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July 18, 2012, 11:10 AM
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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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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
| 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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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, GigaOM, ZDNet, The Tech Trade, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, CNET, AT&T News, Business Insider, The Next Web, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iLounge, IntoMobile, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Android and Me, HotHardware.com News, FierceWireless, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, Reuters and BGR
| 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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GeekWire, VatorNews, GigaOM, The Verge, CNET, IntoMobile, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| 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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The Register, TechSpot, The H Security, Macworld, Krebs on Security, CNET, Neowin, Softpedia News, ZDNet and Gizmodo UK
| 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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CNET, BGR, Business Insider, Techdirt, BBC, New Zealand Herald, Pulse2 Technology … and Ars Technica
| 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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Techdirt, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocketables, Apple Bitch, PhoneArena, parislemon, MacRumors, Macgasm, TUAW, Engadget, TechSpot, Tecca and Geek.com. Thanks:@thepeterha
| 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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The Verge, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, Mashable! and Cuban Council
| 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.| 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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| 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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VentureBeat, Business Insider, Telegraph, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Android Community and Softpedia News. Thanks:@jkendrick
| 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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Softpedia News, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Droid Guy, parislemon and Engadget
| 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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The Verge, Android News, Rumours …, Tech in Asia, Sony, SlashGear and Android Community
| 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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Social Media, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Fortune, Android Phone Fans, Pocketables, CNET, AppleInsider and Wired
| 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.| 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: |
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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The Next Web, GigaOM, AllThingsD, PandoDaily and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
| 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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GigaOM, SocialTimes, TechCrunch and The Next Web
| 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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TechCrunch, GigaOM, Betabeat, AllThingsD, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, littleBits, CNET and True Ventures
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
WikiLeaks Reopens Channel For Credit Card Donations, Dares Visa And MasterCard To Block Them Again — Assange speaking a press conference regarding the financial blockade against the site in late 2011. — After 18 months of having its funding nearly completely cut off by a payment industry blockade … | 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.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Verge, textually.org and Google Africa Blog
| 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.| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Judge rejects secrecy bids in Apple vs. Samsung battle — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected several requests by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to keep portions of key documents out of public view in their high-stakes patent litigation battle set for trial later this month.| 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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CNET, The Huffington Post, LAPTOP Magazine, Daily Mail, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Geek Beat Technology News, PC Magazine and Mashable!. Thanks:@t_chrisburns
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
HTC countersues Apple over two U.S. patents it recently acquired from HP — The latest escalation in the “smartphone patent wars” is that HTC today brought infringement counterclaims against Apple in the Southern District of Florida over two patents it acquired from HP last December.
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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.
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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.
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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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