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| Marissa Mayer / Yodel Anecdotal: |
A new welcome to Yahoo! — Yahoo! first began as Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web, a directory of links created to help organize the Internet during its very early days. That simple directory evolved through the years into the Yahoo! we know today — a starting point for your daily habits.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Sony announces PlayStation 4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 controller — Today at a gaming event in New York City, Sony announced the PlayStation 4. Sony's Andy House says that it is the ‘most powerful platform ever’. — “The living room is no longer …
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AppleInsider, Engadget, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, BGR, Gizmodo, The Verge, Kotaku, Polygon and Softpedia News. Tweets: @aegies
| The Verge: |
Live from Sony's PlayStation 4 event — 2013 is shaping up to be a big year in console gaming, with both Microsoft and Sony on tap to show new hardware. Sony is striking first with the likely announcement of the PlayStation 4 at today's event, but what does it have in store? Cloud gaming?
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Tweets: @majornelson and @playstation
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
| Strategy Analytics: |
Apple iPhone 5 Overtakes Samsung Galaxy S3 to Become World's Best-Selling Smartphone Model in Q4 2012 — According to the latest research from our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, Apple's iPhone 5 overtook Samsung's Galaxy S3 to become the world's best-selling smartphone model …
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google shows what it's like to use Project Glass in new video and expands preorders — It's been almost a year since Google first unveiled its vision for Project Glass, but today the company has expanded preorders and released a new overview video, demonstrating how the glasses display interactions and services when they are in use.
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Examiner, Digits, CITEworld, The Register, The Verge, Engadget, Betabeat, GigaOM, CNET, SlashGear, AllThingsD, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, NYT Bits, Google+, Forbes, ABCNEWS, Mashable!, BuzzFeed, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Laughing Squid, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Marketing Land, PC World, Engadget, IntoMobile and digitaltrends.com
| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
New Google Glass UI video shows off search, camera, and voice translation features — Google today posted a video preview of its forthcoming Google Glass wearable headset, providing a fresh, and more realistic look at the device's user interface. The video, embedded below … | April Underwood / Twitter Advertising: |
Announcing the Twitter Ads API — Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets. As interest in Twitter has grown …
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Salesforce Blog, Adobe Digital Marketing Blog, VatorNews, Marketing Land, AdAge, Betabeat, HootSuite, Computerworld, GigaOM, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, Computerworld, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Forbes, AllTwitter, Business Insider, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer
| Jason Pontin / MIT Technology Review: |
Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product — Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system. Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 presents its users with virtually the same interface on any device.
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Computerworld, CITEworld, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Business Insider, VentureBeat, WinBeta and DailyTech
| Kurt Wagner / Fortune: |
Art Levinson, Apple's chairman, talks life after Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs' close friend and colleague Art Levinson describes what life at Apple has been like over the last 16 months. — FORTUNE — “Weird.” — That was the one-word answer given by Apple (AAPL) chairman Arthur D. Levinson …
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Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Patently Apple, CNET, TechSpot, MacNN, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm and 9to5Mac
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation — Pinterest, the popular social scrapbooking site, has completed a massive $200 million funding, which values the company at $2.5 billion, according to sources close to the situation.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Jen-Hsun Huang / NVIDIA: |
NVIDIA To Build A New Home, 20 Years After Our Founding — Twenty years ago this month, we founded NVIDIA. Our vision that computer graphics would revolutionize computing has propelled us into becoming one of the leading technology companies in the world.
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The Verge, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, Droid Life, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Digits and TG Daily. Thanks:@nvidia
| Mr.H / vgleaks.com: |
Durango Next-Generation Kinect Sensor — Launched in November 2010, the Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor set a world record for the fastest selling consumer electronic device, selling ten million units in its first four months alone. Natural user interface (NUI) experiences using Kinect have proved …
| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
For $19, an Unlimited Phone Plan, Some Flaws — A typical smartphone costs around $200, but it's usually shackled to a two-year contract that often costs $70 or more monthly and includes limits on data consumption, voice minutes and texts. Even prepaid smartphones, without a contract, can cost $30 to $50 a month and carry limits.
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Apple's Jonathan Ive talks design—on a beloved kids' show — “Heartwarming” isn't a word you normally associate with industrial design, but I dare you to watch this clip from beloved UK children's show Blue Peter without cracking a smile. — When asked how he would design a combination pencil case …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Business Insider, AppleInsider and iDownloadBlog.com
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to tighten further its Yammer-Office ties this summer — Summary: Microsoft's SkyDrive Pro and Office Web Apps technologies will be tied more tightly into its Yammer enterprise-social-networking offering as of summer 2013. — Buried in a press release on Yammer momentum are a couple …
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Microsoft, PC World, InfoWorld, GeekWire, BetaNews, The Next Web, CITEworld, SiliconANGLE, TechNet Blogs and Neowin
| Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Unveils New Strategy to Combat Hacking — WASHINGTON—The White House unveiled a new strategy to exert pressure on China and other countries that engage in corporate espionage against the U.S. as part of a new administration push to counter cyberattacks and commercial spying.
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CNET, The White House, Reuters, BBC, Reuters, Agence France Presse and AllThingsD
| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers — If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.
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Xamarin Blog, Computerworld, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, ZDNet, PandoDaily and The H
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
iPhoneDevSDK Details What Led to Apple, Facebook Hacking — In January, a number of Apple employees had their Macs compromised following visits to the popular iPhoneDevSDK forum. Employees from Facebook and likely dozens of other companies were compromised as well.
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Ars Technica, Eric Romang, GigaOM and iDownloadBlog.com
| Bill Flook / bizjournals: |
LivingSocial raises $110 million in fresh capital — LivingSocial Inc. has raised a fresh $110 million from a group of current investors that will allow the daily deal giant to “build our reserves, solidify our long-term plans and execute against our vision for the future,” CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy told employees in a memo Wednesday.
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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:
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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