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Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board — CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved. — Patti Hart — the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO … | Yahoo! Pressroom Home: |
Yahoo! Board of Directors Forms Special Committee to Review CEO Academic Credentials — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced that it has formed a special committee to conduct a thorough review of CEO Scott Thompson's academic credentials …
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Apple and Samsung drop claims against each other but disagree more than ever on key issues — Late on Monday by local time, Apple made a filing in its first California litigation with Samsung that offers a truly impressive narrowing of its infringement claims in that action …
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AT&T Mobility CEO: Family data plan coming soon (scoop) — AT&T's Ralph de la Vega says he feels good about the plan, a reversal of the uncertainty he expressed just a few months ago. NEW ORLEANS—AT&T's version of the family data plan may be coming sooner than you think.| Zohair Hyder / Gmail Blog: |
A better Google+ notification experience in email — Notification emails are a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Google+ stream: whether someone mentions you, comments on your post, or shares with you directly. It's not always enough to just read these updates, however …
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| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Skype killing Windows Phone: Nokia responds — Summary: Nokia responds to a recent article about Nokia's partnership with Microsoft and how it is hurting Lumia sales. The transcript and video of CEO Elop's comments are included here. — Nokia has responded to a recent ZDNet Mobile News article … | Mat Smith / Engadget: |
| Aden Fine / ACLU: |
BREAKING NEWS: Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users — Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his communications on Twitter. This particular case involves a Twitter user …
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Google: AT&T's CEO doesn't understand how Android phones get updated — In response to last night's report—where AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson told a questioner that the fault of Android smartphones not receiving updates is Google's. — Stephenson blamed Google, claiming … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It's Giving To Employees — As device makers like RIM, Samsung and Nokia incorporate NFC technology into their mobile devices, Apple has been radio silent on what its plans will be in mobile commerce and payments.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker's Stealth Video Startup Airtime Ready For Launch At June 5th Press Event — Airtime looks to be finally ready for takeoff, as Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's stealth video startup just put up a blog stating “We look forward to saying hello on June 5th. Sign up to be first in line.”
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How Hewlett-Packard lost its way — Léo Apotheker's disastrous tenure as HP's CEO revealed a dysfunctional company struggling for direction after a decade of missteps and scandals. Can his replacement, Meg Whitman, fix the tech giant? — By James Bandler with Doris Burke| Vaibhav Sharma / The Handheld Blog: |
A Detailed Look At Tizen on Samsung's First Prototype Device — Tizen just hit the 1.0 release last week (codenamed Larkspur), and at the Tizen Conference I've had the chance to play with the prototype device that Samsung has been handing out to developers to test their applications.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
FCC Chairman: Rejection of AT&T's T-Mobile Deal Isn't Causing Higher Prices — AT&T has recently made the case that the failure of its effort to buy T-Mobile is behind recent price hikes. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski isn't buying it.
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Apple says lack of multi-user support on iPad is a ‘known issue,’ ‘being investigated’ — Apple has signaled that it is aware of a desire to support multiple users on one iPad, and that the issue is “currently being investigated” by the company's engineering team.
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Alleged Facebook ‘likejacker’ settles with Washington state — Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot announcing suits last January against alleged “likejacking” scammers at a Seattle press conference. — (Credit: Jay Greene/CNET)| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Viddy hits 26M users, consistently registering over 500K a day — On April 16th, I wrote an article about how popular video sharing app Viddy had hit 6.5M users. Less than a month later, the company tells me that it's starting to consistently sign up over 500K new users a day, and currently boasts a userbase of 26M.| Federal Trade Commission: |
Myspace Settles FTC Charges That It Misled Millions of Users About Sharing Personal Information with Advertisers — Settlement Will Require Regular Privacy Assessments for the Next 20 Years — Social networking service Myspace has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges …
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Experience Google I/O 2012 anywhere — In 2011, Google I/O hosted 5,500 developers from 65 countries in San Francisco, but this audience was dwarfed by the more than 1 million developers from 161 countries tuning in via livestream. Next month developers worldwide will come together …
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Passpoint WiFi tech promises cellphone-like handoff between hotspots — An industry group that aims to make WiFi access from smartphones and other devices as simple as connecting to a cellular network will begin certifying WiFi network equipment and end-user devices for the new connection method next month.
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Exclusive: Kinect Play Fit to offer universal exercise tracking with ‘Joule’ heart rate monitor — Microsoft is preparing to update its Xbox 360 dashboard software to include a cross-application exercise tracking system, according to our sources. Kinect Play Fit will allow Xbox gamers … | Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Crowdfunding: $1.5B Raised, 1M Campaigns Funded In 2011; Figures Set To Double In 2012 — Well, it's been quite a year already for the crowdfunding industry. With the JOBS Act becoming law, the tech industry (and the economy at large) are headed for some big changes.| Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade: |
RIM Names Kristian Tear COO, Frank Boulben CMO — Research In Motion this morning announced two addition to its management team. — The company named Kristian Tear as chief operating officer. Tear has been with Sony Mobile Communications, where he served as executive VP.
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