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Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes — Today the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo our third Google Fiber City. — Utah is already home to hundreds of tech companies and startups …
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| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center — Intel, the chip giant, is buying Mashery, a seven-year-old company in San Francisco that specializes in linking together Web-based software and services, a company spokesperson confirmed to ReadWrite.
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| Wired: |
Google Is Forbidding Users From Selling, Loaning Glass Eyewear — Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget. — The company's terms of service on the limited-edition wearable … | Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed (video) — We already know what Page and Co. will be packing along with Glass, but now that participants of the Explorer program have begun picking up the spectacles, we're getting a second-hand unboxing experience.
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Android Community, SlashGear, MyTechSkool and Selfscreens. Tweets: @scobleizer
| Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware — The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. — “We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together,” said Phil Libin …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Sources Say Amazon Acquired Siri-Like Evi App For $26M - Is A Smartphone Coming? — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S it seemed like a magic piece of software. The future had arrived. But it wasn't alone. True Knowledge, a British startup with a natural language search engine developed …
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| Karsten Strauss / Forbes: |
Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? — ILKKA PAANANEN says the best way to make money in mobile gaming is to stop thinking about making money. Think about fun instead. Fighting a mild case of flu and jet lag from a San Francisco flight back home to Helsinki …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Xbox team testing smartwatch prototypes with a Surface connector — Microsoft is prototyping its own wrist-worn device. A reliable source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has revealed to The Verge that the company has been developing a wrist-worm device for just over a year.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting — Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read. Now it's trying to target them based on what they type. — Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets … | Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Windows 8 touch devices to drop to $200, says Intel CEO — Prices of Windows 8 touch devices based on future Intel chips are set to drop like a rock. — Windows 8 touch devices will dive in price, according to Intel executives. — The price of Windows 8 touch devices will sink …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Toshiba unveils the KIRAbook, a 13.3-inch Ultrabook with a 221 ppi touchscreen display and 256GB SSD — Toshiba is about to introduce a new, high-end Ultrabook called the KIRAbook, the first product in the company's new premium KIRA range. — The laptop is Toshiba's first piece of hardware …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line — Summary: Microsoft is joining the two-factor authentication ranks, adding support for this security mechanism across its products and services accessible via a Microsoft Account. — There have been hints …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Thanks To PayPal And Marketplace Growth, eBay's Q1 2013 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.7B, Net Income Up 19 Percent — After posting strong Q4 2012 results in January, eBay once again saw better-than-expected financial results in Q1 2013. Revenue was up 14 percent to $3.7 billion, compared to the same period of 2012.| JeeYeon Park / CNBC: |
Apple Breaks Below $400 for First Time Since Dec. 2011 — Apple tumbled to its lowest level in over a year, as investors continued to dump shares of the tech company amid worries over second-quarter iPad mini shipments. — The once-darling tech giant of Wall Street shed nearly 6 percent Wednesday …
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9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, MoneyBeat, TheStreet.com, Business Insider, Reuters, Examiner, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @benedictevans
| Ronald Grover / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Guggenheim advises on Hulu sale, may also bid - sources — (Reuters) - Hulu has hired Guggenheim Partners to advise on a sale of the company, even as the financial services firm is considering making its own bid for the video streaming service, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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| Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report: |
Apple Named in China Porn App Investigation … Apple Inc. is once again in the pages of the People's Daily, this time in an article listing a number of websites and app stores that have been investigated for providing pornographic content in China. — The Cupertino, Calif. … | Winston Ross / The Daily Beast: |
Can Reddit Solve the Boston Bombing? Probably Not — Boston may have caught a break in the marathon bombing. But even before, the online community Reddit had a list of suspects. Winston Ross on the hazards of crowdsourced detective work. — Was it the man in the blue robe?| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Broadcasters file Aereo appeal, warn of ‘havoc’ and ‘massive disruption’ to TV industry — Fox, PBS and other broadcasters filed for a New York appeals court to revisit a crucial ruling that permitted start-up Aereo to beam their signals. The appeal raises the stakes further in a battle for the future of TV.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Evan Williams' Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter — Ev Williams' content creation platform Medium has made its first acquisition: Matter, the Kickstarter-backed science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM reporter Bobbie Johnson last year.Sponsor Posts
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