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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Q3 Beats Expectations In Mayer's First Full Quarter As CEO: $1.2B Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS $0.35 — Yahoo today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, its first full quarter with new CEO Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer is back at work full-time after taking …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
The Debut of Yahoo CEO Mayer: “Tailor-Made” for Marissa — Yahoo turned in a meh third quarter, which came as no surprise to anyone. But none of it matters, since all eyes were on what new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would say on the investor call today. — Here we go! It is Mayer's first outing as a public company CEO.
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| Dan Lyons / ReadWrite: |
Editor's Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite — Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I'm thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site's new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul …
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
SAY Media Rebrands ReadWriteWeb As “ReadWrite”, Redesigns, Hires Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons As Editor In Chief — I'm a fan of ReadWriteWeb, always have been, but other than not being able to pronounce the blog's name, I've always appreciated the technical and detailed analysis coming out of the brand.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung says it's still supplying LCD panels to Apple — A Samsung spokesman refutes a report out of Korea that the electronics giant is ending its agreement to supply LCDs to Apple.Samsung refuted claims that its display business plans to end its LCD panel supply agreement with Apple …
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| Reuters: |
Federal agency to switch to iPhone, drop BlackBerry — (Reuters) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said will end its contract with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in favor of Apple's iPhone, dealing a fresh blow to RIM just months ahead of its launch of a vital new device.| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Apple's secret garden: the struggle over leaks and security — Apple engineers love the “big reveal.” When a surprising new product they have been toiling over in secrecy finally bursts into public view during an Apple keynote, they enjoy seeing the public reaction.
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
A New Version Of Google Wallet Is ‘Coming Soon’ — Google has quietly updated the website for Google Wallet, its mobile-payments service, to advertise “the next version of Google Wallet, coming soon.” — Visitors can request an invite. We did, and Google asked us what kind of device we used …
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| Amanda Lefebvre / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
New Office Web Apps, now live on SkyDrive — The new Office Web Apps are now live! — Thanks to all 750,000 of you who have helped put the Office Web Apps Preview through its paces since it went live in July. This scale of use and thousands of pieces of feedback prior to general availability …
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| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Apple's My New Boss, Color Engineer Says on Twitter — A Color iOS engineer updated his Twitter profile to say he works for Apple, buttressing reports that Apple is acquiring staff from the spectacularly unsuccessful app maker. — Eric Cheng graduated from the University of Pennsylvania earlier …
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| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Apple starts testing iOS 6.0.1 for release in coming weeks, iOS 6.1 to come after holidays — One of our reliable Apple (AAPL) sources has let us know Apple has begun testing iOS 6..1 with different carrier partners in the U.S. and we have a general list of what the first iOS 6 update … | Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Amazon's EC2 sees partial outage, taking Reddit, Minecraft, Coursera, Flipboard and others down in tow — It's another bad day for customers of Amazon's AWS and EC2 hosting. The company is presently reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which seems to be affecting a number of Internet favorites.
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| Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs: |
Exclusive video: Bill Gates on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface — I often tell people I've got one of the best jobs at Microsoft; I get the opportunity to meet and talk with the people here who brew the special sauce that is Microsoft. Last week I got to meet and talk with the guy who first created the sauce.
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| Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
The Internet Split — Web sites will soon fall into two categories: high audience low yield, low audience higher yield. Such a divide will impact digital advertising. — This Autumn, whomever you talk to will tell you this: internet advertising yields are taking a dive.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Icelanders approve their crowdsourced constitution — A constitution is a deeply serious thing: the bedrock of a country's identity. So Iceland's decision to let the general populace participate in the drafting of its new constitution - via social media such as Facebook and Twitter - was a bold move.
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| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Gadget Lab Gets First iPad Mini Case — Before the iPad Mini Has Debuted — This iPad mini case does not yet have an iPad mini to fit inside of it. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired — It takes a lot of guts to push out an accessory before its corresponding product has even been announced … Thanks:@redgirlsays
| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
1 month later, iOS 6 adoption hits 61 percent in U.S., Canada — A month after Apple's official release of iOS 6, it's been installed on roughly 61 percent of possible devices in the U.S. and Canada according to new data collected by Chitika Insights. That is only slightly better …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Amazon apparently discontinues Kindle Touch in favor of Paperwhite — It appears that Amazon is no longer selling the Kindle Touch, the touchscreen e-reader that preceded the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite. Amazon also seems to have discontinued the large-screen Kindle DX last week.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
LG exec claims Nexus due at October 29th event, ships to India one month later — It's either a premature confirmation or one of the larger executive gaffes we've seen in recent memory, but it's hard to ignore. LG's Mobile Product Planning lead for India, Amit Gujral … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Signs Lease For New Office In San Francisco to Accommodate 1000+ Employees, Will Move In Mid-2013 — Square has just announced plans for a new office in San Francisco. The mobile payments company, which is currently located in the Chronicle Building in downtown San Francisco … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon updates Kindle Fire HD with kid-friendly FreeTime feature, says HD is ‘#1 selling product’ on its site — Amazon has just informed us via email that it is updating its Kindle Fire HD lineup with the kid-friendly FreeTime feature it promised at launch.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google News gets click-to-expand clusters, sidebars of photos and videos and an updated Techmeme-like layout — Google has updated its Google News product with a few nice new features today, including expandable news clusters, video and photo sidebars and a layout tweak to improve readability.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA's Former Lobbying Firm — In an effort to curb online piracy, the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flurry Examines App Loyalty: News & Communication Apps Top Charts, Personalization Apps See High Churn — Mobile app analytics firm Flurry has released an updated version of one of its most popular research reports, first published three years ago. In the prior report, Mobile Apps: Money …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype for Windows 8 launches on October 26th (hands-on preview) — Backend changes prepare Microsoft's communications service for the future — After months of teasing a Windows 8 style version of Skype, Microsoft is finally delivering it on October 26th.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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