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Shuttle buses taking over Silicon Valley, awesome visualization shows

If you live in San Francisco and work at a tech company in Silicon Valley, you probably take a shuttle to work. Now, an impressive new map shows just how extensive these shuttle services are.

Verizon iPhone 5 comes unlocked, will stay that way

Verizon is selling its version of the iPhone 5 unlocked, and the company plans to keep it that way, according to a Verizon spokesperson who spoke to the AP.

Electron microscopes reveal Samsung still making Apple’s A6 chip

Apple and Samsung have many beefs with each other. But for now, it appears, Samsung is still manufacturing the A6 processor inside Apple's flagship iPhone 5.

Eight ways to save your tweets

The handy utility If This Then That (IFTTT) recently announced the end of its Twitter integration. Fortunately, there are workaround.

At least one hacker has already jailbroken the iPhone 5

That didn't take long: Yesterday, iPhone hacker Grant Paul, aka chpwn, posted pictures of his jailbroken iPhone 5.

Work speeds up on new ‘prototype’ Apple store

If you were one of the 12 construction workers building Apple's new "prototype" store in Palo Alto, Calif., you were working hard as the sun came up -- perhaps in order to hit an October deadline.

Welcome to VentureBeat’s reporting-driven Friday

For the rest of today, every story you read in VentureBeat's main news river will be based on reporting by our staff.

Silicon Valley is in danger of losing its name

How much longer will Silicon Valley stand by and watch the "silicon" part of its name get washed away like so much sand?

47% in 24 hours: How social media magnified secret Romney videos

A leaked video of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney talking frankly about his election strategy has caused an uproar in social media.

Oracle acquires SelectMinds, underscoring importance of cloud-based HR

Oracle has snapped up SelectMinds, a provider of recruiting automation tools, to bolster its portfolio of cloud-based employee and HR services.

Doomed Asus tablets to cost $600 and up

Poor Asus. Its upcoming Windows 8 tablets will cost $600 to $1,300, according to a leaked roadmap published by ZDNet (and republished above), which means that almost no one will buy them.

Wake me up when the iPhone 42 comes out

Apple has entered a new phase in the evolution of its iPhone line, and you can pretty much forget about radical reinventions from now on.

Big data? I’d settle for any data at all

Most companies would be better off with any kind of data than they are today. An embarrassing number of business decisions are made without reference to real data.

What combo is Apple going to unleash against Google? Not what you expect

Apple has made it through the bruising hand-to-hand combat of its latest patent trial, and it's defeated all the lawyers that Samsung could throw at it. Now it's got to face the big boss at the end: Google.

Logistics company to help Silicon Valley box its gadgets better

PCH International, a 3,000-person global company with $80 million in funding from a wide range of venture capital firms, is opening a new sustainable package design center in San Francisco.