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Google+ head Vic Gundotra to leave company after 8 years, with VP of engineering David Besbris replacing him — Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company — Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company.
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Tweets: @rabois, @sdkstl, @qthrul, @caseynewton, @selviano, @amir, @peterlauria3 and @timcohn
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Google+ to become more a platform than product, with key staff members moving to Android team, and fewer product integrations — Google+ Is Walking Dead — Today, Google's Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question …
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Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Slate, Robert Scoble, TechSpot and Android Community
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FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner” — Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …
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See also Mediagazer| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's position on Net neutrality conflicts directly with what it warned against in 2010 — The FCC's “fast lane” rule is awful for the Internet—just ask the FCC — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is in damage-control mode today after word leaked that potential new “net neutrality” rules are anything but neutral.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
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| Jennifer Khoury / Comcast Voices Blog: |
Comcast: Neflix degraded its Comcast streams, seeks to shift its costs onto all Internet users — Comcast Response to Netflix — Netflix's argument is a House of Cards. But there is no need for us to engage in a point-counterpoint with Netflix to demonstrate the continued distortions and inaccuracies on which it relies.
Tweets: @jmcduling, @om, @jyarow, @thestalwart, @pkafka and @comcast
| Ken Florance / Netflix US & Canada Blog: |
Netflix says it opposes Comcast/TWC merger because Comcast charges both Netflix and its customers to connect to each other — The Case Against ISP Tolls — As the person at Netflix responsible for content delivery, I spend a lot of time thinking about Netflix's Open Connect CDN and its interconnection with ISPs.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Comcast Says Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Streams — A couple days after Netflix and Comcast fought in public, the two companies, who are supposed to be partners, are at it again. — Three days after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings publicly opposed Comcast's planned acquisition of/merger with Time Warner Cable …
Tweets: @dangillmor
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Microsoft Cloud Momentum Helps Drive Third-Quarter Results — Revenue growth across segments and cost discipline drive earnings per share of $0.68. REDMOND, Wash. — April 24, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $20.40 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.
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CITEworld, Business Insider, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, Re/code, Forbes, BBC, WinBeta, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, ZDNet, GeekWire and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @dinabass
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook: nobody's figured out mobile payments yet, and Apple won't rush out new products — Apple's Cook on New Products: ‘Take the Time to Get It Right’ — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said its strong fiscal second-quarter might silence chatter that the company is in decline.
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Moves joins Facebook, will continue as standalone app, will not “commingle data with Facebook” — Moves joins Facebook! — 24 April 2014 - Today, we're delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app. Since we launched Moves …
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Mashable, Agence France-Presse, Mapbox, Associated Press and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @movesapp
| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe agree to pay $324M to settle hiring conspiracy lawsuit — Exclusive: Apple, Google agree to pay over $300 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit — (Reuters) - Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle …
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Tweets: @harrisonweber and @dangillmor
| Amazon: |
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 23% to $19.74 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014. — Operating cash flow increased 26% to $5.35 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $4.25 billion …
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ZDNet, VatorNews, Forbes, CNBC, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, Gigaom, Business Insider, Quartz, Re/code, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @gregbensinger and @curtwoodward
See also Mediagazer| Andy Mitchell / Facebook: |
Facebook partners with Storyful to launch FB Newswire: Facebook and Twitter feeds of newsworthy Facebook content — Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around the world.| TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Hits 30 Billion Total Pins, Up 50% In 6 Months — Tonight at an event in the company's San Francisco headquarters, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann announced that users had contributed more than 30 billion Pins since the service was founded, a number that has grown by nearly 50 percent in the past six months alone.| Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
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Amazon accelerates plans for its own delivery network, following last winter's shipping woes — Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network — Alternative to FedEx, UPS Could Deliver Goods the Same Day They Are Purchased — The future of Amazon.com Inc. is hiding in plain sight in a San Francisco parking lot.
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Businessweek, Engadget, The Verge, The Register, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, TechSpot and Mashable
Tweets: @murraymatt, @gregbensinger, @wsjbusiness and @dmac1
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Rumoured Microsoft Surface Mini Tablet Crops Up In Amazon Listings — Although it hasn't happened yet, it's clearly only a matter of time before Microsoft officially unboxes a smaller form-factor version of its Surface tablet. A Surface Mini has been rumoured for well over a year …
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