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Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash — Networking tech giant Cisco has just agreed to acquire cloud infrastructure startup Meraki, and my industry sources confirm the purchase price was $1.2 billion, all in cash. I've also gotten ahold of the letter to Meraki employees from CEO Sanjit Biswas.
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Meraki, Cisco Blog, MarketWatch, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, CNET, dailywireless.org, Electronista, AllThingsD, The Register, VentureBeat, ZDNet and Reuters
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| Doug Leone / Sequoia Capital: |
Cisco acquires Meraki: how 3 guys from MIT transformed the networking industry — Quick: when was the last time you plugged in an Ethernet cable? If you have trouble answering that question, you're one of the reasons why Cisco has agreed to acquire Meraki.| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple Can Finish What Microsoft's Sinofsky Started — In 2007, Microsoft introduces a new version of Windows called Vista, a grand name for what turns out to be an embarrassing dud. (Memories of my first and determining interaction with Vista can be found here.)
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Nintendo Wii U Teardown — When Nintendo announced the Wii U there was a lot of interest in its hardware specs. The new console could very well end up the fastest kid on the block thanks to the sheer age of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I wasn't all that interested in the Wii U … | Dara Kerr / CNET: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8 users report random reboots and battery issues — Windows Phone 8 devices have been available since the beginning of the month and users are starting to report early issues across HTC and Nokia handsets. In a thread over at WPCentral with 143 replies, a variety …
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Windows 8 Beta, Mobile Magazine, Neowin and Slashdot
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
This Trend Is Very Worrisome For Apple — Over the past couple of years, we have written often about a major long-term risk for Apple, which is the gradual loss of mobile market share to the Android platform. — This trend has continued in recent months, to the point where Apple …
Tweets: @levie
| Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm: |
Hey Damon from Galaxie 500: There Has To Be a Better Way — In a widely-circulated Pitchfork article called “Making Cents,” Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi reveals some truly startling figures: — “Galaxie 500′s ‘Tugboat’ was played 7,800 times on Pandora … | Damon Krukowski / Pitchfork: |
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo and Facebook Not in Search Alliance Discussions — Yahoo and Facebook are not currently in talks about forming a search alliance, according to my sources, who scoffed about such a deal reported in a thinner-than-tissue-paper post by the Telegraph earlier today.
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Search Engine Land, CNET, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Techi.com, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and Business Insider
Tweets: @skrenta, @hblodget and @dannysullivan
| Tanzina Vega / New York Times: |
Automated Bidding Systems Test Old Ways of Selling Ads — Publishers and broadcasters have long tried to offer advertisers the right audience for their products. Want to sell pick-ups to people who like sports? Buy ads at halftime during a football game. Selling luggage or airline tickets?| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Android 4.2 bug omits December from the People app, makes end-of-year birthdays even less bearable — The launch of Android 4.2 brought a welcome smattering of extra features to the mobile world, but a recently discovered bug omits something slightly important: namely, the month of December.| Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: |
JUDGE APPROVES FTC'S $22.5M FINE OF GOOGLE — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $22.5 million fine to penalize Google for an alleged privacy breach, rejecting a consumer-rights group's plea for tougher punishment. — The blessing from U.S. District Judge Susan Illston came late Friday.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
AdRelevance founder Will Hodgman named KISSmetrics CEO — Will Hodgman, who previously founded Seattle's AdRelevance and M:Metrics, has been named chief executive officer of KISSmetrics. Hodgman was previously executive vice president of international at comScore, Inc.
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