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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.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′ — When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to … | PeopleBrowsr Blog: |
PeopleBrowsr Wins Temporary Restraining Order Compelling Twitter to Provide Firehose Access — PeopleBrowsr and Twitter appeared in San Francisco Superior Court today. PeopleBrowsr won a restraining order compelling Twitter to provide full Firehose access.
| 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, Daring Fireball, Shoutpedia, Gizmodo, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Quartz 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 … | 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.
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| 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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PC Magazine, Neowin, iFans, digitaltrends.com, ITworld.com, Softpedia News, BGR, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, LAPTOP Magazine, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Windows 8 Beta, gHacks Technology News, PC World, Gotta Be Mobile, Winsyde and WebProNews
Tweets: @tomwarren and @maryjofoley
| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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.| 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.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, MacNN and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@mercbizbreak
| 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 … | 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, PhoneArena, CNET, IntoMobile, Fortune, SocialTimes, AdAge, Mashable! and Business Insider
| Eva Dou / Digits: |
Windows 8 Touchscreen Laptops See Slow Start — One month into the launch of Windows 8, sales are sluggish, say some Asian PC makers - even the ones making the most popular products. — “Demand for Windows 8 is not that good right now,” said Asustek Computer Inc. Chief Financial Officer David Chang.
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| 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.| 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.| 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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The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, ReelSEO Online Video …, SlashGear, TechCrunch, SocialTimes and Softpedia News
| 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.| 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.| Jennifer Smith / Law Blog: |
LegalZoom Gets in the Ring with Rocket Lawyer — Online legal documents company LegalZoom.com Inc. is suing one of its rvials, Google-backed Rocket Lawyer Inc., over alleged violations of Federal Trade Commission guidelines and what it calls unfair business tactics “for the purpose of injuring LegalZoom.”
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TechCrunch and San Francisco Chronicle
| 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, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, Gizmodo, iClarified, iPhone Hacks, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and parislemon. Tweets: @panzer
| 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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The Register, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, Bing, Computerworld, AllThingsD and Associated Press. See also Mediagazer
| 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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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“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).
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