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Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive … Over the last year we've been hard at work building SkyDrive alongside Windows 8, setting out a unique approach to designing personal cloud storage for billions of people by bringing together the best aspects of file, app, and device clouds.
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| Facebook Newsroom: |
Microsoft, Facebook Announce Patent Agreement — Microsoft Corp. and Facebook announced today a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will assign to Facebook the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio it recently agreed to acquire from AOL Inc. Facebook has agreed to purchase this portion for $550 million in cash.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Paying Microsoft $550 Million To Get its Hands on Hundreds of Former AOL Patents — Microsoft and Facebook are about to announce a deal with the social networking giant paying Redmond $550 million for access to more than 600 patents, AllThingsD has learned.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Amended S-1: 901 Million Users, 500M Mobile, Paid $300M Cash + 23M Shares For Instagram — Facebook has just filed a fourth amendment to its S-1 to IPO that notes that it now has 500 million mobile users, 901 million monthly active users, and that it paid 23 million shares at $30.89 …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Updated S-1: Facebook's Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six Percent From Last Quarter — Facebook filed an updated version of its S-1 public offering document today, which included first-quarter financials. — In the new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Netflix has 26 million streaming customers worldwide, prepared to do battle with HBO — Calling itself the “world's leading Internet TV network,” Netflix has announced $870 million in revenue for its fiscal Q1 2012. The company also added almost 3 million subscribers to its streaming service …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Posts An In-Line Quarter, But Investors Balk — First look at Netflix numbers: A loss of $0.08 a share on revenue of $870 million. Wall Street was expecting revenues of $855 million and a loss of $0.27 a share. The crucial number: 23.41 million domestic streaming subscribers.| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
| Jon Ying / The Dropbox Blog: |
Share your stuff with a link! — We're super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox! — Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you've saved that video of your niece's birthday party to Dropbox …
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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email — Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile — As the second week of the Oracle-Google trial got underway Monday, Andy Rubin, the man behind the Android platform, took his turn on the witness stand.
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| AnandTech: |
The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review — The times, they are changing. In fact, the times have already changed, we're just waiting for the results. I remember the first time Intel brought me into a hotel room to show me their answer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX—the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.| Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb: |
Microsoft's Mobile Comeback Is Looking Terrible — Microsoft ruled the PC market for decades with utter dominance. But today, as the future shifts toward mobile devices, things are not looking good for Microsoft. It's not that it's not trying: Microsoft is spending a lot of money and effort …
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| L. Gordon Crovitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Justice Department Bites Apple — The 30% revenue-share model is the company's standard practice, not the product of a conspiracy. — 'I don't think you understand. We can't treat newspapers or magazines any differently than we treat FarmVille. With those words, senior Apple executive Eddy Cue stuck …
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| Royal Pingdom: |
Current status of the “Browser Wars” — In this report we will examine the current status of what is often referred to as the “Browser Wars.” How popular are the various web browsers around the world right now? As you'll see, there are significant regional differences in web browser usage.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Hurt Locker Makers Return to Sue 2,514 BitTorrent Users — After being honored with an Oscar for Best Motion Picture in 2010, the makers of The Hurt Locker went on to sue thousands of people who allegedly shared the film online. — Movie studio Voltage Pictures was not only one of the first studios …
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| Scott Wilson / Washington Post: |
Obama to target foreign nationals' use of new technologies in human rights abuses — President Obama will issue an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies …
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| Jenna Wortham / Bits: |
Viddy, a Video-Sharing App, Attracts Biz Stone and Shakira as Backers — After photo-sharing apps like Instagram, will the next big thing in social media be video-sharing apps? — The people behind Viddy, a video-sharing app, certainly hope so. The application, which is currently available …
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| Max Zachariades / TechCrunch: |
Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft — Editor's Note: This Guest post is written by Max Zachariades, who spent the last five years at Microsoft in various roles. He blogs under the name Max Zografos. — I first used Windows on a TULIP portable computer, some twenty years ago.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Microsoft Xbox 360 found to infringe Motorola patents in preliminary ITC ruling — A judge at the US International Trade Commission has just ruled that Microsoft's Xbox 360 infringes five of Motorola's patents. The ruling isn't unexpected, since many of the patent cover H.264 video encoding …
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