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Apple TV graduates from hobby/accessory to product line ahead of major changes — Apple appears to be putting its ducks in a row ahead of major Apple TV changes. Alongside last night's changes to the Apple Online Store to promote Valentine's Day specials, Apple added an entire Apple TV section.
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Medium, Evan Williams's Post-Twitter Media Startup, Raises $25 Million Round — Medium is about to become large. — The collaborative publishing startup has just closed a $25 million round of financing, the company confirmed, marking its first major funding raise since it launched a little more than a year ago.
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Google brings Chrome apps to Android and iOS, lets developers submit to Google Play and Apple's App Store — Google today launched Chrome apps for Android and iOS. The company is offering an early developer preview of a toolchain based on Apache Cordova, an open-source mobile development framework …
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Yahoo Q4 2013 Earnings Slide 6% To $1.27B On EPS Of $0.46, Display Ads Down 6% — Yahoo today reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2013, where it reported GAAP revenues of $1.27 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.46. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, revenues were $1.2 billion.
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Yahoo Is Shutting Down IntoNow, Nearly Three Years After Acquisition — IntoNow — the second-screen app that Yahoo bought in the spring of 2011, just 12 weeks after its launch — is being shut down by its parent company. As of last week, IntoNow was taken off the Apple App Store and Google Play … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Has Closed The Tomfoolery Acquisition, Will Shut Down Anchor, Team To Work For Bonforte — We now have more details about the deal between Yahoo and Tomfoolery, an enterprise app studio co-founded by ex-Yahoo and ex-AOL alums, which we and others have reported is getting acquired by Yahoo.
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Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue — Vringo is a tiny company that purchased some patents from Lycos, an old search engine, in 2011 and then used those patents to sue Google. In December 2012, Vringo won $30 million in a jury trial … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Bitcoin Investors Ask For ‘Safe Harbor’ Exceptions In Proposed ‘BitLicense’ Regulations — Bitcoin's reputation may have been bruised by its connection to the Silk Road black market and Monday's indictment of Bitcoin Foundation vice chairman Charlie Shrem. But a panel of Bitcoin-focused …
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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username — A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username. — My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy — I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC, 64-bit/8-core Opteron A1100 — Around 15 months ago, AMD announced that it would be building 64-bit ARM based SoCs for servers in 2014. Less than a month into 2014, AMD made good on its promise and officially announced the Opteron A1100: a 64-bit ARM Cortex A57 based SoC.
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AT&T swings to profit, adds 1.2M contract smartphone customers — AT&T swung to a profit in the fourth quarter as it deals with pressure from rival T-Mobile. — The Dallas telecommunications company posted a fourth-quarter profit of $6.9 billion, or $1.31 a share, compared with a year-earlier loss … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Pebble Steel review: at last, a stylish smartwatch — Smartwatches are supposed to be pieces of jewelry that are just as personal as the smartphones they're attached to, yet rarely are they thought of as fashionable. We've seen a handful (or is it wristful?) that are hip, ornate and sporty …
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| Matt Martin / VG247: |
Amazon's Android console to launch this year priced below $300 — Retail giant Amazon will launch a dedicated games and entertainment device this year priced below $300. — Running the Android operating system, the system will compete directly with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo … | Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Facebook: Open Compute Has Saved Us $1.2 Billion — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Over the last three years, Facebook has saved more than $1.2 billion by using Open Compute designs to streamline its data centers and servers, the company said today. Those massive gains savings are the result of hundreds … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
Obama proposes creation of six new tech manufacturing hubs — President Obama made a push for an expanded high-tech manufacturing base in the US during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, proposing the creation of six new high-tech manufacturing hubs in the US this year.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
IBM Exploring Sale of Software-Defined Networking Business — A week after selling its server business unit to Lenovo, IBM is now exploring the sale of some of its networking assets and may be seeking as much as a $1 billion, sources familiar with the matter tell Re/code.
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Electronic Arts Sales Come Up Short in Console Transition — Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), the No. 2 U.S. video-game maker, posted third-quarter sales that fell short of analysts' estimates and cut its full-year revenue outlook as shoppers spend less on games for old consoles.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Appstore Now Allows Developers To Charge For HTML5 Web Apps, Promote Them Through “Free App Of The Day” — Amazon is announcing a change to its Appstore today, which will now allow developers building HTML5 (web-based) applications to price those apps to sell, just the same as their natively coded counterparts.
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The Next Web, GeekWire and WebProNews
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LA TV stations will share a single channel in hopes of creating new 4G spectrum — Los Angeles TV stations KLCS and KJLA will conduct an interesting experiment in the next few months: they will try to merge their digital broadcasts onto a single TV channel.| Al Kamen / In the Loop: |
The NSA has a new, first time ever, privacy officer — The National Security Agency, which has come under a bit of criticism of late for violating the privacy rights of just about everyone on the planet, has named its first- ever person to the newly created job of primary adviser … Sponsor Posts
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