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February 7, 2013, 10:00 AM
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Coming Soon to Yahoo: Ads From Google — Remember when Google and Yahoo were talking about an ad alliance last year? — Maybe they worked something out, after all: Sources say Google is set to begin running some of its AdSense display ads on Yahoo sites, and will become … | Esteban Kozak / Twitter Blog: |
Search and Discover improvements: Get more great content faster — Today we're updating the Android and iOS apps, as well as mobile.twitter.com. This release provides a single stream of content in each tab, so you can better find what's most important to you when you're on the go.
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everythingiCafe, memeburn, Techie Buzz, Engadget, AppleTell, Pocket-lint, iPhone Hacks, Computerworld and PC Magazine
| Youngin Shin / Twitter Engineering: |
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says — By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use: 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone, according to a new study by ABI Research.
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Engadget, AllThingsD, Inquirer, TechCrunch, dailywireless.org and LAPTOP Magazine
| Michael Hickins / The CIO Report: |
Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October — Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd. Canonical provides services for corporate customers using Ubuntu open source software.
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Sprint Q4: Loss widens, 1 million subscribers jump ship — Summary: The cellular giant saw its quarterly loss widen as more than 1 million subscribers left the company, thanks to the Nextel side of the business. — Zack Whittaker — Continuing its running streak of weak performance …
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Sprint Newsroom, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CNET, GigaOM, VentureBeat, BGR, Engadget, The Next Web, iPhone, Bloomberg, TUAW, MacDailyNews and The Verge
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Microsoft Attacks Gmail Over Privacy In Latest “Scroogled” Campaign — If at first you don't succeed, get negative once again, seems to be the game plan at Microsoft. Having attacked Google Shopping with a “Scroogled” campaign last November, Microsoft is back again.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
500 Startups Is Setting Up Shop In China, Adding Beijing-Based Venture Partner Rui Ma — 500 Startups is already focused heavily on investing overseas, with partners looking at startups in markets like Mexico, Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia. Now you can add China to the list …
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The Next Web, GigaOM and VentureBeat
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Evernote rolls out Evernote Business to 26 new markets in Europe and names new COO to oversee growth — Evernote has expanded its Evernote Business product in Europe, adding 26 new markets where companies can now leverage the cumulative knowledge and contribution of every employee.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Evernote Blog
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
iPads (Thanks To The Mini) Were 1 In 6 ‘PCs’ Shipped, Tablets One-Third, And Windows RT Didn't Even Break 1M: Canalys — The PC market is fast shifting into a touchscreen world, and Apple is leading the charge. Some new numbers from the analysts at Canalys note that in Q4 of 2012 … | George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says — MOUNTAIN VIEW — Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all area residents and ethnic groups.
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Betabeat, Gizmodo, The Verge, Associated Press, SiliconBeat and SiliconBeat
| 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 …
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Business Insider, Business Insider, Reuters, Forbes and Deal Journal
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom's Mega gets a new CEO: Entrepreneur and open Internet advocate Vikram Kumar steps in — Kim Dotcom's Mega has today announced that it has appointed entrepreneur and open Internet advocate Vikram Kumar as its new CEO, to replace interim chief Tony Lentino.
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Mega Blog, Internet Ganesha, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and National Business Review
Tweets: @kimdotcom and @vikram_nz
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Yelp's disappointing Q4 net loss of $5.3m comes despite $41.2m in revenue, up 65% from Q4 2011 — Today Yelp reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $41.2 million and an earnings per share loss of $0.08. Analysts had expected the company to lose $0.03 per share on revenue of $40.2 million.
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| Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog: |
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Google and Twitter execs form VC fund — Google and Twitter product pros form venture capital firm. — FORTUNE — A pair of product managers from Google and Twitter are forming a new venture capital firm, Fortune has learned. — One of the two principals is Hunter Walk …
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Tweets: @satyap, @cdixon, @hunterwalk, @howardlindzon, @om, @rsarver, @davidhornik, @danprimack, @pkafka and @joshelman
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Facebook isn't making its own phone, but it's pre-loading its software into millions of devices — Facebook wants to ensure that billions of people in emerging markets have access to its mobile apps when they buy their first phones. The social networking giant found an easy solution to that problem …
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Spreadtrum Communications …, Tech in Asia, Pocketnow, Gearburn and The Next Web
| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
Hands on with Google's new Chrome message center — The tech world's been a-buzzin' this week with word of a new Chrome-based message center from Google. Signs of the system first showed up in a Chrome OS screenshot captured by developer François Beaufort and shared on Google+.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Opera: Android devices were served most ad impressions in Q4 2012, but iOS still top for engagement — Opera has released its latest quarterly State of Mobile Advertising report and the findings from Q4 2012 show a sizable growth in the number of impressions served to Android devices, but Apple users remains the most engaged.
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GigaOM, ZDNet and Opera Press Room
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Netflix Promises To Make Its Open Source Cloud Management Tools More Portable — Over the last several years, Netflix has put a lot of work into building a cloud-based architecture off of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its video streaming and DVD rental services.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr Adds Real-Time Notifications To Its Dashboard And It Feels A Lot Like Facebook's Ticker — Today on its staff blog, Tumblr shared that it is rolling out real-time notifications to people's dashboards, so that you can have even more cat- and fashion-related content thrown in your face.
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Tumblr Staff, SocialTimes and The Verge
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple & Samsung capture 103% of handset profits as rivals lose money — Together, Apple and Samsung accounted for 103 percent of mobile phone profits in 2012, a number made possible because of losses incurred by rivals Motorola, Sony and Nokia. — Apple took a commanding 69 percent …
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iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Fortune, Yahoo! News, PhoneArena and Forbes
| Chris Gonsalves / Channelnomics: |
Judge Sides With Wi-Fi Patent Troll Over Cisco — Purveyors of public Wi-Fi networks beware. The federal case that was supposed to bring a halt to patent troll Innovatio IP Ventures LLC's ongoing shakedown of hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and the like took a strange turn this week …
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Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
The ‘Chromebook Pixel’? Not so fast, bucko — Some days, you've just gotta love the Internet. — Today's bit of Web-fueled insanity revolves around a supposedly top-secret Google device called the “Chromebook Pixel.” A video showing the device appeared online this afternoon and quickly turned into a hot topic of discussion.
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Google+, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Zef.me, The Verge, Geek.com, CNET, The Register, Android Authority and 9to5Google. Tweets: @jfruh
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Wii Street U hands-on: Google Maps comes to Wii U with motion control — DON'T MISS ANY STORIES FOLLOW THE VERGE — Nintendo's delayed Google Maps app for Wii U is finally out in Japan. As demonstrated late last year, Wii Street U is based around Street View, and lets you use …
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Engadget, Pocket-lint, ABCNEWS and The Next Web
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Google Joins JPMorgan in Seeking Software Patent Limits — Google Inc. owes its creation in part to a patented software algorithm for ranking documents in a database, issued to company founder Larry Page and owned by Stanford University. — The world's largest search-engine company contends …
| 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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GigaOM, Geekosystem and VentureBeat
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft hints at future Surface covers that could charge its tablet — Microsoft is holding a Surface AMA on Reddit today to answer questions from the community about its latest Surface Pro tablet. Alongside responses about storage and battery life, the team appears to have revealed some future plans for its accessories.Sponsor Posts
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