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It's Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!) — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new organization for the company. — “It's time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really, with nice comma deployment).
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CNET, VentureBeat, Mercury News and Bits
| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook helps Instagram with unique Open Graph app rollout — Facebook and Instagram have been working together for weeks on an Open Graph integration for the mobile photo sharing app, Inside Facebook has discovered. — Facebook, which announced today that it acquired Instagram for $1 billion …
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Inside Mobile Apps, MarketingVox News & Trends and GigaOM
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Iran denies has plan to cut Internet access — TEHRAN — Iran has denied online reports surfacing Tuesday that it plans to cut access to the Internet in August and replace it with a national intranet, according to a statement by the ministry of communication and information technology.
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| Amrutha Gayathri / International Business Times: |
Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; ‘Clean’ National Intranet In Pipeline — Millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web and cut off from popular social networking sites and email services, as the government has announced its plans to establish a national Intranet within five months.
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Google's Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser — It's hard to say how popular Chrome OS, Google's browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite serious about this initiative. Today, Google launched … | Electronista: |
Nokia Lumia 900 hit by bug that disables data — Nokia Lumia 900 launch marred by data bug — Nokia's Lumia 900 launch has been partly soured by a bug encountered by early adopters. Both an AT&T source for Phone Arena, as well as buyers on Nokia's forums and those at WPCentral … | Zach Epstein / BGR: |
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Carriers Band to Fight Cellphone Theft — The nation's major wireless providers have agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to build a central database of stolen cellphones—part of a broad effort to tame an explosion of thefts nationwide. — The database, which the wireless companies …
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New York Times, PC World, eWeek, PC Magazine, ifoAppleStore, PC World, BuzzFeed, Macworld, The Verge, Ars Technica, Android News, Rumours …, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, SlashGear, textually.org, Macgasm, blog.chron.com, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Reuters, USA Today, Gizmodo, Communications …, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile and Engadget
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference — Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference. — It will be Cook's first appearance at D … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Takes In-App Purchases Out Of Beta: Here's How They Compromised On Revenue Share — Amazon is taking the wraps off a new in-app purchasing service today in an effort to make its app store competitive with what Apple and Google offer developers. That should let developers … | CNET: |
Why Microsoft spent $1 billion on AOL's patents — Microsoft dropped an eye-popping $1 billion on 800 AOL patents today, an astonishing amount likely spent to keep the intellectual property trove away from rival Google. — But according to a source close to the situation, Google didn't even bid on the portfolio.
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A million Instagram Android app downloads in a day isn't cool. You know what's cool? 5 million in 6 days. — Instagram is enjoying the biggest week in its existence. The company, already riding high on its iOS success, launched its Android app and captured 1 million downloads … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Toshiba introduces 13.3-inch Android 4.0 tablet, new Excite range — Toshiba announced its back-to-school tablet lineup today, adding three models to its Excite brand. The first one you'll notice is the Excite 13, which you can hardly avoid — its 13.3-inch display is absolutely enormous, nearly twice the size of a 7-inch slate.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
About Pando — Some of you may have read Sarah Lacy's post today stating that I'm no longer on the board of Pando Daily. — This wasn't a complete surprise to me, the company notified me last week that they weren't happy that I and MG Siegler (my partner at CrunchFund) were going to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt this coming May.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @nikcub, @mattmireles, @centernetworks, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @jason and @parislemon. Thanks:@edwardaten
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Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigns — Summary: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned this morning. Director G. Mike Mikan will serve in the interim. — Brian Dunn, chief executive of tech big box retailer Best Buy, resigned this morning. — “There were no disagreements between Mr. Dunn … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Unlocking In-Contract iPhones for Deployed Service Members — This weekend, AT&T began unlocking iPhones for off-contract customers. This allows the iPhone be used with a SIM-card from overseas carriers, or T-Mobile in the U.S. In addition to unlocking phones for off-contract customers …
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The Verge, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, TUAW, Engadget, iLounge, MacNN and Techie Buzz. Thanks:@jlgolson
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Market Cap Hits $600 Billion — Another market cap milestone for Apple. — With the broader market in decline, shares in the company rose to a new 52-week high this morning: $644. And that jump was enough to carry Apple's market cap across the $600 billion threshold.
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet, Tries To Cut Off Its Server Monitoring Infections — Dr. Web's chief executive Boris Sharov, who says Apple never responded when the firm shared its findings on the Flashback botnet. — Until it was revealed last week that more than half …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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