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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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Exclusive - Japan's Sharp curbs iPad screen output as Apple manages demand shift-sources — (Reuters) - Sharp Corp has nearly halted production of 9.7-inch screens for Apple Inc's iPad, two sources said, as demand shifts to its smaller iPad mini. — Sharp's iPad screen production line …
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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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Apple's iOS Newsstand Now Offers Hearst Magazines Days Before Print And Other Digital Stores — Apple today quietly launched a new feature for Newsstand, whereby publications by partner Hearst (covering their entire catalog) will now be available to subscribers days before they come to print, or other digital editions.
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AllThingsD, digitaltrends.com, SlashGear, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, GigaOM, Daring Fireball, everythingiCafe, CNET, MacRumors and The Next Web. Tweets: @pkafka. Thanks:@anthonyha. See also Mediagazer
| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Ahead of Graph Search launch, Facebook removed the ability to opt out of search results — A month before unveiling a major new search feature, Facebook changed its privacy policy to remove the ability to opt out of search results. — I noted this in my piece yesterday about the privacy implications … | Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” is a lot better than Bravo reality show “Silicon Valley” — SAN FRANCISCO, California—Last month came word that HBO, Time Warner's premium cable network, had ordered the pilot episode of Silicon Valley, a half-hour comedy skewering the US technology industry.
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| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Tony Fadell on the unique nature of Apple's design process — Often referred to as the godfather of the iPod, former Apple executive and current Nest CEO Tony Fadell played an instrumental part in Apple's resurgence. Indeed, Fadell joined Apple in February 2001 where he got to work designing the original iPod.| 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.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen: Smartphone Battle Ready To Rage In Brazil, Russia, India — In a research note released today, Nielsen examines the potential for smartphone growth in the BRIC region (Brazil, Russia, India, China), where, in many cases, feature phones still dominate.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom reveals Mega will offer 50GB of free storage, hopes to offer Megaupload data transfer — Kim Dotcom on Thursday used Twitter to reveal some interesting new tidbits in regards to his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz.
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| Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: |
Google to build £1bn UK HQ in London — 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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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Sony selling NY headquarters for $1.1 billion, will rent space from new owners — Despite losing a little less each quarter since Kazuo Hirai took over as CEO, Sony still appears to be looking for ways to cut the fat. Its latest move? Sell the house. Taking a page from Nokia's book … | Andrea Shalal-Esa / Reuters: |
Iran strengthened cyber capabilities after Stuxnet: U.S. general — Reuters/Reuters - John Bumgarner, a cyber warfare expert who is chief technology officer of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit group that studies the impact of cyber threats, works on his laptop ...more| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Nokia releases 3D case printing files for Lumia 820 — Nokia has released the 3D printing files for its Lumia 820 interchangeable casings, allowing owners to create their own custom shells for the Windows Phone. The free 3D-printing Development Kit (or 3DK, as Nokia is calling it) …
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Apple Looks to Improve Siri's Script — Apple's virtual assistant Siri may have its roots in a Pentagon-funded artificial intelligence research project, but algorithms aren't everything and the Cupertino company is now turning to writers to make Siri smarter.
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| Ellen Messmer / Network World: |
‘Rogue clouds’ giving IT staffs nightmares — Inefficient storage methods also seen as raising costs in cloud, survey finds By Ellen Messmer, Network World January 16, 2013 06:06 AM ET Network World - Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted by companies around the world, but IT managers say … | 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 … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Video App Montaj Makes Editing As Easy As Shaking Your Phone — The latest entrant into the mobile video segment is Montaj, a new app launching next week which seeks to be a kind of “Instagram for Video.” Montaj was founded by Demir Gjokaj and Dan Long, a couple of New York-based entrepreneurs …
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple CEO Cook Gets Deposition Order in Antitrust Case — Tim Cook, Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s chief executive officer, was ordered to give a deposition in a lawsuit claiming the iPhone maker and other technology companies violated antitrust laws by entering into agreements to not recruit each other's employees.
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
VCs Invested $26.5B In 3,698 Companies In 2012, Total Dollars And Deal Volume Both Down — A new MoneyTree Report is being released this evening, showing that annual VC investment dollars have declines for the first time in three years. The study, which as conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
House bill wants $5,000 fine for video games without ESRB rating — Another year, another congressman proposing legislation demanding some sort of label on video games. This time around it's Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah), who introduced HR287, the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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