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Sharpening our focus - to bring you new Yahoo! products — Like we announced last month, we want to bring you experiences that inspire and entertain you every day. That means taking a hard look at all of our products to make sure they are still central to your daily habits.
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
The Death of Upcoming.org — So, Yahoo's finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo's typical f**k-off-and-die style, they're doing it with 11 days notice, no on-site announcement, and no way to back up past events.
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Apple's Stock Not As Doomed As You Think — Wall Street has basically given up on Apple. — The stock has tanked more than 40% from a peak of $702 last September to a new low of about ~$406 this morning. — The stock is also now trading at a price/earnings ratio of 9X.
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| Steven Russolillo / MoneyBeat: |
Apple Shares Are Dirt Cheap; So What? — Apple Inc. shares haven't been this cheap in at least 10 years. — Investors don't care. — The steep plunge in Apple's stock price over the past seven months got us wondering: When it will become attractive enough for bargain hunters to start scooping …
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| Christopher Tkaczyk / Fortune: |
Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks about ending the work-from-home policy, saying it was “wrongly perceived as industry narrative.” — FORTUNE — In the closing keynote at the Great Place to Work conference at the Hyatt Regency Century City …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter sets a May 7th kill date for TweetDeck Android, iPhone, AIR and Facebook integration — Back in March, Twitter announced that TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone would be killed off. At the time they gave a general ‘early May’ estimate … | Andrew Huang / bunnie's blog: |
The $12 Gongkai Phone — How cheap can you make a phone? — Recently, I paid $12 at Mingtong Digital Mall for a complete phone, featuring quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display plus keypad for the UI. Simple, but functional; nothing compared to a smartphone … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
AMD nabs Apple graphics chip designer — The PC and server chipmaker will soon announce Raja Koduri is joining AMD's team to work on graphics chip design, CNET has exclusively learned. — Advanced Micro Devices will soon announce it has hired a former Apple graphics chip designer to bolster …
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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Amazon Studios debuts 14 pilots for free viewing — Whether the pilots get the green light for a season of episodes will depend on what the data says. “The goal is to get customer feedback,” says studio head Roy Price. — After evaluating more than 4,000 submissions and commissioning …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Apple Finally Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data — All of those questions, messages, and stern commands that people have been whispering to Siri are stored on Apple servers for up to two years, Wired can now report. — Yesterday, we raised concerns about some fuzzy disclosures in Siri's privacy policy.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: |
A Hyped Startup Called Fab Is Pivoting To Become The 'World's Alternative To Amazon And Wal-Mart' — E-commerce design site Fab is gearing up to make its second big pivot, and further “reinvent and reimagine shopping.” — Fab co-founders Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer made a risky decision back in 2011.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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