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Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program — Expects to Spend $45 Billion Over Three Years — Apple® today announced plans to initiate a dividend and share repurchase program commencing later this year. — Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors …
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
With dividend, Tim Cook thinks differently about Apple — While playing the “Steve would never do that” game is seldom a great idea — it's akin to calling yourself a fortune teller or a mind reader — it is fairly safe to say, based on his prior statements and declarations …
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New iPad Sales Top 3 Million In Under 4 days — Apple announced today that it has sold 3 million new iPads in less the four days of availability, calling it the “strongest iPad launch yet.” … Apple didn't announce first weekend sales numbers for the iPad 2 as they were in extremely short supply …
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AT&T sets single-day record for iPad sales, activations — AT&T announced on Monday that the launch of the new iPad set a new single-day record for sales and activations of Apple's touchscreen tablet. — The new 4G LTE-capable iPad went on sale last Friday, March 16, and in that 24-hour span …
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Acquires Robot-Coordinated Order Fulfillment Company Kiva Systems For $775 Million In Cash — Amazon has just announced that it will acquire order fulfillment company Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. We've embedded the release below. — Kiva Systems' interconnected hardware … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Is In Talks To Buy “Draw Something” Maker OMGPOP — Zynga is in talks to acquire OMGPOP, the maker of massive hit Draw Something, according to a source with direct knowledge of the discussions. It's my understanding that the talks have not yet entered the more advanced … | Mike Daisey: |
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated — “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” —another American monologist Many consider this week's THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode one of the most painful they've ever listened to. In particular the segment with me is excruciating …
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Woz supports Mike Daisey's message and says you should too — Apple co-founder says he loved Daisey's show and believes media misunderstands actor and Apple critic. He credits Daisey with helping to prod Apple into improving working conditions in China. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak …
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Tablet Chip Showdown: Nvidia Tegra 3 vs. the New iPad's A5X — When Apple announced the new iPad earlier this month, CEO Tim Cook claimed that the new iPad's new A5X chip offers four times the performance of Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. Now that the new iPad has hit the street … | Amanda Lenhart / Pew Internet: |
Teens, Smartphones & Texting — Teens are fervent communicators. Straddling childhood and adulthood, they communicate frequently with a variety of important people in their lives: friends and peers, parents, teachers, coaches, bosses, and a myriad of other adults and institutions.
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New iPad feature ‘Dictation’ sends/stores private data to Apple servers — Summary: Dictation is one of the key features of the new iPad; however, using it requires more than meets the eye. Read all about it in this post. — After spending a solid weekend with the new iPad …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory — There's more money from big-name investors for big data. ClearStory Data, a newly launched startup focused on bringing big data technology to the masses, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding …
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Apple TV Teardown Reveals Upgraded Wireless, Single-Core A5 — We've just torn down the 3rd Generation Apple TV, Apple's streaming home theater device. During the teardown, we discovered that where there was one antenna, now there are two! We expect that Apple added the new antenna … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Vimeo Gets a New Boss: AOL, Yahoo Vet Kerry Trainor — Earlier this year, video site Vimeo showed off a new look. Now it has a new CEO: Kerry Trainor, who just left his job overseeing AOL's entertainment and video properties. — Trainor replaces Dae Mellencamp, who has been running the site since 2009.
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| Ellen McGirt / Fast Company: |
“Boy CEO” Mark Zuckerberg's Two Smartest Projects Were Growing Facebook And Growing Up — Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook—and himself—for success.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Linux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more — The latest refresh of the Linux kernel, 3.3, is now available, and the second release of 2012 brings with it the long-awaited merging of code from Google's little side project. While that is particularly interesting …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Defends Hotfile (and Megaupload) in Court — Google has filed a brief at a federal court in Florida defending the file-hosting site Hotfile in its case against the MPAA. The search giant accuses the movie companies of misleading the court and argues that Hotfile is protected under the DMCA's safe harbor.
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
With “Coveted Brand,” Dell Will Breach Tablet Market … - Dell CEO Michael Dell on what has surprised him most about the evolution of the tech industry — 2012 isn't going to be another year of the iPad, if Dell can help it. Though it was forced to beat a humbling retreat from the tablet market …
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
NetZero launches ‘4G’ wireless service, we go hands-on — Remember NetZero? Today the company announced that it's launching NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband, a wireless service rolling out in 80 US cities and offering value-priced monthly data plans without activation fees, contracts, commitments or overage charges.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple launches ‘Answers from the community’ support listings on product pages — In an attempt to help persuade customers visiting the product pages on its website, Apple has introduced a new “Answers from the community” section to listings, allowing visitors to answer frequently asked questions that consumers may pose.
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| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
42Floors Launches Commercial Real Estate Search Tool — 42Floors is launching today to help business owners find commercial real estate online. The YCombinator startup, founded in November 2011 by former Flightcaster founder Jason Freedman, connects businesses seeking space with photos, data and other listing info on available spots.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Groupon Scheduler Rolls Out in Beta as Part of Larger Tech Ambitions — Groupon doesn't want to be known as just a deals company. — As many others have proven (Google, Amazon, LivingSocial, etc.), that business is easy to replicate. Instead, the Chicago-based company wants to be known as a technology company for local merchants.
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