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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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 … | 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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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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Samsung reports Q4 2012 financials: $8.27 billion in operating profit on $52.45 billion in revenue — Samsung set lofty expectations when it announced its earnings estimates earlier this month, and today the company delivered. It announced consolidated operating profit of 8.84 trillion won … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Q2: Enterprise shines, Surface details scant — Summary: The software giant's enterprise products—System Center, SQL Server and Lync do well. Details about Surface's reception are few and far between. — Microsoft's second quarter results were a mixed bag relative to estimates … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
AT&T's Q4 2012 Beats Street With $32.6B In Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $0.44, Smartphone Subscriber Base Jumps To 47.1M — AT&T shared its Q4 2012 earnings results today, reporting overall quarterly revenues of $32.6 billion (an increase of 0.2% year over year), and earnings per share of $0.44 … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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