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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.
| 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: |
T-Mobile finally gets aggressive: ‘You love your iPhone, but you hate AT&T’ — 2013's lineup boasts LTE, a merger with MetroPCS, new value plans, and a little thing called the iPhone — T-Mobile has just wrapped an analyst presentation that was full of more aggressive forecasts for the company …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Facebook And Microsoft Are Working On A Deal, And It Could Change Everything About Advertising — Facebook and Microsoft are working on a deal that, if completed, would put Facebook one huge step closer to launching an ad network that could rival Google's in size, and change the way advertising is done online forever.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
| 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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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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| 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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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 … | 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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| 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 …
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
California attorney general sues Delta Air Lines over smartphone app privacy policy — California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed suit Thursday against Delta Air Lines in her first enforcement action since she promised to crack down on companies that don't inform consumers about their policies … | Tom Bergin / Reuters: |
Special Report: Amazon's billion-dollar tax shield — (Reuters) - In 2005, Amazon rented a historic five-storey building in Luxembourg's Grund quarter, right at the bottom of a steep rock-walled valley below the old town. — By setting up in Luxembourg, and channelling sales through its units there … | 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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| 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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| Foursquare Blog: |
Manage a business? Now you can add events like trivia nights, wine tastings, and book signings to Foursquare — Foursquare is great for helping customers discover things to do nearby. Starting today, you can add events, like a trivia tournament or open mic night, to Foursquare listings you manage.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Pinterest Cuts Off Spammers (Hey Instagram, Hope You're Next) — Pinterest today is undertaking a cleansing of spammy and fake accounts. It plans to delete them. — The site already has a spam reporting system for pins and comments. It tries to take care of bad behavior …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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