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Hewlett-Packard reports Justice Dept. fraud probe at Autonomy — According to an annual report filed Thursday by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), the U.S. Department of Justice has officially opened an investigation into its allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy, the British software maker it acquired for $11 billion last year.
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Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt — (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would play out.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Mike Lynch Punches Back at Today's HP Filing: Whither $5B Writedown? — Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is still not backing down in his ongoing battle with Hewlett-Packard. — “Simply put, these allegations are false, and in the absence of further detail we cannot understand what HP believes …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Adding 415 apps daily, Windows 8 blows past the 35,000 app milestone — Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now has a total of 35,0000 applications in its Store, according to tracking website MetroStore Scanner. — The total tally, 35,167, represents a growth of 14,557 in the last 35 days … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey — The post-Ron Johnson era did not begin well for Apple. Earlier this year, the company ousted Johnson's successor, John Browett, as head of its retail operations following a series of rare and embarrassing cockups.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Facebook files for ‘Poke’ trademark (after obtaining and abandoning it earlier) — Social networking giant Facebook has filed for 3 trademarks in the United States: for ‘Poke’, ‘Facebook Poke’ and the logo of its new Poke app for iPhone. The company filed for the trademarks on the 21st of December 2012 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Christmas Day 2012 saw a record 17.4m Android and iOS device activations, 2.5x more than in 2011 — It's no surprise that more Android and iOS devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year. Yet on Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxies, Kindle Fires …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever — The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less. Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing. — Via: yourprops.com| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
BlueStacks' App Player For Mac Launches Beta: Now You Can Run Over 750,000 Android Apps On Mac — BlueStacks, the startup known for bringing Android applications to desktop PCs, is today releasing its App Player for Mac into beta, following its previous Mac alpha release in June.
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22 — Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in. — Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Twitter-owned Posterous finally lets users export their data - will it now close down in 2013? — When Posterous was bought by Twitter in March, the team behind the blogging platform said it would introduce a system to allow users to export their data from the service “in the coming weeks”.| Carlos Tejada / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese Court Hits Apple in Copyright Dispute — BEIJING—A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan, or about $165,000, to a group of local writers who said the U.S. gadget maker sold unlicensed copies of their books online, according to state media.
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