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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Cook: Forget About Our Share Price, Apple Has Some Great Stuff Coming — If you're an Apple shareholder dismayed by the downward trajectory of the company's stock price lately, CEO Tim Cook feels your pain. — Remarking on the value of Apple's stock, which has plummeted by roughly …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Groupon tanks on missed Q4 revenue of $638.3 million, unexpected loss of $0.12 per share — Today Groupon reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $638.3 million, and earnings per share of -$0.12. Analysts had expected revenue of $640 million, and earnings per share of $0.03.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app — Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event tickets, boarding passes …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Pandora Resurrects Its 40-Hour (Monthly) Limit On Free Music, But This Time It's Capping Mobile Usage — As it struggles to deal with rising royalty costs, streaming radio service Pandora is bringing back an old idea by capping free mobile usage at 40 hours per month.
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| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’ — During a talk at TED, the Google co-founder says Glass improves on the smartphone experience. — Mobile phones may generate the fastest-growing segment of Google's revenue, but the experience of using them still bothers Google co-founder Sergey Brin.| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Passbook mobile ticketing expanding to 13 MLB ballparks this season — For the 2013 baseball season, Major League Baseball is more than tripling the number of stadiums that will accept mobile tickets via Apple's Passbook app. This year there will be 13 stadiums that will enable paperless … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
GDRs and Microsoft's road to Windows Phone Blue — Summary: The Windows Phone team seems to be doubling down on secrecy. But that doesn't mean an end to rumors about what's next for the platform on the OS front. — Leaks about an alleged new HTC Windows Phone in the works have a number … | Jordan Press / canada.com: |
BlackBerry not as secure as believed, memo warns federal workers — OTTAWA — The federal department charged with overseeing cyber-security has warned its workers to think twice before sending a BlackBerry message, suggesting that the device believed to be the most secure in the world is more vulnerable than users may believe.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: AOL Poised to Hire Susan Lyne to Run All Content Brands, Except HuffPo — Sources said AOL is set to hire well-known media and Internet exec Susan Lyne to be CEO of its content brands unit at the New York-based Web company, except for the Huffington Post media unit headed by Arianna Huffington.
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| J.K. Trotter / The Atlantic Wire: |
Fake Google Glass eBay Auction Pulled After Bids Soar Past $15,000 — Your plan to simply buy your way into the Google Glass early-adopter contest has been foiled. On Wednesday morning an eBay auction immediately began raising eyebrows for how much bidders were driving up its price …
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| Brendan Sasso / The Hill: |
Bill would force ‘patent trolls’ to pay legal costs — A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that aims to combat “patent trolls”—firms that accumulate patents for the purpose of suing other companies rather than creating new products.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Streaming Music Service Goes Big Screen With Debut Of Cloud Player For iPad — Only a couple of weeks after announcing Amazon Cloud Player integration with Ford SYNC's AppLink platform, the company has today updated its iOS application with native support for the Apple iPad.
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Spotify's social network arrives: New Follow tab is now gradually rolling out to users — After teasing a heavy dose of discovery and social features, Spotify is gradually rolling out its ‘Follow’ tab to users on the desktop. — We first revealed these upcoming features back in December … | Seeking Alpha: |
Judge Upholds VirnetX Jury Verdict Against Apple For $368M — with regards to Case No. 6:10-CV-417 VirnetX (VHC), Plaintiff vs. Apple (AAPL), Defendant a memorandum opinion and order was delivered by Judge Leonard Davis. The follow key factors were released and confirmed by the company:
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft — LONG BEACH, California - The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3-D desktop, if computer genius Jinha Lee has anything to say about it.
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ReadWrite, Mobile Magazine and PSFK
| Natasha Lennard / Salon: |
Anonymous group claims to show BofA monitored hackers, activists — Hacker group leaks data reportedly from Bank of America showing (shoddy) monitoring of activist and hacker activity — An Anonymous group, identifying itself as Par:AnoIA (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency) …
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The Register, Business Insider and information-age.com
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches updated Office 365 for business users — Summary: Microsoft is launching the services piece of its ‘new Office’ for businesses on February 27. Here's what new and existing users can expect, as of today. — In late January 2013, Microsoft launched its consumer-focused version … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Cluster App Aims at Better Photo Curation (Especially for the Lazy) — Can't say I get excited when I hear about a new photo-sharing app. The market is flooded. Plus, I'm lazy, and don't feel like investing time and energy into yet another new app. — Serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan wants to convince me to feel otherwise.
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TechCrunch, Cluster and GigaOM
| Peter Svensson / Associated Press: |
Momentum Grows for Alternative Phone System Tizen … BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The junior league of smartphone operating systems is getting more competitive. Phones from yet another contender - Tizen - will go on sale this year with a view to eventually competing with the industry leaders, Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Coinstar coin-counting machines are now also PayPal ATMs — Coinstar can now add cash and coins directly to PayPal, meaning there's no need to involve credit cards or bank accounts as you ditch your physical currency. Coinstar's standard 9.8 percent fee is deducted from all coin deposits … | Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Waze adds real-time re-routing around road closures to latest iOS, Android update — Social navigation app Waze is pushing an update to iOS and Android users on Wednesday that will let users report road closures. If enough people use that capability, it could start automatically helping to route other users around the closure.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Digits, TUAW, Mashable! and The Next Web
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Gmail Search Field Trial Adds Calendar Results To Google Search — Google keeps increasing the amount of information it will show from your Gmail account within your Google searches, if you're part of the Gmail Search Field Trial. The latest addition? Your calendar results.
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The Next Web, CNET, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Verge and 9to5Google
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Lets Advertisers Tap Purchase Data Partners To Target Customers, Categories Like Car-Buyers — Through new partnerships with top online and offline purchase data providers Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai, Facebook is now allowing advertisers to target hashed lists of existing … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Chrome Super Sync Sports Turns Your Smartphone's Browser Into A Game Controller — Google's Super Sync Sports Chrome Experiment is what happens when you put modern web technology, smartphones and a love of 80s sports games into one rather wacky package where cupcakes race moose heads for virtual gold.| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Shazam: ‘TV advertising is going to become our primary revenue stream’ — With tens of millions of weekly active users, British startup wants to make second-screen ads a big deal for broadcasters — It's a long time since Shazam was just that useful app to identify (or “tag") music playing in the real world.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Stanford Grad Files Lawsuit Claiming He Came Up With Snapchat, Snapchat Calls Lawsuit “Devoid Of Merit” — In what appears to be a cyclical recurrence of post-success litigation, Snapchat is being sued by a man from South Carolina named Frank Reginald Brown IV, who claims that he originally came … Sponsor Posts
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