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Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States in Q4 2012 — According to our Wireless Device Strategies (WDS) service, mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually to reach 52 million units in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Apple passes Samsung to become top US mobile phone vendor with record 34% market share: Report — Strong sales of the iPhone 5 pushed Apple ahead of rival Samsung in the US mobile phone market in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to new estimates from Strategy Analytics.
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Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books — Company also Will Pay $800,000 for Allegedly Collecting Kids' Personal Information without their Parents' Consent
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Path reaches settlement with FTC, agrees to pay $800,000 fine for COPPA violations. — Path, which got into privacy related hot water in early 2012 found about 3000 minors (below 13) on its network, purged them and now has reached a settlement with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to become COPPA compliant.
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Exclusive: Twitter nears $10 billion valuation — Twitter shares now selling for $9.9 billion. — FORTUNE — Twitter isn't done letting early employees sell shares, Fortune has learned. But the stakes have been raised substantially. — Last Friday, the Financial Times reported that BlackRock … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Windows 8 now up to 2.36% market share but Microsoft sees Windows 7 decline for the first time — We're entering a new year, and already Windows 7 has lost market share for the first time since its release. Windows 8 meanwhile continues to push forward. — Two months ago … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FTC gives app developers new privacy guidelines, suggests ‘Do Not Track’ for mobile — In the wake of growing debates over mobile privacy, the US Federal Trade Commission has urged mobile platform and app developers to make users aware of what personal information is being collected and how it's being used.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google sidesteps France link-tax, reaching a €60m deal to help publishers move to the digital age instead — After years of disputes around the digitization of out-of-print works with French book publishers and authors, Google recently announced that its legal battles in France were finally over.
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HP closes German site, lays off 850 employees — Summary: The world's number one PC maker by shipments is to close a site in Germany, laying off more than 8 percent of the country's workforce. — Zack Whittaker — Computer manufacturing giant HP will close a site in Germany …
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Dell nears buyout, deal could come as soon as Monday:sources — (Reuters) - Dell Inc is nearing an agreement to sell itself to a buyout consortium led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, possibly announcing a deal as soon as Monday …
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Samsung, Rogen, Rudd brilliantly mock Super Bowl in Super Bowl ad — Having got after Apple and BlackBerry, Samsung now mocks the ridiculous trademark rules over Super Bowl advertising. With the help of Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd. — It's not that the NFL is run by draconian white men … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! GitHub Wins Best Overall Startup — And like that, The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show is in the bag. John Oliver provided a night of laughs while TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat jointly handed out 20 awards to the best and brightest startups, founders and venture capitalists.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
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Verizon rolls out new prepaid wireless plans, but only for 3G smartphones — Verizon Wireless today announced a pair of prepaid smartphone plans for “budget-minded” consumers. Both plans provide users with unlimited voice minutes and SMS messaging, but differ in terms of data caps.
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Apps? No root? Your device serves others: Berners-Lee — Summary: Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that if you don't have administrator access on your device and it's full of proprietary apps, it really serves masters other than you. — “The right to have root on your machine,” that is …
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Apple TV Said to Start Carrying HBO App Later This Year — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. — Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for HBO … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon scores Downton Abbey as a subscription streaming exclusive from June 18th (update: timing leak) — Anyone who's planning to catch up on Downton Abbey on their preferred service may want to plan a viewing marathon very soon: Amazon has struck a deal to become the exclusive home …
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Mobile Banking And Payment Startup mFoundry Sold To FIS For $120M On $165M Valuation — Some consolidation in the world of mobile payments and mobile banking: mFoundry is getting acquired by FIS for $120 million. FIS — a banking and payment provider that works with some 14,000 banks worldwide …
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Want to build a better Twitter? Here's a framework for you — It hasn't been a great day for Twitter, but life goes on and the company just put code for a JavaScript component framework up on Github for folks who want to use it in their own web applications, or heck, maybe even build their own Twitter …
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