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February 28, 2013, 7:20 PM
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| Groupon, Inc.: |
Groupon Announces Leadership Change — Board Appoints Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis to the Office of the Chief Executive — CHICAGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), the global leader in local commerce, today announced a leadership change in which Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon, here's his sendoff letter — Today it was announced that Groupon will move to replace Andrew Mason as its CEO. The decision comes the day following the reporting of its painful fourth quarter financial performance, that included a surprise loss, and lukewarm revenues.
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| Brian Boland / Facebook Newsroom: |
Facebook to Acquire Atlas from Microsoft — We're pleased to announce that we have agreed to acquire the Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft. Atlas is a leader in campaign management and measurement for marketers and agencies. We believe this acquisition will benefit both marketers and users, and we'd like to explain why.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Confirms It Will Acquire Atlas Advertiser Suite From Microsoft To Close The Ad Spend Loop — After weeks of speculation and leaks, Facebook today announced it will buy the Atlas Advertiser Suite away from Microsoft. The Seattle-based Atlas team will stay put …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple Supplier Corning Sees Three-Year Wait for Flexible Display — Corning Inc. (GLW), the maker of glass for Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones, said it will probably take at least three years before companies start making flexible displays using its new Willow material.
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UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung! — By far and away the weirdest ruling in the worldwide smartphone and tablet wars came down last year in the UK, where a publicity order forcing Apple to promote Samsung's products and to make itself ridiculous … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Exclusive: EU regulators likely to fine Microsoft by end-March - sources — (Reuters) - EU competition regulators plan to fine Microsoft before the end of March in a case tied to the U.S. software giant's antitrust battle in Europe more than a decade ago, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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| Apple: |
iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads — Apple today announced that iTunes U® content downloads have topped one billion. iTunes U features the world's largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools and prominent libraries, museums and organizations helping …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Koozoo turns every old iPhone into a 24/7 spycam — Rick's American Cafe is the most popular bar where I went to school in Ann Arbor, MI. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, rain or shine, the line to get into Rick's wraps around the block. One entrepreneurial student with a great view …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Required Executives to Hold Triple Their Salary in Stock — Apple Inc. earlier this month reversed its stance on a corporate-governance measure related to executive compensation, implementing a new rule that executives must hold triple their base salary in company stock.
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to being Wikileaks source, denies ‘aiding the enemy’ — Manning will read an extended personal statement detailing his actions and his motives, describing ‘moral outrage’ at the US Army's actions in Iraq — US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Measuring the iBook market — In June of 2011 Apple announced that 130 million ebooks were sold through iTunes. In October of 2012 it announced that 400 million sold. — That means 270 million ebooks were sold in 16 months. Or about 17 million units per month, on average.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
YouTube for iOS gets AirPlay-like video ‘beaming’ for smart TVs, Xbox 360 and PS3, Capture support — Google has today updated the YouTube app for iOS with its ‘send to TV’ functionality. This enables the app to send video out on an automatic connectionto TVs that support the open protocol.
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| Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: |
ISPs Finally Explain How ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Program Will Work — Internet Service Providers are finally revealing how they will implement a new anti-piracy system known as “Six Strikes” which has been rolling out this week. — The program, officially called the Copyright Alert System …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft expands Surface RT and Pro market reach, adding Japan and the UK among other countries — This morning Microsoft announced a number of new markets for the Surface RT and Surface Pro tablet hybrids. The expansions were expected, and fit former leaks.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it's “calibrating” strategy but “committed” to devices — Barnes & Noble had warned investors that its third-quarter Nook earnings would be disappointing. The earnings report was released before the market opened Thursday morning, and indeed, Nook revenues … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
UpTo wants to be the social glue of tomorrow, adds $1.5M, and opens its event stream platform — Last year UpTo launched as a way of sharing upcoming events with friends, family, and colleagues: the social network of tomorrow. Now, 500,000 shared events and 2000 organizational event streams later …
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| Bloomberg: |
Google Helped Honor FTC Chairman During Agency Inquiry — Google Inc. (GOOG) contributed $25,000 to honor the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission while under investigation by the agency for antitrust violations, Senate records show. — The company donated the money to Common Sense Media Inc. …
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown steps down, company founder John Battelle assumes leadership — Federated Media's CEO Deanna Brown announced today that she will be leaving her position within the company. In her place, founder and Executive Chairman John Batelle will step in to help keep … | John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
AT&T “Hacker” Andrew Auernheimer's Sentencing Scheduled For March 18 — Internet activist (and Crunchies winner) Andrew Auernheimer's sentencing trial will take place on March 18, 2013 at 10:30am. Auernheimer aka Weev revealed a security flaw in AT&T's iPad user database, allowing him to scrape the data from 114,000 iPad users.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement — It seems that, once again, the UK is going censorship crazy and not realizing how that only attacts more attention to that which they're trying to censor. This time, it involves some photos that were posted online …
| Macworld: |
Silent email filtering makes iCloud an unreliable option — These days, so much important communication is conducted by email that we expect it to be rock solid. So when emails don't arrive—or even worse, we don't know that they didn't arrive—it can be worrisome.| Anke Corbin / MapQuest Blog: |
MapQuest Continues Its Evolution by Introducing Free Travel Blogs — We're excited to share today's launch of MapQuest Travel Blogs on the web - http://TravelBlogs.MapQuest.com - and iOS devices - iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad download at: http://appstore.com/mapquesttravelblogs .
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Time Warner Cable says there's no consumer demand for gigabit internet — Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable's Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is having on consumers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung Fails to Block Apple iPhone, iPad Sales in Japan — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) failed in a bid to block sales of Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads and iPhones in Japan, the latest step in a global patent spat between the world's two largest smartphone makers.
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| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
Unsold iPhones Piling Up at Leap Wireless — For one of the country's prepaid cellphone carriers, a big bet on the iPhone is becoming a big headache. — Leap Wireless International Inc., which operates the Cricket cellphone brand, said it is on pace to sell half as many iPhones as it committed …
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