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Analysis: Next Intel CEO to guide new business, maybe Apple deal — (Reuters) - Intel's next CEO is likely to shepherd the top chipmaker into a growing contract-manufacturing business, a strategic shift that could lead to a deal with Apple Inc and give it a fighting chance to make inroads in the mobile arena.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Read Carl Icahn's Letter to Dell's Board About the Buyout Plan — It's confirmed. Carl Icahn has an investment stake in Dell, and is gearing up for a fight against that company's proposal to go private in a leveraged buyout transaction. — Dell's board of directors confirmed what CNBC …
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The Verge, Network World, Business Wire and DealBook
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Why Icahn's Dell plan could be a FUD nightmare — Summary: Carl Icahn's proposal might severely damage Dell as a serious enterprise technology player when the fear uncertainty and doubt parade starts rolling. — Dell's move to go private has become very complicated as investor Carl Icahn …
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Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, FierceEnterpriseCommunications … and CNBC
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Google tipped off EU authorities over Microsoft's $732M browser boo-boo, report claims — If Google really did set off the process that led to Microsoft's mammoth fine, then this was in a way just another episode in an increasingly nasty war between the two companies.
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Financial Times, BGR, The Verge, Neowin, ZDNet, Geek.com, Web Browser, Deadline.com and Fudzilla
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Twitter's API keys and secrets for its official apps surface; what should we do with them? — It appears that Twitter's API keys and secrets for its official apps have surfaced, and are currently being shared on GitHub. — Note: The combination of API keys and secrets are used to authorize …
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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 … | Path: |
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.
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VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, GadgeTell, AllThingsD, CNET, iPhone, Macgasm, SlashGear, Engadget, The Next Web, MacRumors, Forbes, The Next Web, The Verge, GigaOM and Gizmodo
Tweets: @davemorin and @qthrul
Thanks:@forrestkoba| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
EU under pressure for new data, privacy law changes; U.S. tech firms breathe sigh of relief — Summary: 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 …
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Financial Times, CNET, The Register and Out-Law News
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Gets a Million-Dollar Bonus After Six Months on the Job — According to a regulatory filing by Yahoo, its CEO Marissa Mayer got a $1.12 million bonus, as part of a compensation package she got when she came to the Silicon Valley Internet giant. — It was based on serving a half of a year.
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Bloomberg, Mashable!, Electronista and bizjournals
| Kai Lukoff / TechRice: |
Year of the ChinaDroid — Nestled in the hills of Shenzhen in southern China, stands a factory that churns out smartphones day and night. Migrant workers labor for fourteen-hour shifts, six days a week. Most welcome the overtime, which is usually paid. Components stand around … | TechCrunch: |
Rovio Pulls Down Paywall For Original Angry Birds On iPhone, iPad To Reignite Downloads On Legacy Games As App Of The Week — Angry Birds may be one of the most popular apps of all time, but it's also not exactly a spring chicken. And so, to boost its downloads, publisher Rovio is now making …
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MacRumors, App Advice, CNET, PandoDaily, The Verge, Apple, FierceMobileContent News, SlashGear, Macgasm, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com and Softpedia News. Tweets: @appsfire. Thanks:@riptari
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
ASUS Transformer AiO launching Q2 for $1,299 and up, marries Windows 8 desktop with monster Android tablet — We were beginning to think the ASUS Transformer AiO was just a figment of a summer daydream after hearing nothing of it since our chance look many months ago.
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BetaNews, Ars Technica, PC World, The Verge, Inquirer, ZDNet, Softpedia News and PhoneArena
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tango, The Video-Calling App Turned Social Network, Hits 100M Users And Finally Arrives On iPad — Tango, the mobile video calling and communication service backed by $87 million in outside funding, is announcing today that it has reached 100 million registered users - up from 75 million in November.
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VentureBeat, VatorNews, Engadget and The Full Signal
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Android Accounted For 79% Of All Mobile Malware In 2012, 96% In Q4 Alone, Says F-Secure — Is it because Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world right now, or is it because it's just fundamentally easier to attack? In any case, Google's mobile juggernaut Android continues … | Dan Levine / Thomson Reuters News and Insight Legal: |
Apple attracts one friend in Samsung appeal: Nokia — (Reuters) - Nokia has filed a brief in support of Apple Inc's bid to secure permanent injunctions against several Samsung Electronics Co Ltd phones, making the Finnish smartphone maker the only outside group to come forward in backing the iPhone maker's appeal.
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ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Neowin and MacRumors
| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Record labels object to Apple's proposed low royalty rate for streaming service — Apple has opened talks with record labels about getting rights for a music-streaming service — but has gotten plenty of push back because its offer is seen as way too cheap, The Post has learned.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Texas proposes one of nation's “most sweeping” mobile privacy laws — If the bill passes Austin, Texas could lead the nation in mobile privacy protection. — fusionpanda — Privacy experts say that a pair of new mobile privacy bills recently introduced in Texas are among the “most sweeping” ever seen.| 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?| 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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SiliconANGLE, BGR, DSLreports, PR Newswire, Ubergizmo, TmoNews, The Full Signal, TechSpot, ZDNet, Fortune, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, SlashGear, AllThingsD, CNET, The Register, Electronista, The Verge and GigaOM
| 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.
Tweets: @panzer
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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
| 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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TorrentFreak, New Zealand Herald, CNET, Techdirt, BBC, Bloomberg, Network World and ZDNet
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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