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Facebook Aims to Become Newspaper for Mobile Devices — Facebook Inc. is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. — The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tailored …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Update: As Microsoft Restructuring Nears, Top Execs Fret Over Their Fate — According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely unveil his plans to restructure the tech giant to a larger group of senior execs by July 1. — That prospect has many top managers …
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Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California — Directly following last month's Bitcoin 2013 conference event in San Jose, CA that brought good revenue into the state, California's Department of Financial Institutions decided to issue a cease and desist warning … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Duck Duck Go's Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search — Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows …
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Disruptions: Medicine That Monitors You — SAN FRANCISCO — They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin. But if your physician writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché …
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Apple notifies iTunes users of $100M in-app purchase settlement details, $5 credit to those inappropriately charged under $30 — Parents of kids who racked up hundreds of even thousands of dollars in in-app purchases can now begin to seek compensation for their bills.
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
AOL Reader hands-on: An unexciting but solid Google Reader replacement to rival Feedly — We knew AOL was planning its own replacement to the soon-expiring Google Reader, and now we're able to share a complete look at the upcoming service. — Pitching with the slogan “all your favorite websites …
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| Tracey Lien / Polygon: |
The Apple obstacle for serious games — Making a serious game for iOS devices is not as easy as you'd think — When the iPhone launched in 2007, it changed the video game landscape in a way that no one could have predicted. Where gaming was once confined to PCs and consoles …
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MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown — Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find. — The RIAA is one of the most active senders and has asked Google to remove over 23 million links to copyrighted content.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch) — Things didn't go exactly as I'd expected at WWDC. I spent the week before the show at Computex, talking to PC OEMs, who had all just launched their Haswell ULT based Ultrabooks. With a couple of exceptions however, the bulk of Haswell ULT systems … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Aided by WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong to seek asylum in Ecuador — PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong, according to an announcement from the Hong Kong government made Sunday afternoon. With assistance from WikiLeaks, Snowden is said to be seeking asylum in Ecuador.
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