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| Rahul Sood / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Announcing Microsoft Ventures for startups to build, innovate and grow — The following is a post from Rahul Sood, general manager of Microsoft Startups. — Entrepreneurship is an increasingly global phenomenon. We know that the barriers to turn an idea into a business have never been lower.
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Barnes & Noble Reports $118.6M Loss On Revenue Of $1.3B In Q4, Plans To Open Nook Brand To Tablet OEMs — Barnes & Noble reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings this morning, and the financials make it clear that the company is still struggling to figure out how it fits into the larger digital reading ecosystem.
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Business Wire, BGR, Fortune, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Kindle Review, GeekWire, internetretailer.com, memeburn, Quartz, The Verge, WebProNews, Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear and CNET. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Samsung in talks to settle EU antitrust case -sources — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is in early talks with the EU regulator to settle charges that its use of injunctions against arch rival Apple breached antitrust rules, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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Inquirer, ZDNet, PadGadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Computerworld, TUAW, Investor's Business Daily, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com and CNET
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 includes options to shut down from Start button and disable hot corners — Microsoft is just days away from releasing its Windows 8.1 preview, complete with the return of the Start button. The software maker has started to distribute final preview copies of Windows Server 2012 R2 …
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Digital Trends, The Register, Ars Technica, CNET, BetaNews, InfoWorld, ExtremeTech and Geek.com
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 7 Disables Screenshot Interruptions, Allows Users to Secretly Take Snapchat Screenshots — While we detailed a number of new features of iOS 7 beta 2 earlier today, a MacRumors reader sent us a tip on a small change that has gone unnoticed since the first beta was released on June 10.
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9to5Mac, CNET, GigaOM, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, Examiner, The Atlantic Wire, Business Insider, The Next Web and PetaPixel. Tweets: @samfbiddle
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to launch web-based version of Xbox Music next week — When we first heard Microsoft's plans for Xbox Music, there was a mention of web, iOS, and Android versions. Next week the software maker will launch a web version of Xbox Music so that subscribers can access the service across various platforms from a browser.
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CNET, TechHive, Gizmodo, Neowin and Pocket-lint
| Brian Frank / Southern California Public Radio: |
LA sides with taxi companies, sends cease-and-desist letters to 3 ride-sharing startups (poll) — Disruption may be the name of the game for tech startups, but it also guarantees there will be pushback from the disrupted. Three companies that aim to change the way we think about taxis … | Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits: |
Instagram Video and the Death of Fantasy — Over the weekend, I went to a sunset picnic on a rooftop in Brooklyn. The evening couldn't have been more picturesque — a group of stylish women chatting and lounging on blankets, framed against a lavender and glittering cityscape.
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Co.Design, Guardian and Business Insider
| Don Clark / Digits: |
Oracle Forges Cloud Deal With Salesforce.com — Salesforce.com and Oracle on Tuesday unveiled a nine-year technology alliance under which the two companies will align their cloud operations. — Salesforce.com, known for offering sales and marketing software through an online service …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sprint shareholders approve SoftBank takeover — SoftBank's efforts to purchase Sprint got one step closer to completion on Tuesday, as Sprint's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the proposed purchase. Sprint says that about 98 percent of the votes cast at a special shareholders meeting were in favor of SoftBank's offer.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
A Year After Microsoft Bought It, Yammer Nears 8M Users, Deeper MSFT Integration... And Klout — One year to the day after Microsoft announced that it would acquire enterprise social networking tool Yammer for $1.2 billion, the pair are today publishing some updated usage numbers and news … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
AT&T CEO compares Facebook's HTC First to Apple's failed ROKR experiment — AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega has told CNET that the carrier has sold all of its HTC First Facebook phones. While he declined to say exactly how many phones AT&T has sold, our sources revealed the phone was …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Wonkblog: |
One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court — Forget patenting an invention. These days, companies patent conceptual categories for future inventions. — During the first dot-com boom, Amazon famously patented the concept of buying things online with one click.
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung Beats Apple in Japanese Patent Suit on Syncing — Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its appeal in a Japan lawsuit claiming that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) infringed a patent for synchronizing music and video data on its Galaxy smartphones and tablets with servers.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
OUYA hits retailers for $100, promptly sells out at Amazon — OUYA has unlocked a major achievement today: the teensy crowdfunded gaming console is now available at retail, after a slight delay from the June 4th date it promised earlier. That's good news for everybody …
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Kotaku, Examiner, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, Digits, Kickstarter, IntoMobile, Neowin, TechSpot, WebProNews, Electronista, AllThingsD and SlashGear
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
How Sony's SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata — Sony's first go at the smartwatch mostly went unnoticed - a lot of people, myself included, had to be reminded of its existence when the Pebble made big waves for its huge Kickstarter funding success.
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Engadget, Sony Mobile, AllThingsD, The Verge, GigaOM, Quartz, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, The Next Web, Gearburn, Pocketables and Digits
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Biba Comes Out Of Stealth With $15M In Funding For Mobile-First, Password-Free Conferencing And Messaging Service — The smartphone is changing how people work but so far the applications for web conferencing have not taken much of a mobile-first approach. Biba, a new company coming out of stealth …
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, PE Hub Blog, Digits, ReadWrite and VatorNews
| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
Senators demand NSA correct inaccurate claims over privacy protections — Ron Wyden and Mark Udall write to head of NSA to correct portrayals of surveillance restrictions on website factsheet — Two senators on the intelligence committee on Monday accused the National Security Agency …
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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, The Atlantic Online, The Verge, Techdirt, TechPresident and WebProNews. Tweets: @ronwyden
| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
BlackBerry launches service to manage Android, Apple devices — (Reuters) - BlackBerry launched a service on Tuesday allowing government agencies and corporate clients to secure and manage devices powered by Google Inc's Android platform and Apple Inc's iOS operating system.| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Google Cloud Playground lets you dip your toes in the Cloud Platform waters — Google's Cloud Platform holds a certain amount of appeal for developers looking to quickly build robust web apps. Of course, getting started is a bit involved. You'll first need to download and install several tools and an SDK on your local machine.
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