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Loeb Demands Yahoo Board Fire CEO by Monday Over False Resume — Now that activist shareholder Dan Loeb has discredited Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's educational credentials and credibility, he's going full bore after the company's directors. — In a new letter to Yahoo's board of directors today … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Board Will “Review” Resume Discrepancy of CEO — Yahoo just released a statement that its board will “review” today's revelation that the bio of its CEO Scott Thompson contained an error related to his educational achievements and will make “appropriate disclosure” about what happened.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Scott Thompson Resume Scandal Is Not ‘An Inadvertent Mistake’ — He Also Claimed Comp Sci Degree As CTO Of PayPal — Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire for telling the SEC (and Yahoo's board) that he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when he does not have one.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
In 2009 Interview, Yahoo CEO Does Not Deny He Has a CS Degree and Calls Himself an “Engineer” (Audio) — On March 25, 2009, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson — when he was then president of PayPal — appeared on the TechNation radio show to talk about the revival of the eBay payments unit.
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The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life — When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so this two-tablet strategy made sense.| Dustin Curtis: |
Facebook's numbers — I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook's most recent S-1 filing (published on May 2nd) that I think are important as metrics …
| Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab: |
How OpenStreetMap Got Apple To Give It Due Credit — Apple has finally given credit where credit was due: To OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map that Apple recently began using in its iPhoto app without proper attribution. — “Apple attributes OSM in iPhoto,” OpenStreetMap's official …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround — Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. — The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila … | Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
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| Nick Farrell / TechEye: |
John McAfee arrested in Belize — John McAfee, who founded McAfee Antivirus, is in trouble with a country which he has given millions of dollars to help out. — McAfee lives in Belize and has even given the country's Coastguard a patrol ship. — Now he says that he has become a target …
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Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast — Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time with the device at Samsung's unpacked event in London and are able to bring …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites — now — The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. — In meetings with industry representatives …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010 — Google Inc's Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, a U.S. judge said in court.
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million — LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move: “Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture …
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| Diego Basch / Diego Basch's Blog: |
A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi — On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. As a relatively early employee, I was a multimillionaire on paper. Life was good. In the next year and a half the stock went down by 99.9%. In the end, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo for 250M.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement — Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a … | Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
SquareTrade's warranty now covers jailbroken iPhones — The third-party warranty service says it now covers iPhones that have been jailbroken, something that voids typical warranties. Third-party gadget warranty service SquareTrade today expanded its coverage, and now supports jailbroken iPhones.
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MacRumors, GigaOM and PhoneArena
| David Goldman / CNNMoney.com: |
Verizon reps push 4G Android over iPhone — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Want to buy an iPhone? Verizon would really, really like you to consider an alternative. — Anecdotal evidence is stacking up on chat forums and other outlets from people who say that Verizon Wireless' sales representatives … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Windows 8 drops DVD playback, only available with paid Media Center upgrade — You might have heard that Windows 8 won't come with Media Center, but that's not the only missing multimedia piece of the puzzle. This week, Microsoft revealed that the new operating system won't have any kind of DVD playback … | Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL — Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad — Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post …
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| Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
In a Samsung Galaxy far, far away ... will Android still rule? — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and biggest user of Google's Android operating system. — And, for some, that's the problem. — Samsung's meteoric rise …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Heads up, Intel: TSMC cranks up ARM chip to 3GHz — ARM Cortex A9. — (Credit: ARM) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has ripped a page right out of the Intel playbook. — TSMC announced today that a chip rolling off its advanced 28-nanometer manufacturing process …
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| Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo: |
Samsung releases source code for Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1 — If you were planning on getting your hands on either the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 or the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, you might be interested to hear that Samsung has since released the source code for both devices.
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