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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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| 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 … | 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!
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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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.
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| 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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| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Zynga COO Said To Lose Product Oversight As Growth Slows — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) Chief Operating Officer John Schappert, who was wooed from Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) last year, was stripped of his role overseeing game development in a reorganization aimed at reviving growth and making more money …
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| 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.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator-Backed Instacart Wants To Be Amazon With One-Hour Delivery — When it comes to being the Mall of the Internet, no one really does it better than Amazon. Yet, to truly best its offline competitors and put the icing on the cake in terms of user experience, Amazon has been pushing hard … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Nokia Maps update brings route planning, Groupon Now! integration — Today Nokia released a new version of its Maps application for Windows Phone. In it is support for route planning, at last, and also integration with the Groupon Now! product. — Route planning, the ability to determine …
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| 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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