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Google To Rein In Free Version Of Software — Google Inc. said it stopped offering its suite of Web-based software for businesses—known as Google Apps—free of charge to groups of 10 or fewer users, as it moves to generate revenue from previously free services.
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Google Apps discontinues basic package, asks new customers to pony up $50 per user for premium — Looking towards Mountain View to provide a suite of digital tools for your new business? Make sure to pen per-user costs into your ledger — Google Apps isn't free anymore.
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies — T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere confirmed that the iPhone will be among the Apple products that T-Mobile sells next year, but he said that T-Mo will sell it in a far different way than other carriers.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Facebook in Talks to Buy Microsoft's Atlas Ad Platform — According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is looking seriously at purchasing Microsoft's Atlas Solutions ad-serving platform. — Sources said the social networking giant has been conducting due diligence … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
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| Rock Center with Brian Williams: |
Apple CEO on challenge of keeping company cutting edge — Steve Jobs' hand-picked successor, current Apple CEO Tim Cook, talks exclusively to Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams about Apple's battle with Samsung, glitches with their maps app, the prospect of Apple TV and the challenge of keeping Apple cutting edge.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Live Blog: Google's Vic Gundotra At SMX Social Media Marketing — Our SMX Social Media Marketing conference is winding down today and the final event on the agenda is a keynote conversation involving Vic Gundotra, the Senior VP of Engineering for Google+, and our own Editor-in-Chief, Danny Sullivan.
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Washington Post Plans a Paywall — The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter. — While details are being finished …
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Google Nearer to Selling Motorola Set-Top Line — Google Inc. is wrapping up an auction of Motorola's set-top box business, according to people involved in the deal, as it continues downsizing the hardware unit. — The Mountain View, Calif., company had set a deadline of Friday for the last round of bids …
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| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
FCC to FAA: Allow ‘greater use’ of electronic devices during flights — The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday pushed for wider in-flight use of electronic portable devices during airplane flights. — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 620 hands-on: $249 for Windows Phone 8 (video) — Surprising a few of us, Nokia yesterday revealed a brand new Windows Phone 8 device, the 3.8-inch Lumia 620, in an explosion of colors. As its naming convention goes, and at just $249, this is the cheapest device running Microsoft's newly christened mobile OS so far.
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
No more blind refreshes: Techmeme now alerts you to new headlines — Are you the kind of Techmeme reader who reloads all day to check for new headlines? Well, we have good news: you can stop refreshing blindly, because Techmeme now automatically reports when there are new headlines … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Apple Hires Hacker Who Helped Save Windows From Security Hell — Apple has hired a noted computer security researcher who helped Microsoft lock down its Windows operating system. — Kristin Paget — formerly known as Chris Paget — now works on Apple's security team.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Netflix CEO Gets A Warning From The SEC Over A Facebook Post — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings got a Wells notice from the SEC. — A Wells notice comes when the SEC is giving a company a heads-up that it's likely to bring some sort of action against it. — In this case, the Wells notice relates …
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| Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register: |
Intel prepping Atom bombs to drop on ARM microservers — Roadmap is top secret, dual-core ‘Centerton’ Atom looms — To hear Intel Fellow Matt Adiletta tell it, Chipzilla not only invented the term microserver but saw the trend towards wimpy computing coming way ahead of the all this fawning …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
BlueStacks Hits 5M Installs, Rumored To Be Bringing 750K+ Android Apps To Windows RT Devices — It appears that BlueStacks isn't just a flash in the pan. The Silicon Valley-based startup, which makes software that allows users to run their Android apps on Macs and PCs … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Cloudera Closes Massive $65 Million Funding Round at $700 Million Valuation — Whenever you hear the phrase “big data” these days, and depending on whom you're talking to, the word Hadoop usually isn't far behind. When companies and large organizations seek to tackle the biggest …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Series A crunch: By the numbers — If you thought the Series A crunch is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet. — FORTUNE — A growing number of tech startups are having trouble graduating from seed or angel funding to traditional venture capital. And it's only going to get worse.
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| Paul Elias / Associated Press: |
Judge May Trim Apple's $1 Billion Patent Verdict — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to reduce a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics. — During a hearing in a San Jose federal courtroom, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh told lawyers …
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| Adam Gabbatt / Guardian: |
Richard O'Dwyer's two-year extradition ordeal ends in New York — TVShack founder avoids prosecution under copyright laws and says: 'It is a pity the UK government didn't try and resolve this' — A British student's two-year fight to avoid extradition to the US ended in less than five minutes on Thursday …
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| Sinead Carew / Reuters: |
Broadcom eyes entry into LTE chip market soon — (Reuters) - Broadcom Corp said on Thursday that entering the market for chips supporting the latest high-speed speed wireless services will be a priority for it in 2013. — Chief Executive Scott McGregor, on the webcast of an analyst meeting …
| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
AT&T Finally Gives Up On Their In-House CDN: Will Resell Akamai's CDN Services — In August I reported that AT&T was planning to shut down their in-house CDN and re-sell CDN services from Akamai or Limelight Networks and that Akamai would probably win the deal since they were willing …
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