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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Sweetened Motorola Deal With Arris By Promising To Cap Liability In TiVo's Billion Dollar+ Patent Claim — During the analyst conference call discussing telecom manufacturer Arris' just-announced acquisition of Motorola Home, one of the big topics (to Arris CEO Bob Stanzione's apparent exasperation) …
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Faces EU Antitrust Complaint Over Apple Patent Clash — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) faces a European Union antitrust complaint over its use of standard- essential patents in legal disputes with Apple Inc. (AAPL), the European Union competition commissioner said.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Rockmelt social browser comes to iPhone, Android version still in development — When we heard Rockmelt was going to announce some news about its social browser becoming available to lots more people, we assumed that meant the Android version was finally ready. Not quite: turns out the company was just referring iPhone users.
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Kleiner Partners' View Of the Future of Tech — Venture capitalists John Doerr and Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have had a front-row seat at Silicon Valley's recent Web froth and its fallout. — Their venture firm in the past decade made a big bet on clean technology.
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Flipboard lands on Android tablets, now supports Nexus 10 — It's no secret that we're big fans of Flipboard here at Engadget, but there's one thing we've been longing for: a tablet-optimized Android version. Until now, running the app on the Nexus 10 (by sideloading the APK) or even the Nexus 7 … | Don Melton: |
When I first heard the name “Safari” — Ten years ago this month, my secret Web browser team at Apple became the “Safari” team — less than 30 days before we debuted the product on January 7, 2003. — To this day, I don't know who suggested the name “Safari.”
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Facebook starts rolling out new privacy settings, making it easier to control what data is public — Facebook announced plans to make its privacy control settings easier to find this month, and now a series of new menus and notifications has begun to roll out to users of the social network, initially in New Zealand.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Samsung preps 5.5-inch flexible phone screen for CES demo — In January, Samsung's mobile display spin-off will bring us a step closer to bendable smartphones. Now that's twisted. — You won't have to bend over backward to see Samsung's latest effort in flexible smartphone screens.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Shuffles Top Brass With New COO and CFO Appointments — In move that shuffles some of the highest ranking members of the microblogging start-up's executive team, Ali Rowghani has been named chief operating officer of Twitter, according to a change in his Twitter profile …
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| Andrii Degeler / The Next Web: |
Google Play is growing faster, but Apple's App Store brings in way more money: Distimo — App analytics firm Distimo has published a new report looking at how Google Play and Apple's App Store have fared in 2012. It finds that while the former is growing rapidly, the latter still beats it more than four-fold in terms of revenues.
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| Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics completes talks for $3.9 billion U.S. chip expansion — South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's No.1 memory-chip maker, said on Thursday it has completed talks with the state government of Texas where it plans to invest $3.9 billion to expand system-chip production lines …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
A 2011 law made it easier to challenge Apple's patents — The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act opened the door to more post-grant reviews — FORTUNE — On Wednesday, Samsung informed a federal court — and the Wall Street Journal dutifully reported — that the U.S. Patent Office had …
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Wall Street Journal, ReadWrite, FOSS Patents, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista and MacDailyNews. Thanks:@philiped
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
‘Cut the Rope’ Creator to Debut First New Game Franchise Since Its Big Hit — Two screen shots from “Pudding Monsters,” the first new franchise for ZeptoLab since striking gold with “Cut the Rope.” — More than two years after ZeptoLab released the mega-hit mobile game “Cut the Rope,” …
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Deutsche Telekom CEO Obermann to step down, CFO to take over — The head of Deutsche Telekom, Rene Obermann, is to step down in a year's time. He apparently requested that the board set a termination date for his contract of 31 December 2013, and his successor has been chosen.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook updates Messaging filters, tests pay-to-deliver messages like LinkedIn — Facebook today announced refinements to its Messaging filters, as well as a test for a very small portion of American users to determine if people will pay to get in touch with those they aren't Facebook friends with.
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Path boosts social discovery for its 5 million users with the addition of Search and Nearby features — Path is releasing an update to its iOS and Android applications. Starting today, users are going to notice Path Search, a new feature that the company says will help make it easier …
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| Ron / WinBeta: |
Microsoft drops importing/exporting support for .xls and .doc in Outlook 2013 — In a new Outlook blog post, Microsoft mentions a few features and components that are being dropped from Outlook 2013. Of the features, Microsoft mentions that Outlook 2013 will no longer support importing … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Rabbit pulls reimagined video chat out of its hat — Video chat has become very useful in the age of the Internet, but it is still pretty clunky. With that in mind, the team at Rabbit took a step back to figure out how to reimagine video chat with your friends as if you were having isolated conversations …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Study: More Than 1,000 Seed-Funded Startups Are Destined To Be ‘Orphaned’ At The Series A Stage — There is a lot of buzz about an ongoing “Series A crunch” for tech startups, but it's ideal to have real data to accompany all the anecdotal stories. So we were glad to see that today … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Now Highlights Its Indoor Street View Imagery On Search Results Pages — A while back, Google started bringing its Street View technology indoors under the name Google Business Photos. These images, however, were often hard to find and somewhat buried on Google's local listings and Google Maps.
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| Hugo Martin / Los Angeles Times: |
Boeing uses potatoes to simulate humans in test of Wi-Fi signals — Boeing has tested onboard internet signals with potatoes instead of passengers. (Associated Press / December 19, 2012) — Boeing, the Seattle-based company that has built some of the world's most sophisticated aircraft … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Orders Sitcom Pilots From Daily Show, Onion, Doonesbury Writers — Like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu, Amazon is taking a stab at making its own Web video, starting with sitcoms and kids' shows. Here's the first foray from Jeff Bezos and company — an order for a half-dozen sitcom pilots …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
4 Out of 10 Americans Have Connected Internet to TV — Still waiting for the Internet and TV to converge? It may have already happened. — Four out of 10 Americans have connected their TV to the Internet, according to a new Forrester study. If you're just talking about the whippersnappers …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Forrester: 84% Of U.S. Adults Now Use The Web Daily, 50% Own Smartphones, Tablet Ownership Doubled To 19% In 2012 — Forrester Research just published its annual “State of Consumers and Technology” report. As usual, it's chock-full of interesting statistics about how U.S. consumers use the Internet …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Oracle buys cloud-based marketing automation software firm Eloqua for $871m — Computer technology giant Oracle today announced that it has agreed to acquire Eloqua, a publicly-listed company that provides cloud-based marketing automation and revenue performance management software …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Apple Breaks Ground on 1-Million-Square-Foot Texas Outpost — You've heard about Apple's Cupertino spaceship. Now meet the company's Austin, Texas crash pad. — Over the past few weeks, Apple has started work on a new 39-acre campus that will be the future home of the company's America's Operations Center.
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