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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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.
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9to5Google, AppleInsider, Pulse2, Electronista, MacGazette and Business Insider
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Why Apple's A5 is so big—and iPhone 4 won't get Siri — Why Apple's A5 is so big and the iPhone 4 won't get Siri Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.
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Pulse2, MacStories and MacGazette
| 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.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Toyota takes to spamming Twitter for Camry Super Bowl ‘promotion’ — Twitter is a great platform to get people stoked about anything, if done right. You can promote potato chips like @popchips does, and it could turn into a huge following for your brand and have fun doing it.| 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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Pulse2, The Atlantic Online, SplatF and Business Insider
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
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 … | Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month — The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice, has published statistics that illustrate the project's rapid growth. Approximately 400 total developers have contributed code to the project.
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Slashdot, The Document Foundation Blog and Softpedia News
| Lori Andrews / New York Times: |
Facebook Is Using You — LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn't have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones.| 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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Scobleizer, Beyond Search, Pulse2, Asa Dotzler, The Atlantic Online and Techland
| 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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Pulse2, bizjournals and Social Markets
| 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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Mercury News, Computerworld, Guardian, CNET and Pulse2
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
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Monday Note, Business Insider, The Register and FT Tech Hub
| 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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The Verge, Electronista and Computerworld
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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