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Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present — Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.
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Facebook Falls Below $30 as Option Trading Begins — NEW YORK—Facebook Inc.'s shares tumbled under $30 for the first time, 11 days after the social-media giant launched its initial public offering, as options trading began Tuesday and a negative sentiment continued to weigh on the stock.
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A boo.com Moment? Facebook's IPO Faceplant, Carnage in Social Media Stocks — The Facebook (FB) fiasco has spooked a lot of tech investors, especially those holding shares of recently-launched social media companies with similarly unproven earnings streams.
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Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video — Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and use Kinect for Xbox 360 to find and play videos with the wave of a hand or sound of their voice
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype — PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service. — The statistics tell the story. In seven months, the number of people using … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources — The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources. — Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days.| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's third writedown since December.| 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 … | Michael Mace / MobileOpportunity: |
Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 — I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of settling for mediocre incremental improvements in its core products, Microsoft finally was ready to make bold changes to Windows, something I thought it had to do to stay relevant in computing.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Plans to Shut Nextel Network as Early as June 2013 — Sprint said Tuesday that it would shut down its Nextel network as soon as June of next year, as the company aims to free up space for its next-generation LTE network. — The carrier has been working on plans to sunset …
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others — 10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Sweet irony: EU imposes cookie law, ignores own rules — On all European Union institution websites, you will be lucky to find a single page that asks the visitor for permission to set cookies. But they're using them all the same. — The ‘cookie law’ requires any company …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Bitly Launches New Bookmarking Features, Profiles, Search & iPhone App — Link shortener Bitly today launched a major redesign and number of new features that all add up to what the company itself calls “a new Bitly.” Among these new features are ‘bitmarks,’ Bitly's name for its new bookmarking features …
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground — Can Newly Public Company Withstand Demands for Ads That Interrupt User Experience? — GM wanted to brand Facebook. And Facebook wasn't selling. — In a now-notorious meeting between General Motors Global CMO Joel Ewanick …
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| Robin Sloan: |
Pictures and vision — Okay, I'm going to argue that the futures of Facebook and Google are pretty much totally embedded in these two images: The first one you know. What you might not know is just how completely central photos are to Facebook's product, and by extension its whole business.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole — The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. — Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and the end is still not in sight.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Sequoia Capital raising new funds — Venture firm seeks at least $1 billion. — FORTUNE — Sequoia Capital is back in the fund-raising market, with a series of venture capital vehicles designed to raise at least $1 billion (in aggregate). My understanding is that one fund … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
The Truth About Those Brutal Descriptions Of Working Conditions At Square — Over on Q&A site Quora, several former Square employees have posted harsh descriptions of the working conditions at the booming mobile payments company founded and run by Jack Dorsey.| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Google Wallet: one year later — The rumors and leaks go back a bit further, but it was a year ago today that Google officially revealed its Google Wallet mobile payment service — a platform that the company is still betting big on, even if it may be slightly reconsidering the way it does business.
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