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| Larry Page / The Official Google Blog: |
Update from the CEO — Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry. Most people thought he was nuts.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Sundar Pichai Takes Over For Andy Rubin As Head Of Android At Google, Signals The Unification of Android, Chrome And Apps — Google has just announced that Andy Rubin will be moving on to a new role at the company, and that Sundar Pichai will now lead the Android division, in an official blog post written by CEO Larry Page.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Android Chief Andy Rubin Moves to Other Google Projects While Sundar Pichai Takes Over — In a surprise announcement, Google just switched around its top leadership. Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, will no longer manage that team. Sundar Pichai, the company's head of Chrome and Apps, is adding Android as well.
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| Cameron Johnson / The Official Netflix Blog: |
Introducing Netflix Social — Movies and TV shows are better with friends. — We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show. — Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share …
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| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Twitter acquires We Are Hunted, readies standalone music app — SCOOP: Twitter is preparing a music discovery app built on technology from a recent acquisition. It could be released by the end of the month. [Read more]
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung Targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's Core IPhone Market — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too — It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker. — When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. A mention of Verizon was noticeably absent.
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| iFixit: |
Pebble Teardown — Welcome to the future of watch evolution. The Pebble E-Paper Watch is the “first watch built for the 21st century.” It can track your bikerides, display your text messages, and even tell the time! We had no choice but to bust the Pebble open and see what made it tick.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Google Admits Street View Project Violated Privacy — SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords, e-mail and other personal information from unsuspecting computer users.
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the U.S. government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes As Users Report Problems Early On Making Payments — Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly. This year it took only 49 minutes … | Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times: |
China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage — Young man's blog provides a rare glimpse of the secretive hacking establishment of the Chinese military, whose efforts have become a growing concern to the U.S. — This building in the Shanghai suburb of Gaoqiao was identified … | Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Outspends Apple on Phone Advertising — In the smartphone business, following the money leads right to Samsung Electronics Co. — Outspent by rival Apple Inc. more than three to one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Samsung responded with a marketing blitz on TV … | Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
The Pivotal Initiative, in case you were wondering, is now official — Not that there was a lot of doubt, but the Pivotal Initiative spin-off of VMware and EMC, has now officially spun off and will likely go public, according to EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci, speaking at an investors event in New York.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself? — The team sitting around the table at Groupon's Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business. Marc Andreessen, the man who created the modern web browser and Silicon Valley's hottest venture capitalist.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Facebook begins rolling out new one-column Timeline with increased emphasis on interests — Facebook announced today that it is rolling out improvements to the way users help express what they find important to them. Included in this update are redesigned sections that now allow … | Jackie Dove / TechHive: |
Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of Creative Suite software — Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of its Creative Suite software, making its packages for creative pros available online or by subscription only. — “As Adobe continues to focus on delivering world-class innovation through Creative Cloud …
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Apple Stores in France banned from forcing employees to work late — A Paris court this week banned seven French Apple Stores from forcing employees to work night shifts, in response to a complaint filed by a group of national labor unions. As the AFP reports, the court also ordered Apple …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Drops Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ Price From $299 To $269, Releases It In Europe And Japan — Amazon just announced that it would be dropping the price of the 8.9-inch version of its Kindle Fire HD. The tablet will now cost $269 for the Wi-Fi only version and $399 for the Wi-Fi and LTE version.
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