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AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone — When Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone. In particular, he said that he wished the company … | Wall Street Journal: |
Resume Trips Up New Yahoo Chief — Hedge fund Third Point LLC continued its attack against Yahoo Inc.'s management, calling for the immediate termination of Chief Executive Scott Thompson amid admitted inaccuracies in his academic credentials. — Third Point, which owns about 5% of Yahoo … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Thompson Asks Employees to “Stay Focused” — Except Not on Him — Of course, the Yahoo internal memo for the Yahoo internal crisis of the week! — Here is CEO Scott Thompson's email today to employees about the controversy around the fact that he does not have a computer science degree … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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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.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee — A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee. — The social network has already shut down the developer's passive location app and all three co-founders … | 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 … | Steve Ragan / SecurityWeek: |
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The Other Facebook Founder — Atop $2 Billion Fortune, Eduardo Saverin Gave Up Silicon Valley for Singapore's Tech, Society Scene — SINGAPORE—Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most famous chief executives in the world. His former business partner and friend, Eduardo Saverin, is big in Singapore.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. Who's Next? — On Wednesday we uncovered a potentially worrying trend of VCs investing in very early stage companies by giving money to network rich, cash poor entrepreneurs — or “scouts.” — Ostensibly, the trend has a lot of advantages for the investors involved.| Eric Mack / CNET: |
Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 up for preorder now, in stores May 13 — There aren't any big upgrades to the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but the price has taken a big drop. — (Credit: Samsung) — The follow-up to the big boy of Android tablets, the 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 can be preordered online today … | Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld: |
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Study: Apple iPad Accounts for 94.64% of all Tablet Web Traffic — What do you think of when you hear the word “tablet”? For most it would be Apple or more specifically the iPad. When the iPad was released in 2010 it quickly gained popularity amongst the masses.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Emergency Flash update fixes security bug being used to hijack PCs — Adobe has released an emergency update for its Flash Player that fixes a security bug that's being actively exploited to hijack Windows computers running the ubiquitous software. — The “object confusion vulnerability” … | 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 … | Spencer Ackerman / Wired: |
Kickstarter of Doom: Hoax Site ‘Funds’ Torture Bus, Death Drones — Crowdsourcing a next-gen drone or a rolling torture center? Uh, yeah, Kickstriker is a hoax. — Inspired by the Kony 2012 fad, a group of New York University grad students has set up the wartime version of Kickstarter … | Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google's April Updates: Bigger & Tiered Index, Document Ranking, Sitelink Changes & More — If it's the first Friday of the month, it must be time for Google to share its latest list of search quality updates. And, like clockwork, Google didn't disappoint today — the company has posted … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even — There is no shortage of stories about lone developers who made an app for the iPhone or iPad and had runaway success. But in the real world, the majority of app makers struggle to break even, according to a recent survey by marketing firm App Promo.| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Cameron to consider ‘opt in’ porn plan — Government to consult with internet service providers on blocking adult material on the internet in the UK — The government is to consider introducing new filters for online pornography, in a move likely to be fiercely resisted by internet service providers.| Siddharth Cavale / Reuters: |
Sprint CEO to take pay cut as iPhone costs pinch — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel chief Daniel Hesse said he would take a cut in pay this year, after coming under fire from some shareholders disappointed with the hit the company's results took from subsidizing Apple's popular iPhones.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:20 AM ET, May 5, 2012.
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