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Sharp to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple this month — (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. — “Shipments will start in August …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Schadenfreude, Anyone? In Wake of Facebook Bullying Claims, Google+ Chief Vic Gundotra Woos Developers — When our enemies stumble publicly, some take the high road and steer clear of mentioning our adversary's folly. But for others, some things are just too good to pass up.
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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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Thanks:@andybritcliffe| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills — A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants' legal costs. Introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) …
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| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
BlackBerry: other manufacturers could license our new BB10 platform — Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research in Motion, has told the Telegraph that manufacturers such as Sony or Samsung could licence the new BlackBerry operating system. — New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins introduced BlackBerry 10 in Florida
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| Emil Protalinski / CNET: |
Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users — Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. — Follow @emilprotalinski — Does she have a Facebook account? — Last week, during …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Apple seeks patent for Smart Cover with embedded secondary display — According to an application to the USPTO this morning, Apple believes it's possible to build a flexible display into an iPad cover in order to “greatly enhance” the functionality of the tablet itself.
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| 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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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung starts mass-producing 4x faster mobile flash memory, kickstarts our phones and tablets — Samsung isn't content to leave fast NAND flash memory to traditional solid-state drives. Its Pro Class 1500 promises a big jolt to the performance of frequently pokey smartphone and tablet storage.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] — Google has just bought social marketing software developer Wildfire, which lets brands serve marketing and ad campaigns on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn.| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Rose Responds To Reddit AMA: Biggest Digg Regrets, Thoughts On New Digg, More [Video] — Last night, I wrote about Kevin Rose not responding to questions on his AMA on Reddit. Rose was at a birthday party last night but has returned to Reddit today and has posted YouTube responses to five Redditers' questions.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Cisco expands its board of directors with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Kristina Johnson — Networking equipment giant Cisco this morning announced that Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive officer of enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com, has joined its board of directors.
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check — David Cheriton wrote a $100,000 check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Today that check is now worth more than $1 billion in Google shares. (Martin Klimek / Getty Images)Thanks:@gerryshih
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
3-week old Jelly Bean hits 0.8% Android device adoption, as Ice Cream Sandwich reaches 15.9% — It's been just over a month since Google officially announced Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and barely three weeks since the first rollout, but already the latest flavor of Android is installed …
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| Jesse Hicks / The Verge: |
High and low: what RIM's failure is doing to the people of Waterloo — That entrepreneurial spirit doesn't always come naturally to Canadians, says Iain Klugman, maybe half-jokingly. “The American dream is to make it big, to build a big company, to become a rock star,” he says.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Parking Payment Startup QuickPay Raises $3.5M, Powerset Founder Barney Pell Becomes CEO — QuickPay, a startup that helps drivers find and pay for parking, has brought on a new CEO — Barney Pell, the founder of semantic search company Powerset (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for a reported $100 million).
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| MG Siegler: |
Twitter's Landscaping Problem — Twitter. On the surface, it's another year, another bitch session. Developers are up in arms! Everyone is threatening to leave! Or, at least, hundreds of people! There's talk of open source competitors! It's over! Maybe!
| Wall Street Journal: |
Businesses Leap on Fiber Bandwidth Wagon — Google's Plan for a High-Speed Data Network in Kansas City Area Starts Gears Turning Among Region's Entrepreneurs — As Google Inc. starts to roll out its elaborate Fiber project in Kansas City, the area's entrepreneurs are plotting how to capitalize …
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| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook announced, on sale in Canada 9 August — Research In Motion has confirmed that it will be launching a 4G version of the BlackBerry Playbook on the 9 August in Canada. — The new 4G LTE? BlackBerry PlayBook?tablet will available in Canada on select carriers beginning August 9th …
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| Digits: |
Past Apple-Twitter Investment Talks Were Tied to Product Integration — Apple Inc. floated the idea of investing in Twitter Inc. as the companies discussed integrating the social service into Apple's mobile operating system last year, according to people familiar with the discussions.
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Facebook Stock Crash Hoses California's Tax Revenue — Well, the hits from the Facebook stock implosion keep coming. — Now, it's the State of California, which apparently overestimated how much tax revenue it was going to collect from Facebook employees after the IPO.| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Nokia reportedly planning to sell Qt as more developers are laid off — Nokia is shutting down its Qt offices in Australia, laying off the team that was responsible for developing key parts of the open source development toolkit, including the QML user interface layout system.
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony loses $312 million in Q1 2012 amid high restructuring costs — Sony has announced its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year, and as expected for a company in transition they don't make for pleasant reading — it managed to lose $312 million off sales of $19.2 billion.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple to file sanctions over Samsung's evidence ‘leak’ — In a letter to Judge Lucy Koh on Wednesday, Apple said it plans to file an emergency motion for sanctions and “other relief that may be appropriate” as a result of Samsung's issuance of excluded evidence to media outlets earlier this week.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Dead Trigger goes free on iOS, where piracy is apparently also a problem — Madfinger Games, the studio behind mobile first-person shooter Dead Trigger, earned a fair bit of notoriety recently by making its game free on Android in response to what it called an “unbelievably high” piracy rate.
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