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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Ello plans to charge for features, like a one-time fee of $2 to manage two different accounts — An audacious plan to fix the Internet's original sin — The social networking site Ello is just five weeks old, but damn if it hasnt made an impression. In the past week …
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| Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter: |
Japan's SoftBank reportedly in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation in a deal valued at $3.4B — Source: DreamWorks Animation in Sale Talks With Japan's SoftBank (Exclusive) — The company, which has seen up-and-down box office numbers of late, would be valued at $3.4 billion, a source tells THR
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CNET, USA Today, Reuters, VentureBeat, PC World, Bloomberg, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and The Verge. See also Mediagazer
| Consumer Reports Online: |
Consumer Reports test results find iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed — We stress test Apple's new phones, plus comparable models from Samsung, LG, and HTC — Two days ago, the Internet erupted with photos of bent iPhone 6s, and a very-viral video of a guy creasing an iPhone 6 Plus with his bare hands.
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Ars Technica, Shelly Palmer, AAPL Orchard, Re/code, The Register, USA Today, VentureBeat, Forbes, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Phones Review, CNET, AppleTell, TUAW, Business Insider, Mashable, Communications …, blog.chron.com, BGR, Daring Fireball, Neowin, Android Authority, Tech Times, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, Digital Trends, App Advice, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Consumerist, MobileSyrup.com, The Daily Dot and The Digital Reader
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled “How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Oracle to announce it will offer its database and Java in the cloud, taking on Microsoft Azure — For Larry Ellison's Oracle, the Cloud Beckons — Business software giant Oracle kicks off its massive OpenWorld conference in San Francisco tonight with a keynote address by founder and newly named CTO Larry Ellison.| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Innocuous LGBT sites are often blocked on Wi-Fi provided by businesses like Gogo — In 2014, who decides to ban a gay website from in-flight Wi-Fi? — If you were gay and a recent passenger on American Airlines, you might have used in-flight Wi-Fi provided by Gogo just like any other customer.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Unpaid programmer who maintains Bash may have inadvertently introduced Shellshock bug in 1992 — Security Experts Expect ‘Shellshock’ Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant — Long before the commercial success of the Internet, Brian J. Fox invented one of its most widely used tools.
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The Register, Inc.com, Tech Times and ABC News
| Scot Wingo / Amazon Strategies: |
Amazon expands fulfillment center network, bypasses UPS sorting with own “sortation centers” — Update on Amazon's Fulfillment Center (FC) Network — Every year as we head into the fourth quarter holiday selling season, we roll up our sleeves and update our database of Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs).| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
RIAA: revenues from music streaming services have replaced those lost from online sales — Music Download Sales Drop, Replaced by Streaming: RIAA — For a very long time, any report on the state of the music business sounded like this: Digital download sales are rising, but not enough to make up for the drop in CD sales.
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New York Times, AllAccess.com, Billboard, Billboard and CNET
| Reuters: |
Alibaba pays $459 million for stake in Chinese hotel tech company — Traders work on the floor as they wait for a final price on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “BABA”, at the New York Stock Exchange in New York September 19, 2014.
Tweets: @jbaksht
| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Sony to shut down Playstation Home virtual social hub in March 2015, after six years — PlayStation Home Finally Closing Down — Goodnight, sweet prince. You were... you, um... well at least you tried. — PlayStation Home, Sony's long-running (though never exactly beloved) …
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community.us.playstation.com, Electronista, Engadget, The Next Web, VG247, Forbes, IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer.net, PC Magazine and Joystiq
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft resurrects WinHEC conference after six years, to focus on PC, smartphone and tablet hardware — Microsoft resurrects its WinHEC conference for hardware companies — Microsoft has announced the return of its WinHEC conferences. The first of the new conferences will be March 18 …
| Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker: |
The history of the “right to be forgotten”, and a look inside Google's removal process — Google and the Right to Be Forgotten — In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps the Internet. … “We should support the local farm as well as the local confectioner.” — BUY OR LICENSE »| Julian Sanchez / Cato Institute: |
Why dire predictions of the perils of Apple removing its backdoor to user data on iOS are misguided — Old Technopanic in New iBottles — Gather around young'uns: Back in the antediluvean early 90s, when the digital world was young, a motley group of technologists and privacy advocates fought …
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