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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.| 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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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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.| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Face Fine by U.S. Over Apple Safari Breach — Google Inc. (GOOG) is negotiating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over how big a fine it will have to pay for its breach of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s Safari Internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said.| Groklaw: |
Jury in Oracle v. Google Has Reached a Verdict on All Questions but One - Will Try Again Monday — The jury in Oracle v. Google is reentering the courtroom, according to the tweeting journalists at the courtroom, asking what to do. They have reached a unanimous verdict on all the questions except for one.
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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.
| 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 …
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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 firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. — In meetings with industry representatives …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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PC Magazine, Tecca, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, App Advice, Daring Fireball and The Consumerist
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft to Botmasters: Abandon Your Inboxes — If the miscreants behind the ZeuS botnets that Microsoft sought to destroy with a civil lawsuit last month didn't already know that the software giant also wished to unmask them, they almost certainly do now.
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WebProNews, Neowin and ZDNet
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger Apps Get More Life-Like, Now Show If Someone's Read Your Message — Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone's read your message …
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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 … | Andrew Feinberg / Hillicon Valley: |
Verizon moves toward 911 texting — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praised Verizon Wireless on Friday for selecting a vendor to help deploy its first-in-the-nation implementation of its “text-to-911” service. — The service will allow wireless phone users …
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| Cody / iDownloadBlog.com: |
How text editing on the iPad should be — If you've ever spent any kind of time editing text on the iPad, you know that there has to be a better solution. Placing your cursor in a certain spot in a sentence or paragraph can be difficult. And between letters? Forget about it.
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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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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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