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| Paul M. Barrett / Business Week: |
Apple's War on Android — In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge. The Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor has served on the California state bench and as a partner in a Silicon Valley law firm …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Tim Cook Might Abandon Steve Jobs' ‘Thermonuclear War’ On Android — Top Apple executives have met with top Samsung executives about settling their patent fights, Paul Barrett at Bloomberg Businessweek reports. — Barrett writes, “Apple CEO Tim Cook does not seem to share his predecessor's passion about laying all foes to waste.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier — Georg Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces thousands of years of human evolution that led us to develop the fragile wrists we need to use tools. Petschnigg locks his wrist into place and pretends to scribble … | Chris Gallagher / Reuters: |
Star-struck Japan PM befriends Facebook's Zuckerberg — (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on Thursday when he hosted a young billionaire with a whiff of celebrity: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Mark McDonald / IHT Rendezvous: |
Zuckerberg in China: Let the Rumors Begin — HONG KONG — Mark Zuckerberg was spotted walking around Shanghai on Tuesday, which naturally led to a spike in online speculation about Facebook entering the Chinese market. — He said he was just on vacation with his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.
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| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Dell Ends Smartphone Sales in the US — Dell has stopped selling smartphones in the U.S. as it tweaks its mobile strategy to focus more on emerging markets and higher-margin products. — Dell has nixed its last standing Venue and Venue Pro smartphones and no replacements have been announced.
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Google's Android has generated just $550m since 2008, figures suggest — Data provided in response to Oracle claim suggests iPhone generated four times more revenue than Google's own handsets — Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011 … | Dan Graziano / BGR: |
| Matth / Nielsen Wire: |
Smartphones Account for Half of all Mobile Phones, Dominate New Phone Purchases in the US — Almost half (49.7%) of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones, as of February 2012. According to Nielsen, this marks an increase of 38 percent over last year; in February 2011, only 36 percent of mobile subscribers owned smartphones.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Millennial Media Shares Pop 100 Percent In First Trade; Valued At Nearly $2B — Mobile ad network Millennial Media just debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MM,” and saw shares pop 97 percent in the first trade of $25. The company initially priced its IPO at $13 per share last night …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple's Tim Cook Visits Foxconn IPhone Plant in China — Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited Foxconn Technology Group's newly built manufacturing facility for the iPhone in Zhengzhou, China, as the U.S. company seeks to improve working conditions.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
OH NO: Apple TV Isn't Coming Until 2013, Says Research Group — Most analysts say Apple will release an Apple TV this year. — Not Asian research group CLSA, which said in a note this morning that it thinks it comes out in 2013. — We don't have the full note, just a brief of what they said, which is included below.
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Bump Launches Payments App To Let You Share Money By Tapping Phones Together — More than a snazzy new feature, Bump Pay is the culmination of lessons learned by CEO David Lieb. — Bump, the app that lets users “bump” smartphones together to share contacts and photos, is launching another service to let users pay the same way.
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| Brett Slatkin / Google Small Business: |
A fast, accurate, and affordable way to do online market research — From international brands to local food trucks, every business wants to make important decisions with their customers' feedback in mind. Which version of your new logo will people like better? How much interest do dog owners have in organic dog food?
| Larry Dignan / CNET: |
Best Buy feels Amazon squeeze, to close 50 big-box stores — Selling consumer electronics isn't as easy as it used to be for Best Buy. The big-box retailer is closing 50 stores and compensating employees based on customer service after its fiscal fourth-quarter sales fell short of expectations.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
London taxi app Hailo takes on $17m in series A funding led by Accel, and gears up for US launch — London-based taxi app Hailo has announced a whopping $17m Series A funding round, which is one of the largest European first-rounds in recent times. — The Next Web first covered Hailo back in November … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Spotify Keeps the Free Music Party Going in the U.S. — Good news for American Spotify users who don't want to pay for their music: The streaming service will continue to let them listen to anything they want, without restrictions, for a while longer. — The free-music party was supposed …
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CNET, VentureBeat, Music Ally, The Next Web, paidContent, Wired, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Softpedia News, Media Decoder, Spotify and SlashGear. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
iPhone 4 owners can register for $15 antennagate settlements (updated) — The official website for the iPhone 4 “antennagate” class action settlement is live, as pointed out by co-lead counsel on the case Ira Rothken. Of course, speaking of cases, if you're an iPhone 4 owner who has taken advantage …
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| Arne Hess / the::unwired: |
AVAILABILITY: HTC announces One X, One S and One V availability for next week [UPDATE] — Tagged under: [HTC] [HTC_One] [HTC_One_X] [HTC_One_S] [HTC_One_V] [HTC_Sense_4.0] [Android_4.0] — HTC today announced that its recently announced HTC One-series of Android smartphones will be available …
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CNET, Pocket-lint, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena and Engadget
| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
HootSuite Takes A Little Cash Off The Table To ‘De-Risk,’ Aims For Bigger Game — Social media management company HootSuite Media has ballooned since it started a little over three years ago, winning business from global brands and growing to nearly four million users, with $75 million in revenue expected this year.
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BetaKit, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Reuters, AllThingsD, AllTwitter and TechCrunch
| IDC: |
Nearly 1 Billion Smart Connected Devices Shipped in 2011 with Shipments Expected to Double by 2016, According to IDC — FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 28, 2012 -The universe of smart connected devices, including PCs, media tablets, and smartphones, saw shipments of more than 916 million units …
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Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, asymco, Network World, SlashGear, CNET, TechSpot, Techie Buzz, Music Ally, AppleInsider and Engadget
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T promises biggest launch ever for Lumia 900 — Nokia and AT&T's Lumia 900. — (Credit: CNET) — AT&T and Nokia are bringing out the big guns when they launch the Lumia 900 next month. — “At all levels, this is a notch above anything we've ever done,” AT&T device head Jeff Bradley … | Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Some Thoughts On Online Privacy — There are signs that Washington is gearing up to do something big in the area of online privacy. The FTC put out a report earlier this week and the White House called for a “privacy bill of rights” last month. Both have asked Congress to act on this issue.
| Amar Toor / Engadget: |
LG unveils flexible plastic e-paper display, aims for European launch next month — LG has made no secret of its fondness for flexible e-paper, but those dreams became a reality today, with the announcement of a six-inch display that promises to “revolutionize the e-book market.”
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