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Apple CEO Tim Cook announces changes to warranty policies, apologizes to customers in China following smear campaign — Following controversy in China with state-controlled media outlets going after Apple over its warranty policies, Apple CEO Tim Cook today addressed the issue in a letter published to the company's website in China.
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| Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: |
Russia Begins Selectively Blocking Internet Content — MOSCOW — The Russian government in recent weeks has been making use of a new law that gives it the power to block Internet content that it deems illegal or harmful to children. — The country's communications regulators have required Facebook …
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SiliconANGLE, CNET, PC Magazine, Betabeat, DSLreports, DailyTech, Fast Company, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, TechEye and nbcnews.com
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Aereo wins major court battle against TV networks — The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just rejected an appeal from TV networks against web-television company Aereo, concluding that Aereo's system does not infringe the broadcaster's copyrights.
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Youth flock to mobile messaging apps, may be threat to Facebook — (Reuters) - Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music. — That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have instead turned …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's ‘iPad Mini’ Trademark Application Initially Denied, but Resolution Should Be Simple — Over the weekend, Patently Apple reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had refused Apple's trademark application for the term “iPad mini”. While some such as The Verge's Nilay Patel …
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BBC, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, T3 News, AppleInsider, Neowin and App Advice. Tweets: @reckless
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
April Fools 2013: The Round-up — April 1st is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: pranks, gags, and joke products of dubious comedic value, as the tech world tries to make you crack a smile. Whether you love it or loath it, April Fools is inescapable, so join us as we run through 2013′s cons …
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Gmail Blog, Google Commerce, YouTube Blog, Google Enterprise Blog, Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, Techie Buzz, ABCNEWS, google-latlong.blogspot.ca, Carl Sednaoui, CNET, Carl Sednaoui, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Tech Cocktail, Google Operating System, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, WebProNews, iDownloadBlog.com, TIME, VentureBeat, Official Google Australia Blog, Softpedia News, WebProNews, WebProNews, ZDNet, BetaNews, Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, Forbes, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Reuters, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Laughing Squid and iMore
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| Jai / NextBigWhat: |
Exclusive: Snapdeal raises $50 million from eBay and existing investors — Exclusive: Delhi based online marketplace, Snapdeal has raised $50 million from eBay and existing investors; including a Japan based financial institution, according to two sources close to the deal.
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Quartz, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Hindu, VentureBeat, MediaNama and Tech in Asia
| Ron Amadeo / Android Police: |
[APK Teardown Exclusive] The HTC Myst Facebook Phone - The Facebook App Is Now A Launcher, Looks Like They're Planning A Play Store Release, Too — We've managed to score a system dump of the Facebook phone! There's nothing in it that's too earthshattering, and you could probably guess … | New York Times: |
E-Commerce Companies Bypass Middlemen to Build Premium Brand — When the founders of a start-up that sells eyeglasses online, Warby Parker, began investigating why designer glasses cost several hundred dollars, they discovered that everyone in the process was taking a cut: designers, manufacturers, brands, wholesalers and retailers.
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announces MixBit video collaboration site — YouTube founder Chad Hurley is gearing up to launch a new video site, MixBit. On Twitter today, Hurley poked fun at a Google April Fools' joke proclaiming that “Since YouTube is ending, we're launching a new video site.”
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Next Web, Electronista, TechSpot, WebProNews, SlashGear and TheDomains.com. Tweets: @chad_hurley. See also Mediagazer
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse — Less than two years ago we published an overview of the most used file-sharing sites, covering both BitTorrent and traditional cyberlockers. — At the time one-click download sites were beating BitTorrent sites by a landslide.
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VentureBeat, TechHive, Betabeat, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Henry Blodget Is Quietly Planning a Stunning Return to Wall Street — Kind of! — Business Insider's co-founder and editor is the subject of a Ken Auletta profile in this week's New Yorker, which means Henry Blodget is now in some rarefied media mogul air (see: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, etc.)| David Feith / Wall Street Journal: |
Timothy Thomas: Why China Is Reading Your Email — Beijing's cyber attacks are rooted in military strategy, says one of America's foremost experts. The best way to combat them is for the U.S. to go on the cyber offensive too. — Fort Leavenworth, Kan. — For several years …
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