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New MySpace opens to the public alongside new Justin Timberlake single — MySpace this week quietly opened up its redesigned site to the public. The so-called “New MySpace” entered internal beta testing in July, and was previewed in September. Thus far, however, it has only been accessible …
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CNET, The Next Web, Inquirer, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TG Daily, DVICE, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Engadget and Geekosystem
| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife — In the wake of the suicide of hacker hero Aaron Swartz, his friends and family released a statement placing the onus for his death on “a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.”
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Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Ars Technica and Boston Globe. Tweets: @tomjdolan. See also Mediagazer
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Belgian consumer group sues Apple over its ‘misleading and illegal’ warranty policy — Belgian consumer protection organization Test-Aankoop yesterday filed a lawsuit (Dutch) against Apple for not respecting local laws on warranties. — All Apple hardware comes with a one-year limited commercial warranty … | Lawrence Mower / Las Vegas Review-Journal: |
If you lose your cellphone, don't blame Wayne Dobson … Wayne Dobson doesn't have your cellphone. — Even if it looks like he might. — In the past two years the 59-year-old retiree has been pestered by people showing up at all hours of the day and night at his house, demanding their phones.| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
Fortunes of Facebook May Hinge on Searches — SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly a year after it announced its bid to go public, Facebook is confronting the ultimate burden of the information age: how to help its users find what they are looking for amid the billions of pictures, “likes” and status updates they post every day.
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Pocket-lint and AP
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California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial — A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a lower cost via the Internet.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, AllThingsD and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @digiphile
| Apple: |
Wi-Fi + Cellular Models of iPad mini & Fourth Generation iPad Available in China This Friday — BEIJINGJanuary 15, 2013Apple® today announced the Wi-Fi + Cellular versions of iPad® mini and the new fourth generation iPad with Retina® display will be available in China on Friday …
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| Scott Cleland / The Daily Caller: |
What if Microsoft exited the search business? — Amazingly, most everyone totally ignores a linchpin competitive assumption when they talk about search competition and Google's antitrust liabilities - that Microsoft will always be a competitor in the search advertising business.
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Marketing Pilgrim and Silicon Valley Watcher
| Long Zheng / istartedsomething: |
Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows - drive-by crapware installers — Many people in the technology startup community have very high regards for Paul Graham and Y Combinator, the exclusive seed accelerator program in Silicon Valley which has under its belt acclaimed successes like reddit, Airbnb and Dropbox.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Verge and Within Windows
| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Watch out, Square: PayPal and NCR team up for mobile payments in a big way — Two of Square's biggest competitors are joining forces: PayPal and point-of-sale (POS) company NCR just announced a major deal that could tip the mobile payments market in PayPal's favor.
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The PayPal Blog, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews, Finextra Research and internetretailer.com. Thanks:@devindra
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
China's Internet population surges to 564 million, 75 percent on mobile — Summary: Thanks to mobile technology, more Chinese citizens are gaining access to the Internet. — Charlie Osborne — More Chinese citizens than ever have access to the Internet thanks to mobile technology driving Internet penetration.
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Associated Press, Electronista, The Verge, Computerworld, DailyFinance.com, SlashGear, Engadget and Mashable!
| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Worry Over Sales Spurs Talk of Cheaper iPhones — By now, most of the world knows what an iPhone is — and they know it typically doesn't come cheap. — That is the problem Apple faces. Analysts say it must decide whether to keep catering to the high end of the phone market … | Hollywood Reporter: |
Hollywood Reporter Parent Company Names Ross Levinsohn CEO — The former Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media executive will lead Guggenheim Digital Media, a new umbrella company that includes THR, Billboard and other brands - with an eye toward growth. — The Hollywood Reporter's parent company …
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, MarketWatch, DealBook, Business Insider and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @rafat. See also Mediagazer
| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
An Ivy education without the debt? Minerva Project creates non-profit to figure out how — The Minerva Project, which turned heads last April with its mega $25 million seed round, has grand ambitions for bringing a Harvard-level education to the Web. But there are two aspects …
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TechCrunch, New York Times and Business Insider
| Marco Tabini / Macworld: |
How Apple sets its prices — Comparison-shopping for new electronics can be fun and addictive. With a bit of patience, some luck, and an eye for good deals, you can find everything from TV sets to hard drives at a significant discount. In fact, in our economy, discounts …
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Gizmodo, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
SevOne To Go For IPO, Raises $150 Million From Bain Capital To Expand P2P IT Monitoring — SevOne, an IT management company that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to manage all elements of a customer's IT infrastructure, has raised $150 million from Bain Capital to scale out its IT management offering and issue an IPO.
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VentureBeat, Forbes, GigaOM and Light Reading
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Departs — With More Top Execs Under CEO Scrutiny — Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Justin Somaini (pictured here) has left the company, according to sources. — It's not clear why the top security risk exec has departed the Silicon Valley Internet giant.
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| Kristin Jones / Wall Street Journal: |
Arris to Sell $150 Million in Shares to Comcast in Google Set-Top Acquisition — Cable equipment provider Arris Group Inc. (ARRS) has agreed to sell around $150 million in shares to Comcast Corp. (CMCSA, CMCSK) as part of its deal to buy Motorola Mobility's set-top box business from Google Inc. (GOOG).
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, Engadget, Cable Television News and Bloomberg
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Windows Phone app revenue and downloads double as Microsoft debuts contest for prime-time ad spot — To kick off 2013 in the Windows Phone app world, Microsoft has announced a new contest for developers called Windows Phone Next App Star. The top prize is a featured placement of the app in a Windows Phone prime-time TV ad in the US.| DealBook: |
Alibaba's Founder to Give Up C.E.O. Title, but Will Remain Chairman — After 14 years of building up the Alibaba Group into one of the biggest Internet companies in the world, Jack Ma is taking a step back from the chief executive role of the Chinese e-commerce giant.
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Alizila, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Quartz, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, memeburn and ZDNet
| Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
Java exploit used in Red October cyberespionage attacks, researchers say — The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as previously believed …
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Surface Estimate Cut in Half to 1 Million Units at UBS — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s fiscal second- quarter earnings will be less than previously expected due to weak demand for personal-computers and the company's new tablet, Surface, according to Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS AG.
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AllThingsD, Electronista, Business Insider, The Next Web, ZDNet, parislemon, Computerworld, digitaltrends.com, TechSpot, Mashable!, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer and BGR. Tweets: @panzer
| Phil Muncaster / The Register: |
Singapore allows pre-crime strikes against online crooks — Hack first, ask questions later, to protect vital infrastructure — The Singaporean government has passed amendments to the city-state's Computer Misuse Act, renaming it the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act …
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Asiaone and Singapore Minitry …
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