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Statement by Apple — By early last year, Apple's cash balance had built to a point beyond what we needed to run our business and maintain flexibility to take advantage of strategic opportunities, so we announced a plan to return $45 billion to shareholders over three years.
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| Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook: |
Einhorn to Sue Apple Over Plan to Discard Preferred Stock — David Einhorn has long been known as a fervent fan of Apple Inc. But the hedge fund magnate is making an unusually public stand to oppose a move by the maker of the iPad: a lawsuit. — His hedge fund, Greenlight Capital … | Javier E. David / CNBC: |
Apple Should Distribute Cash, Not Hoard It: Einhorn — Cash-rich technology giant Apple needs to find a way to distribute its cash to shareholders, instead of sticking to the Depression-like mentality that prompts the company to hoard equity, fund manager David Einhorn told CNBC on Thursday.
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| Paul Burstein / Twitter Blog: |
Now showing: Older Tweets in search results — Yesterday, we updated our Android, iOS and mobile web apps to make it easier for you to find relevant content when you're on the go. We also started to roll out an additional update on our mobile apps as well as on twitter.com: you'll now be able to find older Tweets using search.
| Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: |
NBC closes hyperlocal, data-driven publishing pioneer EveryBlock — NBC News has shut down EveryBlock, one of the early pioneers of data-driven hyperlocal community news and information. — The decision took effect today. Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and chief digital officer of NBC News …
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The EveryBlock Blog, Adrian Holovaty, CNET, Nieman Journalism Lab, ReadWrite, The Verge, paidContent, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Gawker, TechCrunch and BostInno
Tweets: @timcohn and @emilydreyfuss
See also Mediagazer| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's new Xbox will include improved Siri-like speech recognition — Microsoft will greatly improve its speech recognition technology inside the next Xbox, The Verge has learned. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans have revealed that Durango, the codename for the next Xbox …
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ExtremeTech, CNET, BGR, Guardian, GeekWire, Edge Online, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, Gearburn, Neowin, WebProNews, Joystiq and Softpedia News
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Inbox Unchained: Mailbox just fixed email on the iPhone — How a startup outdid both Apple and Google in one fell swoop — Gentry Underwood had a feeling that his startup might be making some users depressed. Orchestra was Apple's Productivity App of the Year 2011, but users were leaving after a few months using the service.
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, Engadget, AllThingsD, CNET, CNN, Mashable!, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, CNNMoney.com and Gotta Be Mobile
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @stevekovach and @arnoldkim
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's ‘Blue’ wave is coming to more than just Windows — Summary: Blue isn't just the codename of the next version of Windows. It also is the codename for updates to Windows Phone, Windows Server and Windows Services, I'm hearing. — As we've known for a few months … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn crushes Q4 expectations with revenue of $303.6M, EPS of $0.35 as it passes 200 million users — Today LinkedIn reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $303.6 million, and earnings per share of $0.35, on a non-GAAP basis.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, LinkedIn media information …, GigaOM, VatorNews, CNNMoney.com, PandoDaily, AllThingsD, CNET, Forbes, Business Insider, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat and WebProNews
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
See also Mediagazer| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? — Summary: Microsoft has been pummeled by critics this week over supposedly inadequate storage space in its new Surface Pro. But those criticisms are horribly flawed. Big surprise: when you do the disk space math …
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CITEworld, The Register, Neowin, Techie Buzz, PC World, Geek.com, TechSpot and digitaltrends.com. Thanks:@edbott
| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
eBay is back! — Supercharged by PayPal, the e-commerce company and its stock are red-hot. Watch out, Amazon! — FORTUNE — “I'd like to take you on a journey.” A group of 2,500 eBay employees is assembled at the San Jose Civic, a concert venue a few miles from company headquarters.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Confirmed: BlackBerry to Stop Selling Smartphones in Japan — Looks like the global rollout of BlackBerry's new flagship smartphones will not extend to the entire globe. Certainly it won't include Japan. — Confirming news first reported by the Nikkei, a BlackBerry spokeswoman told AllThingsD Thursday …
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BGR, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Reuters, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Mashable!, PhoneArena and Electronista
| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Facebook Deal to Buy Microsoft's Atlas Coming As Soon As Next Week — Social Network Is Building An Ad Stack to Rival Google — Microsoft's attempt to find a new home for its Atlas ad-serving business may finally be coming to an end. The company is expected to announce a deal to sell …
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CNET, GeekWire, AllFacebook and WebProNews
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile Says New BlackBerry Testing Well for Mid-March Debut — T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest U.S. mobile-service provider, said its tests of the new BlackBerry Z10 are going well and it's aiming to be the first American carrier “out of the gate” with the phone next month.
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TechCrunch, TmoNews, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena and Pocketnow
| Loek Essers / CFOworld: |
Facebook deleted all EU facial recognition data, regulators confirm — Both the Irish data protection commissioner and a German regulator confirmed Facebook deleted the data — Facebook has deleted all European facial recognition data, the Irish data protection commissioner …
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Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge and AllFacebook
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Suicide Girls founder launches mobile-first dating app Let's Date in the US, backed by Science Inc. — Last October, Los Angles-based Science Inc. launched its newest company, Let's Date, a service focused on being your social dating identity. Founded by Sean Suhl, Steve Simitzis …
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TechCrunch, Betabeat, VentureBeat, CNET, BetaKit and socalTECH.com
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
More bad news about broadband caps: Many meters are inaccurate — For the 64 percent of Americans whose internet service provider imposes a broadband cap, and for those lucky enough to have a meter, I have some bad news. The president of the firm who audits many of the country's broadband meters … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
CoTweet founders launch Seesaw for iPhone, an app that gets your friends' opinion when you need it — The last time Aaron Gotwalt, Jesse Engle, and Kyle Sollenberger worked together was when they founded the social media marketing platform CoTweet. It eventually was acquired by email service provider Exact Target.
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat and The Industry
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Updates Hangouts, Lets You Adjust Bandwidth Used With A Slider, Adds Audio-Only Mode — Google wants to make all of its products accessible to everyone, no matter where they're located or what Internet conditions they're working with. For those of you who travel or aren't located in the U.S. … | Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Rabbit: A Video Sharing and Chat Service Launching on the Mac Only — At one point in internet history, desktop instant messaging was likely the fastest growing segment of communication technologies. In 2002, even Apple introduced its own messaging client called iChat that was bundled …
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TechCrunch, Computerworld, TUAW, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, MacNN and blogs.ft.com
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Apparent issue with Facebook Connect is dragging people from around the web to a moot error page — This isn't good. An apparent issue with Facebook Connect is dragging people from around the Internet, from news sites, to Hulu, even from Facebook's own status page, to a page that simply states “An error occurred.| Grant Gross / Computerworld: |
Judge invalidates 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims in Microsoft case — A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. — A U.S. district court judge has ruled …
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FOSS Patents and ZDNet
| Canalys Newsroom: |
Android powered a third of all mobile phones shipped in Q4 2012 — Shanghai, Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading - Thursday, 7 February 2013 — Canalys has published its final mobile phone shipment estimates across the 50+ countries that it tracks. The total mobile phone market …
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SiliconBeat and BGR
| NPD Group: |
37 Percent of PC Users Migrate Activities to Mobile Devices, According to The NPD Group — Content that was once primarily accessed by consumers on their PCs, is shifting to mobile devices. According to the Connected Intelligence Application and Convergence Report from global information company …
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The Next Web, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, LAPTOP Magazine and ZDNet
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Online learning goes official as five Coursera courses get approved by the American Council on Education — Coursera announced a big milestone today: the first big step towards credit options. The American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) …
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TechCrunch, Coursera Blog, Geekosystem, GigaOM and VentureBeat
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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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 …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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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