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December 20, 2012, 8:05 PM
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Updated Terms of Service Based on Your Feedback — Earlier this week, we introduced a set of updates to our privacy policy and terms of service to help our users better understand our service. In the days since, it became clear that we failed to fulfill what I consider …
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RIM beats street by losing less than expected in Q3 with EPS of -$0.22, revenue of $2.7B — Today Research In Motion reported third quarter revenue of $2.7 billion and earnings per share of -$0.22. While the company lost money per share, its loss was lower than expected.
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Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers — Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device.| 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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Facebook Tries Letting You Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery, Changes Messaging Privacy Settings — Sometimes you need to message a non-friend, and today Facebook starts testing if it can make a little money and cut spam by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees that message.
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BlackBerry Z10: first BlackBerry 10 handset pictured in black, white — As the January 30th launch draws closer, more details are coming to light regarding the upcoming BlackBerry 10-powered handsets Research in Motion plans to announce. Both a Torch-like full-touch device …
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Home-Automation Startup R2 Studios in Acquisition Talks — A secretive startup founded by the man who popularized the Slingbox has been in talks with companies considering buying it, people close to the company say, with Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Apple Inc. cited as participants.
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Adobe Acquires Social Portfolio Platform Behance To Power Its Creative Cloud Community Features — Adobe just announced that it has acquired Behance, a New York-based online platform where creative professionals can showcase their portfolios and where businesses can find talent.
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Verizon responds to AT&T, adds 29 LTE markets — Verizon customers in Selma, Al. and Port Angeles, Wa. are among the cities getting access to the company's 4G LTE network. — Verizon has added 29 new LTE markets to its service. — The company announced today that Selma, Al. and Port Angeles … | 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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Snapguide Comes To The iPad Because The Future Of The How-To Is On The Tablet — I wouldn't have an iPad if I didn't have to do two things: Do interviews and cook. The first I have to do for work but the second I do for fun. Which is why I think that Snapguide's bold and stylish move …
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GigaOM, Snapguide, iPhone Hacks, Macgasm and Mashable!
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The Hacker Way: Facebook reveals its top hacks of 2012 — The culture at Facebook has always been known to be about The Hacker Way. Through this philosophy, the company has periodically held and participated in numerous hackathons on its campus. Today, it has shared what it says are the top hacks from the past year.
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Google's Head of Shopping Says Company Has No Plans to Become a Retailer — If you've visited Google Shopping recently, you might confuse the search giant for a retailer. — Google Google's VP of Shopping Sameer Samat — At the top of the Shopping page, a photo shows a snowboarder floating …
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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.| 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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IFTTT gets $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer to connect all of our Internet silos — Today, IFTTT is announcing a Series A round of $7M that is led by Andreessen Horowitz, with NEA and Lerer Ventures participating. The round will help IFTTT to expand its staff, and work towards building out its service into a platform.
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Apple begins appeal in renewed bid to ban Samsung phones — Apple today took a step in trying to appeal a decision by a District Court judge not to ban a number of Samsung phones in the U.S. — Apple on Thursday told a San Jose judge it would appeal her decision earlier this week not to ban sales on a number of Samsung phones.| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
T-Mobile opens up pre-paid 4G access to its members in 14 markets via Solavei, on a band perfect for the iPhone — The low-cost contract-free service provider Solavei has announced that its users can now access up to 4G coverage on unlocked GSM iPhones in 37 new markets with the 1900MHz band.
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Issues & Insights Blog, VentureBeat, Pocketables, The Verge, MacRumors, GeekWire, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile and GigaOM
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Siri's reliance on Google cut in half with iOS 6 — Tests with Apple's voice-driven personal assistant, Siri, have found that the service turns to Google for an answer in iOS 6 half as much as it did in iOS 5. — When investment firm Piper Jaffray initially tested Siri in June … | 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.
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Engadget, Network World, Los Angeles Times, DailyTech and Gotta Be Mobile
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JPMorgan Said to Buy Coupon Site Bloomspot for $35 Million — JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) agreed to acquire online coupon site Bloomspot Inc. for $35 million as it seeks to offer credit card holders more discounts to local shops, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News.
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| 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.”
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TUAW, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, WebProNews, BGR, Macgasm and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @carterrabasa
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Red Hat's Q3 earnings: beats estimates, acquires ManageIQ — Summary: Open source software maker Red Hat beats estimates for its third quarter earnings with 30 cents a share on revenue of $343.6 million. It will also acquire cloud management provider ManageIQ for $104 million. — Andrew Nusca| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Chitika: iOS 6 Spike Likely Due To iPhone In China, Not Google Maps, As U.S. Growth Remains Flat — While a study this week from MoPub suggested that iOS 6 adoption indeed did see a spike coinciding with the introduction of Google Maps, Chitika has a new, longer-term look at adoption in the U.S …
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