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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.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Here's What LinkedIn Can Do With Pulse — So what's LinkedIn going to do with Pulse now that it has bought the newsreader? — Maybe Jeff Weiner will keep heading down the path Pulse was headed: Trying to figure out how to create mobile magazines filled with other peoples' content …
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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 … | Terril Yue Jones / Reuters: |
China says willing to discuss cyber security with the U.S. — (Reuters) - China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington about the accusations and counter-accusations.| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
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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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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.| J.J. Colao / Forbes: |
Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working — To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who haven't built … | Rene Ritchie / iMore.com: |
The “iPhone 5S” problem — Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year. The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-as-in-Siri, is that 2013 will see another S-style update.| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone To Create A Virtual Private Cloud Showing Again How Enterprise Tech Is Obsolete — Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market.
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iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala — From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone. — Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy different kinds of phones because they want to do different things with them.| 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 … | Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Data Mining for Investors: DJ Patil — Data mining can help venture capitalists find the next big thing. But it can't be the whole story— at least not yet. — From his perch as data scientist in residence at the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Greylock Partners … | Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook ‘focused on basics’ for News Feed and mobile ads — There's a vision many people have when they think about mobile advertising. Hyperlocal, real-time, something that incorporates features like text, push notifications, QR codes and GPS. — Facebook News Feed product manager Jeff Kanter … | Jay Greene / CNET: |
Microsoft offers Kinect code samples under open source — The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license. — Kinect for Windows sensor
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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 … | 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.| 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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Next in Tech: Mobile Devices Are Put to Work — A half-built medical complex in San Leandro, Calif., is on the leading edge of an emerging workplace-technology boom. — Instead of working from the standard paper blueprints, supervisors on the construction site tote iPads loaded … Thanks:@jeremy_frank
| 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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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 … | 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks — Unicorn Apocalypse, the mobile game Samsung promoted in its TV ads that began airing at the beginning of the year, isn't fictional after all - it's a real, playable game live now in the Google Play app store. Generally speaking, the Samsung ads …
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