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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Groupon tanks on missed Q4 revenue of $638.3 million, unexpected loss of $0.12 per share — Today Groupon reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $638.3 million, and earnings per share of -$0.12. Analysts had expected revenue of $640 million, and earnings per share of $0.03.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Groupon's Loss Widens; Stock Dives — Groupon Inc.'s stock plunged 26% after the daily-deals site capped a turbulent first year as a public company with a wider quarterly loss and a forecast for weak growth. — Chicago-based Groupon has turned a profit just once since going public and is struggling to rev up sales.| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’ — During a talk at TED, the Google co-founder says Glass improves on the smartphone experience. — Mobile phones may generate the fastest-growing segment of Google's revenue, but the experience of using them still bothers Google co-founder Sergey Brin.| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
Unsold IPhones Piling Up at Leap Wireless — For one of the country's prepaid cellphone carriers, a big bet on the iPhone is becoming a big headache. — Leap Wireless International Inc., which operates the Cricket cellphone brand, said it is on pace to sell half as many iPhones as it committed …
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Cook: Forget About Our Share Price, Apple Has Some Great Stuff Coming — If you're an Apple shareholder dismayed by the downward trajectory of the company's stock price lately, CEO Tim Cook feels your pain. — Remarking on the value of Apple's stock, which has plummeted by roughly …
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| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
E Ink Android Phone Lasts a Week, Weighs Next to Nothing — Who would want a smartphone with a grayscale E Ink screen? Anyone who want days of battery life, superior outdoor readability and low cost should be interested in using the technology in a phone.| Sam Gibbs / Gizmodo UK: |
Tweetbot Shows You How to Shame Bottom-Feeding Pirates (Updated) — You're a developer. You work your arse off to make a rock-solid product and charge a modest fee for people to use it, like the awesome Tweetbot for instance. So you're annoyed when people pirate the hell out of it. So, what do you do?
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Placed study reveals how Amazon is impacting brick-and-mortar retailers — Online shopping has brought upon a new phenomenon called showrooming, a term describing the act of browsing brick-and-mortar stores and then later making the purchase it online often at a cheaper price.
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| MIT Technology Review: |
An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network — Following the collapse of the social network Friendster, computer scientists have carried out a digital autopsy to find out what went wrong — Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
GDRs and Microsoft's road to Windows Phone Blue — Summary: The Windows Phone team seems to be doubling down on secrecy. But that doesn't mean an end to rumors about what's next for the platform on the OS front. — Leaks about an alleged new HTC Windows Phone in the works have a number … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Time Warner Cable says there's no consumer demand for gigabit internet — Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable's Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is having on consumers.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: AOL Poised to Hire Susan Lyne to Run All Content Brands, Except HuffPo — Sources said AOL is set to hire well-known media and Internet exec Susan Lyne to be CEO of its content brands unit at the New York-based Web company, except for the Huffington Post Media Group headed by Arianna Huffington.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack — Earlier this week when the six strikes system launched, little was known (officially) about the punishments ISPs were planning for persistent pirates. — Since then Verizon reinstated their copyright alerts section, revealing the mitigation measured that leaked last month.| Mozilla Hacks: |
Building A Paid App For Firefox OS — At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your Firefox OS phone. It enables you to sell a web app …
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Pandora Resurrects Its 40-Hour (Monthly) Limit On Free Music, But This Time It's Capping Mobile Usage — As it struggles to deal with rising royalty costs, streaming radio service Pandora is bringing back an old idea by capping free mobile usage at 40 hours per month.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
To Bolster Search, Facebook Nudges its Users to Help Index the Real World - and Build a Data Store to Rival Google's — Facebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World — Taking aim at Google, the largest social network wants a database describing as many things as possible. — WHY IT MATTERSThanks:@tsimonite
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
EA putting micro-transactions “into all of our games” — “Consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of business.” — EA is building micro-transactions into all of its PC and console games, the company has announced. — The decision comes despite the recent controversy surrounding micro-transactions … | Jordan Press / canada.com: |
BlackBerry not as secure as believed, memo warns federal workers — OTTAWA — The federal department charged with overseeing cyber-security has warned its workers to think twice before sending a BlackBerry message, suggesting that the device believed to be the most secure in the world is more vulnerable than users may believe.
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| Natasha Lennard / Salon: |
Anonymous group claims to show BofA monitored hackers, activists — Hacker group leaks data reportedly from Bank of America showing (shoddy) monitoring of activist and hacker activity — An Anonymous group, identifying itself as Par:AnoIA (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency) …
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The Register, information-age.com and Business Insider
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Cluster App Aims at Better Photo Curation (Especially for the Lazy) — Can't say I get excited when I hear about a new photo-sharing app. The market is flooded. Plus, I'm lazy, and don't feel like investing time and energy into yet another new app. — Serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan wants to convince me to feel otherwise.
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TechCrunch, Cluster and GigaOM
| Brendan Sasso / The Hill: |
Bill would force ‘patent trolls’ to pay legal costs — A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that aims to combat “patent trolls”—firms that accumulate patents for the purpose of suing other companies rather than creating new products.
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
T-Mobile Q4 2012 revenue drops 5.2 percent to $4.9 billion, customers and income also fall — It might be a good thing that T-Mobile's in the crosshairs of a MetroPCS merger, as the company again shed revenue, customers and profits. Total revenue dropped to $4.9 billion from $5.2 billion last year …
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| Sruthi Gottipati / India Ink: |
‘Hole in the Wall’ Wins Indian Educator $1 Million TED Prize — Sugata Mitra, an Indian education innovator, was awarded the first $1 million TED Prize for what the global organization called his “innovative and bold efforts towards advancing learning for children.”Sponsor Posts
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