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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Blocks Yandex's New Social Search App From Accessing Its Data Just Three Hours After Launch
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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.
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| 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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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
CNET forbidden from reviewing Aereo following CBS-Dish controversy — Editorial policy after CES Awards nightmare leads to fancy footwork by news team — This week, live-TV startup Aereo released an update to its Roku app, adding a new visual interface and enabling full control with the Roku remote.| Sara Gates / The Huffington Post: |
France Shuns ‘Hashtag,’ Introduces New Twitter Term, ‘Mot-Dièse’ — While there may be many English words commonly used in the French language, “hashtag” will no longer be one of them. Following a decision from the Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologisme …
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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 … | 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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Strategy Analytics, VentureBeat, BGR, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Know Your Cell, MacNN and CNET
| 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, AppleInsider, Guardian, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com, GigaOM, CNET, Digits, MobileSyrup.com, GigaOM, The Verge, 9to5Google, ZDNet, dailywireless.org, Engadget, PhoneArena, App Advice, memeburn and The Next Web
| 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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