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Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery — Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor / incubator / holding company thing Betaworks acquired social news site Digg and relaunched it soon after, hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the process.| AllThingsD: |
Court Denies Motorola the Billions It Wanted From Microsoft for Standards-Essential Patents — A federal court in Seattle issued a ruling Thursday that could help settle the question of just how much a company can expect to reap from standards-essential patents. — Source: Microsoft| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes — After going on sale at 10:00 AM Pacific Time today, tickets for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco have already sold out in two minutes. — WWDC has sold out increasingly quickly in recent years … | Daniel Jalkut / Bitsplitting.org: |
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Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO — Yahoo just announced that chairman Fred Amoroso will step down in June. — We've communicated with three Yahoo sources since the news broke. — Given what they told us, we think this why Amoroso is out:| Debbie Cai / Wall Street Journal: |
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Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service — Facebook has just acquired Parse, marking its entry into a whole new business category: paid tools and services for developing mobile apps. — The company is buying the mobile-backend-as-a-service startup … | Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
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Google Brings Its New And Improved File Viewer For MS Office Documents To Chrome Beta — If you regularly need to open Microsoft Office documents in the browser, Google now offers you a new Chrome extension that renders Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly in the browser.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Officially Joins Jawbone Board — As I had reported last fall that she might, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has officially joined the board of Jawbone, the high-profile wireless gadget maker whose nifty products include Jawbone wireless headsets … | Ben Sandofsky / Twitter Blog: |
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Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features — And It's About Time — Twitter may be the best way to figure out what's happening around the world right now. But it sure ain't great at telling me what's going on in my world — that is, what's happening down the block from me. — That may change.| Andy Fixmer / Businessweek: |
Apple's 10-Year-Old iTunes Loses Ground to Streaming — A decade ago, the newly started iTunes Store gave away a song called Over My Head (Cable Car) by an obscure Denver rock group called The Fray. That was, explains lead guitarist Joe King, the band's big break.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Amazon beats Wall Street estimates with $0.18 EPS, sales at $16.07B in Q1 2013, a 22% growth YoY — Amazon announced its first quarter financial performance and it has $16.07 billion in net income and earnings per share of $0.18. Its sales were up 22 percent from last year.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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AT&T finally brings its Digital Life home automation service to 15 markets — AT&T has been showing off and talking about its Digital Life home automation service for the better part of a year now, but after missing its March launch target, it's finally making the service available in 15 markets this week.| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Margin Call 2 — I expected Apple's margins to improve last quarter. They didn't and so the question I needed to answer is why. Here is a history of Apple's gross margin and operating margin as reported since late 2005: — For a company selling hardware these are extraordinarily high margins.| Kevin Kwang / ZDNet: |
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Microsoft to release ‘Switch to Windows Phone’ Android app [Update] — Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, manager of the Windows Phone team, touts the platform's apps at an October event. — Microsoft is hoping to take a bite out of Google's Android platform by releasing a “Switch to Windows Phone” … | Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Lumia 521 for T-Mobile arrives early at HSN on April 27th for $149.95, general availability on May 22nd — Wanting to get first dibs on the Lumia 521 for T-Mobile? If so, it looks that you may need to tune into HSN on April 27th, because — strange as it sounds — the television network … | Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Mailbox fans, rejoice: iPad build in the works, Mac app under consideration — Unlike Sparrow, the popular iPhone email client whose chances of seeing a native iPad version went down the drain after Google acquired the team back in July 2012, Orchestra's Mailbox will make the leap to the iPad, developers confirmed Thursday on Twitter.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Attorney General calls T-Mobile's no-contract plans ‘deceptive’, carrier agrees to offer refunds and change advertising — Following the launch of T-Mobile's new “Uncarrier” strategy alongside the $99 iPhone 5 and new no subsidy pricing plans last month, today the Washington State Attorney General … | Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Time Warner Cable sees the Google Fiber threat and offers Austin free Wi-Fi — Competition is grand. With Google planning to build out a fiber-to-the-home network in Austin, Texas next year, the local incumbent broadband providers are tweaking their models.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain — It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain. — Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD.
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