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President Obama Defends NSA Spying — It's “transparent,” the president tells Charlie Rose in an interview. Here's a portion of that transcript, from PBS. — Image by Matt Dunham / AP — Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I've said, and I continue to believe …
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Chromebooks: coming to more stores near you — In Northern California where I live, summer is here, which means family vacations, kids' camps, BBQs and hopefully some relaxation. But it also means back-to-school shopping is just around the corner. So in case you're on the hunt for a laptop … | Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
How Clearwire Became the Darling of Telecom — Clearwire Corp. has long been the U.S. wireless industry's most embattled carrier. In recent months, the money-losing company has also emerged as its crown jewel. — The company, which covers less than half the U.S. population … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Ex-HTC execs can't quit phone game, create startup Kazam — Kazam is a smartphone manufacturer focused on design, customer service, and the European market. But the company faces an extreme uphill climb. — Two former HTC executives are hoping for a fresh start with their own company.| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Digg's Google Reader replacement beta opens on June 26th, friends and family get access on the 19th — Digg — yes, that Digg — has a replacement in the works for Google Reader, and it looks like it'll arrive just ahead of the final days of Google's RSS aggregation service.
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FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others — FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Highline Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angels, and Jack Dorsey.
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Adobe releases Creative Cloud into the wild — Adobe has released its long-awaited and highly controversial Creative Cloud suite of applications for both longtime professional devotees and the newcomers it hopes to attract. Having historically operated on an upgrade schedule of every 12 to 16 months … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Jony Ive's title flattened to ‘Senior VP, Design’ alongside iOS 7 revamp — To go along with his complete redesign of iOS, Jony Ive's official executive title at Apple has been flattened to drop the word “Industrial.” The change is notable as this new title plants Ive's position …
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Apple TV gets iTunes Radio, Conference Room display option in beta update — Apple TV received little attention during Worldwide Developers Conference, but the diminutive set-top box still has the Cupertino company's attention, as new videos reveal iTunes Radio and a new Conference Room mode …
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Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal — According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Microsoft Builds Its Own iAd for Windows 8 Apps — New Technology Means a Banner Can Watch You — Microsoft is creating its own new native ad formats for Windows 8, not unlike Apple's iAd, which is designed to increase ad revenue in the iOS ecosystem. — The new ads — which will be …
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Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M — According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo is offering to pay $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins. — That's below the more than $40 million raised …
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Airbnb vs Hotels: A Price Comparison — Price of Airbnb vs Hotel by US City — Mouseover to get price comparison detail — Size of bubble corresponds to number of Airbnb listings (logarithmic scale) — At Priceonomics, we like to get more for our money.
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AMD Prepares Move to ‘Seattle,’ Its First ARM Chip — Advanced Micro Devices has been using the same technology foundation as Intel since the 1980s. Now the underdog chip supplier is fleshing out plans to diverge. — The company on Tuesday is announcing “Seattle,” the code name …
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AT&T starts nationwide FaceTime over cellular rollout — AT&T appears to be in the midst of rolling out support for Apple's FaceTime video calling service for iPhone on its cellular network, making good on a promise to support all video chat apps over wireless by the end of the year.
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Microsoft offering Surface RT tablets for $199 to educational institutions — If you thought Microsoft's effort to push Surface RT tablets into classrooms would stop with a 10,000-unit giveaway, you'd be mistaken. Ryan Lowdermilk, a technology evangelist for the company …
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Twitter's Geography: Visualized and Explained — Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo has called the popular microblogging service “the pulse of the planet.” With a little less than eight percent of the world's population on Twitter, that pulse has room to grow. Nevertheless, recent big data research … | Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
GitHub Rolling Out Major Redesign, Emphasis On Speed, Content And Interactivity — GitHub is rolling out a major redesign over the next few days with the intent of putting more emphasis on content, speed and interactivity. — A year in the making, the new redesign is meant to be optimized …
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Voice recognition tool Dragon updates Android app with hands-free driver mode and voice notifications — Nuance Communications today released an update to its Dragon Mobile Assistant app for Android. Users with supported devices will find that it now includes hands-free driver technology …
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Accel Closes $100M For Big Data Fund 2 To Invest In The ‘Second Wave’ Of Big Data Startups — The tech industry has been buzzing about “big data” for years now. And according to venture capital firm Accel Partners, the excitement around the big data space is not set to die down any time soon …
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FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business — (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001.
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