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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses — If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don't worry. It's probably just a Google employee testing the company's new augmented-reality glasses.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Cuts 14 Percent Of Workforce; 2,000 Given Pink Slips; Will Save $375M — Yahoo has made its massive round of layoffs official. The company just released a statement saying that 2,000 jobs have been cut, or 14 percent of it total workforce (which was previously around 14,000).
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| Amir Efrati / Digits: |
Read Yahoo CEO's Letter to Employees About Layoffs … Yahoo today confirmed this morning it plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or 14% of its 14,000 work force. — Here's CEO Scott Thompson's letter to employees: — Yahoos - — Today we are restructuring Yahoo! to give ourselves the opportunity to compete and win in our core business.
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| Brad Stone / Business Week: |
Google's Page: Apple's Android Pique ‘For Show’ — Excerpts: — When you took over as CEO, one of your goals was to take the clear accountability and decision-making of a division like Android and move that out to the rest of the company. How have you done? — I think we have done really well.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Larry Page's First Year As Google CEO: Impatience is a Virtue — In January 2011, only hours before I had to send back the proofs for In the Plex, the news came out that Larry Page would be taking the helm of the company as the CEO. The transition would occur on April 4 of that year.| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Lumia 900 review — It occurred to me that the Lumia 900 review would be one of the more important critiques of a product that I write this year. For those of you who don't know the backstory here, the new LTE-equipped, AT&T-bound smartphone represents what could be the beginning of a new era …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
How Facebook's Winning The War Against Yahoo, Patent By Patent — Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo's patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook infringes upon …
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Swedish researchers uncover key to China's Tor-blocking system — Swedish researchers have discovered that Chinese officials have updated the country's ‘Great Firewall’ to make it harder for citizens to use the Tor network that provides a means of surfing the web anonymously.
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Broad Rollout of iPhone to Small U.S. Carriers Coming on April 20 — Earlier today, we noted that nTelos Wireless, a CDMA carrier based in Waynesboro, Virginia, announced that it would begin carrying the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 on April 20. Pricing for the device comes in at $50 below …
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| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
As Wall Street Points Fingers at Groupon, Three Fingers Point Back — Now I know how Goldilocks felt. — About the time Groupon was raising its $1 billion growth round and getting the big endorsement from some of the Valley's biggest names, I was bringing up all the problems … | Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
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Time Inc. Hearst, Conde Nast, Meredith Launch “Netflix For Magazines” — Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Digital Magazines” consortium made up of the biggest names in publishing? It has finally delivered something worth talking about: Call it Netflix for Magazines.| Daniel Frankel / paidContent: |
Researcher: Over 1 Million U.S. Cable Subscribers Cut Cord In 2011 — Cable and satellite TV subscription growth slowed down more than had been previously reported, and cord-cutting was a primary factor. But don't worry about it — a revolution that will re-create the current multi-channel access paradigm is still a long way away.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Instagram for Android hits 1m downloads in under 24 hours — Instagram's Android launch has been a successful one, with the company hitting the 1 million downloads mark in less than 24 hours since it became available on the Google Play marketplace. — It app had been a long time coming.
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| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
After Eight Years, the Web 2.0 Conference Is Over — Before there was Disrupt or Launch or any of the other myriad of smaller social media confabs, there was Web 2.0. — It was the first conference that chronicled the second coming of the consumer Web. It was a partnership between Tim O'Reilly …
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Paramount, Google Link Up For Movie Rentals, Despite YouTube Lawsuit — Viacom and Google are locked in a copyright lawsuit that is nearly five years old. But that doesn't mean the companies can't do business together. — This morning, for example, Google's YouTube is announcing a deal … | Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
New Swiftkey 3 removes the need for spacebar — Swiftkey has announced the launch of a new version of Swiftkey, the popular Android keyboard, that promises to make typing on the go even easier. — The crux of the new app, Swiftkey 3, now compensates for when you don't hit the space key …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Yapp Is A Dead Simple Way To Make A Mobile App Without Writing A Line Of Code — Last month Yapp demoed at New York Tech Meetup. — Today it's announcing a round of financing led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from North Bridge Ventures Partners, Cue Ball, and angel investors.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Flickr adopts Bezos-backed Aviary for photo editing, replacing Google's Picnik — The Aviary photo editor as it will appear in Flickr. — Flickr today is announcing a partnership with startup Aviary to roll out a new photo-editing experience for Flickr users starting later this week.
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| Tim Hoover / Denver Post: |
Federal court tosses Colorado's Amazon tax — A federal court has thrown out a 2010 Colorado law meant to spur online retailers like Amazon to collect state sales tax. — The law had already been temporarily blocked in federal court last year, but U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn's ruling Friday permanently handcuffs it.
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Dropbox doubles referral rewards, offers up to 32GB for those dripping in charisma — That whole ‘refer a friend’ thing must be working. Or maybe it isn't. Either way, Dropbox has felt the need to double the extra capacity you get as a reward for persuading your buddies that cloud storage really is 153x better than a USB stick.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever — Has Microsoft figured out a cure for cancer? — The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to that disease, is now one of the top 20 contributors of code to the open-source …
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| Michael Blake / TechHog.com: |
Exclusive: Sprint quietly CONFIRMS that their 4G LTE network will be “unlimited” — Update: We just got a response from Sprint's PR person Nichole Cappitelli, who confirmed that Sprint WILL in fact offer unlimited data with their new 4G LTE network when it goes live.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
How Apple and Google help police bypass iPhone, Android lock screens — Internal police documents reveal the legal processes that law enforcement agencies use to require Apple and Google to bypass the lock screens on seized mobile phones. — Training materials prepared …
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