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Confirmed: iPad 3 Has a 2048x1536 Retina Display — Over the past couple of months, several photos of displays claimed to be for the iPad 3 have surfaced from various sources. Such parts leaks are typical with the device's expected debut early next month.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple grants ABC access to its Chinese supply chain, report to air February 21st — The most mainstream technology company-related controversy within the past few weeks is most likely the issue of Chinese supplier-working conditions. In January, the New York Times published a lengthy …
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Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy — Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who'd declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. — Gamestop has company.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Faster Chromebooks to leapfrog today's slowpokes — Even for those who buy into cloud computing, the first-generation Chromebook can be painfully pokey. But next-gen models should appeal to more people. — Sundar Pichai, SVP of Chrome — Because I've got cloud-computing religion …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Coming March 22: Angry Birds Space — It seems that planet Earth isn't big enough for Angry Birds anymore. The cute cartoon characters are headed into the void with the upcoming Angry Birds Space game from Rovio. — Angry Birds has been the major success story of mobile games …
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Rovio, Pulse2 Technology …, MacStories, IntoMobile, PC World, Softpedia News, Joystiq, Engadget, BGR, The Verge, CNNMoney.com, WebProNews, VG247, Gotta Be Mobile, Kotaku, TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Thanks:@deantak
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Microsoft mulls plan for new music service (exclusive) — The software maker has discussed with some of the major record companies about creating a music service to serve Xbox as well as an upcoming Windows-based phone. — Microsoft is in talks with some of the major record companies … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
iPhone 4 antennagate class-action lawsuit settled, owners to receive $15 or a free case — According to CNET, a class-action lawsuit over the iPhone 4's troublesome antenna, aka Antennagate, has been settled. The planned resolution will net US residents who bought one and presumably either $15 in cash or (another?) free bumper case.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon On A Buying Spree: Buys Mobile Payment Specialist Kima Labs — Another acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading app Barcode Hero and mobile payment app TapBuy.| Jenna Wortham / Bits: |
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
New Charges Against Megaupload — A Virginia grand jury filed additional criminal charges on Thursday against Megaupload, the online file sharing site that U.S. authorities shut down in January and charged with copyright theft. — The new indictment, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia …
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple Files Competition Claim Against Motorola Mobility — Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. said Apple Inc. filed a complaint with the European Union's competition authority accusing the company of violating a pledge to license industry-standard patents on fair terms.
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| TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Is Not “Playing Dumb” About Making Money — It seems like everyone's discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it's “secretly” “monetizing” — a fact unearthed …
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| Felix Salmon: |
Aleynikov goes free — Count me in, with Choire Sicha, as being very happy that Sergey Aleynikov is once again a free man. To cut a long story short, Aleynikov used to work in high-frequency trading for Goldman Sachs, earning $400,000 a year. He then got offered a job in Chicago, earning three times that amount.
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