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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed by the Company — According to sources close to the situation, the departure of CEO Steve Ballmer from Microsoft last week was more sudden than was depicted by the company in its announcement that he would be retiring within the next year in a planned smooth transition.
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| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple — Bear with me, I know my premise is ridiculous. — Imagine Steve Ballmer was right now the CEO of Apple, with the same set of products and opportunities. Suspend disbelief about cultural clashes, or organization structure. Presume Ballmer could set the strategy …
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Thanks:@monkbent| Aaron Levie / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Next Era — Editor's note: Aaron Levie is CEO and co-founder of Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. — Moments like this happen only once a generation in the technology industry. — The announcement of Steve Ballmer's retirement from his post as CEO of Microsoft puts an end …
Tweets: @kgale, @alexwilliams, @fxshaw, @liggs, @levie, @andreascon and @monkbent
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple said to have tested 64-bit 'A7′ chips for iPhone 5S, 31% speed increases reported — As Apple's iPhone 5S event approaches, some new details about the new device's internals are emerging. Clayton Morris has claimed on Twitter that the iPhone 5S's A7 processor is …
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Tweets: @claytonmorris, @claytonmorris and @markgurman
| steve cheney: |
On Apple's A7 Processor — There was a rumor today that the iPhone 5S will be powered by an A7 processor which is dual core, 64-bit and 31% faster than the subsystem in the current iPhone 5. — While people speculate on the innards of the chip, it's a good time to take a step back and look …
| Bloomberg: |
DoCoMo Rises on Speculation Carrier to Release Apple IPhone — NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437) rose in Tokyo trading, while rivals KDDI Corp. (9433) and SoftBank Corp. (9984) fell, after a media report suggested Japan's largest mobile carrier may start selling Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone.
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| Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report: |
Denial-of-Service Attack Shut Down Chinese Internet on Sunday Morning … Part of the Chinese Internet went down early Sunday morning in what the government is calling the largest denial-of-service attack it has ever faced. — The attack began at 2 a.m. Sunday morning and was followed …
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: A Blogger Mocks the Denizens of Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — Sam Biddle may have one of the easiest jobs in technology journalism. That is, easy if you have the stomach for his line of work. — Every morning, he wakes up in his Brooklyn apartment, checks Twitter on his smartphone …
Tweets: @anildash, @davewiner, @mike_ftw, @romenesko, @paleofuture, @mikeisaac, @glennf, @paleofuture, @dangillmor and @sarahw. See also Mediagazer
| Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times: |
Netflix executive upends Hollywood — A scene from “Lillyhammer,” Netflix's first original series, is projected behind Ted Sarandos, the company's chief content officer. Sarandos says ratings are irrelevant for a company that neither courts advertisers nor collects fees for cable or satellite TV subscribers.
Tweets: @latimesbiz, @annericeauthor and @ericscherer
| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show — The NSA successfully cracked the encryption guarding the United Nations' internal videoconferencing system, according to documents seen by Germany's Der Spiegel. — The publication reported on Sunday …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A Dearth of Tech IPOs Could Expose Stock Rally — Initial public offerings from technology-related companies and booming U.S. stock markets usually go together—such as Priceline.com and 1999. Not this year. — The Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed 15% since Jan. 1 …
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Why Yahoo and Apple Want Foursquare's Data — This week, BuzzFeed reported that Yahoo was in talks with Foursquare about a possible data-sharing deal. The news comes just months after Apple senior VP Eddy Cue was said to be in discussions with Foursquare to integrate its location data into the Apple's mapping service.
Tweets: @fastcompany
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