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Group of big Silicon Valley firms, including Facebook, Google, Dell, HP, and eBay, filed amicus brief siding with Samsung in Apple patent case — Silicon Valley's Biggest Companies Take Samsung's Side in Apple Patent Fight — A group of Silicon Valley's biggest companies including Facebook … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The open web can't flourish if vendors don't work towards closing the rendering performance gap between desktop and mobile web browsers — The mobile web sucks — I hate browsing the web on my phone. — I do it all the time, of course — we all do. Just looking at the stats for The Verge …
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Apple Watch review: best wearable ever, but hard to recommend this first generation version — The Apple Watch Review — Prior to the launch of the Apple Watch, there had been rumors that Apple would make a watch for quite some time. In a broader sense, the wearables industry has become …
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Toshiba Executives Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Scandal … Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka and two other executives quit to take responsibility for a $1.2 billion accounting scandal that caused the company to restate earnings for more than six years.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Profile of Omid Kordestani, Google's chief business officer, who has the absolute trust of Larry Page — ‘The Soul of Google’: What the Return of Omid Kordestani Says About the Mountain View Monolith — It is no exaggeration to say that Omid Kordestani may be the most likable person in Silicon Valley.| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious — If Twitter.com is looking a little different right now, it's not just you. — The company has removed wallpapers from users' home and notifications timelines on Twitter.com Monday, Twitter confirmed Monday.
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Qualcomm to Conduct Strategic Review, May Consider Breakup — Chip maker may also look at returning more cash to shareholders after activist investor presses for change — Qualcomm Inc. is expected to conduct a sweeping strategic review that will look at the possibility of a breakup …
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Apple hires former Fiat Chrysler SVP Doug Betts who led global quality — Apple Hires Auto Industry Manufacturing Veteran — Hiring of Doug Betts may be signal that efforts to develop electric car may be gaining ground — Apple Inc. has hired one of the auto industry's veteran manufacturing executives … | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Analysts expect iPhone sales to propel Apple's Q3 results with 49-50M shipped, company to post earnings of $1.80/share on $49.26B revenue — Strong iPhone Sales Expected to Propel Apple's Results, Anticipation Surrounds the Watch — As Apple prepares to release its June quarter results … | Christopher Heine / Adweek: |
GoPro introduces stock video licensing service, starting with 600 videos priced at $1K each and up — Brands Are About to Find Out How Powerful GoPro Videos Can Be — Spellbinding scenes captured by adventure seekers and even wildlife made GoPro the hottest video camera around.
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Inside Spotify's Hunt for the Perfect Playlist — What kind of music do you listen to? Your answer is probably something like, “Oh, a little bit of everything.” Or maybe, “Anything but country and metal.” (And polka. Everybody hates polka.) The honest truth is, you probably don't know.
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Prismatic pivots from offering consumer-facing news aggregation to B2B services for publishers, developers, and hedge funds — Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals — The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier … | Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube stars post only one-fifth of their videos on Facebook, which lacks an established ad revenue sharing model — YouTube Stars Keep Facebook at Arm's Length For Now — Nearly a year ago, Facebook started reaching out to YouTube stars and multichannel networks, encouraging … | CNN: |
Drones interfere with wildfire-fighting efforts in Los Angeles — California wildfires 11 photos — Smoke from a wildfire rises above Interstate 15 on the Cajon Pass, on July 15 near San Bernardino. — Hide Caption 7 of 11 — The scorched remains of a truck destroyed by the North Fire … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Hacking Team goes to war against former employees, suspects some helped hackers — As surveillance startup's sales grew, so did internal strife at Hacking Team. — Italian prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of six former employees of the embattled company Hacking Team …
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Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, 28, found dead at home; no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs found — Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home — Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, a pioneer in Gainesville's student startup movement, was found dead in his bed Sunday … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Ashley Madison had a serious data management problem and the data breach is entirely its fault — Ashley Madison's data breach is everyone's problem — Late last night, the 37 million users of the adultery-themed dating site Ashley Madison got some very bad news.
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Troy Hunt's Blog, Online Journalism Blog, TIME, Fusion and Computerworld
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‘Shark Tank’ Gets a Tech Infusion This Season, With Guest Judges Ashton Kutcher, Troy Carter and Chris Sacca — It's easy to see the link between “Shark Tank” and the current Web boom. The notion that some combination of ingenuity, hard work and luck can unlock an entrepreneurial success story …
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