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October 23, 2014, 3:15 PM
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Ello raises $5.5M round led by Foundry Group; investors and founders commit to ad free mission and convert Ello to a public benefit corporation — 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 …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic — It's not quite anonymous, but forums standalone app Rooms is Facebook's first product that allows you to ditch your real name. Rooms lets you set up a mobile-only in-app discussion space about any topic …
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Christian Bale to play Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin's film, which will begin shooting in the 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. …
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| Matthew Miller / Reuters: |
Apple CEO says to add 25 stores in China within two years: Sina — Apple CEO Tim Cook holds a new iPad after a presentation at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 16, 2014. — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company is planning to open 25 retail stores … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Fountain, founded by former Mint execs including Aaron Patzer, an app where expert answers your questions, raises $4M from Shasta and First Round, now in beta — Mint's Aaron Patzer Launches Beta Version Of An On-Demand Answers App With $4 Million In Funding From Shasta And First Round| Sarah / Uber Blog: |
Uber launches UberHEALTH pilot delivering free flu shots for one day in NYC, Boston, and DC — Bringing House Calls Back with UberHEALTH — Flu season is just around the corner and trying to squeeze in your latest immunization this fall may not be on the top of your To Do List.
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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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @mattzeitlin and @jamesfallows
| 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.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
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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SiliconBeat and Dare Obasanjo's weblog. Tweets: @thirdweil, @rzkeller, @scottmaustin, @sacca, @rsarver, @bewickwren and @ethankurz
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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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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Etsy introduces Square-like credit card reader, which charges sellers 2.75% per transaction, available only to Etsy's Direct Checkout users — Etsy Introduces Credit Card Reader to Go Beyond the Web — Online marketplace Etsy will start offering free credit card readers to some of its U.S. sellers …
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Etsy News Blog, Gigaom, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, SlashGear and VentureBeat. Tweets: @gregcohn. Thanks:@delrey
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
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 … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sony Xperia Z3v review: same great specs as the Z3 but with bloatware and a recycled design — Sony Xperia Z3v review — Sony has a rough time selling phones in the US. While it has managed to become one of the few Android makers to turn a profit on the backs of its global sales …
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9to5Google, Computerworld, Android Police, Gizmodo and PC World
| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Luxe offers parking valets on demand, launches in San Francisco, raised $5.5M in seed funding — Luxe Valet officially unleashes its blue-jacketed on-demand valets in San Francisco — San Francisco Giants fans will be assembling in the city's SoMA neighborhood to watch the World Series games … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo's new home page, rolling out next month, emphasizes mail, video, and big-name content — Wanna See the Latest New Yahoo Home Page, Rolling Out Next Month? Bokay! — I have been a little lax in lifting interesting tidbits out of Yahoo for some months now, mostly because it felt …
Tweets: @michaelbonnett
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint undercuts AT&T, Verizon with $20, 1GB family data plan — At $20, Sprint is offering twice as much data as Verizon and more than three times the data as AT&T. — The wireless wars over family plans continue, with Sprint once against taking it up a notch.
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Ubergizmo, Stop the Cap! and 9to5Google
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
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 … | Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Jawbone Drop Creates Tweet-Enabled Playlists for Your Jambox — Jawbone just made its Jambox speaker an even better party accessory. — The company rolled out a new music app, Jawbone Drop, that allows users to manage group playlists with tweets. — Unveiled at Twitter's Flight conference Wednesday …
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Engadget, The Next Web, Engadget, TIME, WJLA-TV, The Jawbone Blog, MobileSyrup.com, City Desk, The Daily Dot and Pocket-lint
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Yahoo Search Now Shows Your Flights, Events & Packages In The Search Results — Yahoo announced that Yahoo Search, as well as Yahoo Mail's Today section will now show you your upcoming flights, events and package deliveries. — To see this, you need to sign in with your Yahoo username on your phone …
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