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EXPLAINER: Everything You Need To Know About Google's Weird Stock Split — Yesterday, in the second paragraph of the press release announcing its Q1 2012 earnings, Google said its board had unanimously approved “a stock dividend proposal.” — But as the company explained in a letter from its founders, it's not a dividend.| Felix Salmon / Reuters: |
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Asus to Ship Quad-core Transformer Pad 300 Tablet on April 22 — Asus' latest Transformer Pad 300 will start shipping in the U.S. on April 22, the company said Friday. The tablet is being pitched as a laptop replacement with 4G LTE network capabilities. — The new Transformer Pad … | New York Times: |
Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections — SAN FRANCISCO — Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: a photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram.| AppleInsider: |
Apple releases Flashback removal tool — Coming on the heels of its Thursday Java update, Apple has released a separate program to remove the so-called Flashback trojan that has affected over 600,000 Macs worldwide. — Apple on Friday released version 1.0 of its “Flashback malware removal tool” …
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Silicon Valley's Secret, Vicious Lust for Hollywood Fame — Motivations are supposed to be pure in Silicon Valley. Facebook, for example, was developed to make the world a better place; its billions of dollars in revenue are just a happy accident. And when a Facebook scion eagerly promoted … | Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook spotted at video game designer Valve's headquarters — Apple's chief executive Tim Cook reportedly visited the Bellevue, Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation earlier today, inciting questions about new potential for collaboration between the two companies.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve reveals mystery hardware project: wearable computing — This morning, Valve Software set the world of gaming news abuzz by attempting to hire hardware engineers. Now, Valve developer (and well-known programmer) Michael Abrash has revealed what kind of hardware the company is prototyping: computer technology you can wear.| Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: |
New Draft Of CISPA Announced: Some Progress, Still Big Problems — The House Intelligence Committee has published a new draft of CISPA (pdf and embedded below), which includes the two amendments that were already approved, plus several other additions and changes.
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U.S. says MegaUpload's hosting service is no innocent bystander — MegaUpload's U.S. legal team leaves courts following a hearing about preserving the company's data servers. — (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) — ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Carpathia Hosting had plenty of reason …
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Scientists Build First Working Quantum Network — Scientists at the Quantum Dynamics division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany announced Wednesday that they have built the very first, elementary quantum network comprised of a pair of entangled atoms … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iCloud's First Six Months: The Developers Weigh In — On October 12th, 2011, iCloud launched to millions of iOS users impatiently waiting to start getting their devices to sync with Apple's new platform, which CEO Tim Cook went on to call the company's next big insight for the next decade.
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Netflix To Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys — Netflix is getting ready to unleash its Simian Army. — The online movie rental company uses a troupe of cloud software — it calls the programs “monkeys” — that poke and prod its online applications and keeps the web site and its services humming along.
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| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Antitrust and ebooks: regulators miss the big DRM lock-in picture — US antitrust regulators have never really been able to find the right place to stick their lever and pry when it comes to the Internet (witness their failure to understand Microsoft's platform dominance in the 90s).
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