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| Shira Ovide / Digits: |
Twitter, Amex to Collaborate on E-Commerce Sales on Twitter — Twitter Inc. is experimenting with becoming a shopping mall. — Twitter and American Express Co. said Monday they struck a partnership to allow Twitter users to buy products for the first time directly on the short messaging service.
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AdExchanger, AllThingsD, Business Wire, Fast Company, Mashable!, Adweek, The Verge, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Marketing Land and GigaOM. Tweets: @americanexpress
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
American Express lets cardholders use hashtags to buy things on Twitter — Today American Express announced that it would sync with Twitter in a deal that would utilize the purchasing power of hashtags. For those AmEx cardmembers that sync up their eligible cards and use special hashtags … | Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Microsoft talks plans for premium content production, details Xbox 360's transition to an ‘entertainment console’ — Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, just sat down alongside Nancy Tellem, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft LA Studios … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
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| Kotaku: |
The Next Xbox Has Mandatory Kinect, Game-Swapping and New Controllers, According To Leaked Info — The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, HotHardware.com News, Digital Spy, WebProNews, Ars Technica, Neowin, WinBeta, Gematsu, CNET, Ubergizmo and TG Daily
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Bill Gates' biggest Microsoft product regret: WinFS — Summary: In his first AMA on Reddit, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates calls WinFS the Microsoft product he most wished had made it to market. — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is doing his first-ever Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit on February 11.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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CNET, WinBeta, SlashGear, Network World, Pocket-lint and AllThingsD
Tweets: @billgates and @majornelson
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Setting Up Shop in the Valley and NYC, Samsung Aims to Boost Its Software Side — Over the past year, Samsung's quiet Silicon Valley presence has grown from a whisper to a shout, as the consumer electronics behemoth turns the home turf of rivals like Apple and Google into a beachhead for its U.S. operations.
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| John Boudreau / Mercury News: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during Tuesday's State of the Union address — Once again, Silicon Valley royalty will join First Lady Michelle Obama to watch her husband deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday. — Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook will sit in the First Lady's box …
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White House.gov Blog, Fortune, CNET, CNET, 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Verge, GeekWire, The Next Web, Macgasm, TUAW, MacNN, Mashable!, WebProNews and iClarified. Tweets: @philiped
| Taylor Schreiner / Twitter Advertising: |
New Compete study: Primary mobile users on Twitter — We like to say that Twitter was born mobile. After all, the 140 character limit of Tweets was based on text messaging or SMS constraints. That means our platform was actually designed to allow anyone, anywhere to read, write and share Tweets.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy Buys M.dot, A Mobile Website-Building App, To Push Its Mobile And Freemium Businesses — GoDaddy, the web-hosting and domain registration giant, is taking one more step into the world of mobile, and another into offering small businesses a one-stop shop for all of their online activities with a freemium sweetener.| IEEE Spectrum: |
Willow Garage to Shut Down — IEEE Spectrum has learned that Willow Garage, the Silicon Valley robotics powerhouse that brought the world the PR2, ROS, TurtleBot, and several robotics spinoffs, will likely be dissolving within the next few months. — While we have no official confirmation … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Dish Chairman Ergen Doesn't Want To Kill Ads, He Wants To Make Them Better — Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen is no stranger to controversy, so it should be no surprise that he has a controversial plan for the future of advertising. At the D: Dive Into Media conference today …
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AllThingsD, paidContent, CNET and Engadget
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Surface: Wifi updates, pen improvements, more cover colors in pipeline — Summary: More Microsoft Surface RT and Surface Pro questions and a few more answers from sites and spokespeople around the Web. — New tidbits about what's coming for Microsoft Surface RT and Pro devices are continuing to trickle out.
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Computerworld, BGR, Pocketnow, The Next Web, IntoMobile, ABCNEWS, Network World, Neowin, InformationWeek, Electronista, WinBeta and MSDN Blogs
| Justin Lafferty / AllFacebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Among Biggest American Philanthropists In 2012 — We all know that Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest people in America, but he's also one of the most generous. The Chronicle of Philanthropy announced Monday that Zuckerberg …
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Mercury News, Forbes and Fast Company
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The GoogleReaderpocalypse Is Upon Us - Google's Feed Reading Service Unusable Since Sunday — Google Reader, the RSS feed-reading service Google has long since benignly abandoned, has gone completely mad, and Google has yet to acknowledge the problem even as it heads into its second day of unusability.
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CNET, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, BerryReview, The Verge, Softpedia News and Internet Evolution
| Ben Martin / Telegraph: |
Mike Lynch raises $1bn for technology investment — Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch has raised $1bn through his Invoke Capital fund to invest in fledgling British technology companies. — Mike Lynch founded Autonomy and sold it to Hewlett Packard for $10bn in 2011.
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VentureBeat, ZDNet and Forbes
| John Furrier / SiliconANGLE: |
VMware Marching Towards Software Defined Datacenter with Software Defined Storage Acquisition of Virsto — VMware today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto Software, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of software that optimizes storage performance and utilization in virtual environments.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Brings Video To Android In A Private Beta — Snapchat has been on a roll lately, scooping up a $13.5 million funding round from Benchmark last week, toying around with monetization features, and becoming the world's favorite misunderstood mobile app.
Tweets: @snapchat
| Jessica E. Lessin / Digits: |
Apple To Respond to Greenlight Suit by Wednesday — The walk-up to Apple's Feb. 27 shareholder meeting got more interesting last week when shareholder Greenlight Capital sued the company over its proxy as part of an effort to get Apple to return more cash to shareholders.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S which fixes issues that ‘could impact cellular performance’ — Apple has released an iOS 6.1.1 update for the iPhone 4S, likely in response to issues that some users were reporting with 3G coverage on some European carriers.
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9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, VentureBeat, MacStories, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, The Verge, GigaOM, Business Insider, Gizmodo and GigaOM. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linux developers working on uniting Windows 8 Secure Boot fixes — Summary: There are now two major ways to boot and install Linux on Windows 8 PCs, but soon they'll only be a single unified method. — Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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