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| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Frustrated advertisers to Facebook: Take our money — please! — With the social network's huge IPO getting nearer, this is the sort of news that Mark Zuckerberg doesn't need to hear just now. With a reach approaching 15 percent of the world's population, Facebook is a thriving media business.| Wall Street Journal: |
The Big Doubt Over Facebook's IPO — Facebook Inc. has built a $3 billion-a-year advertising business by convincing marketers to buy new forms of advertising designed to create buzz around their brands. — But some advertisers with big spending accounts are wondering whether they're getting their money's worth.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, CNET, Wall Street Journal and Boing Boing
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
An Apple CEO-in-waiting sells 95% of his company shares — The head of iPhone and iPad software sold 64,151 shares Friday worth $38.7 million FORTUNE — Scott Forstall took home a chunk of change Friday. Taking advantage of Apple's (AAPL) relatively high (but not record) share price …
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CNET, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Business Insider, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and Edible Apple
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Spotify (Finally) Shows Up on the iPad — You wanted a Spotify iPad app? You've got a Spotify iPad app. — It's pretty, and it takes advantage of the tablet's bigger screen to showcase artist artwork and other cool stuff. Just like you'd expect from an iPad app. — Demo video is at the bottom of this post.
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PC Magazine, BetaNews, MacRumors, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Spotify, Guardian, BGR, Business Insider, The Next Web, WebProNews, GadgeTell, Softpedia News, Engadget, GigaOM, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, App Advice, TUAW, IntoMobile, MacStories, Lifehacker and Appolicious Advisor
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Down, Not Out: Nokia Goes On The Offensive With 11 Lawsuits Against HTC, RIM And ViewSonic Covering 45 Patents — As Nokia continues to try to turn itself around as a mobile phone business, it is also playing on the offense in the legal game: today it announced that it has filed fresh round …
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CNET, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Seattle Times, Nokia, ZDNet, The Tech Trade, Engadget, The Nokia Blog, Reuters, The Verge, IntoMobile and Softpedia News
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Revealed: Facebook Messenger for iPad, iPhone app with video chat in the works — While Facebook has focused on smartphones for its standalone Facebook Messenger app, the company is currently developing a version for the Apple iPad. A reliable source has provided an in-depth look … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
FRAND abuse: German court hands Motorola an injunction against Windows 7 and Xbox 360 — This morning, Judge Dr. Holger Kircher of the Landgericht Mannheim (Mannheim Regional Court) handed down his postponed ruling on a set of four closely-related Motorola lawsuits against Microsoft.
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GeekWire, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, GigaOM, Seattle Times, Computerworld, CNET, Telegraph, Ubergizmo, BBC, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Softpedia News and The Verge
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Bing Strips Down Results Page To Make Google Look Like “Search Overload” — While Google keeps cramming its search results pages full of tools and social content, today Bing confirmed with me the full roll out a redesigned search results page that completely clears the left sidebar … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Exclusive: $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect bundle launching next week with two-year subscription — Microsoft is planning to launch a $99 Xbox console package with a monthly subscription as early as next week, according to our sources. The software giant will offer the 4GB console with a Kinect sensor …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, Gamasutra, GamesIndustry International, The Next Web, I4U News, SlashGear, Joystiq and Kotaku
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google introduces ‘VC Office Hours’, Google+ hangouts with top Silicon Valley figures — Google+ is often lamented for failing to capture the attention of mainstream social network users and, almost in response to that accusation, Google is launching an interesting initiative that will see top figures … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
After Testifying in Oracle-Google Trial, Scott McNealy Speaks Out — Having testified in the Oracle-Google trial with a decidedly different viewpoint from that of his successor, former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy took to Bloomberg TV yesterday to talk a little about Java, and licensing of its APIs, and other matters yesterday.
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
It's official: Target will phase out all Kindle-branded products this spring — Last night we reported on Target's plans to discontinue sale of the Kindle due to “conflict of interest,” and now the company has confirmed to us that it will, indeed, discontinue sale.
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Business Insider, Engadget, Ars Technica, GeekWire, TechFlash, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, GigaOM, DailyTech, PadGadget, CNET and Good E-Reader
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley's Silence On Cybersecurity Bill — While the Internet has been bristling with anger over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the Internet industry has been either silent or quietly supportive of the controversial bill. With one exception.
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Computerworld, CNET, The H Security, The Raw Story, The Verge and WebProNews. Thanks:@forbestech
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
OS X Mountain Lion update adds helpful ‘Do Not Disturb’ option for notifications — Apple's update to OS X Lion Preview 3 adds a very helpful new “Do Not Disturb” feature for notifications. The feature is a toggle accessible at the top of Notification Center that allows users to block incoming alerts and banners.
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Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, WebProNews, Macgasm, MacRumors, Softpedia News, The Verge, The Next Web and Pocket-lint. Thanks:@markgurman
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Apple-Targeting Flashback Botnet Still Kicking, But Shrinking By 100,000 Macs Per Week — Dr. Web's count of Macs actively infected with Flashback over time. The “A” marks Apple's release of its Flashback removal tool, and the “B” marks Dr. Web's discovery of another variant of Flashback …
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ZDNet, The Register, Inquirer, WebProNews, Bits, News on ZDNet Australia, BGR and Ars Technica
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Flingo Marries Up, Gets Hitched to Mark Cuban — In a courtship that began at CES earlier this year, smart TV app company Flingo is now getting hitched to billionaire technology and digital media expert Mark Cuban. — Flingo announced $1 million of additional financing by Cuban and Gary Lauder … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Gets Into the Sitcom Business — Amazon has been stocking up its Web-video offering with lots of old TV shows. Now it's going to start making some of its own. — The company is pulling back the covers (a bit) on its plans to produce kids' shows and sitcoms via its “Amazon Studios” … | Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Dropbox working with Apple to resolve app rejection issue — After a number of developers using the Dropbox SDK reported that Apple was rejecting their iOS apps from the App Store because of links to an external purchase option, the cloud storage provider has confirmed that is working with Apple to address the issue.
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MacRumors, MacStories, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, The Next Web, iPhone, TUAW, Appolicious Advisor, App Advice, PhoneArena and IntoMobile
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Birst Lands $26M From Sequoia, Hummer Winblad To Bring Big Data Analytics To The Masses — Birst, a San Francisco-based startup that offers on-demand business intelligence and analytics solutions for companies big and small, has raised $26 million in series D financing, led by Sequoia Capital.
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VentureBeat and GigaOM
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Early Foursquare Employee Tristan Walker Heads To Andreessen Horowitz As An EIR — After 2.5 years at Foursquare, one of its earliest employees, Tristan Walker, is heading to the venture side. — Here's the farewell post on his blog: — Once in a lifetime, if you're lucky, you nail your dream job.
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About Foursquare, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, just tristan and The Next Web
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Judge Posner scolds Apple's lawyers: 'I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple' — Judge Richard A. Posner, the most-cited U.S. legal scholar of the 20th century, is actually a circuit judge (appeals judge) but he is sitting “by designation” on the United States District Court …
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AllThingsD, MacDailyNews, TUAW, CNET, Neowin, Computerworld, MacNN, everythingiCafe and The Verge
| Miguel de Icaza / Xamarin: |
Android Ported to C# — Oracle and Google are currently in a $1 billion wrestling match over Google's use of Java in Android. — But Java is not the only way to build native apps on Android. In fact, it's not even the best way: we have been offering C# to Android developers as a high-performance …
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Inquirer, GitHub, SlashGear, Liliputing, The H Open Source, Ars Technica, InfoQ, TechEye and 9to5Google. Thanks:@ckindel
| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Teradata buys eCircle to get more of your marketing data — Data warehouse veteran Teradata announced on Wednesday it is buying German software company eCircle in an attempt to gain a stronger presence in fast-growing world of marketing data. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed …
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The Register, Information Age and ZDNet
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
DataSift raises $7.2m inside round to help make sense of ‘big data’ beyond social interactions — DataSift, a rising star in the world of ‘big data’ collection and analysis, has raised $7.2 million from existing backers GRP Partners and IA Ventures to help accelerate growth as worldwide demand for its services continues to soar.
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, VatorNews, BetaKit, GigaOM and TechCrunch
| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Barnes & Noble CEO: NFC coming to the Nook — The battle for e-book dollars became a lot more interesting earlier this week when Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft (MSFT). Over the next five years, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant will invest …
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CNET, The Register, USA Today, eWeek, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Gotta Be Mobile, TeleRead, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, Betabeat, PC World and Good E-Reader. Thanks:@jpmanga. See also Mediagazer
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
New Firefox design will offer uniform look across desktop and mobile — Mozilla recently combined its desktop and mobile design teams with the aim of unifying the Firefox user experience across form factors. A presentation slide deck published by Mozilla's Madhava Enros offers some insight …
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WebProNews, Softpedia News, Neowin, The Verge and Madhava Enros
| Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat: |
Nokia Repays $420 K. Grant For Failing To Create Lasting Jobs in New York — Nokia's renovated headquarters via PerkinsWill.com — This week, Nokia, the Finnish phone company currently taking a beating on its bottom line, was forced to pay back $420,000 for a broken deal to bring jobs …
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LoHud.com and The Next Web
| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Twitter Said to Have Considered Buying Mobile Photo App Camera+ — Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said.
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CNET, AllTwitter, iPhone in Canada Blog and Business Insider
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony reveals VAIO T ultrabook: 11 and 13-inch models, Sandy Bridge processors, out this month — Sony has announced its first true ultrabook, the VAIO T. The design looks much the same as the prototype we saw all the way back at CES, with a 17.8mm-thick brushed metal body that pushes right up against the 18mm limit specified by Intel.
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