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August 13, 2012, 7:55 AM

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Motorola to Cut 20% of Work Force, Part of Sweeping Change  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Motorola Mobility, the ailing cellphone maker that Google bought in May, told employees Sunday that it would lay off 20 percent of its work force and close a third of its 94 offices worldwide.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Google confirms Motorola cuts in SEC filing, expects to incur $275m charge in Q3 2012 alone  —  Having notified its employees of job cuts and office closures on Sunday, Google has today confirmed its plans for Motorola Mobility in a regulatory filing with the SEC, alerting investors that it expects …
Dalton Caldwell:
We did it.  —  As I write this, join.app.net just met our 500K goal, with 38 hours left.  —  Data Export  —  When you are logged into the App.net alpha, we provide a button which will email you a .zip file of all of your content in a structured format.  If you are an alpha tester, go ahead and try it out.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
App.net passes $500,000 funding goal in quest to do Twitter the right way  —  Dalton Caldwell's ambitious attempt at a new kind of social network has just achieved its no less daring goal of half a million US dollars in pledged funding.  The requisite threshold for funding App.net was crossed …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Kim Dotcom promises that disruptive new music service, Megabox, will launch this year  —  Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has dropped the biggest hint yet that his disruptive new music project is on schedule to launch before the end of the year, according to a tweet from the German …
More: ZDNet and InquirerTweets: @kimdotcom
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
Groupon Sales Force Cracks Under Pressure  —  Groupon Inc. is facing a new hurdle: strains on its sales force.  —  Such pressures are a boon to people like Mike Silagadze.  The chief executive of education-software firm Top Hat Monocle Inc. said that over the past month …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale  —  With an army of passionate fans, Demonoid was spoken about fondly by many in the torrent community.  Just two weeks ago it was one of the world's largest and most thriving torrent sites but a DDoS and hacker attack followed by a police raid brought it to its knees.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
How Big Data Became So Big  —  THIS has been the crossover year for Big Data — as a concept, as a term and, yes, as a marketing tool.  Big Data has sprung from the confines of technology circles into the mainstream.  —  First, here are a few, well, data points: Big Data was a featured topic …
More: Slashdot
Euan Rocha / Reuters:
RIM looks to sell NewBay, other assets: source  —  (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is looking to sell cloud services provider NewBay and some of the other minor assets it recently acquired, as part of a strategic review process, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Photos of alleged next-generation iPhone motherboard surface, point to new antennas, battery  —  A WeiPhone forums user posts a couple of photos of what is apparently claimed to be a motherboard/logicboard for the next-generation iPhone.  If legitimate, the part appears to be a prototype unit …

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