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Christian Bale confirmed to play role of Steve Jobs, shooting will begin in next couple of months — Christian Bale Didn't Have to Audition for Jobs Film Role — Actor Christian Bale didn't have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. (AAPL) co-founder, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
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Behind Twitter's Move to Become a Mobile-Services Shop — Twitter is looking to have its Google moment, the time when the tech giant began pushing to become more than just an Internet search engine. — For Twitter, this means staking a claim on the mobile universe as smartphones …
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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 … | Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Mark Zuckerberg gives 30-minute public interview in Chinese at Tsinghua University — Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone's Mind — Think you're too busy to learn another language? Well, you're not the CEO of a $205 billion company, and apparently, even this rather demanding …
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Which of the five iPads in Apple's 2014 lineup should you get? A buyer's guide — Which iPad should you get? — Apple's 2014 iPad lineup is jam-packed. At the top end there's the brand new iPad Air 2. Then there's the updated iPad mini 3, last year's iPad Air and last year's iPad mini 2 … | Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
Google dominates search advertising but will likely be eclipsed in native ad category — Peak Google — Despite the hype about disruption, the truth is most tech giants, particularly platform providers, are not so much displaced as they are eclipsed. IBM, for example …
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German publishers grudgingly allow Google to display news snippets without compensation — German Publishers Bow To Google's Market Power In Ongoing Text Snippets Fight — A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed in search results has ended in surrender … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
AWS comes to Germany as Amazon unveils second EU region, out of Frankfurt — The move has big implications for latency and resilience, and of course data protection — a particular concern for German businesses. — Amazon has launched its long-awaited German-based region - its second in Europe … | Reuters: |
GT Advanced settles with Apple, to exit sapphire production — (Reuters) - GT Advanced Technologies Inc (GTATQ.PK) said it reached an agreement with Apple Inc (AAPL.O) under which it will stop making sapphire materials and focus on supplying equipment to make sapphire crystals.
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Google's DeepMind Acqui-Hires Two AI Teams In The UK, Partners With Oxford — Earlier this year Google acquired DeepMind in the UK to expand the work that it is doing in artificial intelligence, and today the company announced that it is making some more significant moves to build this out even further.
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Apple Strengthens Pull of Its Orbit With Each Device — Late in 2012, when Tim Cook was relatively fresh on the job as Apple's chief executive, he made a sudden and potentially risky shuffle in the firm's executive ranks. He fired Scott Forstall, who had been in charge of Apple's mobile operating system … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Ello Raises $5.5 Million to Grow Its Ad-Free Social Network — Ello, the ad-free social network that promises users it will never sell their data, has raised $5.5 million in new venture funding, according to CEO Paul Budnitz. — The round was led by Foundry Group in Boulder, Colo. …
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Urban Airship raises $12 million from existing backers — total investment nears $60 million — The funding suggests investors retain confidence in the business after a tumultuous 12 months. (Oregonian photo) — Portland mobile alerts company Urban Airship reported $12 million … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Behind Google's $120M purchase of mobile enterprise startup Divide, one of NYC's biggest exits of 2014 — How 3 First-Time Founders Turned One-Third Of Their Employees Into Millionaires — And No One Found Out About It — On May 19, Google acquired a startup for $120 million in cash and stock …
Tweets: @businessinsider and @ajs
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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.
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