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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.| Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence: |
Ted Leonsis Back in a Dotcom Driver's Seat at Groupon … With Groupon's founder Andrew Mason getting booted from the CEO spot, the company now has two new co-CEOs, at least on an interim basis during the search for a replacement. And one of them has a notable history in dealing with the challenges … | Brian Boland / Facebook Newsroom: |
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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 … | 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
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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.| 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.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
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 … | 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 … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google's CFO says Motorola's upcoming products aren't ‘wow’ by Google standards (update) — If you were hoping to see a revelatory smartphone from Motorola in the near future, you might want to tone down those expectations. Google's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette today … | Apple: |
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youdidntgetglass Google Has Closed Registrations For Their #ifihadglass Pre-Order Ploy — Google has officially shut down registrations for its #ifihadglass round of Google Glass pre-orders/applications. — The competition was first announced on February 20, alongside … | Bloomberg: |
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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.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Salesforce delivers strong Q4, outlook solid — Summary: CEO Marc Benioff touted the company's $3 billion in annual revenue and growth rates. — Salesforce.com reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results and delivered a solid outlook for the first quarter and year ahead.| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
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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 … | 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 .| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google Translate to add dialects for text-to-speech feature? — As noted by the unofficial Google Operating System blog, Google could soon be adding the option to select a dialect for certain languages in its text-to-speech feature within Google Translate. The option, which is currently hidden … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Zopfli To Compress Data More Densely And Make Web Pages Load Faster — Google just launched Zopfli, a new open source compression algorithm that can compress web content about three to eight percent more densely (PDF) than the standard zlib library.
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Don't Do. Just Tell. With Zoho MCP for Bigin. — Dear small business owners,This one's a little different.We're not here to walk you through a checklist of features. We're here to tell you about something …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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