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| The Verge: |
Live from Facebook's 'see what we're building' event — Facebook has sent out a mysterious press invite to “come see what we're building.” That's not Facebook's usual way of announcing big products, so we're expecting the company to do something pretty major. Find out along with us right here.
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Introducing Graph Search Beta — Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected. The main way we do this is by giving people the tools to map out their relationships with the people and things they care about. We call this map the graph. It's big and constantly expanding with new people, content and connections.
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Thanks:@d_ghiglieri| TechCrunch: |
Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar “Graph Search” That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google — Today at Facebook's press event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced its latest product, called Graph Search. Two of the members of the Graph Search team, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky …
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
New MySpace opens to the public alongside new Justin Timberlake single — MySpace this week quietly opened up its redesigned site to the public. The so-called “New MySpace” entered internal beta testing in July, and was previewed in September. Thus far, however, it has only been accessible …
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| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife — In the wake of the suicide of hacker hero Aaron Swartz, his friends and family released a statement placing the onus for his death on “a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.”
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If you lose your cellphone, don't blame Wayne Dobson … Wayne Dobson doesn't have your cellphone. — Even if it looks like he might. — In the past two years the 59-year-old retiree has been pestered by people showing up at all hours of the day and night at his house, demanding their phones.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Belgian consumer group sues Apple over its ‘misleading and illegal’ warranty policy — Belgian consumer protection organization Test-Aankoop yesterday filed a lawsuit (Dutch) against Apple for not respecting local laws on warranties. — All Apple hardware comes with a one-year limited commercial warranty … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
iPhone 5 orders have been cut, but it's not due to demand woes — According to analysts, the iPhone 5 is not experiencing weak demand, and the recently announced cuts could simply be due to improved yields on components. — Apple's iPhone 5 — All of that talk that Apple …
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Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows - drive-by crapware installers — Many people in the technology startup community have very high regards for Paul Graham and Y Combinator, the exclusive seed accelerator program in Silicon Valley which has under its belt acclaimed successes like reddit, Airbnb and Dropbox.
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| Scott Cleland / The Daily Caller: |
What if Microsoft exited the search business? — Amazingly, most everyone totally ignores a linchpin competitive assumption when they talk about search competition and Google's antitrust liabilities - that Microsoft will always be a competitor in the search advertising business.
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California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial — A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a lower cost via the Internet.| Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits: |
OkCupid Wants to Send Members on a ‘Crazy Blind Date’ — OkCupid, the dating site, has spent the last few years experimenting with ways to appeal to increasingly tech-savvy and pressed-for-time singles. In 2011, the company rolled out a “locals” feature that showed other singles nearby …
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| Apple: |
Wi-Fi + Cellular Models of iPad mini & Fourth Generation iPad Available in China This Friday — BEIJINGJanuary 15, 2013Apple® today announced the Wi-Fi + Cellular versions of iPad® mini and the new fourth generation iPad with Retina® display will be available in China on Friday … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG deflects blame for Nexus 4 supply issues — Google has had some pretty heavy supply shortages since putting the Nexus 4 handset on sale in November, but manufacturer LG doesn't see a problem from its point of view. An official speaking to the Chosun Ilbo has said that production … | Marco Tabini / Macworld: |
How Apple sets its prices — Comparison-shopping for new electronics can be fun and addictive. With a bit of patience, some luck, and an eye for good deals, you can find everything from TV sets to hard drives at a significant discount. In fact, in our economy, discounts …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
China's Internet population surges to 564 million, 75 percent on mobile — Summary: Thanks to mobile technology, more Chinese citizens are gaining access to the Internet. — Charlie Osborne — More Chinese citizens than ever have access to the Internet thanks to mobile technology driving Internet penetration.| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
An Ivy education without the debt? Minerva Project creates non-profit to figure out how — The Minerva Project, which turned heads last April with its mega $25 million seed round, has grand ambitions for bringing a Harvard-level education to the Web. But there are two aspects …
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Watch out, Square: PayPal and NCR team up for mobile payments in a big way — Two of Square's biggest competitors are joining forces: PayPal and point-of-sale (POS) company NCR just announced a major deal that could tip the mobile payments market in PayPal's favor.
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TechCrunch, The PayPal Blog, Wall Street Journal, Finextra Research, WebProNews and internetretailer.com. Thanks:@devindra
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
SevOne To Go For IPO, Raises $150 Million From Bain Capital To Expand P2P IT Monitoring — SevOne, an IT management company that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to manage all elements of a customer's IT infrastructure, has raised $150 million from Bain Capital to scale out its IT management offering and issue an IPO.
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| Hollywood Reporter: |
Hollywood Reporter Parent Company Names Ross Levinsohn CEO — The former Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media executive will lead Guggenheim Digital Media, a new umbrella company that includes THR, Billboard and other brands - with an eye toward growth. — The Hollywood Reporter's parent company …
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