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Court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules, agency may appeal — An appeals court in Washington on Tuesday ruled that the FCC's “net neutrality” rules, which forbid prevent companies like Verizon from favoring some type of internet traffic over others, are invalid.
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How the FCC screwed up its chance to make ISP blocking illegal — Today's court ruling invalidating the anti-blocking and anti-discrimination rules in the Federal Communication Commission's Open Internet Order was not a surprise to observers who were aware of one inconvenient fact—the FCC really screwed this one up.
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Foxconn Ships Over 1 Million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile — Apple's major iPhone assembler Foxconn has shipped about 1.4 million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile last week, according to a person familiar with the matter, ahead of the mobile giant's launch this Friday.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Could Launch Its Flipboard-Like News Reader This Month — After years of experimentation, cancellations and redesigns, Facebook looks like it is finally going to launch in the coming weeks a news reading service built for mobile devices. — The product is known as “Paper,” … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Moto G Google Play Edition for $179/$199 — This morning Google announced that its releasing a Moto G Google Play Edition starting at $179 for the 8GB model and $199 for the 16GB model. There isn't much of a difference between the Google Play Edition and the regular unlocked GSM model …
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Why Techmeme's calendar is now listing even more events — Nearly two years ago, Techmeme began listing technology events, both on its front page, which showed events expected to result in news on Techmeme, and a dedicated events page which showed the same list, but projected several more months into the future.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Chrome 32 launches with noisy tab indicators, new Windows 8 look, better malware blocking, and supervised users — Google today released Chrome version 32 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes tab indicators, a new look for Windows 8 Metro mode, and automatic blocking of malware downloads.| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
Oyster, the service offering access to over 100,000 books for $10 a month, raises $14 million — Oyster, a Start-Up for E-Reading, Raises $14 Million — With Netflix soaring, investors are betting that a start-up based on the same business model — but for e-books — will succeed as well.
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AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio Company — Returning from the brink of death, music services Winamp and Shoutcast are now officially with a new owner: Digital audio business Radionomy has acquired the both media player and radio platform from AOL.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins hiring iPhone/iPod manufacturing design engineers for Mesa, Arizona plant — Back in November, the State of Arizona announced that Apple had chosen the city of Mesa to create a new manufacturing facility and in the process 700 new permanent manufacturing jobs.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Startups analyze phone location data, sell lifestyle profiles of owners, often with no consent — What Secrets Your Phone Is Sharing About You — Businesses Use Sensors to Track Customers, Build Shopper Profiles — Fan Zhang, the owner of Happy Child, a trendy Asian restaurant in downtown Toronto … | Katie Fehrenbacher / Gigaom: |
The winners and losers in Google's acquisition of Nest — The designer who helped create the iPhone at Apple is now officially going to be part of Apple's arch rival: Google. That's right, on Monday afternoon Google and Nest announced that the search engine giant plans to spend $3.2 billion acquiring … | Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
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Coinye developers say they're abandoning project as Kanye West escalates legal battle — Kanye West has escalated his legal battle against Coinye, filing a trademark-infringement lawsuit against unnamed digital currency operators and 100 anonymous co-defendants, even as some people involved with the project appear to have abandoned it.
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Datacenter startup Nutanix raises $101m with eye on IPO — Summary: New round of investment will help finance commercial expansion and boost analytics development at converged infrastructure specialist Nutanix. — Toby Wolpe — Nutanix says the $101m funding anounced this week will enable … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yandex Adds Facebook Posts And Big Data To Its Search Results In Russia, Other Home Markets — Yandex and Facebook had a notable run-in last year when a team of developers from the Russian search giant created a social search app called Wonder, which Facebook promptly blocked, leading to it shutting down.| Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Applause Raises $43M to Test Apps, Hardware ‘In the Wild’ … A startup called Applause Inc., previously known as uTest, has raised $43 million to help businesses test their Web, mobile and desktop apps “on real devices in the hands of real consumers in actual markets,” rather than in a device laboratory …
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Valve's VR-friendly Steam UI launches in beta prior to its headset reveal — If Oculus Rift's new “Crystal Cove” prototype is anything to go by (it's seriously guano, if you hadn't heard already), then gamers are really going to appreciate the virtual reality revival.| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Uber Cofounder Is Launching On Demand Healthcare for the 1% — Sources tell Valleywag that after housing and transportation, the latest slice of public infrastructure to get the VIP, front-of-the-line treatment is healthcare. We hear Oscar Salazar, an Uber cofounder who helped design … | Horace Dediu / asymco.com: |
In 2013 the number of Windows PCs sold was only 1.18 times the number of Apple devices sold — When Apple reached parity with Windows — In 2013 there were 18.8 times more Windows PCs sold than Macs. This is a reduction in the Windows advantage from about 19.8x in 2012.
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