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Exclusive: FTC moving closer to Google antitrust case - sources — (Reuters) - The majority of top decision-makers at the Federal Trade Commission believe that an antitrust case should be brought against Google Inc (GOOG.O), meaning the search giant could soon be headed into tough negotiations …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Report: Majority Of FTC Commissioners Want Antitrust Action Against Google, But Vertical Search Might Not Be Issue — Reuters is reporting that majority of those on the US Federal Trade Commission believe an antitrust case should be brought against Google. But if action comes … | Olivia Oran / Reuters: |
Shares of Workday closed up 74 percent in trading debut — Shares of Workday Inc, a human resources software provider that has yet to turn a profit, closed up 74 percent in their market debut on Friday, leading some to question the lofty valuation. In the biggest tech listing since Facebook's …
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TechCrunch, Technorati, CNNMoney.com, Associated Press, Associated Press, Mercury News, AllThingsD, Forbes, Wired, silicontap.com, Wall Street Journal, Digits, Deal Journal, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, Forbes, Bloomberg, Mercury News and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @quixotic
| Victoria Barret / Forbes: |
What Workday's IPO Success Says About Software — Enterprise software firm Workday finally debuted in the public markets this week. It did so in an anything but Facebook-like manner. The target price was raised before the IPO, but conservatively enough to leave a 73% pop in the stock at the start of trading.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
It's Done: Early Hulu Investor Providence Equity Partners Has Sold Its Stake For $200M — It's been a long time coming, but private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its stake in Hulu for $200 million, people familiar with the matter have confirmed.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's hypothetical iPad mini event to have strong iBooks focus — In what will likely be completely unsurprising news to many, we've now heard from multiple sources that Apple's as-yet-unannounced iPad mini event will have a strong focus on iBooks. Since an iPad mini would likely … | Adrian Chen / Gawker: |
Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web — Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Apple rethinking Samsung chip partnership, say sources — Apple appears to be in the process of shifting chip production from Samsung to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. — Apple has begun the process of lessening its dependency on Samsung for chipmaking, an analyst told CNET.
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CENS.com, MacRumors, The Register, Pocketnow, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, TUAW, iMore and Slashdot
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
AMD to Cut Up to 30 Percent of Workforce — Days after warning of a huge sales and earnings miss, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is close to announcing a significant reduction in its workforce that could be be made public as early as next week. — According to sources familiar …
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| Justin Rubio / The Verge: |
Asus PadFone 2 video and photos reveal larger 4.7-inch display, redesigned docking station (update) — Asus will officially unveil the PadFone 2 during a simultaneous event in Milan and Taipei next week, but Bloomberg TV was able to take an early look at the phone and tablet hybrid, exposing a few never-before-seen features.| Patricia Sellers / Fortune: |
Marissa Mayer: Ready to rumble at Yahoo — Mayer - No. 3 on the 40 Under 40 - is changing the culture and welcoming new faces to the troubled web company. But this new chief (and new mom) has miles to go before she sleeps. — FORTUNE — On a Friday morning in late August …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Asus Vivo Tab RT pre-sales begin, first Windows RT tablet starts at $599.99 — We were warned that Windows RT tablets wouldn't be cheap, and those warnings have now been confirmed. The Asus Vivo Tab RT, formerly known as the Tablet 600, is now available for pre-order for $599.99 …
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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