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June 15, 2012, 4:00 PM
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Microsoft Manufacturing Tablet to Rival Apple iPad, Says Insider (Exclusive) — Microsoft is set to unveil a tablet next week that will mark its entry into rival Apple's territory with its own branded product, TheWrap has learned. The company has scheduled a secretive event for Monday …
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See also Mediagazer| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What if the rumored ‘Microsoft tablet’ isn't a Windows tablet? — Summary: Rumors around Microsoft's June 18 announcement are taking a new turn towards some kind of Microsoft-branded tablet. Could this be an Amazon Kindle Fire competitor? — The guesses on Microsoft's June 18 announcement …
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| Steven Sloan / Bloomberg: |
SEC Pressed Facebook For Details On Mobile Revenue Before IPO — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pressed Facebook Inc. (FB) executives to explain in more detail how a user shift to mobile devices could impact the company's profits, according to documents made public today.
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PC Magazine, Business Insider and Pulse2 Technology …
| Chris O'Brien / SiliconBeat: |
New SEC filings show questions Facebook faced in IPO process — A series of new filings today disclosed a wide range of questions Facebook received from the SEC during its IPO process, including requests for greater disclosure about many of its metrics, its risks from the shift to mobile …
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Dropbox killing public folders, makes sharing both more and less convenient — In April we brought you news that Dropbox was introducing the ability to create public links for any files in your Dropbox folder. Now, German site Mobiflip is reporting that, from July 31st … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Apple Gives Podcasts a Gentle Push Out of iTunes — Podcasts were supposed to be a big deal several years ago, but that boom never happened. Now there's at least anecdotal evidence that the format is actually picking up steam, as creators, listeners and advertisers warm to the format.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Woot Founder And Daily Deals Pioneer Matt Rutledge Leaves Amazon — Matt Rutledge, founder and CEO of Woot, and the grandfather of the daily deal, is stepping down from his position, two years after the website sold to Amazon.com. In an email sent to staffers, and subsequently posted … | Iain Marlow / The Globe and Mail: |
RIM to pay Lazaridis, Balsillie combined $12-million after exit — Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who built Research In Motion Ltd. into a global smartphone giant before presiding over the company's long slide, will receive a payout of around $12-million after having stepped aside …
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Download Site Founder Receives 4.5 Year Jail Sentence, Forfeits $4.7m — In June 2011, the biggest ever operation aimed at tackling online movie piracy took place in Europe. The target for police in Germany, Spain, France, and the Netherlands was movie-streaming portal Kino.to and its affiliates.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
iPad Sees Small Drop, Nook Tops Kindle Fire In New Tablet Traffic Rankings — Web traffic from the Apple iPad saw a slight drop in early June, according to new data from the Chitika Ad network, which analyzed a sample containing hundreds of millions of impressions to arrive at its conclusions.
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| Business Wire: |
AOL Announces Close of $1.056 Billion Patent Transaction with Microsoft — Reaffirms Commitment to Return 100% of Proceeds to Stockholders — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AOL, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today announced that it has completed the previously announced $1.056 billion patent transaction …
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Motorola Solutions snags British computer maker Psion for $200 million in cash — Motorola Solutions (not the company owned by Google) announced today that it has agreed terms to acquire British computer maker Psion for $200 million in cash. — According to the company's press release …
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| BBC: |
Apple 1 computer and Steve Jobs Atari memo sold at auction — A rare functioning Apple 1 computer - the company's first product - has been sold at an auction for $374,500 (£240,929). The price was more than double Sotheby's high estimate and sets a new record for the collector's item.| New Zealand Herald: |
FBI told to copy seized Dotcom data — The FBI has been ordered to start copying 150 terabytes of data - including 10 million emails - contained on the seized computers belonging to internet mogul Kim Dotcom. — In her ruling released today, chief High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann ordered …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Samsung, Apple Walk Away With 90 Percent Of Smartphone Profits In Q1 2012, Says ABI Research — Despite the rapid growth of the smartphone market (41 percent YOY, to be exact), Samsung and Apple are the only smartphone makers really enjoying this growth. Combined, they took home 55 percent …
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Business Wire, Ars Technica, The Tech Trade, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily and CNET
| Wall Street Journal: |
Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft — Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion, according a person familiar with the matter, in a sign Microsoft may be trying to plug holes in its ubiquitous Office software.
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See also Mediagazer| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
You can now build and share YouTube playlists with friends in Google+ Hangouts — You can watch YouTubes in Google+ Hangouts, which is a pretty fun feature, but you haven't been able to share a complete playlist of videos that lets you watch a series of clips. Selecting them one by one is a pain in the butt.| BBC: |
NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted — Martha's NeverSeconds blog started as a writing project with her dad — A ban on a nine-year-old girl taking photographs of her school meals has been lifted. — Martha Payne, from Argyll, got more than two million hits … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
iOS 6 3D maps hacked for iPhone 4 [Video] — Apple may not be officially rolling out the 3D mapping in iOS 6 to iPhone 4 users, but that hasn't stopped hackers figuring out a way to switch on the functionality for the older smartphone. Anton Titkov has come up with 3DEnabler …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, BGR, Macgasm, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, PhoneArena, CNET and iClarified
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Dropbox for iOS updated with automatic photo uploads, gallery view, and a new way to earn bonus storage — Dropbox has just updated its iOS client to version 1.5, and the new release includes some notable additions. First on the list is automatic uploads for photos and videos in your camera roll … | Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any of its competitors — Walking cautiously through the automatic revolving door of a swanky, black, shiny, minimalist hotel in London, the first thing I notice about Mike Bell, Intel's chief of mobile, is that he's large.
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| Serenity Caldwell / Macworld: |
Geofencing alerts to come to Find My Friends this fall — This fall, you can stop asking your friend “Are you here yet?”—your phone will tell you for them. According to Apple's iOS 6 website, the company's Find My Friends app is set to add a new geofencing notification system with iOS 6.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Asks Every User For A Verified Phone Number To Prevent Security Disaster — Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to “Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips”.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
PopTip Offers Real-Time Twitter Poll Result Tracking, Hashtags And Correct Spelling Not Required — More often than not, a crowdsourced answer is the right one. Just take a look at Estimize — the anonymous user base of 6,500 users is more accurate than Wall Street 67 percent …
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AllThingsD and digitaltrends.com
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Kodak Loses Ruling In Fight With Apple Over Patents — Eastman Kodak Co. failed to persuade a judge to rule that Apple Inc. (AAPL) has no interest in a group of patents Kodak is putting up for sale as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. — U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan …
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