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Apple Fires Back at the Feds, Amazon — Nearly two days after the Department of Justice filed antitrust charges against Apple and major book publishers, Apple is responding. Here's comment from Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr: … Apple's response is similar to ones made by Penguin Group and MacMillan … | Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Barnes & Noble Hit Hard — Barnes & Noble Inc. bore the brunt of Wednesday's antitrust settlement between the U.S. government and three major book publishers, losing 6.4% of its market value on Thursday alone and tumbling 17% this month. — Those market worries reflected the broad sentiment … | Google: |
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Exclusive: Former RIM boss sought strategy shift before he quit — (Reuters) - Former Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim Balsillie sought to reinvent the BlackBerry smartphone maker with a radical shift in strategy before he stepped down, two sources with knowledge of his plans said.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple looking to build ‘unibody’ earbuds through ultrasonic bonding — By using a process known as ultrasonic bonding, Apple could create new iPhone and iPod earbuds that would have a seamless, more aesthetically pleasing “unibody” appearance. — Headsets and earbuds include a number … | Dow Jones Newswires: |
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Amazon Massively Inflates Its Streaming Library Size — Amazon counts individual episodes, not whole series, as “TV shows,” which makes its Prime streaming catalog seem 10 times bigger than it actually is. — Amazon boasts that it has “more than 17,000 movies and television shows” … | Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
The Instagram Deal: A Mark Zuckerberg Production — Mark Zuckerberg, the 27-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Facebook, does not usually play the role of deal maker. — But the social network's $1 billion purchase of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service, was a Mark Zuckerberg production.| Richard Sale / ISSSource: |
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Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service (That Twitter Users Will Love) — Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple. But that simplicity is actually one of Fetchnotes' key selling points.| Caroline Winter / Business Week: |
Berlin Cracks the Startup Code — On a rainy day in March 2011, Ciarán O'Leary and two colleagues crammed into a Berlin taxi and raced for the station to catch a train back to Hamburg. While snaking through the city streets, it hit him: Leaving Berlin was a bad idea.| Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM: |
Marc Samwer out as Groupon's international boss — After enduring a torrid few months, Groupon has confirmed a shakeup of its international business, bringing in a new chief to oversee operations outside America. — Out goes Marc Samwer, the oldest of the three notorious Samwer brothers … | Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
U.S. tries to silence MegaUpload lawyers on issue of user data — The U.S. government says that some of MegaUpload's lawyers have a conflict that should exclude them from representing the cyberlocker service. — (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) — ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The struggle for control … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Did Boxee only sell 200,000 boxes? — The total number of Boxee Box users is around 200,000, according to a tweet sent out by the company Wednesday. The tweet also revealed that Boxee now has a total of 2 million users, if you include users of the discontinued PC client.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
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China's mysterious Internet outage; speculation over a ‘kill switch’ — At approximately 11am local time yesterday, Internet users around China reported significant Internet blackouts. Not only were they unable to access some Chinese sites, but also many foreign Web sites that had not previously been blocked.| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight coming early May for $139 (hands-on pictures and video) — It was almost a complete surprise, barring some leaked early promotional material yesterday. Today, Barnes & Noble has officially announced the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight … | Audrey Watters / Inside Higher Ed: |
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Apple Releases Java Update to Remove Flashback Malware — Apple just released Java for OS X 2012-003, an update to the Java implementation in OS X. The update removes “the most common variants of the Flashback malware.” Interestingly the update disables the automatic execution of Java applets … | Jon Bruner / Mobile: |
Will Data Monopolies Paralyze the Internet? — Tim O'Reilly spoke with me last week about Internet companies acquiring massive proprietary data sets. “We're kind of heading toward data as a source of monopoly power in some cases,” he told me, comparing data to “Intel Inside” as a barrier to market entry.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
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 …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:15 AM ET, April 13, 2012.
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