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Court Temporarily Protects PeopleBrowsr Access To Twitter Firehose, Twitter Says It Will ‘Vigorously Defend’ Itself — PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social analytics tools such as Kred, has won a temporary restraining order against Twitter, allowing the company to maintain full access to Twitter's firehose of data.| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Tony Fadell: From iPod father to thermostat start-up — Father of the iPod — Tony Fadell on changes at Apple, Nest and doubts about Kickstarter| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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Dell, Intel in Talks for Stake in Sharp — TOKYO—Sharp Corp. is in discussions with U.S. technology companies to bolster its battered balance sheet and has offered a stake to Dell Inc., among others, in return for a stable supply of breakthrough display technology, according to people familiar with the discussions.| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Eddy Cue: Apple's Rising Mr. Fix-It — As Chief Executive Tim Cook shifts executive responsibilities around at Apple Inc., Eddy Cue is emerging as one of the biggest beneficiaries. — A member of Apple's old guard, the 23-year company veteran rose through the ranks as co-founder Steve Jobs's right-hand man … | Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Obama opposes Silicon Valley firms on immigration reform — White House announcement before congressional vote on STEM Jobs Act puts president in opposition to many of the Silicon Valley firms and executives who bankrolled his re-election campaign. — President Obama opposes … | Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: |
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Apple expands into Santa Clara — SANTA CLARA — Apple (AAPL) is planting its flag in Santa Clara in a big way for the first time during the technology giant's current shopping spree for new offices, agreeing to occupy a site where Apple could locate 1,200 or more workers.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft promises Windows Phone 7.8 update in Q1 2013, new models running the software coming shortly — Today Microsoft promised to bring the Windows Phone 7.8 update to market early next year for current Windows Phone 7.5 devices, and that new handsets running the software would be sold running … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars — Infrastructure: The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth.| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Was Just Put In A Bizarre Situation — And Now Some People Have A Decision To Make — Yesterday, three news stories appeared that reported essentially the same thing: — Board members at Groupon were discussing firing the company's CEO, Andrew Mason.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
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In Retribution for Huawei Investigation, Chinese State Media is Going After Cisco — Earlier today I wrote about an interesting if misleading report in the state-owned and state-run magazine China Economy and Informatization. Though light on facts, the article takes US tech companies … | Bill Flook / Washington Business Journal: |
LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S. … LivingSocial Inc. is slated to launch a major round of layoffs Thursday, with as many as 400 job cuts expected across its U.S. workforce, according to sources with knowledge of the daily deal giant's plans. — Those cuts are expected to span … | Ryan Tate / Wired: |
How Facebook's Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind — It's been a great year for the Facebook platform, but Mike Vernal wants more. Facebook's director of engineering tells us the social network is trying to pump up user posts, favoring longer stories and content and adding data … | Hoang Nguyen / YouTube Blog: |
YouTube automatic captions now in six European languages — Captions are important to make sure everyone—including deaf, hard-of-hearing, and viewers who speak other languages—can enjoy videos on YouTube. — In 2009, you first saw a feature that automatically creates captions on YouTube videos … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Google's Horowitz: Facebook is social network of the past — Google+ chief Bradley Horowitz says ads in the Facebook social feed are like sandwich boards — there's no context. But when you're searching on Google and a friend recommends something, that matters more.| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
Google, Government Reps Warn Against Internet Regulation Summit — If you've ever found yourself at a panel of academics, you know the drill: Really smart people, differing viewpoints, respectful bickering, free sandwiches, aaaand scene. — That said, at a panel yesterday on the campus … | Dena Aubin / Reuters: |
Audit firms sued in HP's Autonomy acquisition — (Reuters) - A new shareholder lawsuit over Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of British software firm Autonomy has named Big Four audit firms Deloitte and KPMG as defendants, alleging they missed numerous red flags about Autonomy's accounting.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? — I've been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I've spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it.| Patricia Sellers / Fortune: |
Watch: Full interview with Yahoo's Marissa Mayer — Here is Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer talking with me Tuesday evening in her first interview since she joined the troubled web giant from Google (GOOG) in July. — At the Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Palo Alto, California … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates — Microsoft is busy preparing its next-generation Windows client, shortly after shipping Windows 8 in October. The Verge has learned from several sources familiar with Microsoft's plans that the company is planning … | Official Android Blog: |
Edit spreadsheets on the go with the Drive mobile app — You're making your list, you're checking it twice — and now you can do it from anywhere. — Just in time for this year's holiday season, you can edit Google Sheets on your mobile device, just like you can with Google Docs.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
CloudFlare Now Uses Authy's Two-Factor Authentication To Keep Its Users Safe — CloudFlare, the popular website security and CDN service, suffered an embarrassing security breach earlier this year when the company's CEO's Gmail account was hijacked, giving the hacktivist group UGNazi access to a customer's account and the service.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:25 AM ET, November 29, 2012.
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