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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Message unread: Silicon Valley's secret, failed bid to save BlackBerry — Could switching to Android and focusing on business have turned the company around? — In the summer of 2012, just a few months into the job, RIM (now BlackBerry) CEO Thorsten Heins was trying to guide the company through an ongoing crisis.| Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry Said to Have Sought Buyers Since 2012 Without Success — BlackBerry Ltd.'s announcement yesterday that it's considering takeover bids followed almost a year of advisers unsuccessfully canvassing potential buyers in search of a deal, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
| Vauhini Vara / New Yorker: |
How BlackBerry Fell — Shares in the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones peaked in August of 2007, at two hundred and thirty-six dollars. In retrospect, the company was facing an inflection point and was completely unaware. Seven months earlier, in January, Apple had introduced the iPhone at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
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Tweets: @mattrosoff and @gsterling
| Steve Cheney: |
On The Future of iOS and Android — We've entered the age of iOS and Android penetrating beyond mobile, and there's a lot happening with respect to how the entire ecosystem is developing. Mobile advancements / investments are now driving the progression of all converged hardware / software.
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Fortune and PC Pro. Tweets: @stevesi, @jessicalessin, @semil, @rohit_x_, @disruptivedean and @rabois
| Benedict Evans: |
Defending iOS with cheap iPhones — Over the last 12 months, Google Android devices have outsold iOS by about 3 to 1. There are now perhaps 775m-800m ‘official’ Android devices in use, versus perhaps 415m iOS devices. This is without counting sales of the Amazon Kindle Fire or the (very) …
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Tech.pinions, BGR, Key Performance Indicators, A VC, Business Insider and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @madewulf. Thanks:@monkbent
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Carl Icahn Makes a Large Investment in Apple — Shares of Apple are rising by more than four percent on word that Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor trying to take over Dell, has made a large investment in the company behind the iPhone and the Mac.
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Tweets: @carl_c_icahn, @carl_c_icahn, @cnbc, @pkedrosky, @parislemon, @stevekovach, @zpower, @miguelrios, @johnpaczkowski and @edbott
| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Testing VIP App With Some Celebs — The VIP app, which sources say Facebook is currently testing with a small group of famous people, essentially lets celebs (or their handlers) easily monitor Facebook fan chatter about themselves from a mobile device.
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Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, The Atlantic Wire, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, bizjournals and App Advice
Tweets: @evelynrusli and @caseynewton
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
FitBit raises $43 million in new funding — Activity tracker bulks up ahead of possible competition from Apple. — FORTUNE — FitBit, maker of a wearable device that measures physical activity, has raised $43 million in new venture capital funding. Fortune has learned that Softbank Capital led …
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Tweets: @danprimack and @ericjackson
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS Now Offers A Push Notification Service For iOS, Android And Kindle Apps, Widening Its Toolkit For Mobile Developers — Amazon continues to “push” further into the space of becoming a one-stop shop for mobile developers looking to make, host and distribute apps …
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Amazon.com, GeekWire, The Next Web, Engadget, Computerworld, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, GigaOM and MacNN
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Zynga to Restructure Top Ranks, Three C-Suite Execs to Depart — In one of the first major acts under newly named CEO Don Mattrick, sources said Zynga plans to announce on Tuesday a shake-up of its top ranks as part of a larger management restructuring, resulting in the departure of three C-level executives.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
To Square Up To Foursquare, Yelp Now Lets Users Post Reviews Directly From Its Mobile App — It's been a long time coming, but user-generated local reviews site Yelp is finally getting with the program: today it is rolling out the ability for users to write reviews directly in its mobile app …
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Tweets: @chris_ciaccia and @joshconstine
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Some 2013 Nexus 7 users report buggy multitouch, Google is investigating — A muddled sense of direction isn't the only problem affecting the new generation of Nexus 7 slates, it seems, as some users are also reporting issues with multitouch on the 1,920 x 1,200 display.| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Norway blocks Apple map flights — Oslo (left) is visible in 2D on Apple's map but Danish capital Copenhagen (right) is in 3D — Norway's government is refusing to let Apple take aerial photography of the capital city Oslo to create 3D images for its Maps app, reports local media.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Microsoft unveils wrist-friendly Sculpt Ergonomic and Sculpt Comfort Desktops — Microsoft has pursued ever more exotic shapes in the name of comfort. Its new Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop might just take the cake, however. The all-wireless bundle's centerpiece, the Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Buys Open Source Training Company Marakana To Power New “Twitter University” For Engineers — Twitter today announced its latest acquisition, along with a move into offering richer resources to attract better engineering talent to the company. It has bought Marakana …
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AllThingsD, The Next Web, Mobile Marketing Watch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Official Twitter blog, Mashable, memeburn and WebProNews. Tweets: @twu
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Millennial Media To Acquire Mobile Ad Company Jumptap For $200M+ In Millennial Stock — Millennial Media just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Jumptap, a deal that brings together two well-known mobile ad companies. — The acquisition press release describes the deal as …
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| James Trew / Engadget: |
Telefonica pens deal with Evernote, gives global customers one year's free premium access — You've got to hand it to Evernote, it's taking the initiative when it comes to getting its popular productivity tools into as many hands as possible. We've already seen Deutsche Telekom customers getting access …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Box for Android now supports account toggling, real-time updates for offline files — Summary: Even though enterprise is the core target audience, Box product managers know that most users want to be able to toggle between multiple accounts for work and play.
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VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Box Blog, The Next Web, Android Community, GeekWire and Engadget
| Chris Kanaracus / InfoWorld: |
Larry Ellison: Some government surveillance is ‘essential’ to fight terror — Ellison also weighed in on his friendship with Steve Jobs and Oracle's litigation against Google in a televised interview — Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize …
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