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| Rafe Needleman / CNET: |
Here comes Yahoo's own Web browser — Axis — Axis replaces the standard search results page with a horizontal, scrollable list of thumbnails. iPad version shown. — (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) — Yahoo is getting into the browser business with its new Axis browser.
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| Kirin / LAUNCH: |
Yahoo to Launch “Chrome Killer” Tonight — This was just sent to us and we had to share it. Yahoo has talked about Axis in the past year, but it looks like the big reveal will be tonight. — Hi team, — I am so excited to announce that tonight at 9pm we will launch Yahoo! Axis!| Yahoo! Screen: |
Yahoo! Axis Demo — Yahoo! Axis is a new kind of browser that redefines what it means to search and browse the web. Watch this video to see how Axis works on your computer, iPhone and iPad.
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| Reuters: |
Facebook, Zuckerberg, banks sued over IPO — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, and several banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid the social networking leader's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Meet Facebook's Fall Guy — I've only been skimming the news about Facebook's IPO over the last 24 hours, but two or three times now I've read that Facebook's CFO David Ebersman “decided” to increase the size of the offering at the last minute. Example (and, shame on the WSJ for just publishing what was fed to them).
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| Shane Richmond / Telegraph: |
Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core — Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country's industrial heritage lies behind his success.
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Guardian, Bloomberg Tech Blog, Wired, Business Insider, ValueWalk, Techland, Gizmodo, TechEye, TUAW, ABCNEWS, Los Angeles Times, Mashable!, Macgasm and SlashGear. Thanks:@shanerichmond
| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Microsoft set to release Office for iOS and Android tablets in November — BGR has learned from a reliable source that Microsoft is currently planning to release the company's full Office suite for not only Apple's iPad, but for Android tablets as well. The company is targeting November of this year for both launches.
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| HP: |
HP Launches Multi-year Restructuring to Fuel Innovation and Enable Investment — HP today outlined plans for a multi-year productivity initiative designed to simplify business processes, advance innovation and deliver better results for customers, employees and shareholders.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP plans to lay off 27,000 people — 8 percent of the workforce — Stung by its failures in the mobile computing business, Hewlett-Packard said it would cut 27,000 jobs today. That amounts to 8 percent of its 325,000-person work force. — The cuts will be implemented by October 2014 …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Jury: Google did not infringe Oracle patents with Android — Over a week after it began deliberations, the jury has returned a verdict in the patent infringement case between Oracle and Google, finding that the search giant did not infringe upon Oracle's patents with Android.
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Tweets: @GinnyLaRoe and @CalebGarling
| Noah Levin / The Official Google Blog: |
A faster, simpler Google Search app for iPhone — Starting today, when you use the Google Search app on your iPhone, you'll see a completely redesigned interface that gives you faster results, beautiful full-screen image search, and a simple way to access all your Google apps in one place.| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips — Siri doesn't work on IBM's internal networks. (Image: Flickr/Photo Giddy) — If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia reveals Kai: a platform for building quad-core Android tablets priced at $199 — When Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said we might see $199 Tegra 3 tablets this summer, he wasn't speculating idly. Nvidia has revealed that it's working on just such a tablet: Kai.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Siri-like Voice Dictation coming to OS X Mountain Lion? — Voice is Apple's next important field of computer-input, and Siri on the iPhone 4S and voice-dictation on the third-generation iPad makes this clear. Siri, in its current implementation, seems perfect for mobile devices like the iPhone 4S …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech — Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? — Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Rickroll Meme Destroyed By Copyright Takedown — Anyone who has spent much time online, especially on Internet message boards of any kind, will be aware of Rickrolling. — It's an incredibly simple concept. The meme is based on a bait and switch, whereby someone posts a hyperlink …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Social Media Marketer Vitrue Has Been Bought By Oracle For $300 Million — Breaking news: TechCrunch has discovered that software giant Oracle has made a big investment in social media today. The company has bought Vitrue, the social media marketing company that is a close partner to Facebook.| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Why Apple needs to settle its e-book suits — A group of attorneys general from 29 states filed documents last week, which included charts illustrating the many phone calls made between CEOs of the top publishing companies as Apple prepared to launch the iBookstore.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I'm Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We're Getting to the Point Where There's an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let's Run With It — For the sake of argument let's take it as a given …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Partners With Paramount, Brings Hundreds More Movies To Prime Instant Video Service — Amazon is continuing to grow its collection of streaming video titles at Amazon Prime Instant Video, and is today announcing another new agreement with Paramount Pictures bringing “hundreds” of new movies to the service.Sponsor Posts
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