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| Kevin Lo / Google Fiber: |
Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes — Today the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo our third Google Fiber City. — Utah is already home to hundreds of tech companies and startups …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
| Wired: |
Google Is Forbidding Users From Selling, Loaning Glass Eyewear — Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget. — The company's terms of service on the limited-edition wearable …
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| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed (video) — We already know what Page and Co. will be packing along with Glass, but now that participants of the Explorer program have begun picking up the spectacles, we're getting a second-hand unboxing experience.
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| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center — Intel, the chip giant, is buying Mashery, a seven-year-old company in San Francisco that specializes in linking together Web-based software and services, a company spokesperson confirmed to ReadWrite.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Sources Say Amazon Acquired Siri-Like Evi App For $26M - Is A Smartphone Coming? — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S it seemed like a magic piece of software. The future had arrived. But it wasn't alone. True Knowledge, a British startup with a natural language search engine developed …
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| Karsten Strauss / Forbes: |
Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? — ILKKA PAANANEN says the best way to make money in mobile gaming is to stop thinking about making money. Think about fun instead. Fighting a mild case of flu and jet lag from a San Francisco flight back home to Helsinki …
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| Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Toshiba Kirabook Challenges MacBook Air with Retina-Like Display (Video) — The Kirabook isn't just another laptop for Toshiba; it's the first product in a new luxury brand designed to go toe-to-toe with Apple at the high end of the market. Priced at a fairly steep $1,599 …
| Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware — The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. — “We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together,” said Phil Libin …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Windows 8 touch devices to drop to $200, says Intel CEO — Prices of Windows 8 touch devices based on future Intel chips are set to drop like a rock. — Windows 8 touch devices will dive in price, according to Intel executives. — The price of Windows 8 touch devices will sink …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Xbox team testing smartwatch prototypes with a Surface connector — Microsoft is prototyping its own wrist-worn device. A reliable source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has revealed to The Verge that the company has been developing a wrist-worm device for just over a year.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting — Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read. Now it's trying to target them based on what they type. — Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
Who's Winning, iOS or Android? All the Numbers, All in One Place — Who's winning the mobile platform wars, Apple's iOS or Google's Android? It's one of the blogosphere's favorite tech topics. Every new nugget of competitive information is fodder for an avalanche of coverage.| Ronald Grover / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Guggenheim advises on Hulu sale, may also bid - sources — (Reuters) - Hulu has hired Guggenheim Partners to advise on a sale of the company, even as the financial services firm is considering making its own bid for the video streaming service, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor halts operations, shuts down — Exchange specializing in the virtual currency announces it's ceasing all trading operations and plans to return funds to its users. — The recent Bitcoin rollercoaster ride has come to an end for one exchange.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line — Summary: Microsoft is joining the two-factor authentication ranks, adding support for this security mechanism across its products and services accessible via a Microsoft Account. — There have been hints …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, The Microsoft Office Blog, The Verge, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Lifehacker, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, Gotta Be Mobile, gHacks Technology News, Polygon, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, The Register, WinBeta, Engadget, PC Magazine, SlashGear and The Next Web
| JeeYeon Park / CNBC: |
Apple Breaks Below $400 for First Time Since Dec. 2011 — Apple tumbled to its lowest level in over a year, as investors continued to dump shares of the tech company amid worries over second-quarter iPad mini shipments. — The once-darling tech giant of Wall Street shed nearly 6 percent Wednesday …
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9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, MoneyBeat, TheStreet.com, Business Insider, Reuters, NBC Bay Area, BGR, Examiner, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @benedictevans
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Broadcasters file Aereo appeal, warn of ‘havoc’ and ‘massive disruption’ to TV industry — Fox, PBS and other broadcasters filed for a New York appeals court to revisit a crucial ruling that permitted start-up Aereo to beam their signals. The appeal raises the stakes further in a battle for the future of TV.| Winston Ross / The Daily Beast: |
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