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Apple Retail Stores Begin Price Matching iPhone Discounts from Carriers and Major Retailers — With a number of retailers and carriers beginning to drop prices on the iPhone as the introduction of Apple's next-generation hardware approaches, Apple has officially continued to maintain standard …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft: Don't call it Metro. Call it ‘Windows 8’ — Summary: Microsoft may go the simple route and replace ‘Metro’ with ‘Windows 8,’ my sources are saying. — After a seeming naming dispute with a European partner (cough...Metro Group... cough), Microsoft has decided to switch rather … | Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts — In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to—in other words granting them ownership of—every post. We were unhappily surprised …
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Google Will Pay $22.5 Million to Settle FTC Charges it Misrepresented Privacy Assurances to Users of Apple's Safari Internet Browser — Privacy Settlement is the Largest FTC Penalty Ever for Violation of a Commission Order — Google Inc. has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty …
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RIM Said To Draw Interest From IBM Over Enterprise-Services Unit — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s enterprise- services unit has attracted the interest of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), according to two people familiar with the situation. — IBM made an informal approach …
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Blizzard's Battle.net Hacked; Company Recommends All Users Change Their Passwords — Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, today informed customers that their internal security network had been breached. — The company doesn't believe that financial information …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple vs. Samsung Trial Forces Companies to Open Up the Books — Everyone knows Apple and Samsung sell a lot of phones. Thanks to earnings reports there is even a pretty good sense of how many both companies sell in total each quarter. — However, the Apple-Samsung trial is providing …
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
The Mobile Payments Committee: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile unite for the future of payments — The mobile payments industry is still very much like the Wild West — there's little law and order, and plenty of gunslingers itching to strike gold. But a new committee today could finally civilize the mobile payments wild lands.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer: I Might Not Return Cash To Shareholders If We Sell Our Alibaba Stake — In a new Yahoo filing, CEO Marissa Mayer reveals that she may not be returning cash to shareholders if Yahoo sells its stake in Alibaba: — On July 17, 2012, Marissa Mayer became the Chief Executive Officer …
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| Meghan Casserly / Forbes: |
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die — Google employee benefits last into the afterlife — It's no surprise that the employee benefits of Google are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about …
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
OUYA console pre-order now available for non-backers starting at $109, slated to ship in April — Miss out on your chance to snag the Android-based gaming console during OUYA's Kickstarter tour-de-force? Worry not, friends. The outfit has opened up pre-orders it promised …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's New Bing Fund Announces Its First Two Companies — Just about a month ago, Microsoft officially announced its Bing Fund angel fund and incubator program. Today, Bing Fund announced that it has enrolled its first two companies: app development service Buddy and Pinion …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Student Edition expected at Best Buy: $249 with bundled keyboard and USB adapter — If you're looking for something — anything — to lessen the burden of summertime studies, then a trip to Best Buy may soon be in order. We've just heard from a helpful tipster … | AppleInsider: |
Apple's ‘Wi-Fi Plus Cellular’ option in iOS 6 to keep apps syncing when WiFi networks choke — If you've ever jumped onto a WiFi hotspot from your iPhone to grab a faster connection only to see it bog down and grind to a halt moments later, Apple feels your pain.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With Spindle, Ex-Microsoft Engineers Rethink the Social Discovery App — There's a running dialogue that has bubbled up with the rise of Facebook and Twitter over the past decade: Googling the indexable, global Web isn't the end-all for information anymore. The Social Web can serve us data just as pertinent, if not more so.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
New Data Exposes BitTorrent Throttling ISPs — Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. — Thanks to data collected by Measurement Lab (M-Lab) … | Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Zynga Is Said To Grant Stock Awards To Staff After Earnings Miss — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the biggest maker of games played on Facebook Inc.'s website, doled out equity grants to all full-time employees after an earnings shortfall caused a share-price decline and lessened the value of existing grants … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The Spotify Effect Shows Up: Streaming Music Boosts Warner's Bottom Line — Streaming services like Spotify and Pandora have made a lot of noise. Now they're actually generating money for the music labels, too. — Warner Music Group says streaming services contributed 25 percent …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Facebook turns to its army of users to report phishing attacks using new public email address — Nearing a billion users, Facebook has become a dedicated target for phishers and scammers, which use numerous techniques to try and get members to part with their personal information.
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Principal Mozilla Engineer Mike Hanson Departs, Joins Greylock As EIR — Greylock Partners announced tonight that it has added a new member to its team, with Mike Hanson joining the firm this week as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Hanson joins Greylock from Mozilla, where he has been a principal engineer … Sponsor Posts
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