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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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Tweets: @lorenb, @dondodge, @ginatrapani, @gotwalt, @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.
| 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 …
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Beats Expectations (as Expected) — Now, Will New CEO Outline More Strategery in Investor Call? — Yahoo beat Wall Street estimates in its first quarter earnings report today, with revenues of $1.08 billion and earnings of 23 cents. — Analysts had been expecting Yahoo to report revenues … | 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: |
| 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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| 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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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.| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 … | Zee / The Next Web: |
Read It Later rebrands as “Pocket”, goes free. Lets its 4.5m users save articles, videos, images & more. — I recently met up with the team behind Read It Later over a drink in San Francisco. The product lets you quickly bookmark any page of text on the web, quite often articles, to read later.
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| 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, VentureBeat, Media Decoder, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Lost Remote, GadgeTell and The Next Web
| 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.
| 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: |
IBM's Mixed Q1 2012: Revenue Flat At $24.7B; Net Income Up 7 Percent To $3.1B — IBM just reported mixed first quarter earnings for 2012. GAAP earnings came in at $2.61, up 13 percent with non-GAAP earnings at $2.78, up 15 percent. Revenue was flat for the quarter coming in at $24.7 billion, up 1 percent adjusting for currency.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Zynga Flashes $1.8 Billion Searching for the New FarmVille: Tech — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) merger chief Barry Cottle plans to step up the pace of acquisitions, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in search of a new social-gaming blockbuster on par with hits “FarmVille” and “CityVille.”| 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.| 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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| Cameron Scott / Computerworld: |
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say — More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Quantenna raises astounding $79M round so you can have wire-like wireless networks — Based on conventional wisdom, Quantenna shouldn't exist as a startup maker of Wi-fi chips. It has huge competitors among chipmakers Broadcom, Marvell, and Qualcomm-Atheros.Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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