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| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's Secrets Revealed at Trial — SAN JOSE, Calif.—Apple Inc., one of the world's most secretive companies, is finding there's a price in pushing its grievances against rival Samsung Electronics Co. in federal court: disclosure. — In just the first few days of its patent trial this week …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Case Against Samsung in Three Pictures — Since it first sued Samsung for patent infringement, Apple has derided the Korean company as a “copyist” whose Galaxy devices “slavishly” ape the original designs of the iPhone and iPad. — “Samsung chose to copy Apple, not to innovate,” …
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Apple Wants To Buy Pinterest Rival, The Fancy — Apple is in talks to acquire The Fancy, a fast-growing social commerce site backed by cofounders of Twitter and Facebook, Business Insider has learned. — The objective: to secure a role for Apple in the growing e-commerce market …
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account — On Friday, Wired writer Mat Honan recounted the tale of how his iCloud account was hacked which resulted in his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air getting remote wiped. — The point of entry appeared to be his iCloud account … | Mat Honan / Emptyage: |
Yes, I was hacked. Hard. — So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you saw Gizmodo's Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. Or this in the DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least of it. In short, someone gained entry to my iCloud account …
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Y Combinator's first batch: where are they now? — From small seeds grow mighty oaks. — When a tree grows, at what point do you say it has achieved success? When it has reached its full height, and stopped growing? When it has dropped seeds of its own, to produce new shoots to hopefully grow into their own huge trees?| Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters: |
Analysis: Why Twitter apologized over NBC Olympics flap — (Reuters) - The microblogging site Twitter has been so abuzz about NBC's tape-delayed coverage of the Olympics that the #nbcfail hashtag was created last week as a way to consolidate criticism of the network.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Facebook Questions Has Died A Quiet Death — Has anyone seen Facebook Questions lately? — Oh sure, you've seen questions on Facebook. And you've probably asked questions on facebook — the “Ask Question” option is alive and well on the status box, as you can see above.
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Nissan's Move to U.S. Offers Lessons for Tech Industry — SMYRNA, Tenn. — The dairy farms that once draped the countryside here were paved over so the Japanese carmaker Nissan could build its first American assembly plant. Eighty miles to the south, another green pasture was replaced … | John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World's Biggest Spam Networks — As Spring cracked the Moscow frosts and March rains doused the streets, a computer in an innocuous server farm somewhere in the heart of the city winked to life. It was 2007, a year when many people became truly invested in online life.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
4Chan reaches one billion posts — 4Chan today announced an impressive new milestone — to date the site has seen a total of one billion posts. The achievement was reached yesterday, though 4Chan points out that it's not quite sure which post was actually the billionth.| Brad Reed / BGR: |
RIM CEO says company ‘seriously’ considered switch to Android — RIM (RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins's interview with the Telegraph on Thursday made headlines for his admission that the company can't keep up with Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) without outside help.
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