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Twitter photos: Put a filter on it — Every day, millions of people come to Twitter to connect with the things they care about and find out what's happening around the world. As one of the most compelling forms of self-expression, photos have long been an important part of these experiences.
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Apple redraws maps after Australian drivers led astray in the bush — Mildura police issue warning after motorists lose way in scorching temperatures because town misplaced on Apple Maps — Apple has updated its new maps system after police in Mildura, Australia, said a number of people trying …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Will Nix Voting, Integrate Instagram Data Despite Vote Ending With 88% Of 668K Votes Opposed — The polls have closed on Facebook's final site governance vote, with 588,803 votes (88 percent) opposed to the changes, and 79,697 of the total 668,500 in support.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Microsoft Leaks References to ‘Office Mobile for iPhone’, ‘Excel for iPad’ and ‘PowerPoint for iPad’ — Building upon a series of reports about Microsoft's apparent efforts to bring its Office productivity suite to iOS, The Verge last month shared a few screenshots and noted that the suite …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Motorola to exit South Korea in 2013, as Google restructuring claims another 500+ jobs — Motorola Mobility is to close down almost all of its operations in South Korea next year as its reorganization under the ownership of Google continues. The phone maker will keep 10 percent of its local R&D staff …
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Facebook encountering DNS issues, making it unavailable for some users — Facebook has been encountering some DNS issues this afternoon that are making it unavailable to many users. The social network's Domain Name System servers are not directing folks to its site, causing it to appear as if the network is down completely.
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Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the Internet — (Reuters) - A Russia-led coalition on Monday withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over the Internet, a plan opposed by Western countries in talks on a new global telecom treaty. — Negotiations on the treaty mark …
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| Felix Salmon: |
Why Bloomberg is interested in LinkedIn — As Henry Blodget realizes, the most interesting part of the latest speculation about Bloomberg buying the FT is buried en passant: … As Blodget also notes, this isn't really an either/or choice: the price tag for LinkedIn would be so gargantuan …
| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Instagram's next move: a novel new camera for iOS and a fresh filter for all — Embroiled in a photo turf war with Twitter, Instagram's deadly weapon of choice is a revamped iOS application that allows users to snap better, more stylized shots. — The Facebook-owned entity today released …
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| Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg: |
Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion — Google Inc. (GOOG) avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filings show.| Sachin Agarwal / Twitter Blog: |
New profiles for everyone — A few months ago, we introduced new Twitter profiles so that you could make your profile beautiful and display your style on your profile page. By uploading a header photo on twitter.com or our mobile apps on iPhone, iPad or Android, you can make your profile more uniquely yours.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google may entertain financing options to help sell Motorola's set-top business, claims Bloomberg — Google has been trying to offload its Motorola Home Business, which it acquired with its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility earlier this year, for some time now …
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| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Google offering $99 Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks to public schools — Teachers will be able to purchase the already-cheap Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for just $99 this holiday season, Google just announced on its blog. Mountain View will offer the Chromebok for that discounted price thanks … | Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Dell founder ‘turned down Autonomy’ — Billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell has revealed that Autonomy was offered to him before it was bought by Hewlett-Packard, but that he rejected the British software firm because it was “overwhelmingly obvious” that it was overpriced.
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
RIM teases BlackBerry 10 launch with image of first BB10 smartphone — Hoping to keep interest levels up before its big January 30th launch, Research In Motion (RIMM) has started to tease its own “laptop-killing” BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone on its official website.
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| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Starbucks mobile vets get $10M for Cardfree mobile payments tool — Starbucks helped open a lot of eyes to the power of mobile payments and commerce with its Starbucks Card app, which has so far been the most successful mobile payments implementation. Now, some of the key members of that team …
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| Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
Jack Dorsey Explains: Why Square Is Getting Into Gift Cards — Mobile-payment service Square has launched a new way to pay for products with its Square Wallet app: gift cards. — Here's how it works: Any Square user can send someone a “gift card” for a store that's personalized via Square's mobile Wallet application.| Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
FTC: Most mobile apps for kids secretly collect and share information — A study from the Federal Trade Commission has found that most mobile apps for kids are secretly collecting information from children including device IDs, phone numbers, locations, and other private information without their parents' knowledge or consent.| Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter: |
Detained John McAfee Sells Life Rights for Movie, TV — Montreal-based Impact Future Media says it has secured the exclusive IP rights to the embattled anti-virus pioneer, now wanted in Belize over the death of his neighbor. — TORONTO - U.S. anti-virus pioneer John McAfee … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
In “Seismic Shift,” New COO De Castro Planning to Move Yahoo Ad Sales to Category Model (Backed Up by “Marissa Halo") — In what will be a major shift in how the Silicon Valley Internet giant sells online advertising, Yahoo's new COO Henrique De Castro has briefed employees on a plan to move …
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