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Japan's Softbank in talks for $12.8 billion Sprint stake — (Reuters) - Softbank Corp (9984.T), Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, is in talks to buy a majority stake in U.S. telecoms company Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) in a deal worth more than 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Softbank in Advanced Talks to Acquire Sprint Nextel — TOKYO—Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. is in advanced talks to buy U.S. operator Sprint Nextel Corp. in a deal expected to exceed ¥1 trillion ($12.81 billion) in value, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Thursday.
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| Dennis K. Berman / WSJ Blogs: |
Sizing Up a Softbank Takeover of Sprint — Japanese mobile carrier Softbank — the country's premier technology investor — is mulling a takeover of the struggling US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. in a deal expected to exceed $12.81 billion. — An early read on what such a deal would mean.
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Eric Schmidt Can't Wait for Self-Driving Cars, Won't Predict When Google Maps Come Back to Apple — You wanted new news from Eric Schmidt about the state of the Apple-Google war? So did all of us. But the Google chairman was mostly mum on that subject. He was happy, however …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Eric Schmidt: Android-Apple Is the Defining Fight in the Industry Today — The fight between Google and Apple over mobile devices is great for consumers, but the patent wars that have resulted are awful, said Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, in conversation tonight with our own Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
RockMelt For iPad: A Browser Built For Touch That Turns The Web Into A Feed So Content Comes To You — Surfing the Internet can feel like you're running in circles, constantly checking your favorite sites for updates. The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple iPod nano review (2012) — Here's the thing: you can't really write a review of the new iPod nano. What is there to say? It is a small slab of aluminum with a multitouch screen that plays music files exactly as well as every iPod before it. — That is to say, it plays MP3 and AAC files extremely well.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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Google Gives Street View A 250K-Mile Update Across 17+ Countries, Its Biggest Update Ever; Maps API Now Features Time Zones — Google is continuing to gain points on the mapping front, today launching yet more features for the product at a time when Apple's offering continues to appear weak by comparison.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Mod_Pagespeed Is Now Out Of Beta And Ready To Make Your Sites Faster — Google just released the first stable version of mod_pagespeed, the company's open-source module for Apache that can automatically optimize your web pages to improve download and rendering speeds.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
US Congress' Privacy Caucus says DAA's anti-'Do Not Track' stance puts “profits over privacy” — Yesterday, ad industry body Digital Advertising Alliance issued a statement that siad that the “Do Not Track” settings of Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 10 were not an appropriate standard for customers.
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Here's Business Insider's Crazy New Strategy to Boost Ad Revenue — Sponsored Content Business, ‘Brand Insider’ Expected to Generate 50% of Ad Revenue — Get ready for more slideshows on Business Insider, but this time with a twist: they'll be paid for by an advertiser and likely include some nod to a brand's product or service.| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Exclusive: eBay starts daily deals for services, taking on Groupon — (Reuters) - EBay Inc has quietly launched an online marketplace for deals on local services, taking on Groupon Inc and expanding into a potentially big category. — Called eBay Lifestyle Deals, the offers are being run …
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| Simon Goodley / Guardian: |
Facebook accused of taking UK for a ride — Figures suggest only 11% of sales in UK are declared, with company benefiting from basing its HQ in Dublin — Facebook has been accused of taking the British taxpayer for a ride after experts suggested the company had depressed sales figures …
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Google+ Mobile Apps Now Support Pages, iOS App Gets iPhone 5 Support And Finally Lets You Edit Your Posts — Google just launched the latest version of its Google+ apps for Android and iOS. The most important new feature in this update is support for Google+ pages.
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Mozilla pulls day-old Firefox 16 from download site over security risk — One day after the release of Firefox 16, Mozilla said it has “temporarily removed” the latest version of its browser because of a security flaw that the company is trying to fix as quickly as possible.
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Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project — A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit against universities that participated in a massive book-digitization project in conjunction with Google without permission from rights holders.
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Ars Technica, The Laboratorium, DigitalKoans, madisonian.net and Copyright Librarian
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No Filter: How Instagram Caused Hipstamatic To Lose Focus And Gamble On Social — The inside story of Hipstamatic's struggle to keep pace in the white-hot photo-sharing space. In part two of the saga, Facebook's billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram rattles Hipstamatic … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Images Dominated By Pictures Of Romney For “Completely Wrong” Search — It's not a Google Bomb, but that doesn't make it less embarrassing for US presidential candidate Mitt Romney or Google, that a search on Google Images for “completely wrong” brings up results that are dominated by Romney's picture.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Anonymous demands free access after Wikileaks adds “paywall” for Stratfor Global Information Files — Wikileaks has been in some financial trouble for a while. Since it launched with thousands of classified US documents, numerous attempts by the organization to help fund its cause have been met …
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Amazon gets FCC's OK to sell Kindle Fire 4G tablets — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to sell its high-end Kindle Fire 4G tablets, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. — Amazon unveiled the new tablets last month, but the devices had not secured FCC clearance.
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Facebook confirms researcher exploited privacy settings to quickly collect user phone numbers — Update at 6:00PM EST - How to protect your phone number on Facebook: Three options you and your friends need to know about — On Friday, a researcher by the name of Suriya Prakash claimed …
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T-Mobile Quietly Removes iPhone Image From Marketing Campaign — Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile has removed the image of Apple Inc.'s iPhone one month into a marketing campaign that encourages people to bring their unlocked iPhone to the carrier. — The marketing push openly invited people …
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