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Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit — Hedge fund magnate and famous Apple bull David Einhorn has dropped his lawsuit against the company in which he holds some 1.3 million shares. Einhorn's Greenlight Capital on Friday withdrew the suit it brought against Apple over a proxy proposal …
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| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban — Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed — Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …
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Facebook holding an event to show off a ‘new look for News Feed’ on March 7th — Facebook has just sent out an invite to press with the text ‘come see a new look for News Feed’. The event will be held at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 10am PST and we'll be on site.| Bloomberg: |
Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament — Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.
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| David Hsieh / DisplaySearch Blog: |
Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013? — The launch of the iPad mini in late 2012 has been seen as an acknowledgement by Apple that smaller size (7-9") tablet PCs would become a larger part of the market than larger sizes (9.7" or 10.1"). Key aspects are more attractive prices and the ability … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Slapped With Cease And Desist By Illinois State Department Of Financial Regulation — Mobile payments company Square appears to have just received a cease and desist order from the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. You can access the document here.
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Best Buy Says It Got No Offer From Founder Schulze — Best Buy Co. (BBY) said it received no offer from founder Richard Schulze by the deadline yesterday and will continue to focus on its turnaround. — The deadline expired and Schulze didn't make a bid, the Richfield, Minnesota-based retailer said in a statement today.
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Invents Advanced iPad Magnetics System for Dual iPad Notebook, Tripod Stands, Gaming Controller & Much More — On February 28, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a system for magnetically attaching a tablet device to a supporting structure.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
At last, Microsoft brings Photosynth panorama app to Windows Phone 8 — After previously making the panaroma app available for iOS (and Windows Phone 7 after that), Microsoft is finally bringing Photosynth to Windows Phone 8. As you'd expect, Microsoft has tapped into WP8's feature set …
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| 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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Exploit lets websites bombard visitors' PCs with gigabytes of data — A Web developer has demonstrated a simple-to-execute exploit that allows websites to surreptitiously bombard visitors' storage devices with gigabytes of junk data. — As its name suggests, FillDisk.com loads …
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| Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog: |
Evernote for iOS Update: New View, Better PDF Support, Evernote Business Improvements, and More — Today's Evernote for iOS (5.2) update is full of exciting and useful features, including a new way to view your notes, a completely overhauled PDF experience, more formatting options …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
FTC: Chairman was unaware of Google's donation to ceremony celebrating his work during investigation — The FTC has responded to yesterday's controversy regarding Google and its director stating that he knew nothing at the time of the donation in question. This implicitly states …
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| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more — BlackBerry 10 has been out in the wild for almost a month, and today early adopters will begin receiving the first update to the new platform: version 10.0.10.85.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple blocks older versions of Adobe Flash Player plug-in — Apple has today updated Safari's web plug-in blocking mechanism to disable older versions of the Adobe Flash Player. The update, noted by Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, is likely in response to recently exposed vulnerabilities in Flash.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found — Summary: Polish security researchers have discovered yet more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, the beleaguered Web plug-in, that led to the successful intrusion of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent weeks. — Zack Whittaker
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
BSkyB buys Telefónica UK's fixed-line business for $300M — British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) will buy Telefónica's UK fixed-line broadband and telephony business for up to £200 million ($303 million), the companies announced early on Friday.Sponsor Posts
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