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| Sriram Krishnan: |
Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer — OMG, did you see that Marissa Mayer is now CEO of Yahoo? — That was one of many messages I got from current and ex-Yahoos on yesterday's news. Having recently exited a short stint at Yahoo as an engineering manager and having had hundreds …
| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
What the Internet Wants From Marissa Mayer, in Five Words — Earlier this year, in a brilliant, eviscerating, and really sort of heartbreaking essay, Mat Honan told the tale of “How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.” … As an epilogue, and as an elegy, Honan's piece was powerful … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
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| Hill Ferguson / 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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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
AT&T gets into shared data: ‘Mobile Share’ plans coming late August — Just over a month after Verizon announced Share Everything, AT&T is getting into the burgeoning shared data game (as it's been saying it would) with Mobile Share, a tiered set of plans that allow subscribers to split …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+ — In the midst of today's news whirl, this tidbit slipped through the cracks; Part of the design team Cuban Council has apparently been acq-hired by Google, according to a note on their blog.
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Dotcom Extradition Judge Steps Down After “U.S. Enemy” Comment — For the greater part, Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants will have been pretty happy with Judge David Harvey, the man overlooking their increasingly controversial extradition case. — Things had been going well …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It's ‘Too Early’ To Know — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that AT&T might charge customers extra …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate — The Senate Armed Service Committee isn't exactly pleased with the NSA's Google-like database. — Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr — In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google.| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Google: Your Nexus 7 will ship this week or next — Summary: Lots of people are anxiously waiting word on when their shiny new Nexus 7 tablet will be shipping, while others are already receiving theirs. This is the official word from Google as of today. — James Kendrick — Follow @jkendrick
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| Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
Already Valued at $4B, China's Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple — China's answer to Apple occupies the 12th floor of a staid office tower in a sprawling commercial area of Beijing. It has no signage on the building's exterior, so the only clue that suggests I'm in the right place …
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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 …
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| 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 … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins another Major iPhone & iOS Interface Patent — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-five newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In today's first granted patent report we focus entirely on a single patent that represents another major iPhone and iOS interface victory for Apple.
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| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit — Last week, Betaworks, a small, privately held company in New York bought a website called Digg for $500,000. — This was shocking news to the Internet industry. — Just six years ago, Digg was a hot startup fielding big buyout offers.| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
With a $6 million Series A, Twist for iOS wants to ensure you'll never wait for someone again — There are times when we see a team and we know that the product that they're crafting is going to be great. When startup vets Bill Lee and Mike Belshe are behind a project, it would be one of those times.
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| Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI's Secretive ‘National Security Letter’ Demand for Phone Records Faces Rare Challenge — In a rare test of a tool expanded in the U.S. Patriot Act, a telecom company is fighting the government's use of a secretive tool called a national security letter to get access to customer records without a court order.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Users Targeted By Spam, Possible Address Leak To Blame? (Update: Dropbox Sees Outage) — Some Dropbox users have begun reporting that their accounts are under attack from spam, but what's more troubling is that, in select cases, the spam is hitting accounts where users claim …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bringing Banking To Immigrants & Unbanked, m-Via Rebrands As Boom Financial, Closes On $17 Million In Funding — Global mobile money transfer service m-Via is officially rebranding as Boom Financial today as it announces the close of a $17 million round of funding, led by mobile operator Digicel Group Ltd …
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| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
With 110M Monthly Visitors, Dailymotion Debuts Update to Cloud Service — Today Paris and NYC-based Dailymotion, a web video platform that reaches more than 110 million unique visitors per month, announced an update to its Dailymotion Cloud product, which makes its suite of video publishing tools available on a white label basis.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Sony unveils 2012 Walkman range: Android 4.0 F series and refreshed entry-level E series (eyes-on) — The Walkman F800 is Sony's latest PMP; a 3.5-inch Android media player that replaces the company's middling Z series. Perhaps the most intriguing point is that the new media player will arrive …
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy — LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it's just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley. — It's product is half building block, half circuit board …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google launches Gmail SMS, letting users in Africa send and receive emails by text message — Google has rolled out a new service in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya that lets Gmail users send and receive emails using the built-in SMS features of their mobile phones.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Skyhook Introduces In-Flight Location Services, Promises Better Battery Life For Background Apps — Skyhook, the company that once powered Apple's iOS location services and that pioneered WiFi positioning in 2003, today announced the latest version of its developer kit for Android.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Import ban on Motorola's Android products takes effect Wednesday — The Motorola Xoom is one of 18 Android products affected by a pending import ban. — Motorola — An import ban on Motorola Android devices ordered by the US International Trade Commission is scheduled to take effect tomorrow.| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Broken Glass: Father of wearable computing allegedly assaulted — Wearable computing pioneer Steve Mann has allegedly been attacked by employees of a French McDonald's after sporting his own version of Google's Glass AR headset, with the EyeTap eyepiece grabbing snapshots of those involved.
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