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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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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Confirms Talks With Softbank Over “Substantial Investment” — Sprint confirmed Thursday that it is in talks with Japan's Softbank about a possible deal. — The No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier said the discussions are about a “substantial investment by Softbank” but offered few other details.
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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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MacRumors, Digits, Deal Journal, Corporate Intelligence and Washington Post
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iPod Touch 5th Generation Teardown — We got our hands on Apple's new iPod Touch. First thing we do: get inside to see just how much “funner” the new generation is compared to the older generations. Join us for all the fun to come by following iFixit on Twitter or friending us on Facebook.
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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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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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 … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's US injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus reversed by appeals court — The US injunction on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that Apple earned by way of a patent judge earlier this year has been reversed by an appeals court, reports Reuters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit …
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google Starts To Downplay Zagat Scores; It Should Ditch Them Altogether — Google is changing the way it collects local business reviews and displays them in search results, making the Zagat score a less prominent piece of information. — That's a good thing in my opinion, and many people … | 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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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
LG Nexus handset revealed in clearest shots yet — Russian site Onliner has got its hands on LG's new Nexus, revealing the device with perfect clarity for the first time. The site confirms what we've already heard about the device: it's a remodeled version of LG's Optimus G. Dubbed the LG-E960 …
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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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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Instapaper creator Marco Arment launches The Magazine, a different kind of periodical for Apple's Newsstand — Back in July, Instapaper creator Marco Arment started thinking about what to do with The Feature. It was a section of the app in which he placed a curated selection of stories worth sharing …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
A $12 Billion Move In Apple Stock Seems To Have Started With Tweets From A Single Anonymous Source In China — Apple's stock dropped 2.21 percent on Monday. — A few analysts blamed the drop — worth more than $12 billion — on a strike of 4,000 Chinese workers at Apple's manufacturer.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix settles with deaf-rights group, agrees to caption all videos by 2014 — In an agreement that the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) calls “a model for the streaming video industry,” Netflix has agreed to caption all of its shows by the year 2014.
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| 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.| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
Huawei's U.S. competitors among those pushing for scrutiny of Chinese tech firm — Companies in the cutthroat field of telecommunications received a remarkable marketing document recently, one aimed at causing suspicion about one of their biggest competitors, the Chinese firm Huawei.
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The Verge, ZDNet, DSLreports, Telegraph and Business Insider
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Fab Reinvents iPhone And iPad Apps With Social Commerce, Streamlined UI, Search And More — Design-focused e-commerce site Fab is constantly iterating and innovating. The company, which just hit 7 million users, unlocked the site from signing-in, expanded internationally …
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CNET, NYT Bits, GigaOM, VentureBeat and Mashable!
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Bridging The Gap Between Pawn Shop And Bank, Borro Raises $26M Led By Canaan Partners — Borro, a personal asset lending platform, has just received a massive $26 million funding round led by Canaan Partners. The service essentially classes up the idea of collateral loans …
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AllThingsD and London News
| 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.| David Meyer / ZDNet: |
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google Chrome exploit fetches “Pinkie Pie” $60,000 hacking prize — An image displayed on a computer after it was successfully commandeered by Pinkie Pie during the first Pwnium competition in March. — A hacker who goes by “Pinkie Pie” has once again subverted the security of Google's Chrome browser … Sponsor Posts
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