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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 …
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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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Nokia Q1 2013 Misses With Sales Of $7.6B With $0.03 Loss Per Share; 5.6M Lumias Sold — Nokia has just reported is results for Q1 2013 with sales of $7.6 billion and a non-IFRS loss per share of $0.03 (and a reported EPS of $0.09) — a mixed result compared to analyst estimates …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia sales hit record high of 5.6 million in Q1, nearly 20 million in total — Nokia's latest quarterly earnings show that the Finnish smartphone maker continues to improve its Lumia sales. Following a jump in Lumia sales in Q4 2012, Nokia's first quarter of 2013 saw …
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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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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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Samsung says considers Hynix chips for its mobile products — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co is considering purchasing mobile memory chips from rival SK Hynix Inc for future products including its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone to be launched this month, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung's mobile business, said on Thursday.
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Space Monkey: Easy Cloud Storage in Your Very Own Home — I have a confession: I've never properly backed up my computer. Ever. Whether it was a cloud-based solution or a local NAS, the upload speeds were horrendous or the software was just plain ugly and confusing to use.
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Toshiba Kirabook Challenges MacBook Air with Retina-Like Display (Video) — The Kirabook isn't just another laptop for Toshiba; it's the first product in a new luxury brand designed to go toe-to-toe with Apple at the high end of the market. Priced at a fairly steep $1,599 …
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Q1 Venture Capital Spending And Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet — Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector.
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LinkedIn Updates iPhone, Android Apps With A Personalized Activity Stream, Better Navigation, And Ads — With the ink still drying on last week's acquisition of news aggregation app Pulse, LinkedIn continues to double down on mobile, the fastest-growing consumer service among its 200 million members.| 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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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft Excel: The ruiner of global economies? — Figuratively speaking, of course. — Aurich Lawson — An economics paper claiming that high levels of national debt led to low or negative economic growth could turn out to be deeply flawed as a result of, among other things, an incorrect formula in an Excel spreadsheet.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor halts operations, shuts down — Exchange specializing in the virtual currency announces it's ceasing all trading operations and plans to return funds to its users. — The recent Bitcoin rollercoaster ride has come to an end for one exchange.
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Expenses Mount for App Launches — Some Games Cost $5 Million to Get off the Ground; ZeptoLab Lines Up Burger King — Mobile-game maker ZeptoLab UK on Thursday will release “Cut the Rope: Time Travel,” its first major title in the popular “Cut the Rope” series since 2011. The launch won't be a quiet one.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Yahoo plans to launch iPad email app, new iOS weather app tomorrow — Yahoo plans to release an in-house weather app for iOS and an iPad version of its Yahoo Mail app as soon as tomorrow, according to a person familiar with the apps. — The iPad version of Yahoo Mail is optimized …
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UK Supreme Court Says Unauthorized Browsing Of Copyright Material Online Is OK, But Asks European Court Of Justice Just In Case — The lawsuits brought against the media monitoring firm Meltwater in both the US and the UK have not turned out too well for the company so far.
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