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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present — Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.
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| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's third writedown since December.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options — Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an operating loss in the quarter ending June 2. — The company also said it has hired J.P. Morgan … | Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal: |
RIM Hires J.P. Morgan, RBC for Strategic Review — TORONTO—Research In Motion Ltd. said it had hired investment bankers J.P. Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to assist the company in reviewing business and financial performance, and it warned of a first quarter operating loss.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right — We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things right, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try. This seems to be quite true of Google's efforts to develop a cloud PC.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
New Samsung Chromebook & Chromebox review: Chrome OS grows up — 2012 is the year of Chrome OS — or so we're told. When we spoke with Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, he told us that this is the culmination of “a long, slow march” for Google's cloud-based operating system.
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Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video — Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and use Kinect for Xbox 360 to find and play videos with the wave of a hand or sound of their voice
| Yusuf Mehdi / TechNet Blogs: |
Xbox Beyond the Box — Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has struck me is the amount of opportunities we have ahead. — Before joining Xbox, I had the fortune … | Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Falls Below $30 as Option Trading Begins — NEW YORK—Facebook Inc.'s shares tumbled under $30 for the first time, 11 days after the social-media giant launched its initial public offering, as options trading began Tuesday and a negative sentiment continued to weigh on the stock.
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Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources — The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources. — Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days.| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground — Can Newly Public Company Withstand Demands for Ads That Interrupt User Experience? — GM wanted to brand Facebook. And Facebook wasn't selling. — In a now-notorious meeting between General Motors Global CMO Joel Ewanick … | Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: |
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype — PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service. — The statistics tell the story. In seven months, the number of people using … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others — 10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team.| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff — When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to make calls or play games, but to rip it apart. — Technicolor, an unprofitable French company that invented …
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms — Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. — EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Plans to Shut Nextel Network as Early as June 2013 — Sprint said Tuesday that it would shut down its Nextel network as soon as June of next year, as the company aims to free up space for its next-generation LTE network. — The carrier has been working on plans to sunset …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Bitly Launches New Bookmarking Features, Profiles, Search & iPhone App — Link shortener Bitly today launched a major redesign and number of new features that all add up to what the company itself calls “a new Bitly.” Among these new features are ‘bitmarks,’ Bitly's name for its new bookmarking features … | Michael Mace / MobileOpportunity: |
Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 — I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of settling for mediocre incremental improvements in its core products, Microsoft finally was ready to make bold changes to Windows, something I thought it had to do to stay relevant in computing.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Sequoia Capital raising new funds — Venture firm seeks at least $1 billion. — FORTUNE — Sequoia Capital is back in the fund-raising market, with a series of venture capital vehicles designed to raise at least $1 billion (in aggregate). My understanding is that one fund … | Robin Sloan: |
Pictures and vision — Okay, I'm going to argue that the futures of Facebook and Google are pretty much totally embedded in these two images: The first one you know. What you might not know is just how completely central photos are to Facebook's product, and by extension its whole business.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
As Zynga's stock lockup ends, Game Closure steals a mobile game expert — Zynga's lockup on the ability for employees to sell stock in the aftermath of its initial public offering expires today. That may explain why a smaller company, Game Closure, has been able to recruit a prominent mobile gaming expert from Zynga.
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