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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites — “What's the use of PRWeb?,” tweeted Megan McCarthy of Reuters, trying to digest how that service ended up circulating a fake Google acquisition story. Come along, Megan and others, and I'll explain one of the sorriest uses … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Google Sources Say Company Didn't Buy ICOA Wireless — Sources at Google are denying reports that the search giant has acquired ICOA Wireless in a $400 million deal. — We have yet to hear from a Google rep on the record. But people within the company say that contrary to a press release posted …
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| Frank Strong / PRWeb: |
PRWeb Statement on Fraudulent ICOA Press Release — PRWeb transmitted a press release for ICOA that we have since learned was fraudulent. The release was not issued or authorized by ICOA. Vocus reviews all press releases and follows an internal process designed to maintain the integrity of the releases we send out every day.
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Nintendo: 400K Wii U units sold, 1.2M devices total — The company's president of America Reggie Fils-Aime says that the Wii U is “essentially sold out of retail.” — Nintendo sold more than 1 million hardware units over the last week, the company has confirmed to CNET.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apollo Plus: Microsoft's next Windows Phone update to include Wi-Fi, audio, and other fixes — Microsoft is currently preparing an update for Windows Phone 8, codenamed Apollo Plus. Sources have confirmed to The Verge that Apollo Plus will bring new features to Windows Phone 8 that weren't fully in scope for the initial release.| Y Combinator: |
The YC VC Program — Two years ago Yuri Milner and Ron Conway formed an informal coalition to invest $150k in every startup we funded. Although we didn't organize this program, over the years we ended up de facto managing it, and it was awkward to manage something we hadn't started.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
11 Apple iPads per hour vs. zero Microsoft Surface tablets — A survey compared sales at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in the Mall of America — FORTUNE — On Saturday we posted side-by-side videos showing Black Friday shopping activity at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in Lone Tree … | Patrick McGee / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Taps Bond Market for First Time in Over a Decade — The Cyber Monday buying craze is extending to the bond market as Amazon.com Inc. sells its first bond deal in nearly 15 years. — The $3 billion bond deal from the largest U.S. Internet retailer has garnered more than $10 billion of orders, according to investors.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth — Each morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, he turned on the “VC” link to New York. — VC is Google shorthand for video conference.
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| Farhad Manjoo / Fast Company: |
Walmart's Evolution From Big Box Giant To E-Commerce Innovator — Walmart, the world's largest retailer, embraces social, mobile, and the startup spirit to compete against Amazon. Will it be enough? — Jeremy King was ignoring the largest retailer in the world.
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Business Insider, The Verge and Quartz
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Zillow continues acquisition spree, buys HotPads for $16M in cash — Zillow continues to bolster its position in the online real estate sector, announcing today yet another acquisition. — This time the deal happens to be in the consumer arena, with Zillow agreeing to pay $16 million …
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Zillow MediaRoom, TechCrunch, Forbes, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily, Mashable!, HotPads Daily and The Seattle Times. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: Users Can Download Their Entire Archive By Year-End; Now Sees 1B Tweets Every 2.5 Days — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has once again promised that Twitter users will, indeed, be able to download a full archive of their tweets in just a matter of weeks.
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BuzzFeed, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com, TPM IdeaLab and Gizmodo
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
The Android engagement paradox — IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark reported US Black Friday sales and the news is reasonably good. Overall online sales grew by 17.4% while mobile grew to make up 24% of traffic. — The data goes further to show the split between device types.
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IBM, Zero Percent Idle, Internet2Go, Business Insider, CITEworld, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Mashable! and Marketing Pilgrim
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Internal Apple video documents Apple Store philosophy — Washington Square Films (NYC) gave us a rare look at one of the internal videos that Apple has shown its retail store employees. This one is obviously over a year old, with Ron Johnson at the helm (the date says 7/7/2011).
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Daring Fireball, TUAW, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com and TechCrunch
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Acquired “Lightning” Trademark from Harley-Davidson — The EU Patent & Trademark Office officially published two Apple trademark applications for “Lightning” under numbers 011399821/862. What's interesting about this filing is that it clearly illustrates that Apple had acquired …
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PC Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Redmond Pie, Forbes, Mashable!, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, Techie Buzz, MacRumors and Business Insider
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone 5 Costs May Be Eating Apple's Gross Margins — How much longer can Apple maintain the high margins it has long commanded for devices like the iPhone? Not much longer, says Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves, who believes the company's gross profit per device has risen as high as it will ever go.
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Forbes, BGR, iClarified, Business Insider and Pocketnow
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's client-access licensing and pricing changes to hit December 1 — Summary: Business customers who purchase CALs from Microsoft for use with Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Windows Server, System Center and other products should be aware of licensing/pricing changes coming soon.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Lanyrd Jumps Into The Space Left By LinkedIn's Events App Closure With New Features — As of today, LinkedIn is shutting down its LinkedIn Events application. As you can see, the events industry is gnashing its teeth over this move. The events side of the app has been long used …
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The Next Web and PandoDaily
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Head of US Patent and Trademark Office to step down in January — In an unexpected move, David Kappos will step down as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in January, after serving for four years. The news leaked earlier today on the PatentlyO blog … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Verizon Sued For Defending Alleged BitTorrent Pirates — The ongoing avalanche of mass-BitTorrent lawsuits reveal that IP-addresses can get people into a heap of trouble. — In many cases the person who pays for the account is not the person who shared the copyrighted material.
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Amazon enjoys big etail lead as Cyber Monday hits — Just in time for Cyber Monday, Deepfield released new numbers ranking online retail sites based on their traffic. Some of the results are surprising (Shopify, which offers an ecommerce platform for e-commerce sites, shows pretty good numbers) … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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