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Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO — Bill Gates steps up to new role as Technology Advisor; John Thompson assumes role as Chairman of Board of Directors. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member …
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Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO — Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's new CEO is Satya Nadella — It's official: Microsoft's CEO search is over. Following recent reports, the software giant is appointing Satya Nadella as its new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer. 46-year-old Nadella will take over immediately, allowing Ballmer to retire early.
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Nadella's the one: Microsoft names new CEO, Gates stays on board, Thompson is chairman — Well, it's finally over. After five months of cloak and dagger and dueling leaks, Microsoft has named Satya Nadella, its cloud chief, as its third-ever CEO, replacing long-time veteran Steve Ballmer.
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| Bloomberg: |
Thompson Replacing Gates as Microsoft Chairman in Revamp — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said John Thompson will take over as chairman, replacing Bill Gates to oversee the company's transition to devices and Web-based computing as the personal-computer market shrinks.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Bill Gates “Steps Up” To New Role As Technology Advisor: Was He Pushed Or Did He Jump? — Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary. — It's been an amazing journey so far, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. It's rare to be able to touch so many people's lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook celebrates 10-year anniversary with personalized ‘Look Back’ videos just for you — As Mark Zuckerberg reflects upon Facebook's first ten years as a company today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same. Starting this morning, hundreds of millions of Facebook users …
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| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers — Over the past year, there has been speculation of when or if Apple would build out their own content delivery network for the purpose of delivering content to consumers. To date, all of the CDN deployments done by Apple … | Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system — The latest version of the software dumps a Windows-like interface for a Mac-style desktop — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea's home-grown operating system?
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| Erica Klarreich / Wired: |
Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable — As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing someone that something …
Tweets: @glynmoody and @glynmoody
| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro, Tab Pro Series Coming to U.S. February 13 — Just in time for Valentine's Day, Samsung announced today that its Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro tablets will be available starting Feb. 13 in the U.S. — First introduced at CES, there are four models in the series.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever — BitBurgers is one of the few businesses that accepts Dogecoin. — Cory Doctorow — For the last two months, developers and users of Dogecoin, the shiba-themed altcoin (alternative Bitcoin) … | Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
App Misconfiguration, Mobile Apps With Poor Encryption Pose Risks, HP — Many applications are misconfigured and most mobile apps don't use encryption properly, according to Hewlett-Packard's 2013 Cyber Risk report released Feb. 3. — HP's research shows that 46 percent of mobile apps …
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| Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo: |
AT&T Ends $450 Offer to Switch From T-Mobile — AT&T is no longer offering a full $450 in credit when you switch over from T-Mobile, a point T-Mobile CEO John Legere made on Twitter today. … TechnoBuffalo reached out to AT&T for an explanation and a spokesperson said that the offer …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Telefónica lands exclusive deal to bring chat app Line to Firefox OS in Europe and Latin America — Mobile operator Telefónica has announced a partnership with Line, the messaging service from Japan with over 300 million registered users. The deal is Line's first with an overseas carrier … | Associated Press: |
Google barge must move from island construction site in San Francisco Bay, state orders — A state agency says Google must move its mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay because the permits are not in order.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
New bill would restore net neutrality pending FCC action — A new pair of bills have been introduced to the Senate and House to protect Net Neutrality after a circuit court ruling struck down the FCC's previous rules earlier this month. A permanent solution will ultimately come from the FCC … | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
ARM Royalty Growth Slows as Cheap Smartphones Take Over — ARM Holdings Plc (ARM), the semiconductor designer whose products power Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad, reported slower growth in royalty revenues in the fourth quarter as the market for high-end smartphones cooled.
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| Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: |
Microsoft's Kinect Is Now Guarding the Korean Border — North Korea and South Korea are separated by the most heavily armed border on Earth. But rest easy, there's a new guard on the lookout: Kinect. — Self-taught South Korean programmer Jae Kwan Ko developed a Kinect-based software system …
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| Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader: |
Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users — When Adobe announced their new DRM a couple weeks ago some said that we would soon see compatibility issues with older devices and apps as Adobe forced everyone to upgrade. — At that time I didn't think Adobe … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa — Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture Expa. According to an SEC filing, Camp is looking to raise up to $75 million …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Latest Crackdown: Apps Pulling The Advertising Identifier, But Not Showing Ads, Are Being Rejected From App Store — This weekend, Apple began rejecting mobile applications from the App Store which retrieve the end user's IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers), but don't show any ads.| Richard Salgado / The Official Google Blog: |
With inclusion of FISA requests, Google's transparency report now contains all types of government requests for users' information — Shedding some light on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests — We believe the public deserves to know the full extent to which governments request user information from Google.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
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