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| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone — Today, I am excited to announce that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we've completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners.
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| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
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| John Callaham / Neowin: |
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| Dalton Caldwell: |
Dear Mark Zuckerberg … On June 13, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., I attended a meeting at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California. In addition to myself, the meeting was attended by executives at Facebook with the following titles: “VP, Engineering & Products”, “VP, Partnerships”,"VP …
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Tweets: @cdixon, @bling0, @tolles, @jason, @stephlauren, @erickschonfeld, @mims and @hunterwalk
Thanks:@andybritcliffe| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards — On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed. — Upon its reception, most of the public attention focused on a single passage …
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Mashable! and Venture Capital Dispatch. Tweets: @pkafka
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
As Twitter Goes To War With Its Developers, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue Quits The Board — Flipboard CEO Mike McCue has left Twitter's board of directors. — He just tweeted his thanks to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and cofounders Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey. — AllThingsD's Mike Isaac … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Q2 Beats The Street With Top-Line Growth, Narrowing Losses: $32.7M Revenue, $2M Net Loss — Yelp today reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2012, its second ever financial report as a publicly-traded company. Overall, the reviews site showed continued top-line revenue growth …
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
A Further Blow to Online Lurking: Quora Will Now Publicly Show Who Has Read a Post — Quora today is introducing a feature that shows which of its users have read each Quora post, and how they found it. It's another move by a social Web service to share passive activities …
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VentureBeat, CNET, broadstuff, The Verge, TechCrunch, Quora and BostInno. Tweets: @semil. See also Mediagazer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 aimed at iPad business users, includes pen input and dock — Lenovo has previously shown off a prototype Windows 8 tablet back at Computex Taipei in June, which recently passed through the FCC. A leaked Lenovo document on the tablet, sent to us by a tipster …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon Instant Video app for iPad hits the App Store with offline viewing and Prime streaming — Click to view slideshow. — Just 24 hours after Hulu started popping up on Apple TV, We now see Amazon's Instant Video Store in the App Store for iPad. It looks like a full app capable …
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BGR, CNET, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Mashable!, CNET, Engadget, Geeky-Gadgets, Zatz Not Funny!, Liliputing, Macgasm, MobileBurn.com, BetaNews, GeekWire, Appolicious Advisor, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, USA Today, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Lifehacker, GigaOM, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and TUAW. Thanks:@llsethj. See also Mediagazer
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
HP Wins Key Ruling in Itanium Lawsuit With Oracle — The judge hearing the lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle has ruled that the software giant is bound by its commitment to continue making software that is compatible with Intel's Itanium server chip.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Psst. Facebook Turned On Its App Center Worldwide Overnight [Updated] — Facebook took one more step further in its global ambitions today: the social network has now made its App Center, the storefront for Facebook desktop and mobile applications, available in every country where Facebook is.
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PC Magazine, The Verge, CNET, TonisTechBlogTonisTechBlog, Engadget, VatorNews, The Next Web and SlashGear
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With Three Key Exits, Facebook's Top Talent Departures Continue — The question on everyone's minds after Facebook's May IPO — How long till the brain drain starts? — Apparently, not that long. Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships at Facebook, announced on Wednesday via Facebook that he will soon leave the company.
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TechCrunch, Digits and Ethan Beard
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Expands Build-to-Order Configuration Options on Retina MacBook Pro [Updated] — Apple today quietly expanded the available configuration options for the Retina MacBook Pro, now offering a full slate of individual upgrade options on the base model that starts at $2199.| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Google Wallet goes cloud-based, adds remote disable, accepts Visa, American Express and Discover — Since the rollout of its Wallet product, Google has been partnered with MasterCard and the credit card company's PayPass product. But today, Google tells us that the platform is opening up …
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NYT Bits, Marketing Land, Google Mobile Blog, Official Android Blog, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Mashable!, TechCrunch and 9to5Google. Tweets: @fwd. Thanks:@bradmccarty
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
After Conquering Yahoo, Dan Loeb Wrote A Victory Letter To His Investors - We Have A Copy — Way back in the first quarter, hedge fund manager Dan Loeb bought a huge stake in Yahoo, and then launched a proxy war on its board. — Eventually, Loeb targeted Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Take That, Yahoo Fantasy Football: NFL Adds Google+ Hangouts To Its Fantasy Football Site — Google announced today a pretty major deal with the NFL which will help it to virally grow adoption of Google+ Hangouts - the live chat feature on its social networking efforts known as Google+.| Brad Chacos / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Surging iPad Helps Apple Snag No. 1 PC Spot from HP — Apple's share of the smartphone market may have slipped last quarter, but where the iPhone slacked, the iPad picked up, propelling the company past HP an into the pole position as the number one PC manufacturer in the world.
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Canalys Newsroom, The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Loop, Forbes, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe and Electronista
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Craigslist Now Wants Your Postings Under ‘Exclusive’ Terms: Padmapper Fallout Continues — Another development in the ongoing Craigslist data scraping story: Craigslist has added in a new proviso for those posting ads, telling them that Craigslist now becomes the “exclusive licensee” of the content in that ad.
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica and VentureBeat
Tweets: @ingridlunden, @josh_wills, @mikeloukides and @nytimesbits
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Silk lands $1.6 million from NEA and Atomico to improve its structured data service — Silk recently launched its nifty Web app, which lets users collect, sort, visualize and store rich information in a structured way, in public beta. — Today, the Dutch startup behind the service …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM and PandoDaily
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T refutes report that employees were instructed to sell Android and Windows devices over iPhone — Update: AT&T seemed none-too-pleased with the allegations and gave us the following statement: … We heard reports in the past that retail employees at other carriers were instructed …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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).
“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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