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Apple Launches “Maps Connect,” Self-Service Local Listings Portal — This afternoon Apple notified us of a new self-service portal to add or edit local business listings: Apple Maps Connect. It's intended for small business owners or their authorized representatives (though not agencies) …
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Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52 — With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.
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Nexus 6 hands-on: supersized, even by today's standards, with much improved camera — The Nexus 6: hands-on with Google's phablet — After watching Apple unapologetically release the gigantic iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung release the fourth iteration of its massive Galaxy Note …
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Nexus 9 hands-on: premium feel, impressive screen quality, but unlikely to challenge iPad — The Nexus 9: hands-on with Google's latest attempt to take on the iPad — Android has never gotten much respect in the big tablet market. Sure, the Nexus 7 has been surprisingly successful …
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iPad Air 2 Up to 55% Faster Than iPhone 6, Up to 68% Faster Than iPad Air — A short time ago, we highlighted a new benchmark appearing to show an iPad Air 2 device carrying an A8X chip with a triple-core 1.5 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. — While we mentioned that the enhanced specs … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sexist French Uber Promotion Pairs Riders With “Hot Chick” Drivers — “Who said women don't know how to drive?” the Uber blog post asks. The post was deleted after an inquiry from BuzzFeed News. — Yesterday, Uber's Lyon office unveiled a new promotion with an app called “Avions de Chasse.”
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Staples investigating credit card breach at its retail stores after multiple banks report fraud — Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores — Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations …
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| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
GT Advanced To Sell Furnaces for Cash to Pay Back Apple, Says Fortune — Fortune columnist Philip Elmer-DeWitt a short while ago tweeted from the courtroom in Springfield, Massachusetts that one-time Apple (AAPL) supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has agreed to pay off its debts to Apple …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Lumia to replace Nokia brand, starting in France, global rollout in the coming weeks — Microsoft Lumia will replace the Nokia brand — Microsoft started dropping hints about its plans to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands last month, and now the company is ready to make it official.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a Notification Center — Microsoft released its first Windows 10 Technical Preview just three weeks ago and the software maker is now ready to issue a fresh update. If you're already testing Windows 10 then a new preview build (9860) … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps — Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly.
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HP to announce Sprout, a computing device combining a large display, touch surface, 3D scanner, and overhead projector — HP Will Unveil New Computing Product Called Sprout Next Week — When Hewlett-Packard announced it would split in two — one company devoted to PCs and printing …
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Apple Pay Shown to Work Internationally Using U.S.-Based Credit Cards — Apple Pay launched on Monday with iOS 8.1, allowing iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners to make contactless payments via NFC with Touch ID for authentication. — Though the initial launch is occurring in the United States … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
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New Social Network Tsu — Which Pays Users Who Post — Raises $7 Million — New social network Tsu believes it can get you excited about seeing advertisements. (Seriously!) — That's because Tsu, which launched on Tuesday with a $7 million investment led by Sancus Capital …
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EMC Said to Absorb VCE Joint Venture as Cisco Reduces Stake — EMC Corp. (EMC) is buying out much of Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO)'s stake in joint venture VCE, which sells high-end data center equipment, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — EMC will meld the joint venture …
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Former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $26M for Snowflake, a data warehousing startup — Bob Muglia is floating in the clouds, or should we say on some snowflakes. The longtime Microsoft veteran — who left the company in 2011 after 23 years, including a stint as the president …
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Google Play Music adds Songza's contextual playlists for All Access subscribers, Material Design UI — Google brings Songza's best feature to Play Music — But only All Access subscribers get to use it — After purchasing Songza for an undisclosed sum earlier this year … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google beefs up 2-step verification with physical USB Security Key option in Chrome — Google today announced it is beefing up its two-step verification feature with Security Key, a physical USB second factor that only works after verifying the login site is truly a Google website.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Founder Shows Off Incoming Touch Panel For Making DIY ‘Pi Pads’ — Eben Upton, the founder of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, has shown off a new piece of hardware that's likely to expand the ecosystem around its single board computer — namely a touchscreen display.| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Nielsen partners with Adobe to rate all online content, from videos and podcasts to articles — Nielsen Will Soon Rate Everything on the Web, From Videos to Articles — The Nielsen ratings have long held huge sway over the business of television, but television isn't like it used to be.Sponsor Posts
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