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Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial — (Reuters) - With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China's state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power of the government press.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
HD Voice Will Start Coming to AT&T Later This Year — Among the announcements that T-Mobile made last month was its plan to deploy improved voice calling starting with the arrival of its iPhone 5 later this month. — The technology, known as HD Voice, requires support from both the network and the devices on each end of the call.| Matthew Boesler / Business Insider: |
ANALYST: All Of My Clients Think There's A Bitcoin Bubble, But A ‘Perfect Storm’ Is Causing Prices To Surge — It's probably fair to say that the big rise in Bitcoin this year has caught many by surprise. — Today, the value of one Bitcoin hit $100. In early March, they were trading below $35.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record — As expected, the new season premiere of Game of Thrones has generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites. — Hundreds and thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show, breaking the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever in the process.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Google Faces Action in EU After Failing to Fix Privacy Policy — Google Inc. (GOOG) faces possible fines after six European Union data protection regulators started “coordinated” enforcement measures over the company's failure to fix flaws in a new privacy policy.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
No joke: Amazon hires Windows Phone vet Charlie Kindel for ‘something secret’ — Charlie Kindel, the Seattle tech veteran who left his job as a Microsoft Windows Phone general manager in 2011 to join the startup world, has now been hired by Amazon.com as the director of an undisclosed project inside the company.
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Google's Privacy Director Is Stepping Down — When Alma Whitten was tapped to be Google's first director of privacy in 2010, CNet declared hers the “hardest job at Google.” A long time engineer at the company with expertise in computer security, she was put in charge of a program overseeing products …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Smartisan OS unveiled in China, takes a fresh approach to Android UI design — Following the likes of Meizu and Xiaomi, another star is born in the Chinese smartphone market. In fact, some may already know the man behind this new Android-based Smartisan OS: Luo Yonghao, a self-taught ex-English teacher …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
San Francisco DA met with Apple over phone thefts, hints next two iPhones designed under Jobs — The San Francisco Examiner reports on meetings between San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and mobile device makers regarding phone thefts. Because Apple's iPhone was reportedly involved … | Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Microsoft co-founder to open investment office in Silicon Valley — (Reuters) - Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp, is opening an office in Silicon Valley to make new investments in emerging technology and internet companies. — The Palo Alto office …
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| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
E-bleeder: is Nook on its deathbed? — Barnes & Noble's once-promising digital business needs to turn a page to compete with Amazon and Apple — The ending has yet to be written for Barnes & Noble's Nook story, which began with the surprise debut of the original Nook e-reader back in late 2009.
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| Biz Stone / Jelly HQ: |
What is Jelly? — People are basically good—when provided a tool that helps them do good in the world, they prove it. — Jelly is a new company and product named after the jellyfish. We are inspired by this particular animal because neurologically, its brain is more “we” than “me.”
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Twitter Relaunches Its Twitter For Business Site With More Content, New Video — Twitter has relaunched its Twitter For Business website with a new look, plus additional content that Twitter hopes will help businesses learn how to build a successful presence there.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon's Cloud Drive adds file syncing, moves closer to a viable Dropbox replacement — When Amazon launched its Cloud Drive app for Mac and Windows back in May, we noted that a lack of proper file syncing prevented the service from becoming a full-blown Dropbox and SkyDrive replacement.
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| Jarred Walton / AnandTech: |
NVIDIA's GeForce 700M Family: Full Details and Specs — With spring now well under way and the pending launch of Intel's Haswell chips, OEMs always like to have “new” parts across the board, and so once more we're getting a new series of chips from NVIDIA, the 700M parts.
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| Mary Ellen Gordon / The Flurry Blog: |
Size Matters for Connected Devices. Phablets Don't. — Flurry now detects about 1 billion smartphones and tablets in use around the world every month. In the last 30 days, we saw activity on more than 2,000 unique device models. As the device base grows, we're seeing an increasing variety … | John Brownlee / Cult of Mac: |
Reeder Goes Free On The iPad & Mac Until Google Reader Shuts Down — Reeder has long been our favorite newsreading app on the iPhone and iPad, but with Google Reader set to be discontinued on June 30th, the future of Reeder has been up in the air. Google Reader is the engine that drives Reeder …
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
AT&T to begin HTC One pre-sales this week, starting with 32GB for $250 — True to form, carriers won't stop being so coy about the HTC One. We still haven't received any official information regarding the flagship's pricing or specific availability, but thanks to one of our eagle-eyed tipsters … | Ron Amadeo / Android Police: |
[APK Teardown Exclusive] The HTC Myst Facebook Phone - The Facebook App Is Now A Launcher, Looks Like They're Planning A Play Store Release, Too — We've managed to score a system dump of the Facebook phone! There's nothing in it that's too earthshattering, and you could probably guess … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Startup Nebula Launches a Plug-and-Play Cloud Computer — Here's a name I haven't heard in a while: Anso Labs. — Remember this was the cloud computing startup that originated at NASA, where the original ideas for OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform was born?
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TechCrunch, The Register, GigaOM and Wired
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Midokura Scores $17.3M Series A To Ramp Up Its Network Virtualization Offering On A Global Scale — Japan's Midokura, a startup with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Lausanne and Barcelona, today announced a $17.3 million Series A funding round, led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan …
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