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The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations — There are two views of former Google VP and new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in the industry. — One is that she is a brand name product leader who played a crucial role in helping Google develop its most valuable business … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Big Tech: The Ultimate Googler Is Yahoo's Ideal CEO — Marissa Mayer begins her new job as Yahoo's CEO today. Photo: marcusnelson — It was already 10:30 at night, after a very long day that had begun at the Great Wall of China. A party of about 25 people had just finished a long meal …
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Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo — In a bombshell announcement that sent shock waves through the entire technology sector, former Google executive Marissa Mayer has become the new chief executive officer of Yahoo:the fifth CEO the faded web giant has had in five years.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
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Apple's Next iPhone Has Thinner Screen, Better Display Quality — HONG KONG—Apple Inc.'s next iPhone, currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, will use a new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner, people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. technology giant strives … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Yahoo reports Q2 revenues of $1.22 billion, earnings of $0.27 per share — Today Yahoo reported its second quarter financial performance. The firm had revenues of $1.22 billion in the quarter, and diluted earnings of $0.27 per share.However, after all factors were considered, revenue was $1.1 billion.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T appears set to control and charge for FaceTime over Cellular in iOS 6 — Like it does with the iOS Personal Hotspot feature, U.S. carrier AT&T appears set to control and charge for the iOS 6 FaceTime over Cellular feature. This iOS 6 enhancement brings the formally WiFi … | Intel: |
Intel Reports Second-Quarter Revenue of $13.5 Billion — Intel Corporation today reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion, operating income of $3.8 billion, net income of $2.8 billion and EPS of $0.54. The company generated approximately $4.7 billion in cash from operations … | The PayPal Blog: |
PayPal Acquires card.io — I'm excited to announce that PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco-based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. — We first met with the team at card.io when we were working …
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Motorola Xoom Tablet Doesn't Infringe iPad, Says German Court — A German court Tuesday ruled the Xoom tablet, made by Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Motorola Mobility, doesn't infringe on the design of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad, but it rejected a claim made by Motorola that the iPad's design patent is invalid.
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| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard … When we began planning how touch and new types of PCs might work on Windows 8, we recognized the need to provide an effective method for text entry on tablets and other touch screen PCs. Since Windows XP SP1, which had Tablet PC features built in … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reveals upcoming Office for Windows Phone 8 features — Microsoft has revealed the look and feel for its future Office for Windows Phone 8 software today. In a company blog post, Microsoft's John Jendrezak details some of the upcoming features, improvements, and interface changes.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Autodesk Buys Mobile Video Shooting Star Socialcam for $60M — Socialcam, the quick-growing mobile video start-up, has quickly found a buyer. — Autodesk, known for its CAD visual effects software, has agreed to buy Socialcam in a deal worth approximately $60 million, both companies said.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Serial hacker says latest Android will be “pretty hard” to exploit — Diagram showing attacker overwriting a return address with a pointer to the stack that contains attacker-supplied data — The latest release of Google's Android mobile operating system has finally been properly fortified with an industry-standard defense.
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| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Thiel vs. Schmidt: The fireworks fly — There wasn't much two of Silicon Valley's brightest luminaries could agree on. — FORTUNE — Has technology improved our lives over the past 30 years? It depends who you ask — and some of Silicon Valley's biggest luminaries couldn't disagree more.
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Piper Jaffray: 80 million iPhone 5 sales are already “in the bag” — In a survey of 400 consumers, 65% said they expected their next phone to be an iPhone — FORTUNE — In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster reported the results of his annual cell phone survey.| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Firefox 14 rolls out: Google searches default to HTTPS, OS X Lion users get fullscreen support — The changes in Firefox 14 may not be quite as immediately noticeable as those in the recently released Firefox 13, but they're still fairly notable nonetheless.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
3-D motion controller company Leap Motion scores former Apple VP as COO and President — San Francisco-based Leap Motion, which specializes in 3-D motion control software, has announced a significant hiring today. Its new COO and President is former Apple VP and General Partner at Highland Capital, Andy Miller.
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Market Wire and Fortune. Thanks:@mathemagie
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Google+ Debuts With ACSI Consumer Satisfaction Score Well Above Facebook's — The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index is out for social media sites, measuring satisfaction with Google+ for the first time against other social networks. What a debut!| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
LivingSocial Launches E-Commerce, a Business Worth $200 Million a Year — Today, LivingSocial officially announced its first foray into selling physical products. — LivingSocial Shop is similar to the company's original business, in that it will send an email to consumers, offering a limited set of products at a discount.
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VentureBeat, Pocket Protector and internetretailer.com
| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
Facebook engineer accidentally blocks Imgur, apologises on Reddit — When things go wrong on Facebook, they go disastrously wrong. But one Facebook engineer faced the Web's wrath head on and mitigated a public relations disaster for the world's largest social network. — Follow @zackwhittaker
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EMC, VMware swapping execs; offers preliminary Q2 results — Summary: VMware tries to put some fires out after it was revealed the company's CEO was leaving, sending stocks on a wild ride today. — Rachel King — Follow @zdnetrachel — After news broke this morning that VMware CEO Paul Maritz …
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| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Jerry Yang Leads New Funding Round for OpenBucks — Individual angel investors generally don't take leading roles in providing new institutional funding rounds for start-ups, but OpenBucks broke that tradition. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based financial services start-up raised $4.8 million …
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B&N Launches Nook For Web, Doesn't Work On iPhone Or iPad — Barnes & Noble is bringing its Nook reading platform to the web today, where it will compete with Kindle's Cloud Reader, iBooks, and Kobo's Instant Reader head-on. The move is an important one in the sense that one needs …
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Zaarly Anywhere: buy anything you see online, custom made for you — Zaarly, the online marketplace where users find and hire talented local builders and artisans, is announcing a new “Zaarly Anywhere” initiative that allows any site to enable offline commerce from online content.
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ProgrammableWeb, Fast Company, The Next Web and Business Insider
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
My Xbox LIVE app adds iPad support in 1.6 update — One mobile pillar at a time, or so seems Microsoft's approach to support for My Xbox LIVE. The app, previously available as a remote control perk for Windows Phone, Android and iPhone users, has just seen a 1.6 update that brings …
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Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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“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).
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