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Samsung launches Rex handset line for emerging markets, challenging Nokia — Samsung Electronics is launching a new handset line called Rex that is aimed at emerging markets. The move could be the beginning of a battle between Samsung and Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) touchscreen Asha line …
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Who Supplies Apple? (It's Not Just China): An Interactive Map — Last month, Apple Inc. released its updated list of suppliers (PDF). This report says it includes “the major manufacturing locations of suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly on Apple.”
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Transcript: The keys to Andreessen Horowitz's success — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talk to Fortune's Adam Lashinsky about their investing philosophies, role models and business model. — FORTUNE — When partners at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are late to a meeting … Thanks:@waqasaday
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Apple's Podcast Disaster — Is the company that basically invented the podcast putting it out to pasture? — Apple's podcast app is, without a doubt, the worst iOS app it's ever made. Others have been poorly received or largely ignored, but this is unprecedented: With nearly 6,000 ratings … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
The Rise Of Company Builders — Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
When Mayer Called Yahoo's Mobile Revenue “Nascent,” She Wasn't Kidding (And Here's the Actual Number She Left Out) — On Yahoo's recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company's mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
In a Fireside Hangout on Google+, Obama says we need more patent reform and computer education — In President Obama's inaugural Fireside Hangout on Google+, he faced the public and answered a bevy of questions along a wide range of topics, including immigration, gun violence, and even technology.| Craig Kanalley / The Huffington Post: |
Pinterest May Be Bigger Than You Think, Competing To Be The 2nd Most Popular Social Network — Facebook is the dominant social network in the United States these days, in terms of users, but there's a battle underway for the number two slot, a new study has found.
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The Fight To Keep YouTube Online in Egypt — Egypt's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology says it's impossible to enforce a judge's decree blocking the website. — A protester near Tahrir Square in Cairo, September 13, 2012. — Image by Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Why Mozilla Matters And Won't Switch To WebKit — Earlier this week, Opera announced that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It's obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behind it, with Google, Apple and now Opera backing it.
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Intel shifts gears on Itanium, raising questions about the server chip's future — Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers.| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Google Takeout now offering Blogger and Google+ Page exports — Google Takeout is a service by Google that enables account owners to save some of their data to a local system. The takeout service makes available data from a variety of Google services including Google Drive, YouTube …
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