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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Sell Tablets on Its Own This Year — Google Inc., undaunted by a short-lived attempt to sell a smartphone on its own, is now pushing into Apple's iPad market. — The Internet search company is planning to market and sell tablets directly to consumers through an online store …
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Google's So Freaked Out About The iPad And Lousy Android Sales That It's Opening An Online Tablet Store — When Google first announced plans to buy Motorola last year, most pundits agreed that Google had no intention of actually owning Motorola, that it was just buying Motorola for the patents.| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director, CTO and COO both out — With expectations at an all-time low and analysts lowering estimates left and right, Research In Motion on Thursday reported its results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012. RIM posted a surprising beat …
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VatorNews, TechEye, Guardian, Deal Journal, Bloomberg, Market Wire, Matt Richman, Deal Journal, PC World, BetaNews, InfoWorld, The Verge, The Loop, Between the Lines Blog, The Register, iPhone, Reuters, SeekingAlpha.com, MobileSyrup.com, MarketWatch, Mashable!, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, GigaOM, The Tech Trade, Globe and Mail, Engadget, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, CNET, PhoneArena, WebProNews, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD and Globe and Mail. Tweets: @mathewi
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Business Week: |
Facebook Delves Deeper Into Search — On Feb. 1, a few hours after Facebook declared its intention to raise $5 billion in what will likely be the largest initial public offering in tech history, Mark Zuckerberg gave close followers of his company a potential clue to its future.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
| MG Siegler / parislemon: |
Google Doesn't Not Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Android — Danny Sullivan argues that the conclusions about Android revenues based on the Oracle v. Google court document are flawed. That's certainly possible, but it doesn't sound as flawed as Sullivan seems to believe.
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
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| Reuters: |
Apple, Foxconn vow wide revamp of worker conditions — (Reuters) - In a landmark development for the way Western companies do business in China, Apple Inc said Thursday it had agreed to work with partner Foxconn to substantially improve wages and working conditions at the factories that produce its wildly popular products.
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| Stanley James / Bloomberg: |
| Nick O'Neill / StartupStats: |
BREAKING: LivingSocial Co-Founder And President Steps Down — Eddie Frederick, President and Co-Founder of LivingSocial, has stepped down from the board according to an email just sent out from CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy. Eddie has been at the company since the start and was the original creator … | Hulu Blog: |
Hulu Plus Arrives on Seven Android Tablets. With a Brand New Style. — Today marks a very special day for us at Hulu. From the beginning, our focus has been to bring the world's most beloved TV shows and movies to entertainment fans whenever they want, wherever they want.
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GigaOM, The Verge, GadgeTell, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Android and Me, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, Liliputing, ZDNet, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, WebProNews and Engadget. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices — Apple has invented a killer 3D imaging camera that will apply to both still photography and video. The new cameras in development will utilize new depth-detection sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR and Laser that will create stereo disparity maps in creating 3D imagery.
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iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, App Advice and 9to5Mac
| Craig Mod: |
The Digital↔Physical: On building Flipboard for iPhone and Finding Edges for Our Digital Narratives — We had been on a long journey but I couldn't see it anywhere. There's a stage in a product cycle where you know it's going to ship. Where you can see the end.
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| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
Google's Grand Plan — The search company no longer dabbles in exotic ideas. Now, it's all business. — In a typical month, David Lawee meets two dozen founders of new companies. He grills them on their businesses, their ambitions, their funding, and their clever ideas for the future.| Mikael Ricknäs / PC World: |
RIM Attacks Apple's Nano-SIM Tactics — Research In Motion has sent a letter to a standards group complaining about Apple's tactics in the battle over the upcoming nano-SIM standard, joining Nokia in trying to shed doubt over Apple's efforts. — RIM, Nokia and Motorola Mobility are involved …
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The Verge, Engadget, CNET, The Verge and AppleInsider
| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Here's another big data startup from Team Yahoo — Last summer, Yahoo's investments in big data brought us Hadoop startup Hortonworks, and now those same investments have brought us predictive-marketing startup InsightsOne. The company, which was founded by the team responsible …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses — Have you started seeing images in online reCAPTCHAs that look suspiciously like house numbers pulled from Google Street View? Well, as it turns out, that's exactly what they are. Google confirmed it's currently running … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Kickstarter Shares The Effects Of Its Blockbuster Season — February was a big month for Kickstarter. Not only did they have a number of record-breaking projects, but they were shoved into the mainstream consciousness with a flood of traditional news coverage.
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Gamasutra, GamesIndustry International and BBC
| Emily Parkhurst / TechFlash: |
Microsoft files restraining order, offers $300M bond in Motorola patent case — Microsoft has filed a restraining order and offered a $300 million bond in an attempt to ward off an injunction requested by Motorola that would affect a wide variety of Microsoft products.
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FOSS Patents, CNET and The Register
| Angela Moscaritolo / PC Magazine: |
Google's Self-Driving Car Takes Blind Man for a Ride — Google this week posted a YouTube video (below) showing Morgan Hill, Calif. resident Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, being taken on a ride in its self-driving Toyota Prius. Google released the video to celebrate … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Largest Retail Store Yet Coming to Dalian, China? — Apple appears to be working on plans to open its largest retail store yet, advertising a forthcoming store in the main Century City shopping district of Dalian, China. M.I.C. gadget posts a photo showing promotional signage …
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The Register, M.I.C. Gadget, Techie Buzz, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft talks touch hardware in Windows 8 — Touch screens are not all the same. Even screens that use the same technology (capacitive, resistive, or optical) will show different behavior depending on the controllers used and other details. Windows 8 will have to cope with a wide range …
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MSDN Blogs, Network World, AnandTech, TechFlash, eWeek, WinBeta, Neowin.net and The Verge
| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook tests simpler interface for creating ads, targeting users — Facebook is testing a new self-serve ad interface that emphasizes objectives and gives users more targeting options, the company tells us. — From what we can tell in the following two screenshots provided by Facebook …
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HasOffers and TechCrunch
| Stuart P. Green / New York Times: |
When Stealing Isn't Stealing — THE Justice Department is building its case against Megaupload, the hugely popular file-sharing site that was indicted earlier this year on multiple counts of copyright infringement and related crimes. The company's servers have been shut down, its assets seized and top employees arrested.
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