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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 …
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Search Engine Land, Gigaom, The Switch, BGR, Computerworld and Electronista
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| 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.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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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VentureBeat, BGR, The Technology Chronicles, Variety, Forbes, The Verge, NYT Bits, ReadWrite, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Apple Gazette, T3 News, The Tech Report, I4U News, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile, Apple Bitch, PadGadget, TechnologyTell, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, everythingiCafe, AppleInsider, Gigaom, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, MacDailyNews, Macworld, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and iMore. Tweets: @monkbent. Thanks:@benjaminzamayo
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Here Come the Google Glass Videogames (Video) — Games are a rapidly growing category on Android, with the top 200 games on Google Play grossing some $12 million per day worldwide, according to Distimo. — Now, here come the inevitable games for one of Google's much more niche projects, the Google Glass smart glasses.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung devours over 60 Carphone Warehouse stores in major European push — Samsung is literally taking over the phone industry — 60 Carphone Warehouse stores across Western European will be converted to dedicated Samsung outlets, according to a press release from the two companies.
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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 … | Stephen Lam / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Google close to settling EU antitrust investigation - sources — (Reuters) - Google and EU regulators are close to settling a three-year antitrust investigation into the company's suspected anti-competitive behaviour after it offered improved concessions to allay competition concerns, two sources said on Thursday.
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| John E Dunn / Techworld: |
Data centres now ‘magnets’ for DDoS attacks, says Arbor report — Bigger, badder but also sneakier — Data centres have become “magnets” for DDoS attacks with many recording a marked rise in incidents during 2013, Arbor Networks' latest Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report has found.
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Verizon LTE now available in 35 NYC subway stations — Many commuters around the world take underground connectivity for granted at this point, but New Yorkers are still disconnected more often than not while riding the subway, or even just waiting for a train.
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| Naoki Hiroshima / Medium: |
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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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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| Alexandra Chang / Popular Mechanics: |
New 3D Printer by MarkForged Can Print With Carbon Fiber — Looking for a better way to make racecar parts, Gregory Mark invents a 3D printer that can print in tough, lightweight carbon fiber, the first of its kind. — Gregory Mark co-owns Aeromotions, which builds computer-controlled racecar wings.
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| 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 …
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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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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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Medium, TechCrunch, VatorNews, StartupBook, VentureBeat, Mashable and The Verge
Tweets: @max_read, @jwherrman, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle, @kyler and @ricmac
See also Mediagazer| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Lavabit case highlights legal fuzziness around encryption rules — While privacy advocates may see Lavabit as bravely defending U.S. privacy rights in the online world, federal judges hearing its appeal of contempt-of-court charges seem to regard the now defunct encrypted email service … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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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App Advice, Fortune, VatorNews, Electronista and Guardian
| Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg: |
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.
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| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Lenovo to Reorganize Into Four Business Groups — New Structure to Consist of PC, Mobile, Enterprise, and ‘Ecosystem and Cloud’ — Lenovo Group Ltd. on Tuesday said it would shuffle its structure to create four business groups instead of the current two, as the Chinese personal-computer maker tries …
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