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Exclusive: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown) — Facebook's high-profile CTO Bret Taylor is leaving the Silicon Valley social networking giant later this summer, with future plans to work on an undetermined start-up. — The move is likely to be of concern … | Bret Taylor / Facebook: |
I wanted to let you all know that I'll be leaving Facebook later this summer. — I'm sad to be leaving, but I'm excited to be starting a company with my friend Kevin Gibbs. While a transition like this is never easy, I'm extremely confident in the teams and leadership we have in place.
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Tweets: @mathewi and @randizuckerberg
Thanks:@daveying99| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox 720 document leak reveals $299 console with Kinect 2 for 2013, Kinect Glasses project — While it's clear Microsoft isn't planning to introduce its next-generation Xbox console this year, all signs indicate that a 2013 launch is on the cards. A newly leaked 56-page document sheds … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Apple Gives Podcasts a Gentle Push Out of iTunes — Podcasts were supposed to be a big deal several years ago, but that boom never happened. Now there's at least anecdotal evidence that the format is actually picking up steam, as creators, listeners and advertisers warm to the format.
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PC World, Apple Bitch, Pocketables, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Geek News Central, Softpedia News, Know Your Cell, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, iPhone, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, AppleNApps, MacStories, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Podcasting News, VentureBeat, CNET, Macgasm, The Verge, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW, PadGadget, The Next Web, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, everythingiCafe and App Advice. Tweets: @qthrul. See also Mediagazer
| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com: |
Samsung Galaxy S III Canadian launch delayed, now happening on June 27th — One of the most anticipated Android devices to land on Canadian soil is the Samsung Galaxy S III. This has already seen global pre-orders rise to over 9 million and basically every Canadian carrier is on board to launch it … | Jason Boog / GalleyCat: |
eBook Revenues Top Hardcover — Net sales revenue from eBooks have surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012. — According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers), adult eBook sales were $282.3 million …
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TechCrunch, Mobile Marketing Watch and Pulse2 Technology …
| Guy Podjarny / Guy's Pod: |
Not as SPDY as You Thought — SPDY is awesome. It's the first real upgrade to HTTP in 10+ years, it tackles high latency mobile networks performance issues and it makes the web more secure. SPDY is different than HTTP in many ways, but its primary value comes from being able to multiplex …
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Pulse2 Technology …, CloudFlare blog, Softpedia News and TechCrunch
| Ashlee Vance / Business Week: |
The Two Horsemen of the Enterprise Software Apocalypse — At 71, Dave Duffield ought to be retired. He's spent a half-century starting technology companies and is worth billions. He has a $35 million Dassault Falcon 900EX jet, homes in the Bay Area and Palm Springs … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga And CBS Are Working To Bring Draw Something To Primetime TV — So you wondered how Zynga was gonna make money off its $210 million acquisition of OMGPOP? How about this: Hit game title Draw Something will soon be at the center of a new primetime game show, according to a report by Variety.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
AOL closes billion-dollar deal with Microsoft, selling most of its patents — A $1.056 billion agreement that transfers about three-quarters of AOL's patent portfolio to Microsoft has been completed, the companies announced today. Over 800 of AOL's 1,100 patents now belong to Microsoft …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Why Apple Is Going “Containment” Not “Thermonuclear” Against Google In iOS 6 — I keep hearing people talking about Apple finally going “thermonuclear” on Google with the forthcoming iOS 6 mobile operating system. No, it hasn't. In fact, there are good reasons why it can't … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
E-Commerce Is Head Over Heels for Pinterest, and for Good Reason — No one knows for sure what social commerce will be in the future, but it's starting to look a lot like Pinterest. — Based on a report shared exclusively with AllThingsD, Pinterest is on pace to become the most significant driver … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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