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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Google's Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter — Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that you're basically doing the same thing as everybody else.
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Engadget, CNET, 9to5Google, BGR, Marketing Land, 9to5Mac, Betabeat, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, Marketing Pilgrim, Gizmodo, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable!
Tweets: @hamburger, @sacca and @stevenlevy
| Chris Burns / SlashGear: |
Larry Page talks Google's fragile influence on Motorola — This past year Google decidedly purchased Motorola not only for their extensive patent portfolio, but their track record in the mobile industry - and this week Google's CEO Larry Page has given more insight as to what hardware …
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Know Your Cell and WebProNews
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Google CEO Larry Page says Facebook is doing ‘a really bad job on their products’ — Google CEO Larry Page doesn't often give interviews, but he usually doesn't pull punches when he does. In a new interview with Wired's Steven Levy, Page opened up on a wide variety of topics, including Facebook's ability to launch new products.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
After Reports of User Revolt, Instagram Releases Monthly Active User Data for the First Time — After weeks of accusations that Instagram has seen a sharp drop in its user numbers, the photo-sharing service released new data that gives better insight into the actual number of people using the service on a regular basis.
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CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, Digits, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint and Mashable!
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Google Nexus 7 tops iPad in Japan: Is this a trend? — Google's Nexus 7 is making serious market-share headway against Apple in Japan, according to Nikkei. — Google's Nexus 7 is gaining market share in Japan and topped Apple's iPad in one survey. — Japanese digital device consumers are some of the savviest in the world.| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Lenovo announces ThinkPad Chromebook for schools — Summary: Lenovo will offer a Chromebook version of its ThinkPad X131e for the education sector. The Chromebook will be sold only to schools for grades K-12. — James Kendrick — The folks at Lenovo are going into the Chromebook space … | Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: |
Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz — United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who still has political ambitions beyond her current station, and her husband, and some unfortunate media enablers, have finally organized a response to the torrent of criticism she and her office have received …
Tweets: @taylorbuley
| Galen Moore / Boston Business Journal: |
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Intel posts strong Q4 performance with revenue of $13.5 billion, and EPS of $0.48 despite low PC demand — Today Intel reported its fourth quarter financial performance: including revenue of $13.5 billion and earnings per share of $0.48. Intel had a total net income of $2.5 billion for the quarter.
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The Verge, AllThingsD, News Stories, VentureBeat, Mercury News, Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Electronista. Tweets: @the_domino
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Amazon looks to reduce Apple's hold on music sales with launch of MP3 web store for iPhone and iPod touch — Amazon has taken another step at reducing Apple's hold over on-device music sales, today announcing the launch of its HTML5 MP3 web store specifically for iPhone and iPod touch …
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The Verge, Business Wire, Digits, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Engadget, Softpedia News, CNET, memeburn, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac, I4U News, GeekWire and BetaNews. Tweets: @reneritchie. See also Mediagazer
| Steve Cheney / steve's blog: |
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.| Rick Broida / CNET: |
MediaFire debuts for Android, offers users 50GB of free cloud storage — No, really: 50 gigabytes. The app has a few limitations, but it's still a major score for any Android user with an eye to the cloud. — Back in August, I wrote about cloud-storage service MediaFire …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Know Your Cell, The Droid Guy, PC Magazine and Android Authority
| Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's Bing social sidebar gets more context with Facebook status updates, links, and comments — Microsoft on Thursday announced it is expanding its Facebook integration in Bing. The company says significantly more content from your Facebook friends' is now searchable in Bing's sidebar …
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Bing, PC Magazine, AllFacebook, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, ZDNet, GeekWire, internetretailer.com and Marketing Pilgrim
| Bloomberg: |
Dish Network Asks FCC to Pause Its Sprint-Softbank Review — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) asked U.S. regulators to pause their consideration of Softbank Corp. (9984)'s proposed $20 billion purchase of Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) as the satellite-television provider pursues Sprint partner Clearwire Corp. (CLWR)
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CNET, PC Magazine, Engadget, DSLreports, ZDNet, SlashGear and ValueWalk
| Bloomberg: |
Box CEO Levie Targets 2014 IPO After Global Expansion This Year — Box Inc., the Web-storage provider with more than 140,000 business customers, is planning to hold its initial public offering in 2014, Chief Executive Officer Aaron Levie said yesterday in an interview.
Tweets: @emilychangtv
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Ad Revenues Will Top $11.4 Billion In 2013, Up 19% On 2012. India, China And Display Fuelling The Boost — The growing popularity of free mobile content — largely in the form of apps — is having a big impact on mobile advertising, the route that many developers and publishers are taking to monetize that content.
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Gartner, Forbes, memeburn, The Register, internetretailer.com, The Equity Kicker and ZDNet
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
OpenX Raises $22.5 Million in Round Led by Samsung Venture Unit — OpenX Software said it had raised $22.5 million in a Series E funding round, with Samsung Venture Investment Corporation as lead investor. — All told, the Los Angeles-based online advertising technology company has raised $70 million.
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Asustek in Talks to Offer Windows 8 Phones — TAIPEI—Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer Inc. is in talks with Microsoft Corp. on a licensing deal to offer Windows 8 mobile phones, an executive said, making it the latest Asian computer maker eyeing the new operating system.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
ABI Research: Apple iPhone market share to peak at 22% in 2013, but will remain flat through 2018 — Apple's smartphone market share may peak this year at 22%, but likely won't gain greater control of the market over the next five years, says ABI Research. — The research firm goes …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, CNET and iPhone Hacks
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Dolphin Browser updated with one-tap sharing, browser sync and Evernote integration — The Dolphin Browser has been given a major update today, adding completely new integration with the Evernote Web Clipper, one-tap sharing with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook … | Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
With free voice calling, Facebook is just covering its bases — Phone? Email? IM? Facebook wants to be your one-stop shop for communication — When The Verge broke the news yesterday that Facebook would be offering voice calling through its iPhone Messenger app, users happily accepted the gift.
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Wired and Business Insider
| Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: |
Google to build £1bn UK headquarters at London's King's Cross — Technology giant plans to relocate two offices and move into new 2.4 acre complex by 2016 — Google has completed a £1bn property deal to move its UK headquarters to a brownfield site in London's King's Cross area.
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The Next Web, TechRadar.com, Telegraph, standard.co.uk and Reuters
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Microsoft pushes ahead with its own take on WebRTC — Microsoft's Open Technologies unit published a prototype implementation of browser-based video chat today that allows a user of a Mac OS-based Chrome browser to chat with a user running IE 10 on Windows.
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CNET, MSDN Blogs and Neowin
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Security Essentials fails anti-virus certification test, Redmond challenges results — Microsoft's popular Security Essentials anti-virus software has failed to gain the latest certificate from the AV-TEST institute. In antimalware testing against a range of products …
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The Register, TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, TechSpot, Neowin and Electronista
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
AppGratis closes $13.5M in funding with revenue at $1M/month and users growing at 300K/day — AppGratis announced today that it closed a $13.5 million series A round of funding to get bigger and even more international, even though the French app-discovery company is already profitable and growing at breakneck speed.
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, BetaKit, iPhone Hacks, The Verge and VatorNews
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Yelp begins adding restaurant inspection scores to listings, starting in San Francisco and New York — Giving its users more information on the restaurants within its listings, Yelp has today added a new metric to restaurant listings — hygiene scores — providing businesses with a way of advertising … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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