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| 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 …
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CNET, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Quartz, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com and iFans. Tweets: @jessicalessin
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's new iTunes 11 expected tomorrow following delay due to engineering issues — In a profile of Apple SVP Eddy Cue, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's new iTunes 11 app will debut tomorrow (Thursday). The report further claims that the new media player was delayed due … | 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 …
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digitaltrends.com, Neowin, Softpedia News, PC World, BGR, TechCrunch, Windows 8 Beta, ExtremeTech, ITworld.com, TechnoBuffalo, LAPTOP Magazine, gHacks Technology News, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Winsyde and WebProNews
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| 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: |
Microsoft Sees Surge in Windows Phones on Faster Software — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is selling four times as many Windows phones as this time last year, helped by a new version of its phone software for more powerful handsets with faster screens, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
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| 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 … | George Avalos / Mercury News: |
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.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Bing Attacks Google Shopping With “Scroogled” Campaign, Forgets It's Guilty Of Same Problems — Bing is attacking Google over its shift to a pay-for-play shopping search engine through a new “Scroogled” site, pledging that Bing has “honest search.” Great campaign, if it were true. It's not.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon Web Services cuts S3 prices, knocks old guard rivals — Summary: “We're lowering prices for S3 by 24 percent to 27 percent in all regions,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services. Jassy also mocked old guard technology rivals, which were seen as cloud washers.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Ballmer says Windows 8 users ‘get it, and like it’ — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is addressing the company's annual shareholders meeting right now in Bellevue, Wash. He started by talking about the uptake of Windows 8, citing the 40 million licenses sold, and alluding to the early usage patterns that the company reported yesterday.
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| Vibhu Norby / philosophically: |
Why We're Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first — There has been much discussion from the venture capitalist angle on the failings of mobile companies, including posts by Fred Wilson and Om Malik. I wanted to share my perspective, having been the co-founder of a mobile-first startup …
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| Eric Gilmore / Google Apps Developer Blog: |
Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing — Would you like to programmatically publish some web content? Or let your users do so in the context of your Drive app? — This is possible now with Google Drive. Your app can now insert static web assets in a publicly shared folder … | 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 …
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The Verge, CNET, SocialTimes, Fortune, IntoMobile, AdAge, Mashable! and Business Insider
| 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.| 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.| 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 …
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CNET, The Next Web, SlashGear, Engadget, TechCrunch, ReelSEO Online Video … and SocialTimes
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Google Acquires Incentive Targeting To Power Super Targeted, Personalized Coupon Programs — Google has just acquired coupon targeting company Incentive Targeting. The acquisition was confirmed in a tweet from Mike Dudas, who is on the team building Google's mobile commerce business.
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AllThingsD, Understanding Google …, CNET, Xconomy, Engadget, VatorNews, 9to5Google, Screenwerk, PC Magazine, SlashGear, ZDNet and Droid Life. Tweets: @mdudas. Thanks:@chrisvelazco
| 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.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Will.i.am launches pricey i.am+ camera add-ons for iPhone, we go hands on (video) — So, we learned two things today. Firstly, Will.i.am is able to attract quite a media scrum, and secondly, national press photographers have sharp elbows. Nevertheless, we braved the London debut …
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Telegraph, MacNN, The Verge, iClarified, everythingiCafe, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile and Gizmodo. Tweets: @panzer
| Liz Tay / iTnews: |
CommBank unveils Facebook banking — Targets ‘profound’ peer-to-peer payment market. — The Commonwealth Bank has developed a Facebook version of its Kaching mobile app, allowing customers to make and request payments from within the social network. — The Facebook application …
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ZDNet, ITWire.com and AustralianIT.com.au
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Delayed Till 2013 — During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their a plan to warn and “punish” BitTorrent pirates. — The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information …
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Center for Copyright …, Ars Technica and WebProNews
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Groupon's Andrew Mason: Of Course My Board Is Discussing Replacing Me. But I Want to Stay. — So that's pretty straightforward: Groupon CEO Andrew Mason says that yes, his board is discussing whether he should be replaced. — That's totally normal, he says, for a company whose stock is down 80 percent.
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AllThingsD, CNET, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable!. Tweets: @hblodget
| Loek Essers / Computerworld: |
Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands — Dutch court bans sale of Samsung products that infringe on an Apple patent on navigating images in a photo gallery — A Dutch court has banned sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy products that infringe …
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