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When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook — AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. — One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined …
Tweets: @dsilverman, @jerkob and @davewiner
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Amazon to Kindle customers: There's an antitrust refund incoming — Amazon has begun notifying Kindle users that they may have a refund on ebook purchases in the pipeline, in the aftermath of the antitrust settlement around price-fixing by publishers. The message, sent out to users … | 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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Amazon lays out Kindle Paperwhite limitations including uneven lighting and lack of audio — The Kindle Paperwhite is proving to be a hit with consumers, but Amazon's latest e-reader isn't without its quirks. Among those are uneven light distribution, lack of text-to-speech audio …
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TechCrunch, The eBook Reader Blog, CNET, BGR, SlashGear and VentureBeat
| 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 …
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Obama and Romney talk technology policy in letters to the NY Tech Meetup — In the middle of this week, the New York Tech Meetup posted two letters that it had received, one apiece from the two leading presidential candidates. The Meetup had sent a letter to both campaigns, asking for the following:
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| Arno Schuetze / Reuters: |
Deutsche Telekom aims closing MetroPCS deal in second-quarter 2013: report — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) aims to complete the merger of its T-Mobile U.S. unit with MetroPCS (PCS.N) between April and June 2013, Chief Financial Officer Timotheus Hoettges told a German newspaper.
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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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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Findery, Caterina Fake's Startup Previously Named ‘Pinwheel’, Debuts In Public Beta — Findery, the new location-based note sharing startup from Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, launched in public beta yesterday afternoon. — Findery lets you take photos and notes from specific locations … | 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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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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U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
U.S. Postal Service Plans To Launch Experimental Same-Day Delivery Service In November — The United States Postal Service (USPS) just informed the Postal Regulatory Commission that it plans to launch an experimental same-day delivery service called Metro Post.
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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