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Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple's sales in return for license to standard-essential wireless patents — In my previous post (on Motorola's lawsuits against the German Apple Stores), I said that a statement by Apple's counsel at yesterday's Mannheim trial made me aware of a discovery request … | John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
It's Not Whether Google's Threatened. It's Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? — If Facebook's IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather …
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Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive) — Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned. — The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple.| David Kocieniewski / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg's Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook — Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. — But the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has indirectly done so in the documents for his company's public stock offering later this year.
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| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
How Does Facebook Make Money? — Facebook's IPO filing this week confirmed what we already knew: Facebook makes the vast majority of its money by selling ads on its site. — But now we know just how much of its revenue comes from advertising: 85% in 2011, with the remaining 15% coming from payments and other fees.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired.com: |
AMD Eyes ARM Alliance in War on Intel — Could the low-power chip design that's used in your iPhone someday show up inside the chips built by Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices? — Definitely maybe. Or as AMD's brand new Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster put it to us: “The answer is not no.”
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| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Yelp Reports Wider Loss for 2011 After Marketing, Development Costs Climb — Yelp Inc. (YELP), the user-generated review site that's planning an initial public offering, reported a wider loss in 2011 after increasing spending to attract reviewers and make the service easier to use.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage — In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users. While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Revises Snow Leopard Security Update and Pulls 10.7.3 Delta Update — After a couple of issues with some software updates, Apple has made some quiet revisions to address the problems. — The first was a Snow Leopard security update which inadvertently caused problems with Apple's PowerPC emulation layer Rosetta.| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Micron appoints Durcan CEO after Appleton's death — (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology's board appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as chief executive a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash. — Hours after Appleton's death on Friday morning …
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Accidental espionage: how iMessage conversations end up in the wrong handsets — Terrifying tales have surfaced recently of unsuspecting iPhone users that have had their private conversations swiped by thieves or intercepted by accident, and through our own independent test we've confirmed …
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Gadget Lab, Softpedia News and ITProPortal
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store — Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love. They're fakes designed to scam you out of $1.99 when you go to buy Temple Run, Tiny Wings, or Words With Friends. Today Apple took a stand against plagiarism …
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