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Bloomberg:
Ergen Said to Bid $2 Billion for LightSquared Wireless Spectrum   —  Charlie Ergen, chairman of satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. (DISH), made a $2 billion bid for spectrum from LightSquared Inc., the bankrupt wireless-broadband company owned by Philip Falcone's hedge-fund firm, according to people familiar with the offer.
May 20, 2013, 4:45 PMIn context
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Websense Agrees to Private-Equity Buyout for $906 Million   —  Websense Inc. (WBSN), a website-filtering company that is shifting into Internet security, will be acquired by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for about $906 million.  —  Websense investors will receive $24.75 a share in cash …
May 20, 2013, 12:35 PMIn context
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
GrubHub to Merge With Seamless as Food Orders Go Mobile   —  GrubHub Inc. and Seamless North America LLC, two of the top food-delivery websites in the U.S., have agreed to combine their companies to take on rivals in the growing market for online meal orders.
May 20, 2013, 11:05 AMIn context
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Yahoo's Mayer Said to Be Preparing Updates for Flickr Photo Site   —  Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer will unveil updates to the company's Flickr photo-sharing site at a press event in New York scheduled for May 20, according to a person familiar with the matter.
May 17, 2013, 7:30 PMIn context
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
FCC Nominee to Divest AT&T, Verizon to Avoid Conflict   —  Tom Wheeler, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the FCC, agreed to sell holdings of $500,001 to $1 million in both AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to resolve possible conflicts of interest before taking office.
May 17, 2013, 2:30 PMIn context
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Twitter Teams With NBA to Stream Basketball Replay Videos   —  Twitter Inc. has teamed with the National Basketball Association to stream video clips of game highlights as the blogging service expands beyond 140-character status updates ahead of a possible initial public offering.
May 17, 2013, 1:15 PMIn context
Bloomberg:
Apple Mobile Devices Approved for Use on U.S. Military Networks   —  The Pentagon cleared Apple Inc. (AAPL) devices for use on its networks, setting the stage for the maker of iPhones and iPads to compete with Samsung Electronics Co. and BlackBerry for military sales.
May 17, 2013, 10:25 AMIn context
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech   —  Facebook's “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.
May 16, 2013, 11:50 PMIn context
Bloomberg:
Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim   —  Bill Gates became the world's richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007.  His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
May 16, 2013, 6:05 PMIn context
Bloomberg:
Google Denies Misleading Parliament Over U.K. Tax Liabilities   —  A Google Inc. (GOOG) executive told British lawmakers that the California-based company didn't mislead Parliament over its tax obligations in the U.K.  —  Matt Brittin, vice president for sales and operations in northern …
May 16, 2013, 8:25 AMIn context

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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line  —  Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).