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Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees — 18 Percent of Staff — and Shutter New York and LA Offices in Refocus on Mobile — Zynga is laying off 18 percent of its workforce — which represents 520 employees — in a bid to reduce costs and more drastically restructure its troubled business toward mobile …
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| Mark Pincus / Zynga Company Blog: |
CEO Update — Our Founder and CEO Mark Pincus today sent a note to employees outlining structural changes Zynga implemented today and provided some detail on cost-reductions that are taking place company-wide. Please find his note, posted in its entirety, below. — To our Zynga Community,
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
ASUS Zenbook Infinity official with a Gorilla Glass 3 lid, touchscreen and backlit keyboard (eyes-on video) — Just as promised, ASUS has unveiled its Zenbook Infinity at Computex 2013 in Taipei. Being the first laptop — let alone an Ultrabook — to boast a Gorilla Glass 3 lid …
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Microsoft Ponders Major Restructuring, Amid Renewed Wall Street Focus on Stock — According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is working on what is likely to turn into a significant restructuring of the massive software company, which could also move several current execs to more prominent roles.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Here's the Justice Department's case against Apple — The Department of Justice has posted its opening statements against Apple as the two head to trial over alleged e-book price fixing. — The Department of Justice has just released the 81-slide deck of its opening statements against Apple …
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Leaked SKUs likely point to MacBook refresh at WWDC as inventory tightens — According to a set of leaked part codes for upcoming Apple products, Apple will likely debut a refresh to at least one of its MacBook lines at the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference.
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Microsoft Said to Cut Windows for Tablet Prices — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is cutting the price of its Windows software for small tablets, seeking to shore up foundering efforts to combat Apple Inc. (AAPL) in the mobile-computing market, people with knowledge of the matter said.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Researchers Say They Can Hack Your iPhone With A Malicious Charger — Careful what you put between your iPhone and a power outlet: That helpful stranger's charger may be injecting your device with more than mere electrons. — At the upcoming Black Hat security conference in late July … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Releases Vine For Android Smartphones As It Tops 13M Users — Twitter has released Vine for Android, bringing the 6-second video sharing service to Google's mobile OS for the first time. The Vine app is available for Android smartphones right now, and is a free download for anyone running Android 4.0 or higher.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Samsung announces new 8" and 10.1" Galaxy Tab 3 Android tablets, launching globally in June — Samsung introduced its Galaxy Tab 3 range of Android tablets today, unveuling a new 8-inch and 10.1-inch option which will be sold “globally” from the beginning of June.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Kantar: Android took 52% of US smartphone sales in April, but iOS and Windows Phone are growing faster — In the US, Android grabbed 51.7 percent of the smartphone sales market through the three-month period ending April 2013, while Apple took second place with 41.4 percent, and Microsoft settled for third at 5.6 percent.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Dell XPS 11 video preview: a Yoga for the Haswell crowd — Unlike Acer and Asus, who overwhelmed us with sheer numbers this morning, Dell's Computex assault is formed by just one, standout product, the XPS 11. This 11.6-inch laptop touts an outstanding 2560 x 1440 resolution …
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Microsoft will offer Azure by the minute to take on Amazon's cloud — Sometimes the key to getting bigger is making things smaller. At least that's the idea behind Microsoft's plan to offer Windows Azure cloud resources by the minute with no mininum buy-in.
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Foxconn Developing Firefox Devices — Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said Monday it is developing more than five devices-from smartphones to televisions to large display boards-using Mozilla's Firefox mobile operating system.
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HTC One coming to Verizon this summer — Following months of speculation, Verizon has announced today that it'll be launching its own version of HTC's vaunted One in the coming months. For HTC, the announcement carries special weight: Verizon's support means that the One will be available …
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Google says ‘no’ to sexually explicit content on Glass — Google Glass can, in theory, be used for lots of things, but sexually explicit material is one area now off limits to developers. — “We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit material …
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Meanwhile in France: Apple to pay 5 Million € in unpaid taxes on 2011 iPads sales — The post Meanwhile in France: Apple to pay 5 Million € in unpaid taxes on 2011 iPads sales appeared first on Rude Baguette - France's Startup Blog. — Apple's been in the spotlight quite a lot recently …
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