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Exclusive: Apple courts Hollywood for upcoming TV: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc began talks earlier this year to stream films owned by EPIX, which is backed by three major movie studios, on devices including a long-anticipated TV, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo's Five Counter-Counterclaims Against Facebook. #1: Throw Out Retaliatory Patents — Today Yahoo hit Facebook with five big counter-counterclaims designed to invalidate the patents cited in the social network's infringement countersuit. If the court concurs, Facebook could be left wide-open … | Paul Sloan / CNET: |
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Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing — YouTube didn't need ads to spread itself - instead it used embeds. Ad via Laughing Squid — The rise of the Growth Hacker — The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley's culture, emphasizing that coding … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
The Winklevoss Twins Are Now VCs: “We Think The Cloud Is Going To Be Huge” — It's a Friday afternoon (in some parts of the world, at least), so go ahead — take a nice long drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage. If you're like me, you'll need it to make it through the CNBC interview …
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HP is working on x86 Windows 8 tablet, rough render exposed — Windows 8 news comes from a variety of sources. Sometimes it comes from the Windows 8 fountain and other times it comes from sources familiar with company's plans. — This time around we have some information from a trusted source … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey Talks Square, Twitter, And Instagram-Facebook With Charlie Rose — Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose yesterday to talk about the two companies he's developed as well as Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram and the “digital revolution.”| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Apple kills Chomp for Android — Apple acquired app discovery service Chomp earlier this year, betting that it would help make app discovery easier and better on its iTunes Appstore. The casualty of that acquisition is the Chomp for Android app which seems to have been discontinued.| Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey: |
Latest Firefox Beta Turns On the ‘SPDY’ — With Firefox 12 out the door, Mozilla is turning its efforts to polishing up Firefox 13, due out six weeks from now. — If you don't want to wait that long, you can download Firefox 13 from the beta release channel today.
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Microsoft forges ahead with new home-automation OS — More than a decade ago, Microsoft execs, led by Chairman Bill Gates, were touting a future where .Net coffee pots, bulletin boards, and refrigerator magnets would be part of homes where smart devices would communicate and interoperate.
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Apple sued over iPad cover — A Colorado man says Apple's smart cover for the new iPad and the iPad 2 violate his 2005 patent for a “Portable Computer Case.” — Aspen resident Jerald Bovino filed a lawsuit in federal court asking Apple and retailer Target to pay royalties for using his technology.| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
“Instagram for Video” — Ok, I usually don't write about video other than commenting on YouTube because (a) I'm inherently biased and (b) I don't want my opinions to be taken as representing the view of my company. But.... since there's so much heat around the question of “Instagram for video” …
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AT&T stockholders vote down net neutrality measure by overwhelming margin — It looks like AT&T didn't have anything to worry about when Beastie Boys member Mike D and other stockholders proposed that the company commit to operating its wireless division under the principles of net neutrality.
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T.G.I. Fridays lets diners pay with smartphones using Tabbedout — Casual food restaurant chain T.G.I. Fridays has become the first national chain to incorporate a mobile payment option called Tabbedout, which will allow diners to open a tab and pay their bill right from their smartphone.
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Apple's Texas move ‘in peril’ after attorney calls contract ‘rigged’ — The company initially had plans to invest $304 million in Austin, Texas, but now the county isn't sure it wants to offer Apple incentives to come to the city. — Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
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All-Star Cast Invests 750K In Ben Huh And Matt Galligan's Mobile News Startup Circa — SimpleGeo's Matt Galligan and Icanhascheezburger's Ben Huh have teamed up to change the way people consume news via mobile. Their startup Circa, which boasts a newsworthy list of advisors … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Drive Arrives In ChromeOS Developer Channel — Ever since Google released its cloud storage service Google Drive earlier this week, there has been some speculation as to what its integration with ChromeOS, Google's cloud-centric operating system, would look like.
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Misfit Wearables, The Startup From Agamatrix's Founders, Former Apple CEO John Sculley, Raises $7.6M — Google Glass isn't the only game in town. — Misfit Wearables, a wearable computing startup from the founding team of mobile health company Agamatrix and former Apple chief executive John Sculley … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon settles $269M Texas tax bill with jobs, investment and ‘immaterial payment’ — Amazon.com has reached a settlement in one of its largest and longest-running state tax disputes, reaching a deal with the Texas comptroller to resolve the state's claims that the company owed some $269 million in back taxes in the state.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Mac App Store Hits 10,000 Available Apps — As pointed out by MacGeneration [Google translation], Apple's Mac App Store has reached a new milestone with 10,000 apps available for purchase or free download through the marketplace. — Our own sister site AppShopper confirms the milestone … | Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
Social Networking Ends Games 40 Month Mobile Reign — The app revolution has changed the way software is distributed and used among consumers. With a perfect storm of digital distribution, free content and powerful touch screen devices, the success of mobile apps has disrupted industries … | Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com: |
Intuit To Acquire Demandforce For $424MM — This morning, Intuit announced its agreement to acquire one of Benchmark's portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm. As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce.
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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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 …
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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
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Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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