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LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M — LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. — The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Exclusive: super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port — What did the iPhone look like before it looked like an iPhone? — That's one big iPhone — This iPhone prototype was a lot closer to the size of an iPad than an iPhone at 5"×7" and nearly 2" thick.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Will Have an All-Touch BlackBerry This Year, but It's Not the Z10 — Sprint may have chosen to take a pass on the first all-touch BlackBerry 10 device, but it isn't planning to sit out that part of the market. — The No. 3 U.S. carrier plans to launch an all-touch BlackBerry-10-powered device …
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| David Barboza / New York Times: |
In Wake of Cyberattacks, China Seeks New Rules — SHANGHAI — China has issued a new call for international “rules and cooperation” on Internet espionage issues, while insisting that accusations of Chinese government involvement in recent hacking attacks were part of an international smear campaign.
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Netflix Launches Speed Index To Highlight The Best ISPs For Streaming — For the last few months now, Netflix regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video. Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index.
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| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal — BlackBerry shares jumped the most in more than a month after Lenovo Group Ltd. (992)'s chief executive officer was quoted in a French financial newspaper as saying his company may eventually consider buying the smartphone maker.
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Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple — The attacks that compromised computer systems at Facebook, Twitter, Apple Corp. and Microsoft were part of a wide-ranging operation that relied on many “watering hole” web sites that attracted employees … | Tim Peterson / Adweek: |
Facebook Challenges Google's Tech Dominance by Partnering With AOL, Adobe — Facebook and Google aren't exactly besties, and the social giant's latest move won't help matters. In recent weeks Facebook has made two friends through moves that will simultaneously help its own advertising business and hurt Google's.| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? — After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay — “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007. “People want to own their music.” At that time, Apple had solved the problem … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Is Investigating HP's Autonomy Allegations — Hewlett-Packard just filed its regular form 10Q or quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and it contains some news. — In the filing HP discloses that it has been told by the Serious Fraud Office …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google updates design of Gmail's web and offline apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users — Google on Monday announced an update to its Gmail mobile Web app and Gmail Offline. The company says the new release is available to Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path — Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass — We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
HTC One review — I'm fairly confident there's a kitchen sink inside the HTC One. This phone has everything else, certainly, with nothing but high-end specs across the board. It starts with Qualcomm's new quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, a remarkably powerful chip clocked here at 1.7GHz.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M From GGV Capital, Jeff Bezos, Greylock And Others — Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we've learned exclusively.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10 starting March 12th — Microsoft has just announced that it will permit Flash content to run by default in both Windows RT and Windows 8 beginning tomorrow, March 12th. Until now, compatibility in Internet Explorer 10 has been limited …
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| Martha Mendoza / Associated Press: |
As Tech Wealth Explodes, Silicon Valley Poverty Spikes — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — On a morning the stock market was sailing to a record high and a chilly storm was blowing into Silicon Valley, Wendy Carle stuck her head out of the tent she calls home to find city workers duct taping …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Fujifilm Touch Screen Poised to Aid Microsoft Vs. Apple — Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (4901), a company better known for cameras and film, could help Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and the personal-computer industry fight back against Apple Inc. (AAPL) — Fujifilm is using its experience with silver … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores — We've been getting all sorts of new info since we first ran our story about Google dogfooding “Google Shopping Express,” its same-day Amazon Prime and Postmates competitor. While we originally reported …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Salesforce to raise $1 billion in convertible debt offering to help fuel acquisitions — Today CRM giant Salesforce announced that it intends to raise $1 billion, with the potential for $150 million more, in long-term convertible debt. — The sum is large compared to the company's current cash position.
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| Adam Popescu / ReadWrite: |
CISPA: Who's For It And Who's Against It — What if all of your online communication could be monitored and shared without a warrant? That's what's at stake if the latest version of CISPA, the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is approved by Congress.| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Report: AT&T bests Verizon in raw 4G speed but still lags in LTE coverage — If unadulterated bandwidth is what you're looking for in 4G phone, then AT&T is your best bet for a mobile provider, according to a network tests conducted by RootMetrics. AT&T continued to put distance between itself …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Creative Learning Pays Off for Web Start-Ups — SEATTLE — Anyone who wants to learn calculus, statistics or ancient Greek history can take free online courses in those subjects at a variety of sites from instructors with distinguished academic pedigrees. For more mundane pursuits …
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