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Priceline.com Agrees to Acquire KAYAK Software Corporation — Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement for the Priceline Group to acquire KAYAK in a stock and cash transaction. Under the terms of the agreement …
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Creating room in a crowd — Sometimes it's never too late to join a crowded market. Just ask Paul English and Steve Hafner, who today announced an agreement to sell Kayak to Priceline for about $1.8 billion. — Today, Kayak's promise of ‘One and Done’ is well known as befits a company … | Rafat Ali / Skift: |
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AT&T's flip-flop on FaceTime over cellular should scare you — A ‘cautious approach’ exposes the FCC's greatest shortcoming — Weeks after taking enormous heat from consumers, public interest groups, and the media (like us), AT&T is doing an about-face on its controversial decision … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
AT&T fires up a tablet subsidy model, offering $100 off LTE iPads, other models with 2 year Data Plan — AT&T has made an interesting announcement today that, at first, looks like a nice sale. It's offering $100 off any tablet purchased with a 2 year data plan either online or in one of its stores starting November 9th.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Access to More Customers — AT&T announced today that it is planning to allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature. Previously, only customers with a Mobile Share plan could use the feature.
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Thanks:@jlgolson| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Judge to review whether foreman in Apple v. Samsung hid info — A federal court will look into whether the jury foreman in Apple v. Samsung “concealed information” during jury selection. — Federal District Judge Lucy Koh will “consider the questions” of whether the jury foreman in Apple v. Samsung …
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Facebook open sources Corona — a better way to do webscale Hadoop — Facebook is at it again, building more software to make Hadoop a better way to do big data at web scale. Its latest creation, which the company has also open sourced, is called Corona and aims to make Hadoop more efficient …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Siri for travel, Desti, launches iPad app in public beta giving users their own “smart travel guide” — SRI International has produced some remarkable technologies over the years, with the more recent notables including Siri, Trapit, Nuance, and many others.
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7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) The U.S. Navy SEALs are part of an elite force that operates in the shadows, best known for killing Osama bin Laden. However, CBS News has learned a group of SEALs has been disciplined for revealing secrets.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google introduces six-month trial for Cloud SQL, ups storage 10x to 100GB, adds EU datacenter — Google today announced a major update to its Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google's cloud. The highlights are this: 10 times more storage, faster reads …
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Apple Invents Very Cool Next-Gen Dual Mode Headphones! — Apple has invented a very cool next-gen headphone design that could be operated in two modes. The first mode is the normal every day in-ear design that all headphones offer. The second mode is where the fun comes in.| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Verizon's Shammo: We'll finish LTE buildout by mid-2013 — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) will finish its LTE deployment by the middle of 2013, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo. The timeline is about six months earlier than Verizon has previously stated.
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Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US — Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, according to market watchers.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Paul Allen's personal media browsing tool is now an iPad app for the rest of us — A new iPad app called Fayve, making its debut on Thursday, will join a crowded field of digital tools that help people discover movies and television shows. But this one is different …
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Facebook amps up Friendship Pages to highlight your online relationships — Facebook today announced a big visual update to its Friendship Pages to highlight the time you've spent with a family member or friend. In effect, Facebook has essentially auto-created perfect lovey-dovey Timeline profile pages …
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| Chris Dannen / Fast Company: |
The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection — In the new version of Paper released last week, you mix colors with your fingers, like it's paint—only somehow more beautiful. This one magical feature burned a year of development time, resurrected the work of two dead German scientists, and got Apple's attention.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Midori operating-system skunkworks project soldiers on — Summary: A new research paper makes a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to Microsoft's secret project to develop a non-Windows-based operating system and programming environment. — Midori — the Microsoft skunkworks …
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Groupon falls short of analyst expectations, reporting Q3 revenues of $568.6 million and earnings per share of $0.00 — Today Groupon reported its third quarter financial results, including top line revenue of $568.6 million, and earnings per share of $0.00.| Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters: |
Exclusive: SEC left computers vulnerable to cyber attacks - sources — (Reuters) - Staffers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to encrypt some of their computers containing highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Nvidia CEO: Consumers realize a great tablet is better than a cheap PC — Graphics chip giant Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said in a conference call with analysts today that consumers realize “a great tablet is better than a cheap PC.” — That's an interesting statement coming … | John Callaham / Neowin: |
IE10 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 differences detailed — As we have mentioned already today, Friday is turning out to be a big day for Microsoft and Windows Phone 8 as the first devices running the mobile OS go on sale to the public in the US. The people who are first to get the Nokia …
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Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Raises $1.7M To Start Hiring At Social News Reader Nuzzel — Social news startup Nuzzel has raised more than $1.7 million in seed funding. — I say “startup,” but at this point the only person working full-time on the project is Jonathan Abrams … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
After a 5-year beta period, Wikipedia finally moves into the video era with an HTML5 player — With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction. — But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia …
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| Emma Turpin / The Official Google Blog: |
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online — If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star. JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.
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| Mike Wehner / TUAW: |
Apple proposing new Bonjour sharing standard — In order to remedy the woes many universities are experiencing using Apple's Bonjour zero-configuration Multicast DNS technology on large scale networks, NetworkWorld reports that the company is proposing a new standard that can be built to support huge numbers of users at once.
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Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin - in the same voice — Microsoft has today posted a video, and complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. — In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates improvements …
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