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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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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
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.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Google SVP Vic Gundotra was told to stop tweeting after infamous ‘two turkeys’ taunt — Shortly after the launch of Google+ in June last year, Google Senior VP Vic Gundotra went silent on Twitter. The logical assumption was that he was showing his faith in the nascent G+ product …
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| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion — SAN JOSE, Calif. — John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company. — In an interview at Cisco headquarters this week …
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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 …
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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.| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Google to replace M&A chief, launch late-stage investment fund — (Reuters) - Google Inc is replacing the head of its in-house mergers and acquisitions group with one of its top lawyers and is planning to create a new late-stage investment group that longtime and outgoing corporate …
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Besides Scalpers, Few Turn Out for iPad Mini Launch in Beijing … The release of Apple Inc.'s iPad Mini on Friday at its flagship store in Beijing was missing the massive and unruly crowds reminiscent of some the company's previous product launches in China, but scalpers were still …
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| Graham Spencer / MacStories: |
Mapping Apple's Retail Expansion — Apple opened its first retail stores on May 19, 2001 - one in Virginia and the other in California. In the Steve Jobs biography, author Walter Isaacson wrote how Jobs had wanted Apple to have its own stores so that their iMacs didn't have to …
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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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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
For Netflix and the SEC, a Facebook Share Should Be Public Enough — Most people worry about over-sharing on Facebook. Under-sharing? Not so much. — Except, that is, for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is considering taking action against Netflix for a Facebook post made by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
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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 …
| 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 … | 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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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Galaxy S III ‘Premium Suite’ features detailed: Multi-Window, Page Buddy and more (video) — Samsung started pushing a new Jelly Bean update to its Galaxy S III phones yesterday, and it's posted a video breaking down some of the features. Many of the “Premium Suite” upgrades are cribbed … | 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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| John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
AMD cuts chip orders to GlobalFoundries as PC market slumps — Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, expecting a “choppy demand environment” in the next few quarters. — Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Online Learning Marketplace Udemy Lands $12M To Expand Its Course Catalog, Go Cross-Platform — In 2010, Udemy set out to capitalize on the growing market for video-based online education by launching a learning platform that allows anyone to teach and participate in online video classes.
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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 … | 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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