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| Adam Messinger / Twitter Blog: |
Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement — One of the great things about Twitter is working with so many talented folks who dream up and build incredible products day in and day out. Like many companies, we apply for patents on a bunch of these inventions.
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PandoDaily, SiliconBeat, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, parislemon, VentureBeat, Engadget, parislemon, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computerworld, The New Persuaders, Gizmodo, SplatF, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, TPM IdeaLab, Daring Fireball, Techie Buzz, Business Insider, GitHub, The Technology Chronicles, NBC Bay Area, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, TechCrunch, The Verge, paidContent, AllTwitter, memeburn and Social Media
Tweets: @lorenb, @ginatrapani, @gotwalt, @dondodge, @timhaines, @swiftstories, @parislemon, @dwaldron, @erickschonfeld, @brady, @waxpancake and @rsarver
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Twitter's Revolutionary Agreement Lets Original Inventors Stop Patent Trolls — We've talked repeatedly in the past about how even if a company got patents for solely defensive reasons, down the road, those patents can end up in the hands of trolls, who abuse them to hinder real innovation.
| Leonid Kravets / Startups and IP Strategy: |
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple and Samsung CEOs and chief lawyers agree to meet in San Francisco court for settlement talks moderated by magistrate judge — Apple and Samsung, the number one and number two in the mobile devices industry, are embroiled in litigation against each other in nine countries …
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The Verge, New York Times, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Engadget, CNET, T3 News, Macworld Australia, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, The Next Web, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketables, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, Pulse2 Technology …, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
CEO Scott Thompson To Cut 50 Properties: “Yahoo Has Been Doing Way Too Much” — CEO Scott Thompson outlined his vision today for how Yahoo can start growing again. His big theme: Focus, focus, focus. — “Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and was only doing a few things really well,” Thompson said.| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
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| Intel: |
Intel Reports First-Quarter Revenue of $12.9 Billion — Intel Corporation today reported quarterly revenue of $12.9 billion, operating income of $3.8 billion, net income of $2.7 billion and EPS of $0.53. The company generated approximately $3.0 billion in cash from operations …
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The Verge, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, AllThingsD and Shiny Objects
| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
Intel CEO: Our first smartphone launches this week — Summary: Intel's smartphone strategy is being closely watched since it represents future growth for the company. — Intel's long-awaited smartphone strategy is ready for lift-off, said CEO Paul Otellini. — Otellini, speaking on an earnings conference call, said:
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
New “Listen” Button On Facebook Musician Pages Instantly Plays Their Songs In Your Favorite Streaming App — Today Facebook co-opts the best thing about Myspace pages — rapid music discovery — by prominently adding a “Listen” button to musician Pages right next to the Like button.| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Watch Out, Best Buy, Ikea Will Soon Sell Their Own HDTV System And It's Awesome — Ikea is entering a brave new world: home entertainment systems. The company unveiled its UPPLEVA line today with a smart YouTube ad (embedded after the jump). The video spot quickly explains that the UPPLEVA line …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking — In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and wound up surprising himself by accepting a job offer.
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Oakley Tests Technology That Would Rival Google's Project Glass — Oakley Inc. is developing technology that can project information directly onto lenses, putting the sunglass maker into potential competition with Google Inc. (GOOG) — The technology would let Oakley … | Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: |
Oracle's Larry Ellison takes the stand in Android IP trial — Summary: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison described on the stand the different licenses available for Java, citing that Google is the only company that hasn't signed up for any of them. — SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison defended …
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Computerworld, AllThingsD, The Verge, Mercury News, SiliconBeat, CNET, Search Engine Watch, Pulse2 Technology … and Between the Lines Blog. Tweets: @levie
| Nate Weiner: |
Why Read It Later/Pocket Went Free — Today we launched a brand new version of Read It Later (now named Pocket). As a part of this update we have made all of our apps free. — This is a big change to how we've operated in the past and I wanted to give some more insight into the decision.| Zee / The Next Web: |
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MacStories, TUAW, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, PC World, Macgasm, paidContent, MacStories, Android and Me, 9to5Mac and App Advice. Tweets: @marcoarment. See also Mediagazer
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
European carriers: Lumia phones are ‘not good enough’ to compete with iPhone and Android — They say everyone's a critic these days, but here's a group whose critique matters: European carriers. Reuters has been asking questions at four major European telecom operators and reports that they're … | Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
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| Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Math is Busted — A view of the huge roof of the Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple said today that the facility will use 20 megawatts of power, far less than an estimate by Greenepace. (Image: Apple). — Apple says it will use 20 megawatts …
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CNET, The Register, AllThingsD, New York Times, PC Magazine, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Telegraph, 9to5Mac and GigaOM
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Physical media is dead — long live the app — Over the weekend, Hunter Walk (a friend of mine who works for YouTube) tweeted about brands offering apps built on the Spotify platform. Spotify is likely to introduce these branded apps from the likes of Intel, AT&T, Reebok and McDonalds at an Ad Age event this week.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Shasta Ventures, Founders Fund Put $4.5 Million In The Uber For Carwashes, Cherry — Cherry, a recently launched startup that brings on-demand car washes to you and your car, has raised $4.5 million in new funding from Shasta Ventures, Founders Fund, Shervin Pishevar and Bill Lee.| New York Times: |
Hulu, the Online TV Site, Adds Original Programming — Five years ago, some of the most powerful players in television banded together to introduce Hulu, a streaming service intended to revolutionize the TV industry. — This week, Hulu will look more like a traditional network than an Internet pioneer.
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paidContent, CNET, Media Decoder, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Lost Remote and GadgeTell
| Michael Learmonth / AdAge: |
| Mike Swift / Mercury News: |
Google target of new federal privacy probe — Hard on the heels of being fined $25,000 for allegedly blocking a federal privacy investigation, Google (GOOG) is enmeshed in a second federal probe into its privacy practices that could soon bring a more painful hit to the search giant's pocketbook, this newspaper has learned.
| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Microsoft Makes Venue Maps More Visible On Bing — Microsoft has introduced a number of improvements to Bing Maps, chief among which is making “venue maps” more obvious. Microsoft says there are roughly 900 venue/interior maps on Bing focused primarily on “malls, airports, casinos and shopping districts.”
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Bing and WebProNews
| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Satellite imagery and Hadoop mean $70M for Skybox — Skybox Imaging, a startup that wants to capture and analyze high-resolution photos and videos of the Earth from microsatellites, has raised $70 million in Series C funding led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
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Business Wire and TechCrunch
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Time Warner's Android app finally streams live TV to Ice Cream Sandwich devices — Android users who subscribe to Time Warner Cable can finally stream live TV to their smartphones and tablets — provided that those tablets are running Android 4.0. It's been over five months since TWC revealed … Sponsor Posts
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
Unison's blog:
“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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