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| Sriram Krishnan: |
Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer — OMG, did you see that Marissa Mayer is now CEO of Yahoo? — That was one of many messages I got from current and ex-Yahoos on yesterday's news. Having recently exited a short stint at Yahoo as an engineering manager and having had hundreds …
| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
What the Internet Wants From Marissa Mayer, in Five Words — Earlier this year, in a brilliant, eviscerating, and really sort of heartbreaking essay, Mat Honan told the tale of “How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.” … As an epilogue, and as an elegy, Honan's piece was powerful … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Has Hired Outside Experts To Investigate Possible Security Breach — The spam attack and related possible address leak over at Dropbox may be even more serious than we originally thought. According to a message posted by the company over on its forums, they've now brought in …
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| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype — Well before the iPhone, and going back all the way to the early 2000s, Apple had been working on tablet prototypes that would eventually form the groundwork for the original iPad — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript'; … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
AT&T gets into shared data: ‘Mobile Share’ plans coming late August — Just over a month after Verizon announced Share Everything, AT&T is getting into the burgeoning shared data game (as it's been saying it would) with Mobile Share, a tiered set of plans that allow subscribers to split …
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| Hill Ferguson / The PayPal Blog: |
PayPal Acquires card.io — I'm excited to announce that PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco-based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. — We first met with the team at card.io when we were working …
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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
With a $6 million Series A, Twist for iOS wants to ensure you'll never wait for someone again — There are times when we see a team and we know that the product that they're crafting is going to be great. When startup vets Bill Lee and Mike Belshe are behind a project, it would be one of those times.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It's ‘Too Early’ To Know — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that AT&T might charge customers extra …
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Dotcom Extradition Judge Steps Down After “U.S. Enemy” Comment — For the greater part, Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants will have been pretty happy with Judge David Harvey, the man overlooking their increasingly controversial extradition case. — Things had been going well …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+ — In the midst of today's news whirl, this tidbit slipped through the cracks; Part of the design team Cuban Council has apparently been acq-hired by Google, according to a note on their blog.
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy — LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it's just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley. — It's product is half building block, half circuit board …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, True Ventures, Pulse2 Technology …, Betabeat, Business Insider, AllThingsD, littleBits and CNET
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate — The Senate Armed Service Committee isn't exactly pleased with the NSA's Google-like database. — Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr — In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google.| Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
Already Valued at $4B, China's Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple — China's answer to Apple occupies the 12th floor of a staid office tower in a sprawling commercial area of Beijing. It has no signage on the building's exterior, so the only clue that suggests I'm in the right place …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Sony unveils 2012 Walkman range: Android 4.0 F series and refreshed entry-level E series (eyes-on) — The Walkman F800 is Sony's latest PMP; a 3.5-inch Android media player that replaces the company's middling Z series. Perhaps the most intriguing point is that the new media player will arrive … | James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Google: Your Nexus 7 will ship this week or next — Summary: Lots of people are anxiously waiting word on when their shiny new Nexus 7 tablet will be shipping, while others are already receiving theirs. This is the official word from Google as of today. — James Kendrick — Follow @jkendrick
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google launches Gmail SMS, letting users in Africa send and receive emails by text message — Google has rolled out a new service in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya that lets Gmail users send and receive emails using the built-in SMS features of their mobile phones.
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Google Africa Blog, The Verge and textually.org
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins another Major iPhone & iOS Interface Patent — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-five newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In today's first granted patent report we focus entirely on a single patent that represents another major iPhone and iOS interface victory for Apple.
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The Verge, Social Media, Gotta Be Mobile, Fortune, Android Phone Fans, Pocketables, CNET, AppleInsider and Wired
| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit — Last week, Betaworks, a small, privately held company in New York bought a website called Digg for $500,000. — This was shocking news to the Internet industry. — Just six years ago, Digg was a hot startup fielding big buyout offers.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bringing Banking To Immigrants & Unbanked, m-Via Rebrands As Boom Financial, Closes On $17 Million In Funding — Global mobile money transfer service m-Via is officially rebranding as Boom Financial today as it announces the close of a $17 million round of funding, led by mobile operator Digicel Group Ltd …
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The Next Web, PandoDaily, Virtual-Strategy Magazine, GigaOM and AllThingsD
| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard … When we began planning how touch and new types of PCs might work on Windows 8, we recognized the need to provide an effective method for text entry on tablets and other touch screen PCs. Since Windows XP SP1, which had Tablet PC features built in …
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Softpedia News, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, The Verge, parislemon, The Droid Guy and Engadget
| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Judge rejects secrecy bids in Apple vs. Samsung battle — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected several requests by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to keep portions of key documents out of public view in their high-stakes patent litigation battle set for trial later this month.| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
With 110M Monthly Visitors, Dailymotion Debuts Update to Cloud Service — Today Paris and NYC-based Dailymotion, a web video platform that reaches more than 110 million unique visitors per month, announced an update to its Dailymotion Cloud product, which makes its suite of video publishing tools available on a white label basis.
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GigaOM, SocialTimes, TechCrunch and The Next Web
| Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI's Secretive ‘National Security Letter’ Demand for Phone Records Faces Rare Challenge — In a rare test of a tool expanded in the U.S. Patriot Act, a telecom company is fighting the government's use of a secretive tool called a national security letter to get access to customer records without a court order.
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| Matthew Handrahan / GamesIndustry International: |
Foxconn planning $1 billion facility in Indonesia — New manufacturing plant will create 1 million jobs in the region, where the average monthly wage is $100 a month — The market leading computer manufacturer Foxconn is planning a new $1 billion facility in Indonesia.
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
ARM-based OpenStack: it's like an army of cell phones powering cloud-based computing — RackSpace, HP, Canonical, and other OpenStack members are combining forces to build what they say will be the first-ever ARM processor based cloud. The goal is to build an extremely efficient, powerful …
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InfoWorld, Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunch and GigaOM
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Facebook and Washington state join forces to register voters — Collaborating with Microsoft, Washington state and Facebook partner to create an app that lets the state's residents register to vote via the social network. — Follow @darakerr — Washington State Election's Facebook page.
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Marketing Land, The Verge, Ars Technica, NationalJournal.com, GeekWire, Forbes, WebProNews and AllFacebook
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Skyhook Introduces In-Flight Location Services, Promises Better Battery Life For Background Apps — Skyhook, the company that once powered Apple's iOS location services and that pioneered WiFi positioning in 2003, today announced the latest version of its developer kit for Android.
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