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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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,
| Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed: |
Zynga's Web Empire Is Basically Dead — Zynga is laying off 520 employees in its largest restructuring yet. Now the only question is whether it will survive as a mobile gaming company. — Via: Paul Sakuma / AP — Zynga today said it would lay off 520 of its employees … | 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 … | Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Apple lawyers put judge in ebook antitrust case on defensive — Trial started this morning to determine whether Apple conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices — The trial to determine whether Apple conspired to fix ebook prices got off to a dramatic start today when Apple's attorneys raised questions … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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.| Zach Miners / PC World: |
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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| 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.
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
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.
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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.| 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.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Inside Dell's Scorched-Earth PC and Server Price-War Plan — Dell, the struggling computer maker that plans to go private in a leveraged buyout transaction, has a plan to compete aggressively to retake some of its lost share in the market for personal computers and servers.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Mad genius Rickrolls and crashes Vine with full-length music video embed — Web developer Will Smidlein managed to bypass the six-second upload limit on Vine today, inserting the entirety of Rick Astley's immortal “Never Gonna Give You Up” into a post that was ultimately taken down by Twitter.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown — In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good, according to the countdown timer on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement.
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| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm integrates 4G into its mobile Snapdragon processor — Making it easier for mobile device manufacturers to build 3G and 4G-equipped devices, Qualcomm today announced that its newest quad-core processor would include these wireless capabilities. — 3G is the third-generation of wireless data … | Peter Delevett / SiliconBeat: |
Exclusive: Miley Cyrus barnstorms Silicon Valley to tout single 'We Can't Stop' — Monday was a busy day for Miley Cyrus. The Hannah Montana star and platinum-selling singer's latest single, “We Can't Stop,” made its debut, and Cyrus was up bright and early to promote it on LA's pop powerhouse KIIS-FM with host Ryan Seacrest.| 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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| 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.| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
CRTC wireless code lets Canadians cancel contracts after two years, caps excessive data fees — It's spent the past few months soliciting feedback from Canadian wireless users, and the CRTC has now announced the details of a new wireless code that it says “addresses the main frustrations that Canadians shared with the CRTC.”| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
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.| Wall Street Journal: |
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.
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