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Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US — In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test went well — a new free calling button has appeared in the app.
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Graph Search's False Promise and the Con of the Facebook “Like” — We all know that the pressure for Facebook to monetize is massive and growing. Yesterday Zuckerberg fulfilled the promise he dropped at TC Disrupt to release a product that will finally compete with Google.
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Facebook Shatters the Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces — MENLO PARK, California — Since you last saw Frank Frankovsky, his beard has grown to epic lengths. And it suits him. — As the man at the center of Facebook's Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking …
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Exclusive: SurveyMonkey Raises $850 Million in Debt and Equity for Tender Offer — Including New Investment From Google's New Late-Stage Unit — SurveyMonkey has raised a massive $800 million in debt and additional equity funding, which it plans to distribute in a tender offer, said sources with knowledge of the situation.
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U.S. Attorney breaks silence, defends prosecution of Aaron Swartz … U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, under fire for the prosecution of Internet entrepreneur and activist Aaron Swartz, on Wednesday issued her first statement responding to the controversy that has followed Swartz's suicide.
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Internet 2012 in numbers — There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it's impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we're going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What's the most popular web browser?
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YouTube Is Ready to Invest in Vevo, but the Deal Isn't Done — YouTube is set to make another big investment in a content partner. This time around it's Vevo, the music video site. — YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority stake in Vevo, according to people familiar with the deal, which hasn't been finalized.
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Microsoft Office 2013: What to expect on the pricing front — Summary: Microsoft's Office 2013/new Office should be launching soon. Here's what we know so far about prices and packages. — As expected, Microsoft is pricing its next-generation Office 2013 line-up in a way to try …
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Has Ayasdi turned machine learning into a magic bullet? — A couple months ago, I had a chance to see — and I mean really see - what might become a common first step in answering questions and curing diseases that have been plaguing us for centuries. It was a demonstration by the founders of Ayasdi … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches HelpBridge For iOS, Windows Phone And Android, Lets You Alert Friends And Family When Disasters Strike — When a disaster happens, chances are you want to get in touch with your loved ones as soon as possible, either to tell them that you're fine or to make sure they are.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% Of Staff As It Restructures Company Into A Profitable State — StumbleUpon today laid off 30 percent of its staff, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The move, which brings StumbleUpon's employee count from 110 to 75, is part of a larger restructuring plan …
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Insight: How cleantech tarnished Kleiner and VC star John Doerr — (Reuters) - In the spring of last year, John Doerr received some bad news: Miasole, the solar-panel maker backed by his famed venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Apple: ‘Want to criticize religion? Write a book’ — don't make a game — Apple doesn't believe video games can tackle important subjects. — At least, that's how the submission guidelines for developers on the App Store make it sound. If you haven't read the document before, it's actually very interesting.| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
To fight Amazon's “black box,” iPad publisher Inkling opens its 400 ebooks up to Google — Typing a book's title into Google is easy — and the first result you'll probably get is its Amazon product page. Google isn't a very good method of book discovery: search for a topic like …
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TWC: Netflix Is Withholding Content to Gain ‘Unprecedented’ Access to ISPs — Operator Says It Is in Discussions on Connecting Into Netflix's Private CDN — Time Warner Cable said it is currently in discussions with Netflix on terms for connecting into the video streamer's private content delivery network …
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AT&T Stalking Europe for Mergers — AT&T Inc. is once again starting up its deal machine. — The telecommunications giant is considering buying a counterpart in Europe, a bet that it can best escape constraints on growth at home by getting into a new wireless market where it can upgrade technology …
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Did President Obama just order the government to study video game violence? — Despite Obama's mention of games, policy in gun control address is more nuanced. — All afternoon, my little corner of the Internet has been blowing up with tweets, links, and e-mail messages regarding President … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's 2013 Product Roadmap Predictions: Multiple iPhones, Retina iPad Mini, All-Retina MacBook Pros — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a very good track record in predicting Apple's product plans, has issued a new research report outlining his expectations for Apple's 2013 product launches.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New Java Exploit Fetches $5,000 Per Buyer — Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero … | Surur / WMPoweruser: |
Windows Phone Dev Centre will now allow multiple XAPs for the same Windows Phone 7 and 8 app — Here is an interesting development for Windows Phone Developers. The latest improvements to the Windows Phone Dev Centre allows developers to basically publish two different apps for Windows Phone 7 …
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AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Support to All Tiered Data Plans — AT&T has again expanded access to the FaceTime Over Cellular feature to customers on all tiered data plans with a compatible FaceTime device. Previously, only users with an LTE device — the iPad 3 and 4 … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Thanks To Growth In Mobile And Marketplaces, eBay's Q4 Revenue Up 18 Percent To $4B, Net Income Up 22 Percent — eBay's Q4 and full-year 2012 earnings hit this afternoon, with revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012, increasing 18 percent to $4 billion, compared to the same period of 2011.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
No, Google did not run over a donkey in Botswana — Here's a story you don't see every day. Google on Wednesday has gone on record to deny reports that one of its Google Maps Street View cars killed a donkey in the Kweneng region of Botswana. Seriously, we're not kidding … Sponsor Posts
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