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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Motorola to Cut 20% of Work Force, Part of Sweeping Change — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Motorola Mobility, the ailing cellphone maker that Google bought in May, told employees Sunday that it would lay off 20 percent of its work force and close a third of its 94 offices worldwide.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google confirms Motorola cuts in SEC filing, expects to incur $275m charge in Q3 2012 alone — Having notified its employees of job cuts and office closures on Sunday, Google has today confirmed its plans for Motorola Mobility in a regulatory filing with the SEC, alerting investors that it expects …
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Buy Frommer's Travel Brand — Google Inc. is acquiring the Frommer's travel brand from publicly traded publishing house John Wiley & Sons Inc. for an undisclosed price in order to bolster its offerings of local reviews around the world. — The deal is expected to close shortly.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos of alleged next-generation iPhone motherboard surface, point to new antennas, battery — A WeiPhone forums user posts a couple of photos of what is apparently claimed to be a motherboard/logicboard for the next-generation iPhone. If legitimate, the part appears to be a prototype unit …
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| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
AT&T planning for iPhone launch in late September, clearing schedules through October — According to a trusted AT&T (T) source, the carrier is currently planning to launch Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone during the third or fourth week of September, with an all-hands-on-deck policy … | Simson Garfinkel / Technology Review: |
The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold — Does society really want extremely private mobile devices if they make life easier for criminals? Apple's newly toughened standards sharpen the focus on that question. — Less than a month after Apple first shipped the iPhone in June 2007 … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom promises that disruptive new music service, Megabox, will launch this year — Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has dropped the biggest hint yet that his disruptive new music project is on schedule to launch before the end of the year, according to a tweet from the German …
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| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Groupon Sales Force Cracks Under Pressure — Groupon Inc. is facing a new hurdle: strains on its sales force. — Such pressures are a boon to people like Mike Silagadze. The chief executive of education-software firm Top Hat Monocle Inc. said that over the past month …
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
The coming wireless spectrum apocalypse and how it hits you — Small carriers are worried about getting snuffed by the deep pockets of AT&T and Verizon Wireless, and they want help. What judges and regulators decide to do could impact your wallet for years to come.| Russ Buettner / New York Times: |
For Jennifer Sultan, a Dot-Com Bust — OF the five members of a purported crime ring who appeared in court last month, Jennifer Sultan could not help but stand out. She seemed to have little in common with those said to be her accomplices: among them, a police officer charged with stealing … | Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
A Steep Climb Back for Facebook's Stock — SAN FRANCISCO — The Facebook spring is over. The dog days of August have taken hold. — In May, when investors tripped over themselves to buy a piece of Facebook, not even the skeptics predicted what has happened.| Adam Rifkin / TechCrunch: |
| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
RIM looks to sell NewBay, other assets: source — (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is looking to sell cloud services provider NewBay and some of the other minor assets it recently acquired, as part of a strategic review process, according to a source familiar with the matter.
| Cliff Edwards / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Struggling GameStop reinventing itself — In an effort to avoid the fate of Blockbuster, Circuit City and others in the remainder bin of failed retailers, GameStop has embarked on a daring, if inglorious, strategy: refashioning itself from a console-game purveyor into a repairer and reseller …
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