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Mat Honan / Wired:

Twitter's new SDK Fabric represents an audacious plan to live inside every app — Twitter's Audacious Plan to Infiltrate All Your Apps — Twitter is releasing a new software development kit today at its developer's conference. It's called Fabric. It does lots of very pretty things …

More: Marketing Land, Gigaom, USA Today, Tech Times, Forbes, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, Computerworld, Mashable, ZDNet and The Next Web

Tweets: @christianhern, @stevesi, @digiphile, @carnage4life, @mattlynley, @mat and @mikeisaac

Thanks:@mat

Jeff Seibert / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter introduces Fabric, an SDK for mobile developers — Introducing Fabric — Today at Flight, we announced Fabric, a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps. — The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common …

More: New York Times, VatorNews, CNET, Seeking Alpha, Forbes, MobileSyrup.com, ReadWrite, Mashable, VentureBeat, Re/code, TechCrunch, SlashGear and WebProNews

Tweets: @joshconstine, @fabric and @mikeisaac

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter's Digits enables users of third-party apps to sign up using just their phone number — Inside Twitter's ambitious plan to kill the password — As he traveled the world last year as part of a user research project, Michael Ducker noticed a problem.

More: TechCrunch, Washington Post, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, The Twitter Blog, Macworld, TechSpot, Marketing Land, Guardian, iMore, Phandroid, Business Insider and Engadget

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google aims to reinvent email with Inbox, a marriage of Gmail and Google Now, currently invite-only — Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google — The new Gmail app from the Gmail team isn't technically just an email app, at least if you ask them.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Hands On With Google Inbox: Useful Email Triage Tools For A Mobile Workflow — Google's Inbox email app is now available, and we have access to the limited release, which is being distributed via Google's tried-and-true invite system. While many will have to wait to check it out for themselves …

More: ReadWrite, NEWS.com.au, Computerworld, 9to5Google, internetretailer.com, TechHive, SlashGear, Search Engine Land, AndroidGuys, Marketing Pilgrim and GeekWire

iFixit:

iPad Air 2 Teardown — Step 1 — iPad Air 2 Teardown Just add air? That would be too easy. Apple has packaged all kinds of revised hardware into its thinnest tablet yet: Fully laminated, 9.7" IPS Multi-Touch LCD with a 2,048 x 1,536 resolution at 264 ppi and antireflective coating A8X 64-bit CPU …

More: iMore, Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, SlashGear and iPhone in Canada Blog

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

iPad Air 2 is faster than 2011 MacBook Air, forges ahead of new iPhones on performance — The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3) — The relationship between the iPad and the iPhone, performance-wise, has been hard to predict.

More: Ars Technica, Tested, MacDailyNews, Business Insider and BGR. Tweets: @asymco

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

iPad Air 2: best iPad ever, but only a modest evolutionary improvement over the Air

More: iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider, App Advice, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, iPhone Hacks, Macworld, Asymco, Tech.pinions, iDownloadBlog.com, Marketing Land and TUAW

Mark Spoonauer / Laptop Mag:

iPad Air 2 benchmarks: excels in Geekbench compared to Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nvidia Shield, Sony Xperia Z2, strong on 3DMark but not best

More: MacRumors and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@mspoonauer

Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet:

Pew survey: 40% of US internet users have experienced online harassment, 18% in severe form — Online Harassment — Summary of Findings — Harassment—from garden-variety name calling to more threatening behavior— is a common part of online life that colors the experiences of many web users.

More: New York Times, USA Today, Polygon, CNET, PCMag Australia Feed, CIO.com, Associated Press, Poynter, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, The Verge and Joystiq. Tweets: @pewinternet

Alex Kipman / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft allows Kinect Apps in Windows Store for the first time, launches Kinect SDK 2.0 — Microsoft releases Kinect SDK 2.0 and new adapter kit — Today, we have some exciting news to share about the next chapter for Kinect. Our Windows SDK 2.0 is now available for the Kinect v2 sensors …

More: GeekWire, Engadget, BetaNews, PC Magazine, PC World, Eurogamer.net, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows and High-Def Digest

Tweets: @kinectwindows and @brekelj

Marton Dunai / Reuters:

Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic, public calls for rally — (Reuters) - Hungary plans to impose a new tax on Internet data transfers, a draft 2015 tax bill submitted to parliament late on Tuesday showed, in a move that could hit Internet and telecoms providers and their customers hard.

More: The Register, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Geek.com, The Verge, Hungary Today, Inquirer and Taxation

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

New Microsoft Garage site invites public to test a wide range of app ideas — Microsoft today launched a new section on its website: The Microsoft Garage is designed to give the public early access to various projects the company is testing right now. The team is kicking off with a total …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Groupon takes on Yelp with Pages: business listings with offers, news, reviews and more — Groupon Goes After Yelp And Google With Millions Of Individual Business Pages — Groupon today took one more step ahead in its bid to be a simple daily deals site, and more of a general go-to place …

More: Groupon, Inc., Re/code, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Pilgrim, Chicago Tribune and WebProNews

John Cook / GeekWire:

Redfin buys walkability rating site Walk Score, its first aquisition, to give users more neighborhood information — Redfin buys Walk Score, marking first acquisition in company history — Seattle-based Redfin just stumbled on a deal in its backyard that was simply too good to pass up.

More: Walk Score Blog, Redfin Real Estate Blog, Seattle Bubble, themiddlemarket.com and Inman News. Thanks:@taylor_soper

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T Q3 profit falls short even as it adds 2M wireless customers — The company's growth was driven largely by connected devices like the connected car, but also a healthy mix of smartphone and tablet growth. — AT&T reported strong customer growth even as its earnings came in just below expectations.

More: AT&T, Gigaom, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, iMore, Re/code and Business Insider

Denni Hu / Bloomberg:

Yelp Q3 beats estimates with $102.5M revenue; shares down 16% on Q4 sales forecast — Yelp Falls as Fourth-Quarter Forecast Miss Estimates — Yelp Inc. (YELP) shares dropped as much as 16 percent in extended trading after the local-reviews company forecast fourth-quarter sales that fell short of analysts' estimates.

More: Yelp Investor Relations, Associated Press, Forbes, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and RTTNews

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft and IBM commit to providing their enterprise software to Azure, IBM clouds — Summary: Microsoft and IBM have forged a new alliance bringing more of IBM's enterprise software and services to Azure, and Microsoft's enterprise software to IBM's cloud platforms.

More: News Center, PC World, InfoWorld, The New Stack, GeekWire, WinBeta, bizjournals, The Register, VentureBeat and WindowsITPro

Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:

IBM's increasing EPS in recent years only due to buybacks, no real revenue growth since 2008 — The Truth Hidden by IBM's Buybacks — For many years, the International Business Machines Corporation's earnings glided smoothly upward. Every quarter, IBM would report higher earnings per share.

Tweets: @froomkin

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Rhapsody revives CEO position after four-year absence, appoints mobile vet David Hose as interim chief — Rhapsody revives CEO position, hires mobile vet as interim chief — The streaming-music forefather, often overshadowed by flashier rivals like Spotify or Apple's Beats Music …

Thanks:@benfoxrubin

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Roku raises $25 million amid growing competition from Amazon and Google — Updated at 1:45 p.m. PST with a statement from Roku. — Set-top box company Roku has secured a fresh $25 million round of funding, according to a SEC form D filing released today.

More: Gigaom. Thanks:@tched

Chris Kanaracus / PC World:

EMC buys controlling interest in VCE, its joint venture with Cisco — EMC has confirmed it will purchase the bulk of Cisco's stake in VCE, the companies' joint venture in converged infrastructure products. — News of the deal surfaced late Tuesday. The move means that VCE will become an EMC business …

More: VCE, eWeek, Network World and ZDNet

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Xiaomi Is Moving International Users' Data Out Of China Ahead Of Further Global Expansions — The past year has been an eventful one for Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi. The company's devices are now sold in seven countries in Asia, that's a big step up from Xiaomi's inception …

More: Engadget, Tech in Asia and Technology Personalized

Molly Wood / New York Times:

Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Online — AFTER I used Apple Pay for a day of shopping in stores, a few things became clear: The new payment system is convenient, problem-free and even fun. — The same can't be said for using Apple Pay to shop via apps on my phone or tablet.

More: CNNMoney.com, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable, Electronista and BGR

Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

Apple Pay Shown to Work Internationally Using U.S.-Based Credit Cards

More: 9to5Mac, Associated Press, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CNET, iMore, Fox News, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot and BGR

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