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Facebook Is Done Giving Its Precious Social Graph To Competitors — Of all Facebook's data sets, it's the social graph that's truly unique. It's spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it's sick of handing over your friend list to competitors.
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Square COO Keith Rabois Departs Company — In a major exec departure, Square COO Keith Rabois will be leaving the company the San Francisco payments company. — Square gave no other information about the sudden management change, but sources said disagreements between Rabois and CEO … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Verizon sells 39 spectrum licenses to AT&T for $1.9b, but what does it mean? — Today's blockbuster spectrum deal might tell the tale of shifting strategies for two wireless giants — Besides being the most closely-matched competitors in the bizarre, controversial American wireless industry …
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer To Bring Company Back To Its Roots: “It's The Web Ordered For You” — Yahoo plans to compete on mobile by way of partnerships, not hardware or operating systems, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told Bloomberg at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland …
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Yahoo's Mayer Sees Future in Personalized, Mobile Web — Yahoo's Mayer: Personalization Is Future of Search — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer said the company is working on technology that will personalize content from the Web and feed it to people on their mobile devices.
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Woz Says Kutcher's Steve Jobs Movie Scene Is “Totally Wrong” — The first scene from iJOBS—the biopic on Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher—may be pretty decent, but it never happened. Not even close, according to Steve Wozniak, who says they “never had such interaction and roles.”| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iPad 5 Set for October Debut with Design Similar to iPad Mini? iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone Moving Forward — iLounge's Jeremy Horwitz has filed a new report offering a few new details on the fifth-generation iPad, as well as on Apple's work toward future iPhone models.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
BitTorrent is working on a personal file syncing app to compete with Dropbox — BitTorrent Inc. is working on an application called Sync that uses P2P technology to sync your files between your devices. The company announced the pre-Alpha test of Sync on its blog Thursday … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Laser: a flagship Lumia Windows Phone for Verizon — Verizon is planning to stock a high-end Nokia Lumia phone this year. Sources familiar with Verizon's plans have revealed to The Verge that the US carrier will offer a device that has similar specifications to Nokia's current Lumia 920.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Global mobile phone shipments breached 1.6 billion units in 2012, Samsung, Apple and Nokia still on top — A charger on every nightstand and a phone in every pocket — it could be a presidential slogan, but it's really just reality. According to research from Strategy Analytics …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Huawei Was Top Third Smartphone Vendor In Q4 After Samsung & Apple, Says IDC — IDC's Q4 report on the global mobile phone market reveals that Huawei sprang up into the top-three smartphone vendors in the world, a first for the company. In Q4, Huawei held a 4.9 percent marketshare based on unit shipments.
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IDC, digitaltrends.com, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Mashable!, 9to5Google, CNET, ZDNet, Digits, GigaOM, iClarified, The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget, PhoneArena, App Advice, memeburn and The Next Web
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German court rules internet “essential” — (Reuters) - A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an “essential” part of life. — The Federal Court of Justice …
| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
Bipartisan group of senators to introduce high-skilled immigration bill — A bipartisan group of senators are poised to introduce a high-skilled immigration bill next week that would significantly increase the number of H-1B visas available to skilled foreign-born workers, such as engineers and computer programmers.
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Unauthorized Unlocking of New Mobile Phones Set to Become Illegal in U.S. — As noted by Tech News Daily, a new federal policy in the United States is set to go into effect this Saturday that will make it illegal for certain mobile phone owners to unlock their devices for use … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Backdoors Found in Barracuda Networks Gear — A variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances sold by Campbell, Calif. based Barracuda Networks Inc. contain undocumented backdoor accounts, the company disclosed today. Worse still, while the backdoor accounts are apparently set … | Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
YouTube Capture now supports 1080p uploads, Google Currents goes 2.0 on iOS — Updates to both YouTube Capture and Google Currents on iOS have just hit Cupertino's App Store, bringing with them a handful of functionality and UI updates. Mountain View bumped YouTube Capture to version 1.1 …
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
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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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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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