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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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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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 … | Bloomberg: |
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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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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AT&T to Acquire Spectrum From Verizon Wireless for $1.9 Billion — AT&T Inc. (T), the second-biggest U.S. wireless carrier, agreed to acquire airwaves from larger rival Verizon Wireless for $1.9 billion, helping bolster its network. — The 700-megahertz spectrum covers 42 million people in 18 states …
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| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
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.”
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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | Alexandra Hudson / Reuters: |
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 …
| 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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| 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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| 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.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States — Antigua and Barbuda is a small country in the Caribbean that for years had a flourishing gambling industry. — A few years ago 5% of all Antiguans worked at gambling related companies.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Busts Supplier for Underage Labor in Latest Responsibility Report — Apple issued its latest Supplier Responsibility Report Thursday evening, offering an update on worker protections and factory conditions at its manufacturing partners. This year's report, Apple's seventh …
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