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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Motorola Unit to Cut 10% of Workforce — Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility hardware unit has begun laying off about 1,200 employees, or more than 10% of its headcount, according to a company email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, as the smartphone maker continues trying to return to profitability.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Motorola lay-offs continue as 10% of staff is cut; affecting 1,200 jobs in US, China and India — Google is laying off 10 percent of the Motorola staff worldwide as part of the latest round of cost-cutting, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
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| Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Z10 Said to Hit AT&T Stores on March 22 to Reach U.S. — BlackBerry's new Z10 device will go on sale with AT&T Inc. (T) on March 22 as the Canadian smartphone maker seeks a sales recovery in its biggest market, according to two people familiar with the plan.
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CNET, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Electronista and Pocketnow
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Revolution in Resale of Digital Books and Music — The prospect of online stores that sell used e-books and digital music has heartened consumer advocates, but publishers and artists are worried.
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paidContent, Media Decoder and Digital Book World
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple's digital content resale and loan system could allow DRM transfers between end users — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published details of an exhaustive Apple invention covering the resale and loan of owned digital content like e-books, music and movies, possibly portending an upcoming addition to iTunes.| Facebook Newsroom: |
A New Look for News Feed — Today we're announcing a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with a fresh new look. We've completely rebuilt each story …
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
At an Annual Tech Show, It's Hardware's Turn in the Spotlight — AUSTIN, Tex. — Each year, thousands of tech enthusiasts flock to South by Southwest, the technology, music and film conference here, hoping to be among the first to find the next big thing in social networking and mobile apps.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Google about to lose patent spat with Microsoft: German court inclined to ban Google Maps — [BREAKING NEWS during break at Munich patent trial; may still add more detail later] — Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann of the Munich I Regional Court just told Google and its Motorola Mobility subsidiary …
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| Vernon Silver / Businessweek: |
Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It — Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China's online surveillance apparatus. The 27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico …
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CNET, Softpedia News and Neowin
| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Telecom Firms Seek to Curb Publicly Funded Web Services — WASHINGTON—Sensing a threat to their business model, telecom companies are pushing more states to curb the spread of publicly funded high-speed Internet access, arguing the networks could squash competition.
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| Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: |
If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizon — This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I've posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the first time a baby was cured of HIV.| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
European Parliament blocks citizen e-mails protesting EU ‘porn ban’ — After European citizens began to complain en masse over a report proposing that porn should be banned in the 27-member state bloc, European politicians blew the whistle on their own IT department.
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The Register, Christian Engström …, TechEye, T3 News, TechSpot, DailyTech and Techdirt
| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million — “This is a case of partners betraying a fellow partner.” — One week ago, Reggie Brown filed a lawsuit alleging that he is a co-founder of Snapchat, a red-hot impermanent photo messaging app, and is entitled … | John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine: |
Apple Maps Leads the Way in Navigation — On Monday I had a meeting at Apple with podcaster Leo LaPorte, TWiT CEO Lisa Kentzell, and marketing guy Glenn Rubenstein. We were in three separate cars, each with a different navigation system, and we had several places to stop …
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The history of Facebook as told through its ever-expanding list of profile fields — The Facebook profile in 2005, 2006, and 2007 — An interesting new study (PDF) out of Carnegie Mellon University examines how students there, who first joined Facebook in 2005, have changed their privacy settings on the service over time.
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Business Insider, Engadget and The Huffington Post
| Mike Shields / Adweek: |
Facebook Plotting Major Video Push Look for Timeline videos, group social production, more pre-rolls By Mike Shields, Tim Peterson — Video is soon going to take center stage at Facebook. — As part of Facebook's redesigned News Feed (which will be announced today), it's expected that users …
| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data — Bill Gates at the SXSWedu conference. Photos via Brandon Phenix. — If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, it was the importance of data. — Useful data.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Loose Lips: Yahoo M&A Head Told Employees Company Looking at Two “Significant” and a Half-Dozen Small Buys — Lost in the sauce of the national work-from-home debate of last week that engulfed all things Yahoo, was a fascinating tidbit that several employees passed on to me from a recent Friday FYI meeting at its Silicon Valley HQ.
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Pandora Shares Jump 18% After Better-Than-Expected Earnings, Mobile Revenue Up 111% To $80.3M — Veteran streaming radio platform Pandora released its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it saw its fiscal 2013 revenue of $427.1 million, representing a 56 percent year-over-year increase … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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