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US Commerce Department prepares to give up oversight of ICANN — U.S. Plans to Give Up Oversight of Web Domain Manager — Move Seen in Response to International Concern About Country's Control Over Internet Structure — The U.S. government is preparing to relinquish oversight of a key body …
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| Jillian C. York / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Reporters Without Borders includes US and UK in its 2014 “Enemies of the Internet” index — A Short Guide to the Internet's Biggest Enemies — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended …
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Oculus VR, EA, Avegant and others join to form ‘Immersive Technology Alliance’ — Well, this is certainly a motley crew: a variety of companies in the virtual reality space are teaming up to create the “Immersive Technology Alliance.” The group is an evolution of an earlier consortium … | Ed Christman / Billboard: |
Rate Court Judge Rules Pandora Will Pay ASCAP 1.85% Annual Revenue — In what is being viewed as a defeat for songwriters, the ASCAP/Pandora rate court judge has decided that Pandora will pay the performance rights organization a rate of 1.85% of annual revenue.
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Are we in a bubble? Valuations of high growth tech companies will remain high as long as interest rates stay low — The Bubble Question — Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? — I've been getting asked that question for at least four years now.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Motorola Had Plans For A Super-Powered Google Phone, But Larry Page Refused To Make It Happen — When Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion in 2011, there was lots of talk that Google would revamp its Android division in the image of Apple. — Many people, including people at both companies …
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| Juan Carlos Torres / Android Community: |
Google Play Store update lets you require a password for every purchase — Google has just started rolling out an update to the Play Store app on Android that, among other things, now offers more fine-grained control when making purchases. This change could very well be related to the class action suit that the company is now facing.| Suchitra Mohanty / Reuters: |
India court rejects Nokia appeal over asset transfer to Microsoft — (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Friday ordered Nokia to give a 35 billion rupees ($572.5 million) guarantee before it transfers one of its biggest mobile phone plants and other assets in the country to Microsoft Corp.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla scraps Firefox's Windows Metro version, cites less than 1K active daily users for beta — Mozilla scraps Metro version of Firefox, citing low interest — After more than two years of work, Mozilla has scrapped its effort to build a Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8 … | Wall Street Journal: |
GoDaddy Prepares for IPO — Company to Interview Underwriters in Coming Weeks — GoDaddy Group Inc., the Internet company that helps individuals and businesses create websites, is preparing for an initial public share offering, said people familiar with the matter.
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Toshiba sues South Korean rival SK Hynix over corporate espionage — Asahi Asia Antenna - — THE ASAHI SHIMBUN — Toshiba Corp. has filed a lawsuit against South Korean rival SK Hynix Inc. for compensatory damages, citing the theft of its technological secrets.
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| Carlos Barria / Reuters: |
Sina Weibo files for $500 million U.S. IPO — A man holds an iPhone as he visits Sina's Weibo microblogging site in Shanghai May 29, 2012. — (Reuters) - Twitter-like messaging service Weibo Corp filed on Friday to raise $500 million via a U.S. initial public offering … Sponsor Posts
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