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HTC in disarray: staff departures, ‘disastrous’ First, and production problems cloud company's future — Internal upheaval comes at a bad time for the struggling phone maker — The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week.| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company — Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees. Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …
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| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Xbox One has non-replaceable hard drive, external storage is supported — We had the opportunity to chat with Albert Penello, senior director of product planning at Microsoft this afternoon, who was kind enough to clarify a few topics for us regarding the recently-unveiled Xbox One.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes — webTV returns to Redmond... with a vengeance — “For the first time, you and your TV will have a relationship.” — That's how Microsoft began the introduction of its new Xbox One today …
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Xbox Live Gold memberships apply to both Xbox One and 360 — Xbox Live Gold memberships on Xbox One will be flexible and streamlined, according to Microsoft, allowing console owners to use their Gold account on both the Xbox One and Xbox 360 and letting multiple users share the same account.
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Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome — The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.
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Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row — (Reuters) - Ireland called on Wednesday for an international clampdown on multinationals shifting profits around the world to avoid tax, after criticism that Irish loopholes helped technology giant Apple to shrink its tax bill.
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| Amy O'Leary / NYT Bits: |
GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award — Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs.
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| Melissa Grey / Engadget: |
Nokia adds sight recognition to Here Maps for Windows Phone 8 — Six months after promising to integrate sight recognition technology into its Here suite of apps, Nokia has finally updated Here Maps with LiveSight. The update is available today in the Windows Phone app store and requires Windows Phone 8.| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Hipmunk CEO: We think we can be bigger than Kayak — Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, left, and co-founder Steve Huffman. / Hipmunk — Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein, 25, believes his flight and hotel metasearch company can one day be larger than Kayak, and with $20.2 million … | Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Qualcomm demos next-gen 2,560 x 1,440 Mirasol display (hands-on video) — We haven't heard about Mirasol for a while now, but Qualcomm's reflective display tech showed up in a few proof-of-concepts on the SID Display Week floor. We got a look at a previously announced 1.5-inch panel embedded … | Jordan Novet / GigaOM: |
Blue Coat to acquire Solera and sweeten network-security story as cyberattacks continue — There's been lots of investor interest recently in backing startups focused on making IT more secure, at least in part because of the barrage of news of cyberattacks against government agencies and companies, including a defense contractor.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Urturn Raises $13.4M Series A, Led By Balderton, For Its Social Expressions Platform That Lets Teens Create Memes & Movements — Urturn, the social expressions platform that soft-launched as stealthily as possible last year by intentionally hiding under a really boring name …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Samsung buys 10% stake in Korean handset maker Pantech for $48 million — Samsung is investing in hardware after the company agreed to spend 53 billion won ($48 million) to acquire a 10 percent stake in fellow South Korean firm Pantech, the country's third-largest maker of mobile devices.| Mitali Pattnaik / Twitter Advertising: |
Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card — Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases. — With those goals in mind, today there's a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards …
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| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up — Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it. But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased their usage in the past year …
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| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
AMD slips to fourth spot as Qualcomm and Samsung capitalize on mobile processor sales — A fall in demand for desktop PCs and continued growth of the smartphone and tablet market saw AMD fall from second to fourth place for microprocessor sales in 2012. According to a new report from IC Insights …
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