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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Yahoo Employee Makes A HOPE Poster With Marissa Mayer's Face Instead Of Obama's — There are posters hanging on the walls of Yahoo's Sunnyvale headquarters. They depict the company's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic “Hope” poster.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon — Everyone agrees that one of Marissa Mayer's most urgent tasks at Yahoo will be hiring great managers and product people. Yahoo's talent pool has been reduced to puddles, as the best techies have gone elsewhere and promising newcomers have come down with colorblindness when it comes to purple.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Nice-ira: Andreessen Horowitz returns first fund twice over — Silicon Valley firm hits major milestone. … Andreessen Horowitz has returned its debut fund two times over, following news that VMWare (VMW) will acquire Nicera Inc. for more than $1 billion in cash, Fortune has learned.
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ZDNet, Silicon Valley Watcher, virtualization.info and Xconomy
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
VMware buys Nicira for $1.05 billion — VMware said Monday that it will buy Nicira in a deal valued at $1.05 billion in cash. Nicira specializes in open source software for network virtualization. VMware will also assume $210 million in unvested equity awards. The deal is expected to close in the second half of the year.| David Barnard / App Cubby Blog: |
The Sparrow Problem — We've all read stories about and been enthralled by the idea of App Store millionaires. As the story goes... individual app developers are making money hand over foot in the App Store! And if you can just come up with a great app idea, you'll be a millionaire in no time!
Tweets: @olebegemann, @mikeloukides and @chockenberry
| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Apple, Samsung chiefs disagree on patent values - source — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook and top Samsung Electronic Co Ltd executives disagreed last week on the value of each other's patents at a settlement conference ahead of a high profile U.S. trial, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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| Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple will provide an adapter for the new, smaller Dock connector set to debut with the iPhone 5 — While this seems like this should go without saying, because of all the questions we've been getting, and posts we've been seeing, iMore reached out to the original sources that gave us … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Hacker Will Expose Potential Security Flaw In Four Million Hotel Room Keycard Locks — Brocious demonstrating his unlocking tool on an Onity lock in a New York City hotel. — The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door.| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Why does the IT industry continue to listen to Gartner? — Summary: Another day, another provocative research report from Gartner, which has a long track record of spectacularly wrong predictions. I've collected some of their greatest hits. Er, misses. — Follow @edbott
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| Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
New In iOS 6: App Store Doesn't Require A Password To Download Free Apps — Shortly after iOS 6 beta 1 made its debut in early June, Cult of Mac reported that users are no longer required to enter their iTunes password when downloading updates or previous purchases from the App Store.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 unboxed, has 2GB of RAM and phone messaging capabilities — Since being announced way back at MWC, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 has seen a steady stream of leaks and design tweaks, and now it appears to have landed in the hands of one new owner.| Vivek Wadhwa / Forbes: |
The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry — There is great concern about China's real-estate and infrastructure bubbles. But these are just short-term challenges that China may be able to spend its way out of. The real threat to China's economy is bigger and longer term: its manufacturing bubble.| Rob Copeland / MSDN Blogs: |
Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics … In computer graphics, high performance is a guiding principle. In the early days of personal computing, discrete, add-on graphics cards were mostly focused on specialized applications such as CAD/CAM and gaming.| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Report suggests malware hits Iran atomic organization, blasts AC/DC at night — A purported Iran scientist working for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran e-mailed an SOS to F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen this weekend, saying the AEOI was under a cyber attack.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Cisco Cuts 2 Percent of Work Force As Part of Ongoing Restructuring — Networking giant Cisco Systems is cutting about 1,300 jobs or about 2 percent of its headcount as part of a the fluid restructuring plan that CEO John Chambers has said would never quite be complete.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wants ‘a world where people build into Twitter,’ not off of it — In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has reiterated many of the storylines we've been watching from the social network for some time.
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The Next Web, Wall Street Journal and CNET
Tweets: @jasonthevillain, @steverubel, @jonathanhoover, @cschweitz and @davewiner
| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Amazon's mobile ambitions grow — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to expand its mobile platform and broaden its offering of devices beyond e-readers and the Kindle Fire tablet, analysts, developers and retail partners said ahead of results next week from the world's largest Internet retailer.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Referly Gets More Social, Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program — Some more developments for Referly, the Y-Combinator/500 Startups company co-founded by Twilio's ex-head of marketing, Danielle Morrill. In what may be a hat-tip to the adept use of APIs at her former employer Twilio …
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| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com: |
4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook launching July 31st, will retail for $550 — Here it is! The much talked about launch of RIM's 4G LTE-enabled BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is upon us. This tablet was originally announced back at Mobile World Congress in 2011, but subsequently delayed.
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TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, Gadgetsteria, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
| Greg Finn / Marketing Land: |
New Social Discovery Engine ‘Bottlenose’ Aims To Take Over Real-Time Exploration — An im pressive new social discovery & monitoring tool, Bottlenose, launched a public beta today. From real-time events, trending news and popular pictures, Bottlenose can help users connect with what's happening now.
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE and Nova Spivack
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Seattle approves plan to lease fiber network to private firms — Mayor Mike McGinn chats with former City of Seattle CTO Bill Schrier in Pioneer Square last year. — Seattle will now be able to lease unused fiber optic cabling throughout the city to private companies …
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| Ben Austen / Wired: |
The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale? — Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn't delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn't do better, and it didn't have to: Apple had signed a contract granting it the business at the current pace.
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| Joel Falconer / The Next Web: |
Facebook rolls out scheduled posts, segmentation and more for Pages — Facebook has rolled out several new tools to help with the management and marketing of Pages on the service, Facebook engineer Omid Saadati announced today. — The three tools are post scheduling …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
August Capital Raising $550M For Sixth Venture Fund, “Sticking To What Works” — August Capital, the 17-year-old Sand Hill venture capital firm, is raising a new $550 million investment fund, according to documents filed this morning with the SEC. — August Partner Howard Hartenbaum … Thanks:@ryanlawler
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