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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown — Simon Dawlat, founder of AppGratis — the app-discovery application removed from the iTunes App Store this week for developer guideline violations — says he's “in total disbelief” at Apple's action. And it's hard to blame him.
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| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Hon Hai first quarter sales down as iPhone disappoints — (Reuters) - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, the main manufacturer of Apple Inc products, posted a 19 percent decline in sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, hurt by disappointing demand for the iPhone.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps? — Facebook invades Android with a new lockscreen and a new chat experience — On April 12th, the much-vaunted Facebook Phone will arrive — but it's not a phone at all. Facebook Home, as its called, is a couple of pieces …
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| Florence Ion / Ars Technica: |
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model — CBS CEO Les Moonves applauds News Corp. exec's comments, telling the New York Times that the network was considering cutting its over-the-air signal in the New York area. — Another television network has joined the broadcaster backlash following … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links — If Intel gets its way, old-school server racks will go the way of the dinosaurs. — David Monniaux — Intel is working to replace the traditional server rack with a more efficient architecture that separates CPU … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
OS X 10.8.4 code confirms new Macs incoming with super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless support — Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple's latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers.| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program — T-Mobile USA, the struggling phone carrier, really wants you to switch to its network — so badly that it will give you a break on a brand-new iPhone in exchange for an old one. — The company said on Wednesday that when it begins selling … | Wall Street Journal: |
The New Résumé: It's 140 Characters — Some Recruiters, Job Seekers Turn to Twitter, but Format Is a Challenge; Six-Second Video Goes Viral — Twitter is becoming the new job board. It is also becoming the new résumé. — Fed up with traditional recruiting sites … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Review: Panic's Status Board — the ultimate information dashboard for your iPad — The guys over at Panic Inc. have been teasing their new iPad app on their blog and Twitter all week, and today the app known as Status Board hits the App Store. — Panic was kind enough to allow us a preview of its app …
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| Brad Reed / BGR: |
Survey: 83% of Americans have no idea BlackBerry 10 has launched — If you want to understand the major challenges that BlackBerry (BBRY) faces in the American market, look no further than a new survey commissioned by MKM Partners showing that most Americans don't even know that BlackBerry 10 has launched yet.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Foursquare's iOS Update Brings Search to the Forefront — Continuing its push into the location discovery and recommendation space, Foursquare will update its iOS mobile app on Wednesday morning, moving the service's search capabilities to the front and center of the phone.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone. 62% plan to buy one. — 23% are looking to buy an Android phone, up from 22% last fall. — FORTUNE — The results of Piper Jaffray's 25th bi-annual teen survey came in Tuesday afternoon. Once again, it showed Apple (AAPL) to be the most desired brand …
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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Office Searched by Police in OLED Technology Leak Probe — South Korean police searched the offices of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s display-making unit yesterday in connection with an investigation into alleged technology theft. — Samsung Display Co., which dominates …
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| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Google sold Frommer's Travel — but kept all the social media data — People wondered why Google sold Frommer's Travel barely nine months after acquiring it in the first place. The answer is that it's keeping a huge number social media followers from sites like Facebook. — Mystery solved.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox For Teams Gets Dropped In Re-Branding To Reflect “Business” Focus — Dropbox is renaming Dropbox Teams to better reflect its change in business focus. The move comes in tandem with Dropbox's new support for single sign on (SSO) and partnerships with Okta and other identity providers.| Stephen Hackett / 512 Pixels: |
Looking Back at the Future: A Preview of the Apple Pop-Up Museum — As I walked through the glass door to be the offices behind of what used to be an Atlanta-area CompUSA store, those six familiar colors filled my vision. — The store is being temporarily brought back to life …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership — Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier. — The two companies have been discussing how more of Yahoo services can play a prominent role on Apple's iPhone and iPad, people briefed on the matter said. — Data from Yahoo Finance …
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| James Kanter / New York Times: |
World's Tech Companies Look to Brussels to Resolve Antitrust Complaints — BRUSSELS — When the European competition commissioner needs to communicate with the chairman of Google, he doesn't have to send an emissary or even pick up the phone. — Joaquín Almunia sometimes sends Eric E. Schmidt a text.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
YAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's Startup For $30 Million — Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. — Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. — The deal got a lot of attention … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Apple bans ‘Y: The Last Man’ creator's new comic from Comixology over sexual content — The distinction between app and art breaks down — It's no secret that Apple curates its App Store. Apps occupy a strange space between tools and art, and it's one that Apple has repeatedly shown itself …
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| Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat: |
Here are the first three commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S4 — Don't ask me why, but every once in a while I'll do a YouTube search for “Galaxy S4″ just to see if something new has turned up. There are plenty of reviews already posted from people in Russia, the Ukraine, and Denmark if you know where to look.
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Engadget, Android Central, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Android and Me, Android Community, WebProNews and PhoneArena. Thanks:@whatthebit
| Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat: |
Tumblr Kills Storyboard; Editorial Employees Will Be ‘Moving On’ — Tumblr's Mr. Karp (Photo: wikipedia.org) — We've seen some late-afternoon news dumps, but this takes the cake: Tumblr CEO David Karp just announced that the company is shutting down Storyboard, the editorial experiment meant …
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SKorea says NKorea behind computer crash in March — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says an initial investigation has found that North Korean government agents were behind a March cyberattack that shut down about 32,000 computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches Partner Categories, 500+ Generic Profiles To Target Ads Better, With Data From Datalogix, Epsilon, Axciom — Facebook today is taking another step ahead in its ad targeting strategy, which serves users advertising based on their location and online purchasing and browsing histories.
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