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Facebook readies to file US$5bn IPO, could grow — Facebook is expected to file to raise US$5bn in a preliminary IPO prospectus on Wednesday morning, which while less than anticipated could be increased to ultimate investor demand, according to sources close to the deal.
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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 35% to $17.43 Billion; Kindle Device Sales Nearly Triple During the Holidays — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011. — Operating cash flow increased 12% to $3.90 billion …
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| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
Amazon: Big Kindle sales, but sales and outlook fall short — Summary: Amazon's fourth quarter sales and outlook fall short of expectations. Kindle sales surge. — Amazon's fourth quarter sales missed projections, but earnings were ahead. The big wild card was Kindle device sales, which tripled over the holidays.
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Exclusive: First Image of a BlackBerry 10 Superphone!! — BOOM! Last week's leaked 2012 BlackBerry Roadmap slide deck brought with it a ton of goodies for the new year, but one thing that was missing was a fresh look at a BlackBerry 10 [Smartphone] Superphone.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Neil Young and the Sound of Music — You know what the biggest problem with music today is? — Sound quality. — That's Neil Young's take on the issue, anyway. For years, the musician has been obsessed with improving the way modern music sounds, sonically speaking.
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The Front Line — So, Yahoo messed up today. They've messed up other days, too, but this was an especially red-letter day amongst other red-letter days, and this is one that has me ticked off. — For reasons I don't know, Yahoo laid off the highest level of Flickr's customer support …
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ITC throws out Barnes & Noble's antitrust claims against Microsoft ahead of trial: no signs of wrongdoing — Barnes & Noble's primary line of defense against Microsoft's allegations of patent infringement by the bookseller's Android-based devices has collapsed in its entirety.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Pricing Paradox — As Apple's extraordinarily low valuation is being more widely noted, explanatory hypotheses are proliferating. Everyone seems to have an opinion. Some explanations come in and out of fashion. Others are reliable old clichés. We've seen liquidity issues …
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Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools — Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. — Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time.
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Boxee officially pulls the plug on PC client — Want to run Boxee on your PC or Mac? Then hurry up; Boxee is removing all copies of its PC-based app from its servers by the end of the day Tuesday to fully concentrate on the Boxee Box. — The company announced the move late last year …
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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? … Since Marc and I founded Andreessen Horowitz three years ago, we have raised $2.7 billion. That statement begs a few questions. The two most obvious are: — Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money?
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Introducing the iFactory — Apple reinvented gadgets. Now it should reinvent how gadgets are manufactured. — Last week, Apple reported one of the most amazing earning results in corporate history. During the last three months of 2011, the company made $13 billion in profit …
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Nokia design chief hints at Lumia phones with NFC - and wireless charging — Exclusive: Marko Ahtisaari interview points towards new designs of Lumia phones without tab on USB charger slot — • Marko Ahtisaari: smartphone evolution is only just beginning
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My Nokia Blog, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Electronista, Windows Phone Sauce, The Nokia Blog and WMPoweruser. Thanks:@mitalgoel
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Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is “Strategically Screwed” — Last night, a California judge made some key rulings in the ongoing litigation between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle over the latter's decision to stop supporting Intel's Itanium chip. — One thing Judge James Kleinberg did was dismiss … | Identified: |
New Identified Research Reveals Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies — In our latest edition of the “Revenge of the Nerds” white paper research series, Identified has discovered that a growing number of company founders and CEOs today are far more likely … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup — This year's fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri …
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EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say — Prince Michael Bates of Sealand stands atop the helipad on his World War II era “micronation” — a possible future location for Wikileaks' servers. — Julian Assange's investors are in the process of purchasing a boat …
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Examiner, PC Magazine, Mashable! and TG Daily
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Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng Also Launching a Massive Online Learning Startup — These are interesting times to be a Stanford professor. Or to stop being a Stanford professor, as the case may be... Last week, news broke that Professor Sebastian Thrun would be stepping …
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Inside Microsoft's plan to equip laptops with Kinect technology — Last week, The Daily reported Microsoft is currently developing a version of its Kinect motion-sensing technology to run in Windows 8-equipped portables. Now, we've confirmed a few more facts about the project from a number of sources inside Redmond.| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Seeking To Banish “Distraction” Microsoft Replaces Hotmail Display Ads With Deals — Microsoft is trying to make ads in Hotmail better. The company is replacing conventional display ads in its webmail service with deal ads that it believes will be more relevant and interesting to users.
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YouTube could introduce a subscription service of its own — At the D:Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar gave his views on how the video marketplace is evolving both online and off. While much of the company's efforts have been based on advertising …
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Business Insider, Mashable!, SlashGear and AllThingsD
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Rumor: Office 15 for Windows 8 will be desktop apps, not fully Metro style — Microsoft's next generation of Office, codenamed Office 15, will receive interface tweaks to make it more touch friendly on Windows 8, including a radial menu system, but won't be rebuilt as full “Metro style” apps using the new WinRT programming model.| Jason Boog / GalleyCat: |
Barnes & Noble Stores Will Not Stock Books Published By Amazon — Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores, keeping the new publisher out of the country's largest network of brick and mortar bookstores. — Bloomberg Businessweek senior … Sponsor Posts
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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