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Microsoft CEO Selection Unlikely to Come in January, as Candidate List Contracts and Expands — The selection of a CEO to take over Microsoft is not expected to come before February, according to multiple sources, due to a range of issues, including the packed schedule of the software giant's chairman Bill Gates this month.| Charles Cooper / CNET: |
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Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires — Scores of Workers are Deputized to Vet Job Candidates, Ensure Cultural Fit — In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better. — But when it comes to filling higher-level jobs … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Sony Doesn't Have the Deals It Needs for Web TV — But That's Not Its Real Problem — Last year, Intel said it was going to deliver pay TV over the Web by the end of 2013. That didn't work out. — Now Sony says it will deliver pay TV over the Web sometime in 2014. Can it deliver? — Maybe!| Jason Evangelho / Forbes: |
Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699 — Last month Dell launched a pair of UltraSharp monitors boasting 4K resolution, and dangled a sweet carrot in front of our early adopting paws: a forthcoming 28-inch Ultra HD monitor that would retail for less than $1000.| Digits: |
Apple continues China push by opening an official store on Alibaba's Tmall — Apple Opens Store on Alibaba's Tmall — In its latest attempt to boost China sales, Apple Inc. opened an official store on Tmall, a major online marketplace run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber CEO: Surge Pricing Is Here to Stay … Some year in the near future, Travis Kalanick could transform the car-service app Uber into a multipurpose logistics conglomerate, delivering an array of physical products around cities in addition to people. — For now, though, he's still fighting in the trenches.| Kellex / Droid Life: |
T-Mobile Ads Confirm UnCarrier 4 Plans: Pay ETFs for Families Who Transfer — This evening, hours before T-Mobile takes the stage at CES 2014 for UnCarrier part 4, an ad popping up on tech sites has essentially confirmed part of the program. According to the ad - which we have included below … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Red Hat and CentOS become Voltron, build free operating system together — Team Voltron, defender of open source. — World Events Productions — Red Hat and the CentOS Project today said they will team up to build what they called “a new CentOS” in a bid to accelerate adoption of the free operating system.
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Apple seeks removal of court-appointed antitrust monitor — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is seeking the removal of a lawyer appointed by a court to monitor its antitrust compliance following a ruling last year that the company had conspired to fix e-book prices. — An attorney for the consumer … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Barnes & Noble appoints Michael Huseby to CEO post — Barnes & Noble has appointed a new CEO to lead the bookseller's retail and digital businesses. — Michael Huseby is now CEO at Barnes & Noble, the company announced on Wednesday. In his new role, Huseby will lead Barnes & Noble's retail, college, and Nook Media operations.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
LinkedIn sues to stop bots that are stealing its user profiles — Professional network LinkedIn is fighting off shady competitors that are using bots to vacuum up hundreds of thousands of its user profiles in order to compete with LinkedIn's own recruiter products, according to a new lawsuit.| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Apigee Acquires InsightsOne To Deepen API Analytics Offerings — Apigee, an API management company, has acquired InsightsOne for its predictive analytics technology. With InsightsOne, Apigee will have a platform that helps companies find patterns in multiple data sources to, for instance …
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Google Launches Private SF Bay Ferry Service To Shuttle Workers — REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) - Just as Bay Area high-tech firms such as Google have been using private shuttle buses to transport their workers to their jobs, Google is taking it to another level with its own ferry service on San Francisco Bay.
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| Jessica Naziri / Los Angeles Times: |
At CES 2014, the hottest new gadget is your car — Audi's Ulrich Hackenberg shows off Internet-connected and self-driving cars at CES 2014. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg ) — LAS VEGAS — When it comes to CES, most people think of small portable devices and other electronic gadgets.
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Nokia's Android phone UI revealed in leaked photos — Nokia has been building its own Android phone, codenamed Normandy, and the first examples of its user interface are now starting to emerge. Evleaks has posted an image of Nokia's custom Android implementation, with three examples of how the smartphone maker has tweaked the UI.| David Pogue / Yahoo: |
An Introduction To Yahoo Tech! — Online customer reviews are fantastic, but there's still something to be said for reading a critic you know. Over time, you get to know her opinions, preferences, and style. In fact, even if you can't stand a certain critic's advice—say …
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An API invasion in streaming music has Pandora hoping better data trumps bigger data — Life is probably going to get a lot harder for streaming music pioneer Pandora. — Already under fire from Spotify Radio, iTunes Radio and Google Play Music among myriad other smaller services … | Emily Parkhurst / bizjournals: |
Seattle's fiber-network deal with Gigabit Squared is dead — Mayor Ed Murray has declared the city's deal with startup broadband company Gigabit Squared dead. In fact, the city's deal with the company may have been doomed before Murray was even elected. — “We understand the Gigabit problems …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Reporter's Notebook: Cracking Mark Zuckerberg's Code — When I first visited Mark Zuckerberg in September for our profile on the Facebook CEO, what initially struck me were all the parts of “Zuck” that seemed resistant to change. — There he sat in his grey t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers uniform …
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Indian Startup Little Eye Labs Confirms Its Acquisition By Facebook, Deal Worth $10-$15M — Last month, we reported that Facebook was planning to buy Little Eye Labs, an Indian startup that makes a software tool for analyzing the performance of Android apps.
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