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Microsoft: Don't expect a Windows 8 iTunes app soon
— Microsoft believes nearly all major apps that can be found in Apple's iTunes store will also be available on Windows 8 by the fall, but it expects one glaring hole to remain. — “You shouldn't expect an iTunes app on Windows 8 any time soon …
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Peter Thiel: Twitter will outlast the New York Times
— Tech visionaries Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen disagree on the promise of Twitter, but both see a relatively long lifespan for the social media firm. At least in Internet years. — In a debate with Andreessen …
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Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
— “When people don't see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That's not true.” — That's according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan, the scariest search engine on the Internet. — Unlike Google ( GOOG, Fortune 500) …
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Yahoo earnings: Mayer still has much to prove
— Former Googler Marissa Mayer shocked the world last summer by taking the CEO spot at Yahoo, a brand marred by tumultuous CEO tenures and waning relevance. — Since then, Yahoo's stock has been on a tear and analysts are pinning their hopes …
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PayPal: ‘Aggressive changes’ coming to frozen funds policy
— PayPal's overzealous fraud filters have frustrated customers for years, with an inscrutable verification process that leaves some battling for months to get access to their money. — The eBay ( EBAY, Fortune 500) …
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Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late
— If you pledged cash for a crowdfunded product, be prepared to be very, very patient: A CNNMoney examination of the top 50 most-funded projects on Kickstarter found that 84% missed their target delivery dates.
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Massive bank cyberattack planned
— Security firm McAfee on Thursday released a report warning that a massive cyberattack on 30 U.S. banks has been planned, with the goal of stealing millions of dollars from consumers' bank accounts. — McAfee's research upheld an October report from RSA …
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Netflix inks Disney deal, but no new films 'til 2016
— NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Netflix has inked a high-profile deal with Walt Disney Studios, but you won't see new releases in your streaming queue for another four years. — Starting with Disney's 2016 feature films …
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New Verisign deal blocks .com price hikes
— NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Verisign, the operator of the .com domain name registry for the World Wide Web, will be forbidden from regularly raising registration prices over the next six years. — The company renewed its contract with the U.S. Commerce Department …
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RIM jumps 14% on BlackBerry 10 hopes
— NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hating BlackBerry has become something of a bloodsport, but Research in Motion shares have been on an incredible tear for the past two months — and the RIM rally continued Friday after a bullish analyst report.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
“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).