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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Confirmed: OnLive's assets sold to another company — This report was filed on the scene, from OnLive headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. — In the face of a myriad of rumors and conflicting reports this morning, the pioneering cloud gaming service OnLive confirmed today that its assets have been sold to a new, still unnamed company.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
OnLive's new mystery owner is reportedly one person, and other revelatory rumors — What's really going on at OnLive, the streaming game company that reportedly laid off its entire staff today? The official word is that the entire firm's assets were acquired by a “newly-formed company” …
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Google's Motorola Files New Case Against Apple At ITC — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit said it filed a new patent-infringement claim today against Apple Inc. (AAPL) that could result in a ban on U.S. imports of devices including the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Files New Patent Lawsuit Against Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S. — According to Bloomberg, Google's Motorola unit just filed a new patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington.| Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb: |
Why Twitter Just Pushed Developers Aside: To Secure Its Future — Twitter's long-awaited crackdown on outside apps could prove to be one of the boldest and most controversial moves in its history. But if you consider Twitter's position, it's actually reasonable. And it could play an important role in Twitter's survival.| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Not All Developers Hate Twitter's New API Rules — The dust is still settling on yesterday's news that Twitter is prepping a new API for release in the near future. And while many developers immediately slammed Twitter's new rules, not everyone is angry about the changes.| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
DEAR FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES: Here's The Truth About Your Stock Price — Facebook's stock has dropped by half since the IPO three months ago. — And the stock price is now well below the level at which most employees have been granted stock in the past 18 months.
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| Brad Reed / BGR: |
Facebook shares clobbered again, down 50% from IPO — Sad but true: Investing your life savings in Facebook's (FB) IPO shares is now only half as bad of an investment as sending your bank account number to the deposed prince of Nigeria. Facebook shares once again got hammered on Friday …
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| Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: |
Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site - Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last (Update) — Double check your calendars - is it April 1st? It's not? Then there's been a massive rip in the space time continuum as Motorola has officially published the new “Unlock My Device” page.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
At Long Last, Testimony Wraps Up in Apple vs. Samsung — Whew. — After roughly fifty hours of testimony, hundreds of exhibits and millions of dollars worth of expert opinions, both Apple and Samsung have rested their case in their mega patent suit against one another.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Judge Rejects Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories’ Lawsuit Settlement — A federal judge, ruling late Friday said he had “serious concerns,” and rejected a Facebook privacy settlement concerning the social networking site's “Sponsored Stories” advertising program. — U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mystery malware wreaks havoc on energy sector computers — Malware researchers have uncovered an attack targeting an organization in the energy industry that attempts to wreak havoc by permanently wiping data from an infected computer's hard drive and rendering the machine unusable.| Pamela Parker / Marketing Land: |
Google Changes Smallest, But All-Pervasive, Element Of Brand Identity - The Favicon — It's such a small thing — only 16 pixels by 16 pixels — but, when folks are browsing along day-to-day, the favicon is how they find the browser tab that has Google.com open, or the favorite link to Google.Sponsor Posts
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