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Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program — Expects to Spend $45 Billion Over Three Years — Apple® today announced plans to initiate a dividend and share repurchase program commencing later this year. — Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors …
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Apple announces $10b share buyback starting in fiscal 2013, $2.65 dividend for Q4 — Ahead of a conference call this morning, Apple has announced a pair of initiatives for its massive stockpile of cash totaling approximately $100 billion: a stock buyback beginning in fiscal 2013 …
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Apple Not Bringing Overseas Cash Back Home, Blames U.S. Tax Policy … FOLLOW: — Apple, Video, Business News, Repatriation Tax Holiday, Apple Announcement, Apple Cash, Apple u.s. Tax Law, Apple-Buy-Back, Apple-Cash-Plans, Tax Holiday, Tax Repatriation Holiday, Business News
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Tablet Chip Showdown: Nvidia Tegra 3 vs. the New iPad's A5X — When Apple announced the new iPad earlier this month, CEO Tim Cook claimed that the new iPad's new A5X chip offers four times the performance of Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. Now that the new iPad has hit the street … | Mike Daisey: |
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated — “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” —another American monologist Many consider this week's THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode one of the most painful they've ever listened to. In particular the segment with me is excruciating …
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Zynga Is In Talks To Buy “Draw Something” Maker OMGPOP — Zynga is in talks to acquire OMGPOP, the maker of massive hit Draw Something, according to a source with direct knowledge of the discussions. Talks are still in an earlier stage and it's my understanding that there may be other foreign buyers …
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New iPad feature ‘Dictation’ sends/stores private data to Apple servers — Summary: Dictation is one of the key features of the new iPad; however, using it requires more than meets the eye. Read all about it in this post. — After spending a solid weekend with the new iPad …
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“Boy CEO” Mark Zuckerberg's Two Smartest Projects Were Growing Facebook And Growing Up — Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook—and himself—for success.| AppleInsider: |
AT&T sets single-day record for iPad sales, activations — AT&T announced on Monday that the launch of the new iPad set a new single-day record for sales and activations of Apple's touchscreen tablet. — The new 4G LTE-capable iPad went on sale last Friday, March 16, and in that 24-hour span … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Linux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more — The latest refresh of the Linux kernel, 3.3, is now available, and the second release of 2012 brings with it the long-awaited merging of code from Google's little side project. While that is particularly interesting …
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Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS's cloud — Q&A — In 2011, Netflix's online video rental service regularly accounted for 30 percent of all US download internet traffic. — To support this combination of huge traffic and unpredictable demand spikes, Netflix has spent the past few years developing …
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Twitter and Facebook Are Tomorrow's News Service. For Now, Though ... If you're like me, you increasingly rely on Twitter and Facebook as your news editors. But that means we're in a small minority. — Just 9 percent of American adults frequently get their news from their pals at the two services.| Dwight Garner / New York Times: |
The Way We Read Now — The case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon's Kindle, in a memorable put-down, “the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that …
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With “Coveted Brand,” Dell Will Breach Tablet Market … - Dell CEO Michael Dell on what has surprised him most about the evolution of the tech industry — 2012 isn't going to be another year of the iPad, if Dell can help it. Though it was forced to beat a humbling retreat from the tablet market … | Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Mimics Apple by Spending Less on R&D Than Rivals — Facebook Inc. (FB) spends a smaller percentage of revenue on engineering than other Internet companies, mimicking Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s strategy of keeping costs low by relying on outside developers for research and development.
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Chinese Writers' Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder — Twenty-two Chinese authors now plan to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), claiming 95 of their books were published without authorisation in iTunes Store apps, according to China's state-owned Xinhua news agency.
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
NetZero launches ‘4G’ wireless service, we go hands-on — Remember NetZero? Today the company announced that it's launching NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband, a wireless service rolling out in 80 US cities and offering value-priced monthly data plans without activation fees, contracts, commitments or overage charges.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Vimeo Gets a New Boss: AOL, Yahoo Vet Kerry Trainor — Earlier this year, video site Vimeo showed off a new look. Now it has a new CEO: Kerry Trainor, who just left his job overseeing AOL's entertainment and video properties. — Trainor replaces Dae Mellencamp, who has been running the site since 2009.Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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