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| Esteban Kozak / Twitter Blog: |
Search and Discover improvements: Get more great content faster — Today we're updating the Android and iOS apps, as well as mobile.twitter.com. This release provides a single stream of content in each tab, so you can better find what's most important to you when you're on the go.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Coming Soon to Yahoo: Ads From Google — Remember when Google and Yahoo were talking about an ad alliance last year? — Maybe they worked something out, after all: Sources say Google is set to begin running some of its AdSense display ads on Yahoo sites, and will become … | Yodel Anecdotal: |
Yahoo! Teams with Google on Contextual Advertising — Every day, people turn to Yahoo! for their daily habits — like search, weather, news or more. At Yahoo!, we're focused on doing everything we can to make the user experience inspiring and engaging. One way we do that is by providing relevant …
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
Leaked video: Google-designed Chromebook Pixel with touchscreen and 2560 x 1700 resolution — We have an intriguing development for you today, one that involves what's supposedly a new Chromebook that it's currently in the works. — Developer Francois Beaufort (the guy who provided … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Google and Twitter execs form VC fund — Google and Twitter product pros form venture capital firm. — FORTUNE — A pair of product managers from Google and Twitter are forming a new venture capital firm, Fortune has learned. — One of the two principals is Hunter Walk …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Yelp's disappointing Q4 net loss of $5.3m comes despite $41.2m in revenue, up 65% from Q4 2011 — Today Yelp reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $41.2 million and an earnings per share loss of $0.08. Analysts had expected the company to lose $0.03 per share on revenue of $40.2 million.
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| Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog: |
Yelp.com Welcomes 100 Million Unique Visitors in January 2013 — I've got some good news to share. Pretty fantastic news actually. For the first time in Yelp history, over 100 million unique visitors came to the site in a one-month period. That's an all-time high for traffic to the desktop …
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| Rob Gillies / Associated Press: |
U.S. release of new BlackBerry with keyboard may be delayed — TORONTO — A modern BlackBerry with a physical keyboard might not arrive in the U.S. until May or June, a month or two behind other parts of the world, the chief executive of the smartphone maker suggested in an interview.
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Nudged by Apple, Twitter's Porn Saga Ends in a Raw Deal for Vine — We spent last week watching Vine, Twitter's new video-sharing app, get raked over the coals in the public eye for its so-called “porn problem”: If you searched for certain suggestive hashtags on the service … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
| Bloomberg: |
Google Said in Talks to Invest $50 Million in Vevo Site — Google Inc.'s YouTube is negotiating a $50 million equity investment in music video service Vevo LLC, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. — Google would own less than 10 percent of the company …
| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Microsoft and Symantec disrupt cyber crime ring — (Reuters) - Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Dell's downward spiral: 10 years of failed consumer devices — Things haven't gone so well since the Dell Dude split — It's no secret why Dell's struggling so badly it just took a $2b loan from Microsoft and bought itself back from shareholders to become a private company …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Urban Airship Nabs $25 Million in Additional Funding — Urban Airship, the Portland-based startup that specializes in helping power mobile app notifications, has raised another $25 million, as the company seeks to further expand beyond its roots. — AllThingsD.com
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Google Revamps AdWords In Bid to Boost Mobile Ad Revenue — Changes Could Mean Higher Prices for Mobile Keywords — Google is making changes to AdWords, the core product that fuels its search business, that could help it make mobile clicks into a bigger cash cow.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Google Spends $125 Million On Channel Intelligence To Improve Google Shopping — Google has acquired Channel Intelligence for $125 million in cash. — According to its blog, Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a number of categories ranging from computing to consumer packaged goods.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Unveils Sync API For Mobile Developers, Allows Apps To Work With Cloud-Based Files As If They Were Local — Dropbox is unveiling a brand new API for developers today that should give mobile app makers an excellent new tool to work with. The Dropbox Sync API allows apps for iOS … | Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
Reseller claims Mac Pro coming, Apple points to Cook's comments — Apple has long been coy about its plans to replace its languishing Mac Pro workstation, which it plans to stop selling in the EU March 1 due to regulatory changes. However, the company has reportedly been a little more up-front with some of its European resellers.
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| Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
Anger rises as Fed confirms Anonymous hack, downplays US bank emergency system breach — Summary: The Federal Reserve has confirmed Sunday's Anonymous hack; ZDNet has learned the exposed information is from thousands of Fed emergency system bank contacts. — Violet Blue| DannyD / SamMobile: |
RUMOR: Samsung will unveil the GALAXY S IV on March 15th and on sale from early April — We have some hot news for all those happy Samsung Galaxy owners. Samsung is going to announce the Galaxy S IV on March 15th. The biggest Android smartphone unpacked event is still not confirmed by Samsung self … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Android Jelly Bean hits 13.6% adoption, ICS peaks at 29%, but Gingerbread still on over 45% of devices — Google updated its Platform Versions Web page for Android on Tuesday, and it would appear that the second latest version has peaked. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces new iTunes Store record with 25 billion songs sold — Apple today issued a press released announcing the iTunes Store has a hit a new record with 25 billion songs sold. Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services noted that Apple averages 15,000 songs downloaded per minute.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft hints at future Surface covers that could charge its tablet — Microsoft is holding a Surface AMA on Reddit today to answer questions from the community about its latest Surface Pro tablet. Alongside responses about storage and battery life, the team appears to have revealed some future plans for its accessories.
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CNET, Engadget, Forbes, The Verge, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, ReadWrite and Business Insider. Tweets: @gartenberg
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Sheryl Sandberg Turned Down A Chance To Be LinkedIn CEO — Sheryl Sandberg had an opportunity to be CEO of LinkedIn in 2006, but turned down the job, she reveals in her new book, “Lean In”. — The book isn't out yet, but Tom Gara at the Wall Street Journal landed an advanced copy …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
After Instagram controversy, a watchdog site tracks shifting Terms of Service — In January, it got a lot harder to sue Skype. If you had checked its Terms of Service last week, you would have found a new sweeping class action waiver, a huge headache for anyone thinking of taking the service to court.
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