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November 3, 2014, 4:50 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Source: internal Apple message narrows Apple Watch launch date to “spring” 2015; customers will be able to try on different models in stores  —  Apple Retail SVP Angela Ahrendts: Apple Watch launching in “Spring”  —  The Apple Watch's launch is scheduled to occur in the “spring …
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy  —  What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?  —  The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback.  —  Shares  —  In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod …
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Japan's MegaChips acquires SiTime for $200M, a sign VCs can make money on chip startups  —  Chip Deal Provides a Ray of Hope for Silicon Startups  —  Venture capitalists have a well-known aversion to putting money in chip startups.  The fear is frequently traced to the heavy cost …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
How the NFL uses Zebra Technologies' RFID tags to track every player on the field  —  How the NFL tracks everything on the field but the ball  —  From Chinese women's soccer to the American big leagues, real-time motion tracking is coming to sports  —  Most people know radio-frequency identification …
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Tinder is seeing users on average opening app 11x a day, quickly approaching 50M active users  —  Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth  — As I sat in the lobby of a drab office building here, waiting to be led up to the penthouse loft of Tinder, the fast-growing dating app …

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