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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder is leaving — UPDATED: Last week, when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest - who was Spark Capital buying stock from, I wondered? For nearly three years …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Targeting Merchants, Square Debuts Register iPad App And Analytics; Now Processing $4B In Payments Per Year — As we reported earlier this year, mobile payments company Square revealed that it was planning to add a number of new operational capabilities and data analysis to the register, including in-depth analytics.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Android ‘Key Lime Pie’ comes after Jelly Bean — We've been tipped by a reliable source today that Google will be using the name “Key Lime Pie” for the version of Android that comes after Jelly Bean (in fact, the information comes from the very same source that tipped us to the Jelly Bean codename last year).
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Inquirer, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, ITProPortal, Pulse2 Technology …, Guardian, IntoMobile, AndroidOS.in, PhoneArena, Mobile Entertainment, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin.net, The Tech Herald Technology …, 9to5Google, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo and Electronista
| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Senator Schumer asks FTC to probe Apple, Android — (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that applications on the Apple Inc and Google Inc mobile systems steal private photos and contacts and post them online without consent.| Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: |
Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight? — Tonight I'm getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta).
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| Economist: |
Taking the long view — INSIDE a remote mountain in Texas, a gargantuan clock is being pieced together, capable of telling the time for the next 10,000 years. Once the clock is finished, people willing to make the difficult trek will be able to visit the vast chamber housing it …
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Plans for ‘TV Everywhere’ Bog Down in Tangled Pacts — It was dubbed “TV Everywhere.” But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere. — Nearly three years after Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. kicked off a drive to make cable programming available online for cable subscribers …
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DSLreports and Gizmodo
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The Bright Side of Being Hacked — SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two years now. — They steal files from inside corporate computer systems and occasionally, as in the case of Stratfor last week … | Journalism.org: |
The Search For A New Business Model — HOW NEWSPAPERS ARE FARING TRYING TO BUILD DIGITAL REVENUE — By Tom Rosenstiel and Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ — A new study, which combines detailed proprietary data from individual newspapers with in- depth interviews at more than a dozen major media companies … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo Labs Head Raghavan Departing to Google — Prabhakar Raghavan, the well-respected head of Yahoo's Labs unit and also recently its head of strategy, is leaving the company to take a job at Google. — The departure comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division … | Edward Gay / New Zealand Herald: |
Dotcom extradition papers filed — The United States Government has filed its application to have Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three associates extradited to face charges of breaching copyright. — Crown Law is handling the case on behalf of the US Government.
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TorrentFreak, Computerworld, Betabeat, CNET, Bloomberg, Associated Press and Electronista
| Matt Creamer / AdAge: |
Apple's First Marketing Guru On Why ‘1984’ Is Overrated — Regis McKenna On Advising Startups and How He Helped Steve Weather ‘Antennagate’ — When a young Steve Jobs needed a marketing expert, he called Intel to ask who made their sharp-looking ads and was told “Regis McKenna.”| Hal / App Inventor Edu: |
Announcing: MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview — The MIT Center for Mobile Learning is delighted to announce that we're meeting our goal of making MIT App Inventor available as a public service in the first quarter of 2012. — For the past two months, we have been conducting a closed test …
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eWeek, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and MAKE
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Android overtakes Opera to become the most popular mobile Web browser — Android has already become the most dominant type of mobile device on the planet, and now the Google-owned operating system is owner of the mobile Web's most used browser, according to data from StatCounter, via Phandroid.
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