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Microsoft Announces Leadership Changes to Drive Next Wave of Products — Steven Sinofsky to leave the company; Windows executives Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller take expanded roles. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
In the Sinofsky Departure, Bill Gates Sided With the Other Steve (Ballmer) at Microsoft — Sometimes — even in the most complex of organizations, which software behemoth Microsoft most certainly is — it does come down to a simple choice. — And, in the case of the seemingly sudden departure …
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Business Insider and The Verge
| Eric Savitz / Forbes: |
Microsoft Shares Slump On Concerns About Sinofsky's Exit — Microsoft shares are trading lower Tuesday morning on investor concerns about the implications of the company's announcement last night that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Inside Microsoft, a clash of personalities led to Sinofsky's departure: sources — As with Scott Forstall at Apple, Sinofsky clashed with core teams and executives — The abrupt departure of Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky this evening has surprised … | CNET: |
Sinofsky's memo regarding his departure from Microsoft — The internal e-mail Windows chief Steven sent to employees regarding his departure from the software giant. — Microsoft announced the immediate departure of Windows President Steven Sinofsky this evening.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Steve Ballmer's letter to team on Sinofsky departure — We've just learned that Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft, less than a month after the Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface launch. Here's what CEO Steve Ballmer had to say about the executive departure … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Who is Julie Larson-Green? Meet the new head of Windows — Summary: Microsoft announced on November 12 that Windows President Steven Sinofsky is leaving, effective immediately. Meet the new head of Windows engineering, Julie Larson-Green. — I don't know the back story here …
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| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
Surface RT Display Technology Shoot-Out Microsoft Surface RT - Apple iPad 3 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 — Introduction The new Windows Tablets, led by Microsoft's Surface, provide a third major family of Tablets for consumers and the computing world. The significance and stakes are enormous …
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Macgasm, Redmond Pie, Neowin, Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, iDownloadBlog.com and CNET
| Joshua Davis / Wired: |
Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent — As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. He'd seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe.
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SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, Betabeat, Digital Media Wire, Inquirer, ITProPortal, WebProNews, CNET and memeburn. Tweets: @mercbizbreak
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Another Square Copycat: Bank of America Launches Mobile Payments — Square may get get a lot of credit for making mobile payments mainstream, but the ability to accept a credit card using a smartphone is turning into an unmistakable commodity. — The latest to enter the space is Bank …
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| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Loosecubes shuts down after raising $7.8 million in June — Loosecubes, the New York-based co-working startup, has shut down its operations, according to a cryptic blog post on its site. In June, the company raised $7.8 million in venture backing from New Enterprise Associates, Accel Partners …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Betabeat and happy. productive. loosecubes
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
HTC Droid DNA coming to Verizon on November 21st for $200, pre-orders begin today — It's not much of a secret at this point, but HTC and Verizon have finally made their king-sized smartphone official at today's press event: the Droid DNA, which is essentially Big Red's variant …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Adds AirPlay-Like Functionality For Google TV With An Update To Its Android App — Online video site YouTube is huge online and in the browser, but not quite as big on the biggest screen in people's homes — the TV. Partly that's because the user experience isn't as good …
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Petraeus reportedly used draft e-mails to converse with mistress — The former CIA director used a trick often used by terrorists and teenagers to make e-mails harder to trace, the Associated Press reports. — In an effort to cover a trail of messages between him and his mistress …
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USA Today, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, WorldViews, Poynter, Geekosystem and WorldViews. See also Mediagazer
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's 2012 Holiday Gift Guide goes live — Apple's Holiday Gift Guide just went live as part of the online Apple Store. The new page, which breaks down gifts by product line, catalogs the best of the Apple Store which Apple also notes offers free shipping on all products.
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Business Insider, MacRumors, TUAW and BGR
| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Gives In to Employee Perks — CEO Tim Cook Pushes Employee-Friendly Benefits Long Shunned by Steve Jobs — When it comes to keeping employees happy, Apple Inc. appears to be taking some inspiration from Google Inc. — Earlier this year, Apple told some employees about a new initiative called … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The iPad Mini and the cost of Retina — The iPad Mini is a conflicted product. — It's much better than the iPad 3 and 4 to handle, carry, and hold up during use. It has the best external design of any iPad to date. It runs cooler than the iPad 3 or 4, it has almost the same battery life despite …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple Stores top Tiffany's in sales per square foot, again — But the $45 dollars the average Apple Store customer spends each visit is the least of it — FORTUNE — It is likely that there is no retail outlet in the world that generates as much cash per square foot than an Apple Store.
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| Dorothy Chou / The Official Google Blog: |
Transparency Report: Government requests on the rise — We think it's important to shine a light on how government actions could affect our users. When we first launched the Transparency Report in early 2010, there wasn't much data out there about how governments sometimes hamper the free flow of information on the web.
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
SugarSync releases version 2.0 beta with new UI, drag-and-drop sharing and cross-device search — SugarSync's popular cloud sharing app just got a complete web and desktop makeover. Version 2.0 beta is now available in desktop, web and Android app flavors, bringing a handful of new features to subscribers on multiple platforms.| Dan Lyons / ReadWrite: |
Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine — Tech billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he is fed up with Facebook and will take his business elsewhere. He's sick of getting hit with huge fees to send messages to his team's fans and followers.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google's Nexus 4, 3G Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 go on sale across Europe — With its Nexus devices already sold out in Australia, Google has pushed live orders for the Nexus 4, 3G Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 in the UK, France, Germany and Spain allowing customers to get their hands on the heavily-discounted … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Visa's Digital Wallet V.me Exits Beta With 50 U.S. Banks Participating; Point-of-Sale Integration, Mobile Apps Due In Early 2013 — As the digital wallet battle rages on here in the U.S., with Google Wallet, Amex's Serve, MasterCard's PayPass, Square, PayPal, carrier-backed Isis …
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GigaOM, AllThingsD, NFC World and MarketWatch
| Reuters: |
Microsoft and Google financials could surface at trial — (Reuters) - Microsoft and Google's Motorola Mobility unit are set to square off on Tuesday at a trial with strategic implications for the smartphone patent wars and which could reveal financial information the two companies usually keep under wraps.
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Ars Technica and Hillicon Valley
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Vimeo previews upcoming pay-to-view service for creators, coming to PRO members early 2013 — Following the launch of tip jar, Vimeo is now demoing its upcoming pay-to-view service with select filmmakers before releasing the feature to PRO members in early 2013.
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CNET, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Beet.TV
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Along With New Homepage, Yahoo Also Set to Launch a “Gmail-Like” Email Reboot to Slow Gmail Gains — According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is prepping to launch a major overhaul of Yahoo Mail — which sources said has a cleaner, “more Gmail-like” look.| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel's 60-core chip ships; elites like Hawking get it first — Intel's first chip to integrate 60 processor cores is for high-performance computing applications — with a high-end price to match. — Intel is shipping the new 60-core chip — which is offered as a coprocessor that works …
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| Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: |
Facebook Tests Ranked Comments to Boost Engagement — Facebook is testing a new comments format on brand and subscriber pages by placing the most engaging comments up higher on posts, the company confirmed on Monday. — “We are testing a new format for comments on Page posts,” Facebook said in a statement to Mashable.
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