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Facebook Tries, Tries Again on a Smartphone — Can a software company build its own smartphone? We may find out soon. — This past week, Google completed its acquisition of the hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which could lead to the search giant's making its own smartphone.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our Eyes — One of the many points of intrigue around Facebook's future centers on the mobile phone market. — It has been reportedly working on a mobile operating system for its own phone since 2010.
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| Randall Stross / New York Times: |
Goodbye to Windows Live (and Whatever It Meant) — IF you own a Windows-based PC, you may like the operating system well enough. Or you may merely tolerate it, if you give it much thought at all. But whatever your feeling, “love” probably isn't the word that immediately comes to mind to describe it.
Tweets: @simx and @bill_fischer
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Facebook Flop Puts Investment Banker on the Spot — Morgan Stanley's Michael Grimes Draws Some Flak for Facebook's IPO Flop — Facebook Inc.'s botched initial public offering left Morgan Stanley investment banker Michael Grimes in an unusual spot: on the defensive.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Decoding Share Prices: Amazon, Apple and Facebook — There are many religions when it comes to calculating the “right” price for the shares of a publicly traded company. At a basic level, buying a share is an act of faith in the company's future earnings.
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| Nicholas Holmes / The Next Web: |
An inside look at Switzerland's seriously ambitious startup scene — Ah, Switzerland. The land of chocolate, cow-bells, skiing and prices that make you want to cry. A place that has built a global brand on providing a safe, risk-free haven for other people's money and not being disruptive or belligerent.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
EXCLUSIVE: Ross Levinsohn's Plan To Turn Around Yahoo — It's been a week or so since Yahoo booted its CEO Scott Thompson for lying on his resume, and replaced him with Ross Levinsohn. — Levinsohn's title is “interim” CEO, but the impression we get is that it is his job to lose. — So, what's his plan?
Tweets: @jonathanglick
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Aged Windows XP costs 5x more to manage than Windows 7 — As XP's life wanes, Microsoft talks dollars to get businesses to ditch 11-year-old OS — Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Digital Chocolate Downsizing? Founder Trip Hawkins Out As CEO; Reports Of Layoffs, Marc Metis As Interim CEO — Some significant changes afoot at social and mobile games company Digital Chocolate: founder Trip Hawkins has stepped down as the CEO of the company.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Watch this rare video from inside the Foxconn facility where 70% of iPhones are made — You don't get a look inside Apple's factories in China all that often. Apple is notoriously secretive about their processes and products. That's why the video below is so fascinating …
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Motorola Demos Ice Cream Sandwich for the DROID RAZR in Official Video Series, Watch Them All Here — We know that Ice Cream Sandwich for the DROID RAZR will be here some time before the end of June (Q2) thanks to an updated timeline released by Motorola within the last week.
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| Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail: |
RIM prepares for radical measures with global restructuring — Patrick Spence, who quit this week as Research In Motion Ltd.'s global sales chief, was not the first senior executive to leave the struggling BlackBerry maker this spring and he will not be the last, as the company prepares for thousands of additional layoffs.Sponsor Posts
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