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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …
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Thanks:@richardlusk| Dave Morin / Path Blog: |
We are sorry. — We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts. — As our mission is to build the world's first personal network …
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| Dustin Curtis / dcurt.is: |
Stealing Your Address Book — It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Alleged iPad 3 casing photo appears, sources say coming soon with improved GPU but no quad-core, thicker profile — Today the Apple rumor mill is fixated on a photo doing the rounds which allegedly shows the back housing of the next iPad (the iPad 3, or iPad HD, depending on who you talk to).
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100 — Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale — It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android? — From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge. — It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) …
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| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free — The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, where he teaches at M.I.T., to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury …
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| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web - And Might Win — The mother of all patent troll trials unfolds in Texas where Google, Amazon and Adobe are fighting a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete. We explain and start a series.| Elliot Telford / Compete Pulse: |
Google Social is Exploding Online! — Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe: |
Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest's success — I love it when a startup I've been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growing US base …
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The Next Web, ZDNet, Search Engine Journal and Marketing Land
| Wall Street Journal: |
Justice Department Poised to Clear Google-Motorola Deal — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at... Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. The hack seems to be a retaliation … | Neil Callanan / Bloomberg: |
Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin — Google Inc. (GOOG) may open its first stand- alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin, according to a filing by the world's most popular search engine. — The Google Store would be open to the public and sell unspecified …
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed — Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s.
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| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Apple Loses Bid to Ban German Sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N — Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPad and iPhone, for the second time failed to win a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N from a German court. — The Dusseldorf Regional Court rejected the bid today …
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| TuneCorner Music Blog: |
Apple's iTunes Match (aka iMatch): The First Royalties Are In — The first royalty payments from iMatch are in, and they got me excited - the total amount is over $10,000 for the first two months. — This is magic money that Apple made exist out of thin air for copyright holders. — Let me explain:
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores — Still unhappy with Apple's response to the New York Times' series on labor conditions in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, two organizations are planning a globally coordinated protest on Thursday.| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
Rumor: Apple's Siri Will Add Chinese Support Next Month — The Chinese tech site DoNews claims to have heard from an Apple engineer who's working on the Chinese-language version of Siri, the clever voice assistant on the iPhone 4S. From this source it claims that Siri will launch in Chinese next month …
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| Reuters: |
Lenovo beats Q3 net forecasts by raising market share — (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd beat market forecasts on Thursday with its third-quarter net profit thanks to its fast expanding market share. — Lenovo's shares rose sharply to their highest level in more than three and a half years after it reported its results.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices — The security of the PIN that protects Google Wallet transactions has been compromised — though most users won't need to worry about the issue for now, as it only applies to users who have rooted their Android smartphone.Sponsor Posts
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