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'At Year Two, TheSkimm Hits 500,000 Subscribers"

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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Carly Zakin, left, and Danielle Weisberg are co-founders of theSkimm.   Sophie Elgort As morning television news shows struggle to build loyal audiences of women who once started their days with Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Erma Bombeck, two young former NBC News producers have quietly built a following for their morning news service, theSkimm. TheSkimm is a daily email newsletter that is transmitted to subscribers weekday mornings at about 6 a.m. Eastern Time. It delivers the news of the day along with a short explanation of the context and import in a just-us-girls voice that manages neither to patronize news junkies nor alienate infrequent readers. Earlier this week, for example, it presented this  under its Quote of the Day rubric : “‘I think it’s my job to work with every president –if she is, regrettably, if she obtains the presidency’ — Sen.  John McCain  (R-AZ) yesterday, on Hillz ...

"Counterclockwise: Apple iPhone 4, Asus Padfone, Nokia Oro"

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Quoting from the site gsmarena Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Historically, the last week of May hasn't seen much action in terms of new smartphone announcements. The market rollouts of flagships announced at our around the MWC have historically dominated, along with rumors about the next big announcements - the new iPhone and, more recently, the new Samsung Galaxy Note. Samsung Galaxy S III released Some of the more interesting stories revolve around the milestones achieved by the Samsung flagships over the year. Two years ago the  Galaxy S III  was just taking the world by storm,  getting a wide by the standards back then 28-country initial release  and  becoming Vodafone's most pre-ordered droid ever . And that was despite  the production issues that plagued the Pebble Blue version . Samsung ships 10 million Galaxy S4 units, adds new colors Fast forward another year and you can see the  Samsung Galaxy S4   scoring its 10 millio...

"Motorola Mobility’s US Moto X Assembly Plant To Close By End Of Year"

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Quoting from the site techcrunch  by:Ahmed Mido Part of the sales pitch for Motorola Mobility’s (then Google-owned) Moto X smartphone was that it was partly U.S.-made; an assembly plant to put together the Moto X opened in Fort Worth, Texas in May 2013. That plant will close by the end of this year, Motorola confirms to TechCrunch, however, as sales of the smartphone and operational costs have made continuing operations there prohibitively expensive Currently, the plant employs about 700 workers who build the Moto X specifically for U.S. sales, according to a spokesman speaking to the  Wall Street Journal , which first reported the news. Motorola was recently sold to Lenovo from Google, which is the company that spearheaded the Moto X project, but Motorola tells the WSJ that this closure isn’t related to the sale and was tied only to the fact that the “North American market was exceptionally tough” when it comes to device sales. Moto X production won’t stop entirel...