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Guardian:
Amazon faces tough questions over UK tax   —  Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows key role of British-based staff in pushing tax rulebook to its limits  —  MPs are ready to haul Amazon back to parliament to answer new questions about its tax status in Britain after a Guardian investigation's …
May 15, 2013, 8:50 PMIn context
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal   —  HP accused of ignoring evidence on ‘vastly overvalued’ acquisition while Autonomy founder denies financial impropriety  —  Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British software firm Autonomy …
May 8, 2013, 9:10 AMIn context
Guardian:
Tech City - believe the hype?   —  Technology clusters in areas such as Cambridge, Newcastle and Brighton may have a better case for getting exposure - and cash  —  Since the Coalition came to power in May 2010, the Tech City initiative has had significant money, PR and industry support thrown behind it.
May 4, 2013, 5:20 AMIn context
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Millions of users deserting Facebook   —  Facebook's dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path  —  Facebook has lost millions of users per month in its biggest markets, independent data suggests, as alternative social networks attract …
Apr 29, 2013, 6:20 AMIn context
Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
Amazon v the Amazon: internet retailer in domain name battle   —  Brazil and Peru governments say company should not profit from an address that refers to an important geographical area  —  When you see the word “Amazon”, what's the first thing that springs to mind - the world's biggest forest …
Apr 26, 2013, 5:30 AMIn context
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
BBC ports iPlayer Radio app to Android and says it's ‘even better’ than on iOS   —  App enables radio listeners to stream stations live, as well as accessing podcasts and on-demand shows.  —  When the BBC launched its iPlayer Radio app for iOS in October 2012, it promised that “Android will come soon”.
Apr 24, 2013, 6:55 AMIn context
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns   —  PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns  —  Microsoft faces a slide into irrelevance …
Apr 4, 2013, 11:15 AMIn context
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Online music licensing revenues pass radio for first time   —  Google Play and Xbox licensing agreements help digital revenues jump 32.2% in 2012, from £39.1m to £51.7m  —  British songwriters, including acts such as Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris, netted a record total of £51.7m …
Apr 4, 2013, 5:30 AMIn context
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Surprise!  Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses.. a BlackBerry   —  He likes the keyboard - even though Android alternatives are available.  Schmidt also spoke on whether Android and ChromeOS will merge: ‘not for a long time’  —  Who's the person you'd least expect to discover is a BlackBerry user?
Mar 22, 2013, 12:40 AMIn context
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
BlackBerry software ruled not safe enough for essential government work   —  Computer Experts Security Group rejects BB10 software in new Z10 handset, dealing blow to Canadian firm in key market  —  BlackBerry's new BB10 software has been rejected by the British government as not secure enough …
Mar 19, 2013, 10:35 PMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek  —  You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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).