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Antitrust: Commission fines Microsoft for non-compliance with browser choice commitments — European Commission — The European Commission has imposed a €561 million fine on Microsoft for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users a browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser.
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Carl Icahn Takes Up to a 6 Percent Stake in Dell: Sources — Carl Icahn appears set to enter the fray over the leveraged buyout of Dell. — Trading sources said they were confident that Icahn had amassed a position in Dell that may approach 100 million shares, and would bring him to a roughly 6 percent ownership.
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Big layoffs at T-Mobile headquarters, ahead of merger — A significant round of layoffs is happening at the Bellevue headquarters of T-Mobile USA just ahead of its merger with MetroPCS, according to people inside the company. — Employees are expecting the cuts, which may affect …
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Microsoft to update its core Windows 8 apps well before ‘Blue’ — Summary: Microsoft may have refreshes of its Mail, Calendar, Music and Games apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT in its app store as soon as this month. — There's been some worry that Microsoft's Windows team may be waiting until the …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google-Apple Valuation Gap Widest Since 2005 on Ads — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s prospects haven't looked so promising to investors relative to Apple Inc. (AAPL) since before the iPhone was introduced. — Google's shares, which climbed to a record yesterday, are now trading at 25 times profit … | David Kravets / Wired: |
Aaron Swartz Case Was ‘a Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion,’ Attorney General Says — Holder, the nation's top prosecutor, is the highest-ranking member of the President Barack Obama administration to defend the indictment and prosecution of the former director of Demand Progress … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Path 3.0 adds private messaging and The Shop, with ‘handcrafted’ stickers and premium photo filters — Path 3.0 for iOS adds two major features to the private social network. The first is the ability to privately message your fellow users, and the second is The Shop, part of Path's ongoing effort to monetize its app.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
comScore: Apple debuts 2013 as top US smartphone maker, Samsung gains but Android falls for the first time — In the US, Apple ended 2012 as the top OEM and it has only further increased its lead with the start of the New Year. Samsung is gaining as well, but not quite as quickly.
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The Check In Is Dead; Long Live The Check In As Foursquare Adds Quick Glide Feature On iOS — Depending who you ask, Foursquare could be in a great place as far as growth. Or in a bad place. We've heard about potential acquisitions, difficulty fundraising and everything in between.
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Found Using Internet Data, Study Finds — Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence …
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T-Mobile Responding To AT&T's Newspaper Ad With Their Own Creative Responses — Let me be the first to say, that if these ads developed for T-Mobile in response to AT&T's one-page attack ad last week don't run in newspapers everyday for the next year, I'm going to be disappointed.
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Bug allows complete lock screen bypass on Samsung Galaxy S III — Summary: Following a brief lock screen bypass that had ‘limited scope’, another Samsung owner has found that the lock screen on Galaxy S III handsets can be bypassed completely. — Michael Lee| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Path Hires Ex-Google, Lytro Finance Head as New CFO — A little more than two years after launch, Path, the self-proclaimed “private social network” startup, is beginning to focus more on monetization. — Hence the hiring of Kim Jabal as the company's first CFO, who will spearhead … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Yammer's David Sacks offers to create $250k Launch fund to support five startups from the festival — At the 2013 Launch Festival, Yammer co-founder David Sacks took part in the conference's third fireside chat. During the conversation, Sacks offered to help fund five of the startups presenting …
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Yahoo Says New Policy Is Meant to Raise Morale — SAN FRANCISCO — When Marissa Mayer took over as chief executive at Yahoo last summer, she confronted a Silicon Valley campus that was very different from the one she had left at Google. Enlarge This Image Pascal Lauener/Reuters Marissa Mayer wants “all hands on deck” at Yahoo.| MIT Technology Review: |
Computer Scientists Measure the Speed of Censorship On China's Twitter — Censorship on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, is near real-time and relies on a workforce of over 4000 censors who stop work during the evening news, according the first detailed analysis of censorship patterns
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Free broadband for all: FreedomPop's Hub Burst home router now available — The free wireless internet startup FreedomPop is targeting the likes of Comcast and Cablevision with its Hub Burst home router, which is now available for purchase. — First announced back in December …
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Internet Marriages on Rise in Some Immigrant Communities — With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the phrase that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married.| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft restores transfer rights for retail Office 2013 copies — Summary: As part of its shift to a subscription model, Microsoft introduced a controversial “no transfer” restriction with Office 2013. Now, after an intense outcry from customers, the company has reversed course and agreed … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Sheryl Sandberg Launches ‘Lean In’ Organization As A Global Community For Workplace Equality — This morning Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg officially launched “Lean In,” a non-profit organization aimed at creating a global community that encourages women to continue to be active and ambitious …
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