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Yahoo Q3 Beats Expectations In Mayer's First Full Quarter As CEO: $1.2B Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS $0.35 — Yahoo today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, its first full quarter with new CEO Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer is back at work full-time after taking …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
The Debut of Yahoo CEO Mayer: “Tailor-Made” for Marissa — Yahoo turned in a meh third quarter, which came as no surprise to anyone. But none of it matters, since all eyes were on what new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer would say on the investor call today. — Here we go! It is Mayer's first outing as a public company CEO.| Amir Efrati / Digits: |
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| Dan Lyons / ReadWrite: |
Editor's Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite — Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I'm thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site's new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung says it's still supplying LCD panels to Apple — A Samsung spokesman refutes a report out of Korea that the electronics giant is ending its agreement to supply LCDs to Apple.Samsung refuted claims that its display business plans to end its LCD panel supply agreement with Apple …
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Federal agency to switch to iPhone, drop BlackBerry — (Reuters) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said will end its contract with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in favor of Apple's iPhone, dealing a fresh blow to RIM just months ahead of its launch of a vital new device.| Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Introducing the New Entertainment Experience from Xbox — Steve Ballmer recently stated that 2012 will be “the most epic year in Microsoft's history.” — Not only do we have major releases coming to the PC, tablet and phone, but we have worked extremely hard to ensure those screens work together …
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| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Apple's secret garden: the struggle over leaks and security — Apple engineers love the “big reveal.” When a surprising new product they have been toiling over in secrecy finally bursts into public view during an Apple keynote, they enjoy seeing the public reaction.
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
A New Version Of Google Wallet Is ‘Coming Soon’ — Google has quietly updated the website for Google Wallet, its mobile-payments service, to advertise “the next version of Google Wallet, coming soon.” — Visitors can request an invite. We did, and Google asked us what kind of device we used …
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| Amanda Lefebvre / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
New Office Web Apps, now live on SkyDrive — The new Office Web Apps are now live! — Thanks to all 750,000 of you who have helped put the Office Web Apps Preview through its paces since it went live in July. This scale of use and thousands of pieces of feedback prior to general availability …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Amazon apparently discontinues Kindle Touch in favor of Paperwhite — It appears that Amazon is no longer selling the Kindle Touch, the touchscreen e-reader that preceded the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite. Amazon also seems to have discontinued the large-screen Kindle DX last week.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Apple's My New Boss, Color Engineer Says on Twitter — A Color iOS engineer updated his Twitter profile to say he works for Apple, buttressing reports that Apple is acquiring staff from the spectacularly unsuccessful app maker. — Eric Cheng graduated from the University of Pennsylvania earlier …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT — With its new tablet-friendly user interface, Windows 8 is going to be a revolution for both desktop users and tablet users alike. These substantial user interface changes are paired with extensive changes beneath the operating system's surface.| Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
The Internet Split — Web sites will soon fall into two categories: high audience low yield, low audience higher yield. Such a divide will impact digital advertising. — This Autumn, whomever you talk to will tell you this: internet advertising yields are taking a dive.
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| Chris Chavez / Android Phone Fans: |
Confirmed: T-Mobile Stores Now Receiving Galaxy Note 2 Shipments for Oct 24th Launch — Can't say I've lusted this hard after a non-Nexus device in quite sometime (read: ever), but we now have confirmation that the T-Mobile has scheduled the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for this Wednesday, October 24th.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Icelanders approve their crowdsourced constitution — A constitution is a deeply serious thing: the bedrock of a country's identity. So Iceland's decision to let the general populace participate in the drafting of its new constitution - via social media such as Facebook and Twitter - was a bold move.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter testing ‘like’ and ‘star’ instead of ‘favorite’ with a limited set of users — Some users are seeing the term ‘Like’ or ‘star’ appear on Twitter.com in the place of the traditional ‘Favorite’. The new terminology appears to be showing up for certain users on the service, but from searches it looks like a limited set so far.| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Apple starts testing iOS 6.0.1 for release in coming weeks, iOS 6.1 to come after holidays — One of our reliable Apple (AAPL) sources has let us know Apple has begun testing iOS 6..1 with different carrier partners in the U.S. and we have a general list of what the first iOS 6 update … | Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
1 month later, iOS 6 adoption hits 61 percent in U.S., Canada — A month after Apple's official release of iOS 6, it's been installed on roughly 61 percent of possible devices in the U.S. and Canada according to new data collected by Chitika Insights. That is only slightly better …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google News gets click-to-expand clusters, sidebars of photos and videos and an updated Techmeme-like layout — Google has updated its Google News product with a few nice new features today, including expandable news clusters, video and photo sidebars and a layout tweak to improve readability.| Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: |
How the Huffington Post handles 70+ million comments a year — The Huffington Post has accumulated more than 70 million comments so far this year, far surpassing the 2011 total of 54 million. — To take a single example, its post (the first published) with the now-famous video of Mitt Romney's … | Ryan Singel / Wired: |
Online Analytics Firm Settles Suit Over Unstoppable User Tracking — A screenshot of a “cookie” hidden in the browser cache. — KISSmetrics, a popular tool for websites to monitor who is using their site, has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of using shady techniques …
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
LG exec claims Nexus due at October 29th event, ships to India one month later — It's either a premature confirmation or one of the larger executive gaffes we've seen in recent memory, but it's hard to ignore. LG's Mobile Product Planning lead for India, Amit Gujral … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon updates Kindle Fire HD with kid-friendly FreeTime feature, says HD is ‘#1 selling product’ on its site — Amazon has just informed us via email that it is updating its Kindle Fire HD lineup with the kid-friendly FreeTime feature it promised at launch.
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| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Gadget Lab Gets First iPad Mini Case — Before the iPad Mini Has Debuted — This iPad mini case does not yet have an iPad mini to fit inside of it. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired — It takes a lot of guts to push out an accessory before its corresponding product has even been announced … Thanks:@redgirlsays
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flurry Examines App Loyalty: News & Communication Apps Top Charts, Personalization Apps See High Churn — Mobile app analytics firm Flurry has released an updated version of one of its most popular research reports, first published three years ago. In the prior report, Mobile Apps: Money …
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