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Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM — Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up. — Apple paid around $20 million for the Silicon Valley-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter who said the deal closed recently.
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Apple Acquires Indoor Mobile Location Positioning Firm WifiSLAM for $20 Million — The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has acquired indoor location company WifiSLAM, paying around $20 million for the firm. Apple has confirmed the purchase, but declined to offer any details on its plans for the acquisition.
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Bidding War for Dell Appears Likely — A bidding war for Dell Inc. appears likely, with Blackstone Group LP and Carl Icahn separately expressing interest in the company on Friday before a key deadline for offers expired. — Blackstone and Mr. Icahn, an activist investor …
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Apple rolls out fix for password reset security hole, iForgot site back up — Apple's iForgot password reset page is now back online, and iMore has verified that the security hole, discovered earlier today in Apple's password reset page, has been closed. — Previously, after providing …
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Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry — Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines.| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Windows Blue is aimed at Intel ‘Haswell’ ultrabooks — Microsoft and Intel will deliver better power efficiency on devices running on Windows Blue. — Longer lasting Haswell ultrabooks are coming with Windows Blue. — Intel's upcoming Haswell chip will be tied to new technology coming … | Jason Shellen / TechCrunch: |
The Evolution Of Google Reader Started With A Crash — Editor's note: Jason Shellen is a former Googler and founding product manager of Google Reader. He is now co-founder at Boxer and advisor at Tapedeck. Follow him on his blog and on Twitter @shellen.
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Unofficial tally indicates the Windows Store has passed the 50,000 app milestone — Today MetroStore Scanner (MSS) indicates that the Windows Store has passed the 50,000 application mark. MSS, an unofficial tracker, has been generally accurate in the past.
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Facebook Hires David Weekly For Platform — Facebook just dropped a love bomb on the app developers who play a crucial role in the social network's health, yet whose relationship with it is often fraught with tension. — The tension reliever's name is David Weekly, who starts work on Monday on the Facebook Platform team.| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
AP wins big: why a court said clipping content is not fair use — A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it. — The case has important implications … | Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Shutterfly sues to shut down Kodak photo app — (Reuters) - Photo service Shutterfly Inc has sued to shut down an Eastman Kodak Co app that lets users purchase photo albums made from pictures stored on Facebook Inc's social media network, according to court documents.
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