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Japan's Softbank in talks for $12.8 billion Sprint stake — (Reuters) - Softbank Corp (9984.T), Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, is in talks to buy a majority stake in U.S. telecoms company Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) in a deal worth more than 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Softbank in Advanced Talks to Acquire Sprint Nextel — TOKYO—Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. is in advanced talks to buy U.S. operator Sprint Nextel Corp. in a deal expected to exceed ¥1 trillion ($12.81 billion) in value, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Thursday.
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| Dennis K. Berman / WSJ Blogs: |
Sizing Up a Softbank Takeover of Sprint — Japanese mobile carrier Softbank — the country's premier technology investor — is mulling a takeover of the struggling US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. in a deal expected to exceed $12.81 billion. — An early read on what such a deal would mean.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Eric Schmidt: Android-Apple Is the Defining Fight in the Industry Today — The fight between Google and Apple over mobile devices is great for consumers, but the patent wars that have resulted are awful, said Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, in conversation tonight with our own Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Eric Schmidt Can't Wait for Self-Driving Cars, Won't Predict When Google Maps Come Back to Apple — You wanted new news from Eric Schmidt about the state of the Apple-Google war? So did all of us. But the Google chairman was mostly mum on that subject. He was happy, however … | iFixit: |
iPod Touch 5th Generation Teardown — We got our hands on Apple's new iPod Touch. First thing we do: get inside to see just how much “funner” the new generation is compared to the older generations. Join us for all the fun to come by following iFixit on Twitter or friending us on Facebook.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
RockMelt For iPad: A Browser Built For Touch That Turns The Web Into A Feed So Content Comes To You — Surfing the Internet can feel like you're running in circles, constantly checking your favorite sites for updates. The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Gives Street View A 250K-Mile Update Across 17+ Countries, Its Biggest Update Ever; Maps API Now Features Time Zones — Google is continuing to gain points on the mapping front, today launching yet more features for the product at a time when Apple's offering continues to appear weak by comparison.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
US Congress' Privacy Caucus says DAA's anti-'Do Not Track' stance puts “profits over privacy” — Yesterday, ad industry body Digital Advertising Alliance issued a statement that siad that the “Do Not Track” settings of Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 10 were not an appropriate standard for customers.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Mod_Pagespeed Is Now Out Of Beta And Ready To Make Your Sites Faster — Google just released the first stable version of mod_pagespeed, the company's open-source module for Apache that can automatically optimize your web pages to improve download and rendering speeds.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google Chrome exploit fetches “Pinkie Pie” $60,000 hacking prize — An image displayed on a computer after it was successfully commandeered by Pinkie Pie during the first Pwnium competition in March. — A hacker who goes by “Pinkie Pie” has once again subverted the security of Google's Chrome browser … | Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Exclusive: eBay starts daily deals for services, taking on Groupon — (Reuters) - EBay Inc has quietly launched an online marketplace for deals on local services, taking on Groupon Inc and expanding into a potentially big category. — Called eBay Lifestyle Deals, the offers are being run …
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Here's Business Insider's Crazy New Strategy to Boost Ad Revenue — Sponsored Content Business, ‘Brand Insider’ Expected to Generate 50% of Ad Revenue — Get ready for more slideshows on Business Insider, but this time with a twist: they'll be paid for by an advertiser and likely include some nod to a brand's product or service.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Mobile Apps Now Support Pages, iOS App Gets iPhone 5 Support And Finally Lets You Edit Your Posts — Google just launched the latest version of its Google+ apps for Android and iOS. The most important new feature in this update is support for Google+ pages.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
A $12 Billion Move In Apple Stock Seems To Have Started With Tweets From A Single Anonymous Source In China — Apple's stock dropped 2.21 percent on Monday. — A few analysts blamed the drop - worth more than $12 billion - on a strike of 4,000 Chinese workers at Apple's manufacturer.
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| Simon Goodley / Guardian: |
Facebook accused of taking UK for a ride — Figures suggest only 11% of sales in UK are declared, with company benefiting from basing its HQ in Dublin — Facebook has been accused of taking the British taxpayer for a ride after experts suggested the company had depressed sales figures …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix settles with deaf-rights group, agrees to caption all videos by 2014 — In an agreement that the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) calls “a model for the streaming video industry,” Netflix has agreed to caption all of its shows by the year 2014.
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NAD News, SlashGear and WatchingTV Online
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook confirms researcher exploited privacy settings to quickly collect user phone numbers — Update at 6:00PM EST - How to protect your phone number on Facebook: Three options you and your friends need to know about — On Friday, a researcher by the name of Suriya Prakash claimed … | Thomas Gryta / Digits: |
T-Mobile Quietly Removes iPhone Image From Marketing Campaign — Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile has removed the image of Apple Inc.'s iPhone one month into a marketing campaign that encourages people to bring their unlocked iPhone to the carrier. — The marketing push openly invited people …
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DSLreports, TmoNews, Phones Review, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla pulls day-old Firefox 16 from download site over security risk — One day after the release of Firefox 16, Mozilla said it has “temporarily removed” the latest version of its browser because of a security flaw that the company is trying to fix as quickly as possible.
| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Amazon gets FCC's OK to sell Kindle Fire 4G tablets — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to sell its high-end Kindle Fire 4G tablets, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. — Amazon unveiled the new tablets last month, but the devices had not secured FCC clearance.
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HotHardware.com News, CNET, Electronista, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project — A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit against universities that participated in a massive book-digitization project in conjunction with Google without permission from rights holders.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Thousands of student records stolen in Florida college breach — The confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, faculty, and employees accessed in hack, education officials warn. — Hackers have accessed the confidential information of nearly 300,000 students, employees …
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