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Apple rejected Flattr... and it's not the end — Those following us on Twitter already know that last week Apple rejected Instacast, a well-love podcatcher, over its Flattr integration. What does this mean for the future of Flattr inside applications for iPhone and iPad?| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Facebook rumored to buy facial recognition tech startup Face.com for up to $100 million — Ready for another post-IPO Facebook acquisition rumor? — Israeli business publication Calcalist reports (in Hebrew) that the social networking giant is close to purchasing face recognition technology company Face.com.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Tory Newmyer / Fortune: |
Mr. Cook goes to Washington — Apple CEO Tim Cook got barely any notice when he slipped into the Capitol last Tuesday for a handful of meetings with Congressional leaders. The low-key visit was in keeping with the company's traditional approach to Washington.
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| Anderson Antunes / Forbes: |
Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: ‘No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg’ — It took almost a decade, one Hollywood flick and roughly a billion friends for Eduardo Saverin to agree on telling his side of the story about the founding of Facebook, the social-networking website that since 2004 has changed the way we communicate.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Meet ‘Flame’, The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers — A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware named Flame has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Prototype Original iPad with Dual Dock Connectors Surfaces — Ever since its initial introduction in early 2010, the iPad has offered a single dock connector oriented in portrait mode. But a rumor just prior to that introduction had indicated that the device would include … | Eran Feigenbaum / Google Enterprise Blog: |
Google Apps receives ISO 27001 certification — In the early days of the cloud, security concerns were often at the top of business minds as they considered moving to Google Apps. More recently, though, security has become a major reason businesses are moving to the cloud.
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
A cure for your incubator fatigue: Meet nReduce, the open-source Y Combinator — Incubators are like belly buttons: Everybody's got one. — Or so it seems from where we sit in San Francisco, where if one throws a rock in certain neighborhoods, one is sure to hit an incubator or accelerator or at least a hackathon.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III launches in 28 countries, to be available in 145 by July — Although some retailers are saying they don't expect to have inventory right away, Samsung is officially claiming that it has launched the Galaxy S III in 28 countries today. That's a massive launch …
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| Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson / NEWS.com.au: |
Australian probe looms for Google Street View — AUSTRALIA'S Privacy Commissioner could launch a second investigation into Google's collection of personal information after a report found the internet giant was warned its Street View cars were harvesting everything from text message to internet passwords.
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| Alastair Sharp / Reuters: |
RIM's top lawyer joins parade of resignations — (Reuters) - The top lawyer at Research In Motion Ltd has resigned and will soon leave the struggling BlackBerry maker, RIM said on Monday, joining a parade of long-time company executives to depart since Thorsten Heins took over as CEO earlier this year.| Nate Lanxon / Wired UK: |
Ubi turns any wall into a touchscreen using Microsoft's Kinect — “We can turn any surface into a 3D touchscreen,” explained Anup Chathoth, one third of Munich-based startup Ubi Interactive. Such claims typically conjure up images of floating Minority Report-style touchscreens made from curved glass …
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
If Facebook Really Goes Into The Mobile Hardware Business, Investors Should Run Away Screaming — Facebook is poaching ex-Apple engineers to build a smartphone, Nick Bilton of the New York Times reports. — This is the third iteration of Facebook's smartphone plans—from hardware to software and back to hardware again.
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