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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.
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Groupon's Loss Widens; Stock Dives — Groupon Inc.'s stock plunged 26% after the daily-deals site capped a turbulent first year as a public company with a wider quarterly loss and a forecast for weak growth. — Chicago-based Groupon has turned a profit just once since going public and is struggling to rev up sales.| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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 Group headed by Arianna Huffington.| Sam Gibbs / Gizmodo UK: |
Tweetbot Shows You How to Shame Bottom-Feeding Pirates (Updated) — You're a developer. You work your arse off to make a rock-solid product and charge a modest fee for people to use it, like the awesome Tweetbot for instance. So you're annoyed when people pirate the hell out of it. So, what do you do?
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| 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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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
To Bolster Search, Facebook Nudges its Users to Help Index the Real World - and Build a Data Store to Rival Google's — Facebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World — Taking aim at Google, the largest social network wants a database describing as many things as possible. — WHY IT MATTERSThanks:@tsimonite
| 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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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack — Earlier this week when the six strikes system launched, little was known (officially) about the punishments ISPs were planning for persistent pirates. — Since then Verizon reinstated their copyright alerts section, revealing the mitigation measured that leaked last month.| 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.
| 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 … | 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 …
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BGR, MacNN, Business Insider, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena
| 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, information-age.com and Business Insider
| Bernard Vaughan / Thomson Reuters: |
Inventor argues Nintendo infringed his 3-D patent — A patent infringement trial over 3-D display technology has pit an inventor against videogaming giant Nintendo Co. — The patent relates to technology that inventor Seijiro Tomita developed for providing 3-D images without the need for 3-D glasses.
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GamesIndustry International, GeekWire and Polygon
| 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
| Sruthi Gottipati / India Ink: |
‘Hole in the Wall’ Wins Indian Educator $1 Million TED Prize — Sugata Mitra, an Indian education innovator, was awarded the first $1 million TED Prize for what the global organization called his “innovative and bold efforts towards advancing learning for children.”| 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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Business Insider, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, Examiner, VentureBeat, CNET, Neowin, Betabeat and Guardian
| 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
| 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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Amazon.com, App Advice, MacRumors, CNET, Engadget, ReadWrite, Macgasm, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Full Signal, PC Magazine, SlashGear and 9to5Mac
| 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 … | Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Authors face change as Amazon tightens affiliate policy on free Kindle books — Amazon is changing a policy on affiliate links to free Kindle books, and the changes are likely to have a big effect on the way some self-published authors achieve success online.| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
EA putting micro-transactions “into all of our games” — “Consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of business.” — EA is building micro-transactions into all of its PC and console games, the company has announced. — The decision comes despite the recent controversy surrounding micro-transactions … Sponsor Posts
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