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RealNetworks cutting up to 160 jobs in overhaul
— Another big layoff is happening at RealNetworks as the struggling digital media company tries to reorganize and regain its foothold. — Up to 160 jobs are being cut, reducing Real's employment by up to 14 percent.
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D10: Oracle's Ellison on cloud computing, sailing and more
— RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. _ Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison's appearance at the All Things D conference opened, appropriately, with a video ad depicting Oracle catamarans charging through rough water off San Francisco.
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Q&A: T-Mobile CEO on layoffs, iPhone, mergers and more
— After a detour through Dallas, Philipp Humm is finally getting to reshape T-Mobile USA. — Humm reinvigorated T-Mobile's German business before parent company Deutsche Telekom sent him to Bellevue in 2010, to rev up America's fourth largest wireless company.
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Images: Amazon's tower plan, Seattle's new skyline
— Here are renderings of the three towers and campus that Amazon wants to build in downtown Seattle, giving the company its first company-owned headquarters facility. — These images are renderings submitted to the city for design review yesterday.
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Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores
— I thought the prospect of quad-core tablet computers was exciting. — Then I saw Intel's latest — a 1 teraflop chip, with more than 50 cores, that Intel unveiled today, running it on a test machine at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle.
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Facebook Seattle moving east, may triple jobs
— The Seattle Facebook office is moving east - but not across the lake. — The company today announced that it will move from its office near Pike Place Market to a larger space on Minor Avenue, just below the base of Capitol Hill, in February.
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Xbox becomes TV hub with Comcast, FiOS, HBO; no Frontier
— Microsoft today confirmed the lineup of TV services that will be available this holiday season through the Xbox 360 console. It's a huge step for Microsoft's longtime goal of expanding the console beyond gaming and into an entertainment hub.
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D9: Sinofsky unveils Windows 8, defends Microsoft (+video)
— RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Microsoft unveiled a new interface for the upcoming version of Windows that will give its flagship operating system a dramatically different feel and controls designed for touchscreen devices.
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Exclusive: Microsoft loses last Xbox founder, mobile PC visionary
— It's the end of an era at Microsoft today. — Otto Berkes, the last of the original Xbox founders still at the company, submitted his resignation this afternoon. — Berkes went on to lead development of a new category …
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