is now available for download on iOS — Kevin Rose launches Tiiny, a fun iPhone app for sharing temporary photos and videos — After teasing the app earlier this week, Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has released Tiiny …
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Comcast and Liberty Global agree to share WiFi networks, opening hotspots in Europe to Comcast customers — Comcast and Liberty Global agree to share their Wi-Fi networks — Both cable operators are using crowdsourcing to build massive hotspot networks on their customers' home routers.
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Motorola's unlocked, unbranded Moto X will be called the ‘Pure Edition’ — I can think of many, many times where I've called the flavor of Android that ships on Nexus phones “pure Android,” and it looks like Motorola is taking a cue: its direct-sale, unbranded, unlocked Moto X will be called the Moto X Pure Edition when it ships.Sponsor Posts
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