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Internal Apple Document Shows Worries iPhone Growth Could Stall — Internal Apple documents show the concern, at least from the company's sales force, that the portion of the market occupied by the iPhone was on the wane amid growing competition from Android devices that have either larger screens or lower prices than the iPhone.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter introducing 15 new ad types over the next 6 months, will debut app ads in a few weeks — Coming to Your Twitter Feed: 15 New Types of Ads — Like Facebook, Social-Media Service to Tap Into Demand for Ads to Download Apps — New ads—lots of new ads—are on their way to Twitter Inc.
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| Alex Pham / Billboard: |
YouTube delaying music service to debut polished, differentiated product, not due to licensing — Business Matters: What's Behind YouTube Music Service's Delays — YouTube was a source of music in the prior week for a third of all people surveyed by Edison Research and Triton Digital for their annual Infinite Dial report.| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Amazon Dash allows users to add items to AmazonFresh shopping lists by voice or barcode scan, only available to select customers — Amazon Introduces Dash Shopping Accessory, Adds Integration To AmazonFresh Android App — Amazon wants to keep you spending money, and as a commerce company …
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| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
Amazon Fire TV review: best experience is reserved for Amazon's own content, somewhat pricey — Amazon Fire TV review: Impressive debut, but room to grow — The Good The Amazon Fire TV is best way to watch Amazon Instant movies and TV yet, and Prime subscribers can stream thousands of titles for no additional charge.
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| Brian McCullough / Internet History Podcast: |
On The 20th Anniversary - An Oral History of Netscape's Founding — It Was 20 Years Ago Today... On April 4th, 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern. If you don't recognize the name, that's because the company would eventually change … | Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: |
Snowden docs show GCHQ discussed using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for covert propaganda — The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket — This week, the Associated Press exposed a secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development to create …
Tweets: @farrellpf and @youranonnews
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Steve Jobs email from 2010 released in Samsung suit outlines strategy, discusses Apple TV — New Steve Jobs email a treasure trove of information about Apple TV, Google ‘holy war,’ and behind-the-scenes strategy — A new email from Steve Jobs that was published during today's Samsung lawsuit …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google Play Store adds ‘People’ feed that shows what others are downloading — Hot on the heels of adding an activity feed to the web version of the Play Store, Google is now quietly rolling out a new “People” section to the Play Store app on Android. While the activity feed … | Bloomberg: |
Symantec plans to hire JPMorgan Chase to explore options, defend from activist shareholders — Symantec Said to Hire JPMorgan to Seek Options — Symantec Corp. (SYMC) is hiring JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to explore its options and defend itself from activist shareholders … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile CEO Fires Back After Losing BlackBerry Sales Arrangement — BlackBerry and T-Mobile executives should read Jordan's #love column. Breaking up over the Internet is rough on everyone. — In a letter released this evening, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere talked … | Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
eBay Adds New ‘Virtual Currency’ Category to US Site — eBay's main US site has introduced a category for ‘Virtual Currency’, with listings for dozens of bitcoin and altcoin-related activities - including shares in mining operations. — Although eBay is still not accepting bitcoin as an official payment …
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TPG-led group to invest in Airbnb valuing the company at $10B — TPG-led group to invest in Airbnb; deal values startup at $10 billion — A group led by private-equity firm TPG reached an agreement in principle to invest in Airbnb Inc. in a deal that values the online startup at about $10 billion.
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll to Step Down From General Manager Role — Colin Kroll, one of Vine's founding employees and current leader of the Twitter-owned video sharing startup, plans to leave his position as general manager and assume an advisory position, according to a tweet he posted on Friday.
| Neha Dimri / Reuters: |
Car-pricing comparison service TrueCar files to raise up to $125M in IPO — Car-comparison website TrueCar files for IPO — (Reuters) - TrueCar Inc, which runs a car-pricing comparison website, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $125 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
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