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The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations — There are two views of former Google VP and new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in the industry. — One is that she is a brand name product leader who played a crucial role in helping Google develop its most valuable business … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
The Ultimate Googler Is Yahoo's Ideal CEO — It was already 10:30 at night, after a very long day that had begun at the Great Wall of China. A party of about 25 people had just finished a long meal at a restaurant chosen by Google's resident Beijing gourmet, Kai Fu Lee.| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo — In a bombshell announcement that sent shock waves through the entire technology sector, former Google executive Marissa Mayer has become the new chief executive officer of Yahoo:the fifth CEO the faded web giant has had in five years.| Patricia Sellers / Fortune: |
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Apple's Next iPhone Has Thinner Screen, Better Display Quality — HONG KONG—Apple Inc.'s next iPhone, currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, will use a new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner, people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. technology giant strives …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T appears set to control and charge for FaceTime over Cellular in iOS 6 — Like it does with the iOS Personal Hotspot feature, U.S. carrier AT&T appears set to control and charge for the iOS 6 FaceTime over Cellular feature. This iOS 6 enhancement brings the formally WiFi …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Autodesk Buys Mobile Video Shooting Star Socialcam for $60M — Socialcam, the quick-growing mobile video start-up, has quickly found a buyer. — Autodesk, known for its CAD visual effects software, has agreed to buy Socialcam in a deal worth approximately $60 million, both companies said.| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Thiel vs. Schmidt: The fireworks fly — There wasn't much two of Silicon Valley's brightest luminaries could agree on. — FORTUNE — Has technology improved our lives over the past 30 years? It depends who you ask — and some of Silicon Valley's biggest luminaries couldn't disagree more.| Fox Business: |
Motorola Xoom Tablet Doesn't Infringe iPad, Says German Court — A German court Tuesday ruled the Xoom tablet, made by Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Motorola Mobility, doesn't infringe on the design of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad, but it rejected a claim made by Motorola that the iPad's design patent is invalid.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Serial hacker says latest Android will be “pretty hard” to exploit — Diagram showing attacker overwriting a return address with a pointer to the stack that contains attacker-supplied data — The latest release of Google's Android mobile operating system has finally been properly fortified with an industry-standard defense.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google+ Debuts With ACSI Consumer Satisfaction Score Well Above Facebook's — The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index is out for social media sites, measuring satisfaction with Google+ for the first time against other social networks. What a debut!
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
3-D motion controller company Leap Motion scores former Apple VP as COO and President — San Francisco-based Leap Motion, which specializes in 3-D motion control software, has announced a significant hiring today. Its new COO and President is former Apple VP and General Partner at Highland Capital, Andy Miller.| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
Facebook engineer accidentally blocks Imgur, apologises on Reddit — When things go wrong on Facebook, they go disastrously wrong. But one Facebook engineer faced the Web's wrath head on and mitigated a public relations disaster for the world's largest social network. — Follow @zackwhittaker
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Piper Jaffray: 80 million iPhone 5 sales are already “in the bag” — In a survey of 400 consumers, 65% said they expected their next phone to be an iPhone — FORTUNE — In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster reported the results of his annual cell phone survey.
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
My Xbox LIVE app adds iPad support in 1.6 update — One mobile pillar at a time, or so seems Microsoft's approach to support for My Xbox LIVE. The app, previously available as a remote control perk for Windows Phone, Android and iPhone users, has just seen a 1.6 update that brings … | Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Firefox 14 rolls out: Google searches default to HTTPS, OS X Lion users get fullscreen support — The changes in Firefox 14 may not be quite as immediately noticeable as those in the recently released Firefox 13, but they're still fairly notable nonetheless.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
B&N Launches Nook For Web, Doesn't Work On iPhone Or iPad — Barnes & Noble is bringing its Nook reading platform to the web today, where it will compete with Kindle's Cloud Reader, iBooks, and Kobo's Instant Reader head-on. The move is an important one in the sense that one needs …
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| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Jerry Yang Leads New Funding Round for OpenBucks — Individual angel investors generally don't take leading roles in providing new institutional funding rounds for start-ups, but OpenBucks broke that tradition. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based financial services start-up raised $4.8 million …
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Zaarly Anywhere: buy anything you see online, custom made for you — Zaarly, the online marketplace where users find and hire talented local builders and artisans, is announcing a new “Zaarly Anywhere” initiative that allows any site to enable offline commerce from online content.
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| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Microsoft confirms 28 million PCs affected by browser ballot SNAFU, promises fix by the end of the week — You might remember quite some time ago when Microsoft had its hand forced within the EU to give a “Browser Choice Screen” (BCS) inside of Windows computers that had defaulted to Internet Explorer.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
LivingSocial Launches E-Commerce, a Business Worth $200 Million a Year — Today, LivingSocial officially announced its first foray into selling physical products. — LivingSocial Shop is similar to the company's original business, in that it will send an email to consumers, offering a limited set of products at a discount.
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Education startup Coursera partners with 12 new universities, raises $3.7M and hits 1.5M students — As we wrote back in April, there's no doubt that the Internet is revolutionizing education, as more and more companies continue to emerge and alter the way we learn.
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| Harry McCracken / Techland: |
Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time — The Grid Compass, the first clamshell-case laptop computer — How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? — Listening to its creators doesn't work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency … | Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
Exclusive: Want A Phablet On Verizon? Here Is The Upcoming 5" VZW LG Optimus Vu [Photos] — If you were hoping to see a phablet device like the Samsung Galaxy Note on Verizon, Big Red's upcoming device is going to technically fit the bill. Except instead of the enjoyable, well designed …
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Dell Sets Up $60 Million Venture Fund for Storage Technologies — Dell Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said the computer maker has established a $60 million venture fund for storage technologies. — “We really believe in this explosion of data driven by smartphones, tablets,” he said at a conference in Aspen, Colorado.
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
GM opens up OnStar with peer-to-peer car sharing service — The around 6 million subscribers to GM's OnStar connected car service can now rent out their cars to other drivers via a deal between the auto giant and peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides.
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