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Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping And Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court More Mobile Users — Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to two reports in the Israeli press at Calcalist … | Microsoft: |
Microsoft names Corporate Vice President Amy Hood as new Microsoft chief financial officer — Former CFO for the Microsoft Business Division succeeds outgoing CFO Peter Klein. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer …
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Apple supplier Pegatron boosts China workforce by 40 percent in second quarter — (Reuters) - Pegatron Corp, an assembler of Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad, said it would increase its number of workers in China by up to 40 percent in the second half of the year, fuelling market speculation of a new cheaper iPhone.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency — There's so much data available on the internet, that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield, delays launch to June 25 — Ouya is just a kind on the block alongside the game consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. But it's graduating to a higher level today, as the maker of the $99 Android game console is announcing today …
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Dear Apple, let's talk about photos — I'm Peter, a Rails developer and entrepreneur. I'm an ex-computer vision researcher, the former CEO of Clickpass and a YC alum. I now work with an awesome team building Copyin - email for teams — We've been managing our photos together for almost a decade now.
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad released — On New Years Eve last year I said that I had some big plans for The Loop in 2013. The biggest of those plans is The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad, which is available from the App Store today. — I wrote an introductory article …
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit — Apple Inc. (AAPL), taking its patent fight to Google Inc. (GOOG) through its infringement litigation against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), is asking a judge to force Google to turn over documents related to its Android operating system.| KC Lemson / Windows Phone Blog: |
Full-res photo and video backup now available worldwide for Windows Phone 8 — [This post was written by Aaron Sauvé, a senior program manager on the Windows Phone camera and photos team. -KC] — One great feature of Windows Phone 8 is its ability to save full-resolution backup copies …
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| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart — Dialup out, broadband in. It doesn't get more clear than this. — At the end of March, almost 2.7 million people still subscribed to AOL service, the company reported this morning. That's about where Netflix stood at the end of 2004.| Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones: |
This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) — Jennie Lamere was the only woman to present at a Boston hackathon. She won it. — Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum … | Jeff Jordan / Fortune: |
Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel — What happens when two giants collide? — FORTUNE — Amazon and Google are on a collision course. — When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly what we were doing. We had first mover advantages and network effects.| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy — Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. — Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy … | Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Twitter favorites @Sunnyvale with new office lease — Sunnyvale, you have a new follower: Twitter. — Twitter Inc. has signed for an 8,000-square-foot space at 400 West California Ave., part of Sunnyvale Business Park and just a skip away from the Sunnyvale Caltrain Station.
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Nokia unveils the touchscreen Asha 501 with new software platform, we go hands-on (video) — One or more additional members are expected to join Nokia's Lumia line-up next Tuesday, but today the company has chosen New Delhi as the stage to unveil the Asha 501, a new touchscreen handset … | Bloomberg: |
Apple, Oracle Pay Their CFOs the Most as Cash Hoards Grow — Five of the ten best-paid finance chiefs last year work in the technology industry, as executives at companies from Apple Inc. (AAPL) to Google Inc. (GOOG) were rewarded for increasing profit, amassing cash and minimizing taxes.
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| Mathew Ingram / paidContent: |
LinkedIn continues its evolution as a media entity with the launch of magazine-style news channels — Although it is still seen by many as a place for networking with colleagues and/or posting a digital curriculum vitae, LinkedIn has been behaving a lot more like a media entity recently …
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Michael Arrington Sues Jenn Allen Over Rape Claims — After issuing an ultimatum to abuse-alleging ex Jenn Allen, TechCrunch founder and investor Michael Arrington is now trying to take her to federal court. In demand for trial filed just yesterday, Arrington's lawyers allege Allen tried to …
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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Feds Drop Hacking Charges in Video-Poker Glitching Case — They know when to fold 'em. Las Vegas prosecutors targeting two men who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune at video poker have dropped all hacking charges from the case, cashing out an 18-month legal battle … | Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Cisco Meraki Launches “Presence”, With Facebook Account Log-In To Wireless Networks — Cisco Meraki has launched a new service called Presence that provides data about mobile behavior across location and automatic log-in to wireless hotspots using a person's Facebook account.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware — Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. — Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. — Facebook| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
Say goodbye to the pin: voice recognition takes over at Barclays Wealth — Barclays Wealth customers will no longer need to answer security questions and remember pin codes to use telephone banking. — Barclays Wealth customers will be able to use voice recognition rather than security pins| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Coursera leaps another online learning hurdle, partners with Chegg and 5 publishers to give students free textbooks — Online learning startup Coursera on Wednesday announced a partnership with Chegg, a student hub for various educational tools and materials, as well as five publishers …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Translate For Android Can Now Interpret 16 Additional Languages By Camera, Adds Phrasebook Support — One of the coolest features of the Google Translate for Android app is that you can just point your camera at a text, tap the word you want to translate and get a translation back.
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