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Reuters: Cheaper iPhone story withdrawn after ‘substantial changes’ to China report — Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets took an interesting turn Friday, as the major news organization Reuters opted to rescind a story originally filed, based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Just How Dumb Is It For CBS To Block CNET From Giving Dish An Award? — As you may or may not recall, last year, pretty much all the TV networks sued Dish Networks over a new feature it had launched, PrimeTime Any Time (PTAT), with its Autohopper technology on its DVRs.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
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Yahoo! Image Search - now with Flickr photos — Today, we're making it easier than ever to find and share photos on the web and mobile devices. Using Yahoo! Image Search, you can now easily find photos from Flickr that are available for re-use or re-posting under Creative Commons terms.| Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab: |
FTC Chairman Defends Google Settlement: We Did What The Law Required — It's been just over a week since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a historic settlement with Google, wherein they declined to press antitrust charges after a 19-month-long investigation into the Internet giant's search and mobile businesses.
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Guardian, 9to5Google, The Register and Inside Google
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Verizon's “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Measures Unveiled — In 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed to implement a system through which subscribers are warned …
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DSLreports and Gizmodo
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Zavers By Google Digital Coupon Solution For Retailers And Manufacturers — In late 2011, Google acquired Zave Networks, a company that specialized in digitizing coupons and loyalty rewards programs and today, it is launching its first Google-branded product based on this acquisition: Zavers by Google.
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Google Commerce, The Next Web and ZDNet
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple appoints Xerox CFO Luca Maestri as new corporate controller — In a bid to strengthen its financial division, Apple has lured away Xerox executive vice president and CFO Luca Maestri, appointing him as its new corporate controller. — Announcing Maestri's departure in a press release …
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Business Wire, AllThingsD, Reuters, CNET, Ars Technica, Forbes, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TUAW, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News and iClarified
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft Messenger Service not going anywhere just yet — Enlarge / The Skype client being used for instant messaging. — Skype — Earlier this week came widespread reports that Microsoft would be retiring its widely used Messenger service on March 15th, forcing all users …
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Skype Garage, CNET, The Next Web, iPhone, Neowin, SlashGear, Softpedia News, The Verge and Engadget
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Widens Its Mobile Payments Net, Adds Groupon Payments To Its Android App To Rival Square — Groupon CEO Andrew Mason last year set his company a goal of adding more value and diversity to its bread and butter business in daily deals, and today it took one more step in that direction …
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The Next Web, AllThingsD, Mobile Marketing Watch, VatorNews, AllThingsD and WebProNews. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Don Melton: |
Safari is released to the world — During the early development of Safari, I didn't just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple's IP address or our browser's user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on the outside would notice who I was hiring at Apple.
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MacRumors, Business Insider and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Cracking the China code: Microsoft vs. Apple — In 2011 Microsoft's CEO bemoaned that revenue in China was about 5% of what it obtained in the US. Yesterday Apple's CEO suggested that revenue from China will overtake the US in the near future. — The contrast is even more stark …
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TheTechStorm, Edible Apple and Ubergizmo
| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
Now China's WeChat App is Censoring Its Users Globally — We've written a lot about the progress of the world's biggest messaging app, the China-made WeChat, which is fast approaching 300 million registered users and enjoying some level of global success with it.
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PandoDaily, Quartz, The Next Web, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, The Register and TechPresident
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Postal Service must stop favoring Netflix DVDs over GameFly ones, says appeals court — A US appeals court has ruled in favor of GameFly in a long-running suit against the Postal Service, determining once again that the Postal Service gave preferential treatment to Netflix and Blockbuster by sorting their DVDs.
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The Next Web, Reuters and NBC Bay Area
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Nintendo's Wii U Outperforming the Original Wii, Only Because It Costs More — Nintendo's Wii U has managed to outperform the launch of its original Wii, at least in terms of revenue, but only because it costs more. — In the U.S., Nintendo sold 460,000 Wii U devices in December …
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Engadget, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, VG247, Guardian, WebProNews, Nintendo, VentureBeat, The Verge and Polygon
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
AngelList's new online investment feature raises $1m for startups in its first month — AngelList has announced that its Invest Online feature has already brought $1 million in commitments from investors in less than a month. — The service, which connects early-stage startups with interested investors …
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SocialTimes and Le AngelList Blog
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
YouTube's Three Year+ Copyright Battle With German Music Rights Agency Rumbles On, As GEMA Breaks Off Negotiations — A copyright dispute that has blocked German YouTube users' access to certain music videos continues to rumble on with little sign of a resolution - despite being ongoing for more than three years already.
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Daily Dot, Softpedia News and SocialTimes
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
BitTorrent brings torrent discovery, downloading directly to the browser with Surf Chrome extension — BitTorrent on Thursday announced Surf, a Chrome extension that lets you discover and download torrents directly in Google's browser. The company says it also plans to release an add-on for Firefox soon … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
After Just Two Years, Nearly Half of Verizon's Data Traffic Is on LTE — Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Lowell McAdam — In his keynote speech at CES this week, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam observed that it was back in late 2010, during a similar keynote, that he touted the launch of the company's then-new 4G LTE mobile data network.
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Engadget, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and ZDNet
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Following active exploits, Mozilla adds all recent versions of Java to its Firefox add-on blocklist — Mozilla on Friday announced it has added Java 7 Update 9, Java 7 Update 10, Java 6 Update 37, and Java 6 Update 38 to its Firefox add-on block list, following yesterday's news of a new vulnerability.
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Krebs on Security, CNET and HOTforSecurity
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
MetroPCS rejiggers its plans again, restoring $60 unlimited tier — MetroPCS isn't done tinkering with its data plans. On Thursday it revamped its rates for the second time in a year. Most significantly, Metro restored its $60 unlimited LTE data tier, one of the best deals in wireless.
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Engadget, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, CNET, PhoneArena and dailywireless.org
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Russian Giant Yandex Has Secretly Built A Killer Facebook Search Engine App Codenamed “Wonder” — Yandex, the Google of Russia, has built a voice-activated visual search engine for Facebook. Codenamed “Wonder,” the mobile app lets people ask what businesses friends have visited and what content they've consumed, sources confirm.Thanks:@leenarao
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Leaked images may show black & white Blackberry Z10s, BBM Video and more (updated) — As Sony, Apple and others well know, it's hard to slip a phone into the marketplace without leaks, considering the many, many points on the supply chain where Mr. Blurrycam can spot it.Sponsor Posts
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