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| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba's New Goal: Taking On Android — HANGZHOU, China—While the technology industry is closely watching Apple Inc.'s patent war against rivals using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system, China already has homegrown software that is trying to take on Android in the country's fast-growing smartphone market.
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SiliconANGLE, CNET, The Next Web, ZDNet and The Droid Guy
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| Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD: |
HP Previews Windows 8 All-in-One PCs With NFC, Touchscreens — A little over a week ago, HP revealed some of its upcoming Windows 8 Ultrabooks and convertible PCs. Now, the company is playing show-and-tell with its new all-in-one PCs. — HP Spectre One
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Inquirer, PC Magazine, Engadget, The Verge, Computerworld, digitaltrends.com, Pulse2 Technology …, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, ZDNet, Macgasm, VentureBeat, The Loop, HP, Gizmodo, Electronista, Mashable!, Windows 8 Beta, CNET and BGR
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| Ann Zimmerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Toys ‘R’ Us Rolls Out Its Own Tablet — In a bid to battle the “showrooming” phenomenon that is hurting big-box retailers, Toys “R” Us Inc. is expected to disclose Monday that it plans to sell a proprietary tablet designed for children. — The $149.99 Tabeo will be available only at Toys … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
180 Out Of 202 Kansas City ‘Fiberhoods’ Reach Their Google Fiber Pre-Registration Goals — Two weeks ago, things didn't look so great for Google Fiber, but after a last-minute push, 180 out of the 202 ‘fiberhoods’ in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri managed to reach Google's goals …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Is Spotify Preparing To Push Its App Center To Its iOS Mobile App? — Yesterday, Josh wrote about how Spotify is planning to push out a browser-based version of its music streaming service. Earlier today AllThingsD further confirmed this and added a bit more color: the price is not likely …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Amazon updates its Kindle Mac app, adds support for gestures, new Kindle 8 format and more — Following the announcement of its new Kindle e-reader and tablet line-up at the end of last week, Amazon has pushed live a new update for its Kindle Mac app, adding support for Lion gestures …
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| Paul Graham: |
Black Swan Farming — I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing. — The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners …
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Business Insider and Howard Lindzon. Tweets: @qthrul, @stevenlevy, @tophtucker, @carnage4life, @erickschonfeld, @codinghorror and @arrington
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google Glass Meets Fashion, Smart Glasses To Be Part Of DVF Fashion Show — Google Glass — Google's smart glasses project — is heading into the new world of fashion. Designer Diane von Furstenberg and others have been using them to record preparations for the upcoming DVF Spring 2013 Fashion Show … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Google Maps uses Ground Truth project to battle Apple — Google's software analyses Street View photographs to locate and identify relevant information which it then adds to its maps — A new front opens up in the smartphone battle between Google and Apple this week when the search giant's … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google For Defamation Over Autocomplete Suggestions — When you search for “Bettina Wulff” on Google, the search engine will happily autocomplete this search with terms like “escort” and “prostitute.” That's obviously not something you would like to be associated …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Warby Parker raises $37 million — Eyeglass maker can now see its future a bit clearer. — FORTUNE — Trendy eyeglass maker Warby Parker has raised $36.8 million in new venture capital funding, according to a regulatory filing that indicates the total round could top out at $40 million.| New York Times: |
Google Charges Retailers to Appear on Shopping Site — Whether you are looking to buy a power tool or neon jeans online, chances are you start your search on Google or Amazon.com. But which one? — Behind the scenes, the two companies are waging a war to become the pre-eminent online mall.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Amazon Expanding In-App Purchases to Include the Sale and Delivery of Physical Goods — In what is one of the best demonstrations of Amazon's tablet and commerce businesses coming together, the company is letting developers sell physical goods inside of their games with one click.| Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: |
Lunch with the FT: Tim Berners-Lee — Over iced tea and eggplant pita, the inventor of the world wide web talks about Apple, Facebook and the digital divide — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an intimidating interviewee. It's not so much the worry about keeping up with the brain that invented the world wide web …
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Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes? — The ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes, not on hard evidence—because there isn't any — WAS ALEC BALDWIN RIGHT? When the actor tussled with American Airlines personnel last December over his desire to continue playing a game …
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