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‘Draw Something’ studio OMGPOP reportedly shuttered amid Zynga layoffs — One year ago, Zynga paid $180 million for OMGPOP, the creator of the wildly popular game Draw Something for iOS and Android. Zynga seems to have decided that was a $180 million mistake.
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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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Intel shows first smartphone with Merrifield chip — Intel on Tuesday showed the first smartphone based on its next Atom smartphone chip code-named Merrifield, which will provide better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. — The Merrifield chip will offer 50 percent better performance … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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HTC Operations Chief Steps Down as Profit Slumps on Phone Delays — HTC Corp. (2498) Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello will step down after less than three years at Taiwan's biggest smartphone maker amid slumping sales that have pushed down shares 76 percent in the past two years.
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Salesforce.com Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Yet, Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion — Salesforce.com just announced that it will make its biggest acquisition yet: It will spend $2.5 billion to acquire the cloud marketing company ExactTarget. — Salesforce is paying $33.75 a share.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Begins Offering In-Store iPhone 5 Display Replacements for $149 — As part of a shift to lower repair costs, Apple has begun replacing iPhone 5 screens at its retail locations. The new display replacement service is priced at $149 and can be purchased with or without AppleCare+.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space — After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a 10-year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000-square-foot space over two floors at 770 Broadway in Manhattan.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Acer's flagship Aspire S7 may be 2013's ultrabook to beat, S3 needs low price to succeed — At Acer's press conference in Taipei yesterday, the company announced some very welcome changes to one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2012: the Aspire S7. Our two primarily complaints with the machine …
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Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce a set of executive actions aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as “patent trolls” to their detractors, amid concerns that the firms are abusing the patent system and disrupting competition.
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Dell refreshes its XPS 12 Ultrabook, XPS 27 all-in-one and XPS 8500 desktop — Now that it's unveiled its next-gen Ultrabook, Dell's taking the opportunity to refresh the machines it's already got. Starting with the XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, the company is adding an NFC chip …
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Apple denies conspiracy in ebook pricing trial: “Publishers fought [us] tooth and nail” — The Department of Justice's trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DOJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspiracy … | Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
Susan Molinari Adds to Google's Political Firepower — WASHINGTON — Susan Molinari had wrapped up her second week as Google's chief Washington lobbyist when she got a call at home late on a Friday that blindsided her: the Federal Communications Commission was fining Google $25,000 for having …
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Apple Said to Shift Ad Focus to Support New Music Service — Apple Inc. (AAPL), planning to release a music-streaming service next week, is revamping how it sells mobile advertising to cater to businesses eager to reach customers as they listen to songs, people familiar with the changes said.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
IBM to Acquire Cloud Services Company SoftLayer — Computing giant IBM just made another move in its quest to becoming the biggest provider of cloud computing services. It said it will acquire SoftLayer, a privately held cloud services player based in Dallas. — Financial terms are not being disclosed.| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Chicago Sun-Times trains reporters to shoot with iPhones after laying off all its photographers — The Chicago Sun-Times this week laid off all 28 of its staff photographers, and has reportedly begun training its remaining reporters on “iPhone photography basics.”
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NVIDIA CEO demos new stylus touchscreen tech, uses Tegra 4 image processing to reduce battery drain — Elaborating from the battery-saving PRISM screen tech that we saw on Tegra 3 devices, the NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off a new software-based touchscreen technology that allows …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba intros three Android tablets, two with Tegra 4 and a 2,560 x 1,600 screen — Could three times be a charm for Toshiba? After striking out with its “Thrive” Android tablets and then coming up a bit short with the “Excite” line, the company is completely scrapping its tablet lineup and replacing it with three new models.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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Lenovo planning smartphone venture in expansion drive — (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, is in detailed discussions on a smartphone venture with NEC Corp, a Japanese partner in PCs whose mobile business is faltering, as it eyes partnerships and acquisitions to expand in high-growth markets.
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| Lilly Vitorovich / Wall Street Journal: |
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