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| David Faber / CNBC: |
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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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Inside Microsoft's decision to loan the Dell buyout consortium $2 billion — Dell's current expedition to go private is encountering turbulence in the form of investor discontent, leaving the details of the accepted deal somewhat obscured behind the smoke of shareholder battle.| Serena Saitto / Bloomberg: |
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A Brand New Language - Introducing Path 3 with Private Messaging, Stickers, and the Shop — When we speak with friends, share a joke, a quiet word, or a conversation over drinks, there is so much more than words that pass between us. A smile or nod or encouraging gesture - these allow for true connection and understanding.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
Facebook's Redesign Hopes to Keep Users Engaged — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce on Thursday a substantial redesign of its News Feed — a makeover aimed at both keeping users glued to the social network and luring more advertising dollars. — Company executives have broadly …
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| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
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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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi's operating system — When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn't come with an operating system. Loading your operating system of choice onto an SD card and then booting the Pi turns out to be pretty easy. But where do Pi-compatible operating systems come from?| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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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| 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 … | Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool — TRUMBULL, Conn.—The biggest mall in town stopped staffing its customer-service desk in January. But perched on that same desk recently was a plastic cutout of a hand holding a smartphone. “Download the free app,” it said.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
A Mac Pro Mini — For years, geeks have wanted Apple to make an “xMac”: an expandable desktop tower like the Mac Pro, but much cheaper, generally achieved in theory by using consumer-class CPUs and motherboards instead of Intel's expensive, server-grade Xeon line.
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| Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times: |
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.
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digitaltrends.com, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, The Verge and Betabeat
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| 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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| 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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| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
EA won't have microtransactions in all future games, exec clarifies — Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen clarified today that while all of EA's future games will support the ability to include microtransactions, that doesn't mean that all of them will actually have them.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
EU caves in to pressure on new data, privacy law changes; U.S. tech firms breathe sigh of relief — After major U.S.-based technology companies lobbied European member states and politicians, many will wake up today able to breathe a sigh of relief, as the European Commission is forced … | Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
Megaupload founder can sue New Zealand spy agency: court — WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A court ruled on Thursday that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can sue New Zealand's spy agency for illegal surveillance, opening the government up to more scrutiny over its role in an unlawful 2011 police raid on the internet entrepreneur's home.
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| Terje Langeland / Bloomberg: |
Samsung's Patent Spat With Apple Spurs U.S. Lobbying Push — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) has doubled mobile-phone sales in the U.S. since 2008. As the company faces anti-dumping measures and a protracted court battle with Apple Inc. (AAPL), its U.S. lobbying bill is growing even faster.| 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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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, CITEworld, Business Insider, Tech Cocktail and Jawfish Games
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Trulia Launches Trulia Suggests, A Recommendation Engine For Real Estate — Trulia, the popular real estate search engine, just launched the beta of Trulia Suggests, a personalized real estate recommendation engine. The typical search experience on virtually every online real estate site involves telling …
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CNET and AllThingsD
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
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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Foursquare Blog, TUAW, SlashGear, WebProNews and The Next Web
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Microsoft Backs School Privacy Bill Taking Aim at Google — Massachusetts lawmakers could soon consider a bill that would restrict the commercial use of data gathered while children use computers at public schools. — Its stated purpose is protecting privacy.
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The Verge and TechNet Blogs
| Facebook Engineering / Facebook: |
Under the Hood: Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search — By Sriram Sankar, Soren Lassen, and Mike Curtiss, who are building Graph Search's infrastructure. — In the early days, Facebook was as much about meeting new people as keeping in touch with people you already knew at your college.
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GigaOM and The Register
| 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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comScore, Inc., Fortune, Phones Review, Engadget, Mashable!, Business Insider, PC Magazine, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Neowin, ReadWrite, Guardian, Examiner, BGR, Investor's Business Daily, PhoneArena, everythingiCafe, WMPoweruser, GeekWire, Internet2Go, MacRumors, CNET, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Daring Fireball, Inside Mobile Apps, The Loop, 9to5Mac and Marketing Land. Tweets: @asymco
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
EU's Microsoft Fine a Warning to Google — The European Commission's announcement Wednesday of $732 million in sanctions against Microsoft is an inevitable and expected comeuppance for the software giant's failure to comply with the terms of an antitrust settlement requiring it to offer consumers a choice of Web browsers.
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