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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
BlackBerry teams up with Foxconn for budget smartphones as sales continue to plunge — Blackberry's new interim chief John Chen has got a rude awakening to his new job: it sold only 1.9 million smartphones in Q1 compared to 3.7 million last quarter and lost $4.4 billion.
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| Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: |
BlackBerry posts massive $4.4-billion quarterly loss, revenue plunges — BlackBerry Ltd. reported a massive $4.4-billion (U.S.) third-quarter loss Friday as the company, led by new interim chief executive John Chen, revealed that revenue had fallen even more sharply than market observers had expected.
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| Fred Vogelstein / The Atlantic Online: |
The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android — Google was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed. — In 2005, on Google's sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many …
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| New York Times: |
N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite — Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple seeds first OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 beta, brings FaceTime Audio to Macs — Just days after the first public release of OS X 10.9.1, Apple has seeded the first beta of OS X 10.9.2 to developers. The update is available in the Mac App Store for registered developers … | Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State — TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor Tim Draper's plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley.”
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| Reuters: |
EU says Google concessions in antitrust case not acceptable — Google's revised proposals to settle an antitrust case are not acceptable, European Union competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Friday. — “The latest offer as submitted by Google in October …
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| Beth Kowitt / Fortune: |
Warby Parker raises $60 million — Exclusive: The fashionable eyeglasses purveyor more than doubles its total investment. — FORTUNE — Warby Parker has raised $60 million in its latest round of venture capital funding, led by its biggest investor, Tiger Global Management.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Oracle snaps up marketing software maker Responsys for $1.5B — Summary: The business-to-consumer marketing software company will be bought for a 38 percent premium of its stock price as of Thursday. — Zack Whittaker — Software giant Oracle said Friday it will buy Responsys …
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| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Researchers crack the world's toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer's CPU — Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening - yes, with a microphone — to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data.| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Square's Dorsey returns 10% of his shares — Exclusive: The founder and CEO makes an uncommon move to expand the company's pool of shares for compensation and acquisitions. — FORTUNE — Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Square, has voluntarily given 10% of his shares in the company back to Square.| Walter Frick / HBR: |
The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley — Silicon Valley is losing its luster, at least among elite opinion-makers. An increasing number of critiques have been mounted in publications as diverse as The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and Wired (to name only a few) …
| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
News Corp Buys Storyful, A Site That Finds News Stories On Social Media, For $25 Million — News Corp announced today that it bought Storyful, a startup that finds news on social media, for $25 million. — Here's the release: — Accelerating News Corp's digital transformation and video strategy …
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AOL Finalizing Talks To Sell Winamp And Shoutcast, No Shutdown Expected On Dec. 20 — AOL is finalizing negotiations to sell off Winamp and Shoutcast in a deal that would allow both products to live on, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Trouble in Austin: Apple repeats last year's iMac holiday shortage with the Mac Pro — The December supply of Mac Pros? — The new Mac Pro is an awesome machine for those with several thousand dollars to spend on a computer and a need for all the power that comes with that thermal core …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Verizon plans to issue transparency report, despite silence on NSA co-operation — Summary: The phone and cellular giant, which has been forced under a court order, leaked by Edward Snowden, to hand all business records to the NSA, plans to dish out more details on government data requests.
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| Libby Jacobson / Verizon Public Policy: |
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple hints at future Maps app in ‘layered map’ patent filing — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application that takes the company's existing mapping apps and extends them to new levels of interactivity with data-rich layered viewing modes. — Source: USPTO| Michael Davidson / Xconomy: |
Techstars CEO David Cohen to Raise $150M Fund — Techstars co-founder and CEO David Cohen has begun the process of raising a $150 million fund, according to an SEC filing made earlier today. — While Cohen is best known as the head of Boulder, CO-based Techstars, he's also an active investor … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
After recall, Google releases updated HP Chromebook 11 with newly-designed power adapter — Google recalled the power adapters to its popular little HP Chromebook 11 last week after an investigation by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said that some of the AC adapters were overheating and could be dangerous.
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| Mike Carter / The Seattle Times: |
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