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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 … | Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
Steve Jobs and several other tech execs have imposed time limits on their kids' use of gadgets — Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent — When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong.
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A requiem for the click wheel iPod, discontinued after almost 13 years — On Death and iPods: A Requiem — Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss.
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iMore, Washington Post, ParisLemon, The Verge, ZDNet and Mashable
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Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z — Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we're hearing.
Tweets: @startupljackson and @joshconstine
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
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 …
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Since Supreme Court's Alice decision, 11 lower court rulings have invalidated software patents — Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court — The Supreme Court's June ruling on the patentability of software — its first in 33 years — raised as many questions at it answered.| 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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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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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
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.| 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 … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
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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MobileSyrup.com and Marketwired
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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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