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As Apple Feels Bite, Hon Hai Looks to Diversify — TAIPEI—Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has made a fortune over the years assembling iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc. But now that competition is biting into Apple's market share, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer is feeling the pain too.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Foxconn and Mozilla join hands over Firefox OS, may show off new devices next week — In a Chinese invitation we received earlier today, Foxconn Technology Group and Mozilla confirmed an upcoming press conference that will detail and make their Firefox OS partnership official.| William Launder / Wall Street Journal: |
BuzzFeed, CNN and YouTube Plan Online-Video Channel — BuzzFeed is accelerating its efforts to become a news destination for young adults, joining with CNN and YouTube to create a new, online-video channel. — On Tuesday, BuzzFeed will unveil “CNN BuzzFeed,” a YouTube channel based on content from CNN … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Opera releases new Chromium-powered desktop browser for Mac and Windows — Norway's chief browser software company, Opera, is offering people a chance to download its latest desktop browser (version 15) for Windows and Mac, which typically happens ahead of a general release.
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| Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat: |
LG makes the white Nexus 4 official, also says they're not working on the 2013 Nexus — LG just made two announcements today. Starting with the one most of you will be delighted to hear, the white Nexus 4 is now official. It has the exact same specs as the original (4.7 inch 720p …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies — Designs for many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Anatomy Of An Undisclosed Investment Or Exit — Spend time with a VC and they'll inevitably tell you about a startup they've invested in that has a “great story.” In fact, this line is repeated so often I've occasionally posited that VCs invest in and sell stories not companies.Thanks:@sohear
| Oiwan Lam / Global Voices: |
Copyright Amendment Will Bring Web Filter System to Taiwan … The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (IPO) [zh] has recently proposed [zh] to amend the Copyright Act and provide legal justification of IP and DNS blocking at the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) level through a black list system.
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| Sameer Singh / Tech-Thoughts: |
Apple & Samsung's “Profit Share” Trap — Over the past few days, there has been a lot of noise in the tech media about the supremacy of “profit share” over “market share”, specifically related to Apple's performance in the smartphone market (but it can be extended to Samsung as well).
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Light-beam ‘twins’ take data farther — An idea similar to that of noise-cancelling headphones has proved useful in increasing the data-carrying properties of light. — Researchers reporting in Nature Photonics suggest putting not one beam of light down a fibre, but a pair, each a kind of mirror image of the other.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Paul Graham: 37 Y Combinator Companies Have Valuations Of Or Sold For At Least $40M — Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham just tweeted an interesting data point about the valuations of YC startups. As of now, Graham says that 37 Y Combinator companies, out of 511 startups, have valuations of or sold for at least $40 million.| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates! — The hilariously named “Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property” has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers.
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