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<li><strong>[00:00] snapchat valuation now at 10B&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] a huge leap from the 3B valuation fb placed on them last year which they snubbed</li>
<li>] 100M active users, no revenue,&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-26/apple-said-to-prepare-new-12-9-inch-ipad-for-early-2015.html" target="_blank"><strong>new apple rumours large 12.9" ipad</strong></a><strong> with </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/stevekovach" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Kovach</a>,<strong> forbes @businessinsider</strong></li>
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<li>] this tablet would be a "laptop replacement" aka msft surface pro,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] no big tablets has succeeded in the market so far</li>
<li>] enterprise play, ibm + apple play &nbsp;</li>
<li>] innovative startup like quip, new take on doing "docs" on tablet, driving more tablet sales</li>
<li>] apple will also face problem of windows 8 - tablet OS vs desktop OS - 2 browsers, different versions of different apps,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] rumours that iOS is getting more windows like, 2 windows side by side,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] no one has created the perfect solution yet, form factor is very important,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] apple expects ipad businees to eventually eat up its macbook business</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dropboxs-plan-to-stay-relevant/" target="_blank"><strong>dropbox lowers prices of storage - $10 for 1 TB</strong></a><strong> - with </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/strngwys" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roberto Baldwin</a> <strong>theNextWeb</strong></li>
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<li>] previously prices at $10 for 100GB,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] cloud storage is a very competitive,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 10.3999996185303px;">icloud drive is now also a competitor as well as ....</span></li>
<li>] some don't trust apple as a cloud storage - how do i get to those files? with Dropbox its a "drive" on my pc, mac</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 10.3999996185303px;">Dropbox wants to compete on features,</span>&nbsp;not just $ for storage</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 10.3999996185303px;">adding features -&nbsp;</span>features like password protection, remote wipe,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 10.3999996185303px;">&nbsp;serial synching, wallet synching,&nbsp;</span></li>
<li>] google can do whatever it wants, its swimming in ad $$$, it could be free</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><a href="http://marketingland.com/apple-iad-introduces-ad-units-designed-brands-expands-two-countries-97655" target="_blank"><strong>apple is getting more agressive with ads in apps</strong></a><strong> - </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/ginnymarvin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ginny Marvin</a> <strong>@marketingland.com</strong></li>
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<li>] 2 new ad formats, full screen video, full screen interstitial</li>
<li>] video format is for TV like ads</li>
<li>] apples iad network, initially had 1M buyin which didnt work out for them, network has about 3-6% market share for ads</li>
<li>] expanding to 2 new countries,</li>
<li>] pales in comparison to google's and facebook mobile ad revenues</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-targets-ads-based-cell-signal-strength/294719" target="_blank">facebook serving ads based on users data connectivity speed</a> -&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] video ads for 4G connnections</li>
<li>] text ads for 3G and below connections</li>
<li>] north american users accounted for majority of ad revenue generated(70+%) BUT only account for small percentage of fb total users</li>
<li>] fb already offers options to target users based upon device type</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] msft marketing surface pro with cardboard in australia</strong></li>
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<li>] sending a cardboard cutout of the surface pro to schools, with an actual screen that shows a surface pro</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] producer -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=234" target="_blank">Jason Howell</a></li>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1080" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li>
<li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-august-27-2014" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li>
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