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Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter — Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter. — While Apple has been hugely successful …
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Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents — Battle lines are forming in Eastman Kodak Co.'s patent sale ahead of Monday's initial bid deadline. — At least two groups are expected to bid on Kodak's trove of 1,100 patents, with a bevy of technology and patent heavyweights picking sides …
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RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping — In April, one of the RIAA's key employees informed a group of music industry insiders about the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme in the U.S. TorrentFreak received a copy of the presentation sheets which include … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy — “These illicit sites are among the culprits behind the music industry's more than 50 percent decline in revenues during the last decade, resulting in 15,000 layoffs and fewer resources to invest in new bands,” … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start — Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple's Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history. — After just its first 48 hours on the market, Apple's new Mountain Lion already accounts …
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Multiple Law Firms Are Now Investigating Zynga For Possible Stock Shenanigans — Bad news just got worse for the makers of FarmVille. It looks like a whole lot of lawyers are about to pounce on one of gaming's biggest companies. — Following news that Zynga insiders sold large amounts …
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Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months — Traffic analytics site ComScore has revealed a large increase in visits to Google+. According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to the social network has increased by 66 percent over the last nine months …
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Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data — ‘Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted. — Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted …
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle — (Reuters) - Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of. — From his start as a teenager building PCs for students and faculty at a college in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina …
Tweets: @lianabaker, @anandshimpi, @peterlauria3 and @trixxy
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Facebook, Don't Sell Out Users for Wall Street — Facebook is in the Wall Street doghouse again. Its shares fell this morning to their lowest levels yet, down more than 40 percent since their disorganized debut this past May. Pressure is mounting on Facebook to push advertising ever more aggressively.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Bitly is working on an “Internet attention ranking engine” called Realtime — Bitly, the company that basically ushered the world into short links on sites like Twitter, is playing around with a new service, launching it under its “Bitly Labs” umbrella. — It's called Realtime, and is available at http://www.rt.ly| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M — Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Tech Firms Battle to Keep Secrets as Apple vs. Samsung Nears Trial — While the primary battle next week in a San Jose courtroom will be between Samsung and Apple, a secondary skirmish is also taking place. — Both Apple and Samsung — along with a variety of other tech companies including Intel …
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Pinwheel Becomes Findery After Court Injunction — What a difference a single letter can make. — Two start-ups have been caught in a legal battle over the name Pinweel and Pinwheel since late February. The subtle difference: the letter “h.” — Pinweel, the one without the h, is a photo-sharing app co-founded by Richard Bulman.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Brightcove revenue jumps by 41 percent; buys Zencoder — Summary: Second-quarter results look strong as did the first, but an acquisition could spell further success for the Boston-based cloud video platform provider. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed — The United States government said today that even if the indictment of the Megaupload corporation is dismissed, it can continue its indefinite freeze on the corporation's assets while it awaits the extradition of founder Kim Dotcom and his associates.Sponsor Posts
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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