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LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M — LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. — The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path — Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass — We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off … | Rene Ritchie / iMore.com: |
The “iPhone 5S” problem — Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year. The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-as-in-Siri, is that 2013 will see another S-style update.| Terril Yue Jones / Reuters: |
China says willing to discuss cyber security with the U.S. — (Reuters) - China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington about the accusations and counter-accusations.
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UK's anti-fraud agency says may be conflicted in Autonomy probe — (Reuters) - Britain's fraud-busting agency said it might have a conflict of interest in its investigation of Autonomy, a British software company accused of accounting irregularities by its new U.S. owners Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Netflix Launches Speed Index To Highlight The Best ISPs For Streaming — For the last few months now, Netflix regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video. Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With Spotify On The Web Horizon, Rdio Takes Its Browser-Based Music Service To 7 New Markets; Now Reaching 24 — The land grab for online music streaming services continues. On the heels of reports that Spotify is planning to take its web-based music player global to complement its desktop and mobile apps … | Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg: |
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BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal — BlackBerry shares jumped the most in more than a month after Lenovo Group Ltd. (992)'s chief executive officer was quoted in a French financial newspaper as saying his company may eventually consider buying the smartphone maker.
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Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working — To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who haven't built … | Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone To Create A Virtual Private Cloud Showing Again How Enterprise Tech Is Obsolete — Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company's intent to push into the enterprise market.
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Meet the ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ for 2013 — Paris-based Reporters Without Borders names five companies as “digital mercenaries” that have decided to sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes. — Vietnam has been named one of the enemies of the Internet for its extensive government surveillance.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23% — A technical glitch in the core Bitcoin software forced developers to call for a temporary halt to Bitcoin transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off. The currency's value briefly fell 23 percent to $37 before regaining much of its value later in the evening.
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iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala — From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone. — Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy different kinds of phones because they want to do different things with them.| David Jolly / New York Times: |
France Refers Skype to Prosecutors — PARIS - French regulators said Tuesday they have asked prosecutors to investigate Microsoft's Skype unit over its failure to register as a telecommunications operator in accordance with local law, raising the question of just what constitutes a phone company …
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Panic over as EU votes to reject ‘porn ban’ proposals — EU politicians have voted against a pan-European ban on all forms of porn, including on the web, at least for now. Such a vote has happened before, and it's worth putting the ‘porn ban’ into some context.| Jay Greene / CNET: |
Microsoft offers Kinect code samples under open source — The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license. — Kinect for Windows sensor
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Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? — After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay — “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007. “People want to own their music.” At that time, Apple had solved the problem … | Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Data Mining for Investors: DJ Patil — Data mining can help venture capitalists find the next big thing. But it can't be the whole story— at least not yet. — From his perch as data scientist in residence at the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Greylock Partners … | Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook ‘focused on basics’ for News Feed and mobile ads — There's a vision many people have when they think about mobile advertising. Hyperlocal, real-time, something that incorporates features like text, push notifications, QR codes and GPS. — Facebook News Feed product manager Jeff Kanter … | Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
App Makers Woo Lawmakers as SXSW Conference Tackles Immigration — As entrepreneurs and venture capitalists swilled beer and swapped business cards at a technology conference in Austin, Texas, Kevin Callahan hunkered down March 9 for a closed-door meeting with Senator Jerry Moran.
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