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Carl Icahn sends open letter to Tim Cook, wants Apple to make a tender offer for shares — Sale: Apple Shares at Half Price — “IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION” — As a large Apple shareholder with approximately 53 million shares, we applaud you and the rest of management …
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Apple suppliers postpone production of 12.9" iPad from December to early next year, to cope with strong iPhone demand — Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed — Apple Suppliers Concentrating on Meeting Demand for New iPhones — Apple Inc. suppliers have pushed back plans to mass produce …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC introduces Desire Eye, with highest resolution front-facing camera on a smartphone, 13MP front and back — HTC's Desire Eye wants to be the king of selfies — The Desire Eye has the most powerful front-facing camera ever put on a smartphone — It's no secret that taking selfies … | Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says — The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first time.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says — PALO ALTO — You own your data. And the government needs to start respecting that. — This was the assertion made today by Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith at a Silicon Valley panel discussion on NSA surveillance.| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Unity, one gaming development platform to unite them all, up for sale — A presentation pitching Unity has been circulating around the games industry, sources say. The potential buyer gets popular software that powers games, large and small.| Sarah / imgur: |
Imgur will convert GIF uploads to new .GIFV format MP4 videos for smaller, high quality files — Introducing GIFV — GIFs are no longer about .GIFs-the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format. With Project GIFV, Imgur is reimagining the looping GIF video with all the richness it deserves as a key piece of Internet culture.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon — Snapchat, the popular mobile app for disappearing messages, is close to launching its first disappearing ads as the company sets out to prove its $10 billion valuation. — Evan Spiegel, the startup's 24-year-old co-founder …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes slew of commitments to get businesses hooked on Surface — Microsoft today made a slew of announcements as part of a new commitment to Surface for business. — The company says firms have been asking it about a longer-term commitment to Surface for businesses of all sizes.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iOS 8 adoption rates stagnating is mainly about lack of space for 5GB OTA update, not trust — Note to Self: It's the Storage Space, Stupid — Last night I speculated that the slow uptake of iOS 8 was about people not trusting Apple with iOS software updates — too many bugs …
| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Piper Jaffray study finds Facebook use among teens down from 72% in spring to 45% in fall 2014 — Teens are officially over Facebook — Since children are the future, and no one over 21 really knows what they find “cool” (do the kids even say cool these days...?), researchers have devoted many … | Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
A sampler of Slack group names at major tech companies, obtained through the service's dubious usability “feature” — Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors — Few pieces of corporate software have earned so many fans so quickly as Slack, which is basically a sophisticated chat room for businesses.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Chromecast Is The Top “Connected Device” App — Google's Chromecast is the most popular “connected device” - or so infers a new report from app analytics firm App Annie, which analyzed the top apps associated with connected devices across both iTunes and Google Play …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
New Relic Buys Dashboard Tool Ducksboard As It Continues Expansion Into Analytics — When you think of New Relic, you might think of traditional server-side application performance monitoring, and of course New Relic does that and other monitoring tasks, but increasingly it's moving …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Twitter News Head Vivian Schiller Out in Media Unit Consolidation — Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec who Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. — Adam Sharp will now be in charge of both news and government …
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See also Mediagazer| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Thync raises $13M led by Khosla Ventures for mood altering device, expected to ship 2015 — Thync Raises $13 Million for Its Brain-Stimulating Electrodes — In a windowless conference room at Thync, a secretive startup in Los Gatos, Calif., I recently tried what may be Silicon Valley's strangest new product in years.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Code.org launches $5M Indiegogo campaign to introduce coding to 100M students, 29 tech firms to match donations dollar-for-dollar — Code.org partners with Google, Microsoft to help 100M students learn computer science — Code.org wants 100 million students to learn the basics of computer science.
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The Next Web, The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Sheryl Sandberg
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Droid Turbo details leak in 73-page guide: 5.2" display, 21MP camera, wireless charging, more — Motorola Droid Turbo Breaks Cover In Full Guide - 5.2" Display, 21MP Camera, Wireless Charging, And More — Thanks to MotoFirmware.com, Motorola's Droid Turbo has just broken cover …
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TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, BGR, AndroidOS.in, Phones Review, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, Pocketnow and The Verge. Tweets: @motofirmware
| Chris Chavez / Phandroid: |
Chromecast update brings custom wallpapers, news, weather backdrops, and more — It's been awhile since we've seen a good Chromecast update, but today, one of the most long requested features is finally being addressed. New for Android and iOS are backdrops, custom backgrounds the user …
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