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New OS X beta suggests iPad Mini 4 will be faster and support split-view apps — El Capitan file hints at faster iPad mini 4 with full split-view apps support — One of iOS 9's marquee additions is support for split-screen applications on the iPad. This allows users to operate two iPad applications simultaneously, side-by-side.
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| Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair: |
Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder and other dating apps — Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse” — As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren't liking what they see. — It's a balmy night in Manhattan's financial district …
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| Bryan Logan / Business Insider: |
Tinder's PR just went ballistic on Twitter over a Vanity Fair exposé — Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair. — The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
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| Robert D. Hof / MIT Technology Review: |
Why Google's Alphabet Is Nothing like Berkshire Hathaway - and Much Riskier — Google's new structure has few historical precedents, in tech or outside it. — Before Apple's Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much.
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Three pathways that Alphabet could take, based on analogues of Berkshire Hathaway, GE, and AT&T — Is the New Google More Like Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric or AT&T? — Google's decision to restructure is the strongest signal yet that it intends to be a 21st-century innovator … | Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside SoftBank's Struggle to Turn Around Sprint — Two years after takeover, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son struggles to overhaul the U.S. carrier — Billionaire Masayoshi Son asked to speak with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy right away one Saturday last year.
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| Colleen Wright / New York Times: |
Neighborhood Car Service Companies Adopt Their Own Apps to Fend Off Uber — The chatty, frenetic dispatch hubs of neighborhood car services are getting quieter. — When the phone rings at High Class Limousine and Car Service in the Bronx, the conversation comes and goes in fleeting bursts … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
8 of our favorite startups from 500 Startups' 13th batch — Check off another demo day by startup accelerator 500 Startups. — At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., 42 startups — a mixture of early-stage and post-seed level — made their pitch in front of a room filled with investors.
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Many Lenovo laptops shipped with an “anti-theft” rootkit that reinstalls unwanted software using a Microsoft-sanctioned technique — Lenovo used a hidden Windows feature to ensure its software could not be deleted — A recently uncovered feature - which had been swept under the rug …
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| Maren Kate / Medium: |
Zirtual announces it has been acquired by startup launch platform Startups.co, and will resume service — Zirtual: What Happened and What's Next — First, let me start by telling you a story... Over four years ago I moved to San Francisco from Reno, Nevada, with a backpacker's pack …
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Ray Ozzie's startup Talko integrates with Slack, offers team calling on web and iOS, coming to Android soon — Talko + Slack — Team calling in Slack channels, for mobile & web. Recorded for replay of important moments. — Shortly after our launch we heard from several teams who were using both Slack and Talko daily.
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| Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: |
Rdio to add 460 AM/FM stations owned and operated by Cumulus Media to its service Wednesday amid increasing competition — Rdio cues up traditional radio stations, hoping to get an edge on competition — The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look a little more like old-fashioned radio.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Events Performance Monitor DoubleDutch Raises $45 Million In Series E Funding — DoubleDutch is hoping to make measuring the success of your event as easy as skipping rope, and now they've got some more cash to make it happen. — The company announced Wednesday that they had raised $45 million in Series E funding.Sponsor Posts
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