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Chastened HTC turns to cheaper smartphones in search for profit — (Reuters) - Smarting from growing losses, Taiwanese phone maker HTC Corp says it will expand its range of cheaper products as it fixes off-target marketing for its premium smartphones. — The company that has long prided itself … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC breaks even in final months of 2013, but forecasts a losing start to new year — HTC's Q4 2013 financial numbers are out today and the company has suffered yet another decline in sales. Whereas the last quarter of 2012 returned NT$60 billion, the past year reached only NT$42.9 billion.
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| Nermin Hajdarbegovic / CoinDesk: |
Price Drops as Mt. Gox Blames Bitcoin Flaw for Withdrawal Delays — Mt. Gox has issued a statement in an effort to address concerns raised by users after it suspended bitcoin withdrawals late last week. The exchange insists it is working hard to address a technical issue that has made it impossible for users to make transfers.
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| Gavin Andresen / Bitcoin Foundation: |
Contrary to Mt. Gox's Statement, Bitcoin is not at fault — The issues that Mt. Gox has been experiencing are due to an unfortunate interaction between Mt. Gox's implementation of their highly customized wallet software, their customer support procedures, and their unpreparedness …
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| Julia La Roche / Business Insider: |
Carl Icahn Gives Up On Apple Buyback Plan — Billioniare investor Carl Icahn says that there's no reason to persist with Apple buyback proposal, according to new letter. — Icahn has amassed a huge stake in Apple. — He's also been suppotive of a stock buyback.
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New Apple Mac Trojan Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered — SecureMac has discovered a new Trojan Horse called OSX/CoinThief.A, which targets Mac OS X and spies on web traffic to steal Bitcoins. This malware has been found in the wild, and there are multiple user reports of stolen Bitcoins.
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Microsoft starts selling ASUS' VivoTab Note 8 for $329 — ASUS, like many other companies, took to CES 2014 to introduce a number of new products. Among these was the often-leaked VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet with support for Wacom pen input.
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| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows 8.1 Update 1 accommodates too many needs, proves design by committee never works — What the Heck is Happening to Windows? — Is it better to burn out than fade away? — When critics described Windows 8.1 as a step backwards, I disagreed: Responding to customer complaints is never wrong … | Zal Bilimoria / Re/code: |
Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over — Back in 2011, I was having an all-consuming love affair with tablets. At the time, I was the first-ever head of mobile at Netflix. I saw tablets in my sleep, running apps that would control homes, entertain billions and dutifully chug away at work.
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| The Verge: |
Instagram teaching ad-makers how to be less square — Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has repeatedly emphasized that a big focus for the company is to “keep the standard really, really high” for its first ads — something Facebook and mobile ad networks like AdMob perhaps missed the boat on.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Pacemaker and Spotify cue up the iPad's simplest DJ app — A slick interface and 20 million tracks turn the tables on Traktor and Djay — Jonas Norberg built two great products that nobody used. The first was the award-winning Pacemaker, a wonderfully nerdy beatmaking gadget that cost $850.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Hardware Engineering Staff — Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider. — The engineers were let go last Thursday, according to our source. This follows Barnes & Noble dismissing the VP of Hardware, Bill Saperstein in January.Sponsor Posts
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