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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation, Emotional Distress — Today, Adam Witherspoon, a former employee of Color Labs who was laid off during the photo and video sharing startup's recent wind-down period filed suit against the company and its CEO Bill Nguyen alleging retaliation …
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The Verge, SlashGear, TUAW, App Advice, VentureBeat, Forbes, Betabeat, digitaltrends.com, CNET and iPhone Hacks
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Apple Paid $7 Million For Color Labs — In a lawsuit filed today by a former founding employee of Color Labs, one moment of clarity emerged amidst some seriously salacious allegations: Color's approximately 20 person technology team and some of its key intellectual property assets were indeed acquired by Apple last month.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
| Chris Dixon: |
a16z — VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it's odd that the VC industry itself has so stubbornly resisted change. — Two years ago I wrote a post where I argued that innovative new VC firms are finally starting to change this:
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Tweets: @cdixon and @aweissman
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google wants to take on Apple with an open AirPlay alternative — Google is working on an open alternative to Apple's AirPlay, and it's hoping to bring a number of device and software vendors on board to provide the industry with an open technology to exchange data between second screens and TV-connected devices.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google after antitrust: The good, the bad, and the ugly — U.S. and European antitrust regulators are poised to crack down on the dominant search company. What changes to Google search might the cases trigger? — Tim Carter was blindsided when his home-improvement site AsktheBuilder.com fell …
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Apple opens its first eBay store for a trial with select refurbished products — Seth Weintraub and Danny DeSilva contributed to this post. — Over the last few weeks, we've been posting links to a mysterious Apple refurbished store that appeared on eBay about a month ago and has been hiding in plain sight ever since.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Starts Letting iOS Users Auto-Upload All Their Snapshots With Photo Sync — It's not just for Android anymore. Facebook has figured out how to enable background auto-uploads and is now testing Photo Sync with a few iOS users. A tipster got us a screenshot and Facebook confirms iOS Photo Sync …
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Gizmodo, App Advice, CNET, VentureBeat, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook and TUAW. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Exclusive: Internal Videos Show Why Microsoft Kin Cratered — Do you remember the Microsoft Kin? It's okay if you don't-Microsoft certainly would like for you to forget it ever existed. Kin was a family of phones from Microsoft that launched to much fanfare in 2010, sold incredibly poorly …
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TechCrunch, PhoneArena, BGR, Neowin, GeekWire, CNET, VentureBeat, WinBeta, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo and WMPoweruser
| Paul Graham: |
How to Get Startup Ideas — The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. — The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want …
Tweets: @dens, @dalmaer, @prhaig and @artgillespie
| Vinicius Vacanti / Entrepreneur: |
The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched — If you're a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter. — Note: This post is loosely based on our experience 2 years ago when TechCrunch covered Yipit's launch.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @janaboruta, @drummel, @karaswisher and @nicferrier
| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Yahoo shares reach 18-month high as investors warm to new CEO — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc shares reached their highest level in a year and a half, as investor confidence grows that new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer can pull off a comeback that eluded three of her predecessors.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft investigating reported Windows Phone 8 reboots — Summary: Some Windows Phone 8 users (including yours truly) are experiencing spontaneous reboots and email sync problems. Microsoft officials say they are investigating. — Windows Phone 8 devices just started hitting the market …
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The Next Web, Ubergizmo, T3 News, BGR, IntoMobile, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Mac Weekend, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, DailyTech, My Nokia Blog, FierceMobileContent News, Business Insider, The Register, Phones Review, GadgeTell, LAPTOP Magazine, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Inquirer, Mobile Magazine, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, TechEye and Slashdot
| Mari Saito / Reuters: |
HTC “happy” with Apple settlement, slams media estimates — (Reuters) - Taiwan's HTC Corp is happy with its patent settlement with Apple Inc, but regards media reports on details of the licensing agreement as “outrageous”, chief executive Peter Chou told reporters on Tuesday.
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| Ron Miller / CITEworld: |
The incredible persistence of email — The rise of enterprise social software and easy-to-use online collaboration tools were supposed to be the undoing of corporate email. Yet while we continue to hear stories about email killers, email still thrives and is even projected to grow in businesses.| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (8.9-inch, 4G LTE) — What a difference a generation makes. While the original Kindle Fire impressed, there was only one thing that really made it worth considering: it was cheap. Really cheap. But, when we got our hands on the 7-inch … | Mark Hachman / ReadWrite: |
Windows 8 ‘Slow Going,’ But 2013 Should Be Better, Top Retailer Says — A senior executive at popular retailer NewEgg described the Windows 8 launch so far as not the “explosion” that the company originally planned for, but as slow and steadily improving. — From a software perspective … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Oprah's attempt to promote the Microsoft Surface backfires: iPad used to send tweet — Oprah is out plugging the Surface for Microsoft, stating that she is buying several of the devices as gifts. — However, in sending out that specific tweet, she, or whoever was running her account that day …
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Examiner, Mashable!, Geek.com, iPhone Hacks, Zagg, Betabeat, VentureBeat, PadGadget, Neowin, The Daily Caller, nbcnews.com, GeekWire, Windows 8 Beta, TechCrunch and Uncrunched
Tweets: @oprah, @qthrul, @davepell and @dannysullivan
| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Samsung pulls YouTube ad depicting computer ‘puppies’ being smashed — Samsung has removed an ad that featured computers that looked like puppies being destroyed by their owners. (YouTube) — How do you get people to buy a staid computer storage device?
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
LEAKED: MySpace's Master Plan To Raise $50 Million And Relaunch As A Spotify Killer — The parent company of MySpace is trying to raise $50 million in order to re-launch MySpace as a direct competitor to Spotify and Pandora in 2013. — This is according to documents obtained by Business Insider, which we have included in this post.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Is Among Those Mulling a TVGuide.com Bid for About $20 Million — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is among the companies taking a serious gander at TVGuide.com, the online entertainment listings, video and news site and mobile app. — Earlier today …
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| Dominic Patten / Deadline.com: |
Disney Pulls Plug On Online Movie Service — Disney Movies Online will cease to exist at the end of the year, Disney announced today. The little-known Internet movie service will close as of December 31, said the company in an email to users and on the site.
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Digital Media Wire, CNET and The Next Web
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Who's Next to Run Intel? A Look at the Internal and External Contenders. — Aside from the headline that CEO Paul Otellini is retiring in May, the most important part of Intel's press release on the subject was this: … For the first time in Intel's 45-year history …
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