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Apple's Schiller defends iPad mini's price tag — (Reuters) - Apple marketing wizard Phil Schiller defended the $329 price of the new iPad mini tablet, saying consumers will be willing to pay for quality not found in less expensive devices from rivals like Google and Amazon.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Facebook's final Instagram purchase price: $715 million in cash and stock — Today Facebook detailed the final Instagram purchase information in its 10-Q. The company stated that the final purchase of Instagram will sit in its accounting as $521 million. — That figure was arrived …
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CNET, The Verge, Mashable!, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@harrisonweber
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Reports Third Quarter Revenue Of $317M, Shares Pop 12.7% In After-Hours — Zynga said it saw third quarter revenue of $317 million, which was slightly above the lower range of $300 million to $305 million the company said it would see earlier this month. Bookings came in at $256 million, up 11 percent year-over-year.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
New Kindles start shipping today in Europe, Lovefilm launches on Kindle Fire — As promised, Amazon has started shipping its latest Kindles on the other side of the Atlantic, with the Kindle Paperwhite as well as the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD making the trip.
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paidContent, Inquirer, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Phones Review and Softpedia News
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that 12W adapter will charge iPads quicker than older 10W adapters — The morning of Apple's iPad mini event earlier this week, we told you there was a handful of new accessories coming including four new Lightning adapters and a 12W USB power adapter.
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Gizmodo, PhoneArena, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget and TUAW
| Moritz Jaeger / ZDNet: |
Google, Microsoft and Nokia launch one-stop ‘hide from maps’ service in Germany — Summary: Google, Microsoft and other companies have come together to help Germans to blur pictures of their properties in mapping services like Google Street View. The service has been made necessary …
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Inquirer, SlashGear, BetaNews and 9to5Google
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple wins preliminary ruling from U.S. ITC that Samsung violates 4 design and touch patents — Apple has won a preliminary ruling against Samsung in an ITC case that had begun last year, reports Bloomberg. The ruling states that Samsung has violated four Apple patents related to iPhone design … | Audrey Watters / Hack Education: |
Education, Technology “Journalism,” and the Apple PR Machine — I wasn't planning to write anything about Apple's media event yesterday. I tuned in to the livestream, but when all the announcements were made, it seemed clear to me that nothing that was revealed on stage in San Jose was that significant to education.
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DVICE, Inside Higher Ed, TechPinions and ReadWrite
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Judge steps down in patent lawsuit filed over Apple's Siri — In a new lawsuit that claims Apple's virtual personal assistant is infringing on already developed patent technology, the judge recuses himself because of “interest” in the tech company. — A recently filed lawsuit over Apple's Siri …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung Series 3 Chromebook review — With ARM, has Google's cloud-based laptop finally found its soulmate? — People laugh when I pull the old Samsung Series 5 Chromebook out of my bag. I almost feel the need to apologize for it when I turn it on: “Here's a $450 laptop that just browses the web.| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
Rewarder gets $7 million to fulfill your oddest, nerdiest dreams — Have a penchant for pomegranates and or a longing to be Lucius Malfoy? You're in luck - Rewarder, the startup launching Wednesday with a $7 million Series A funding round, hopes to make all your weirdest dreams come true.
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VentureBeat and AllThingsD
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Game on! Vox launches long-awaited video game site, Polygon — Vox Media has shaken up sports and tech news with its unique blend of cutting-edge publishing tools and high-profile hires. Now we're about to find out if it can pull off the same trick with gaming news.| Mihoko Matsubara / ISN: |
A Stuxnet Future? Yes, Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Already Here — According to Mihoko Matsubara, the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear facilities demonstrates that well-resourced actors now have the capacity to use offensive cyber capabilities to fragment command and control structures …
| Knowlton Thomas / Techvibes.com: |
Salesforce Laying Off Radian6 and Buddy Media Employees and Execs — We learned this morning that Salesforce was “decimating” Radian6's marketing and social community departments. According to a source familiar with the matter, people from the vice-president level down are facing layoffs …
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Forbes, AllThingsD, Business Insider, ZDNet, The Next Web, Betabeat, SeekingAlpha.com, bizjournals and TechCrunch. Thanks:@knowltonthomas
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Torrent Site Webhost Ordered to Pay “Piracy” Damages — For years Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has tried to find out who is behind the SumoTorrent website. — After being initially hosted in the Netherlands, the site moved to Canada to escape BREIN's jurisdiction, but it later returned as a client of hosting provider XS Networks.
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Verizon, AT&T put Samsung's Galaxy Note II on pre-sale for $300 with a two-year contract — Samsung's Galaxy Note II played coy at first by only hanging out with the European crowd, but now that it's here, it's the life of the US carrier party. The two biggest, AT&T and Verizon …
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The Verge, SlashGear, GadgeTell, Softpedia News, Droid Life, IntoMobile, BGR and Sammy Hub
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google on Track for Another Record High: Lobbying Expenses — Google this week disclosed it spent $4.18 million on U.S. lobbying in the third quarter of 2012, bringing the company to $13.13 million spent this year — a record. — That makes Google the seventh-biggest lobbying spender out there …
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| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Tech Giants Form Cyber Security Research Alliance — An assembly of tech giants including AMD, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, and RSA, has come together to form the “Cyber Security Research Alliance”, a consortium that will focus on the “grand challenges” for cyber security and next generation technologies.
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Techie Buzz, The Bulletin and Reuters
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Alibaba-owned e-commerce giant Taobao quietly launches mapping service in China — Apple's decision to ship iOS 6 without Google Maps last month was an opportunity seized upon by Baidu in China almost immediately. Now, following the calm after the #Mapgate storm, a new challenger has entered …
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News.me shuts down iOS apps to focus on Digg, blames new Twitter requirements — News.me, the social news service built on top of Twitter (and Facebook), today announced it is killing its curation apps for iPhone and iPad. The company is blaming Twitter for the move and says it wants to focus on its Digg efforts instead.Sponsor Posts
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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:
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
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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