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Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’ — Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle. — The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix's video streaming service …
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No Dice: Zynga Decides to Abandon Real-Money Gaming Efforts in the U.S. — In its lackluster second-quarter report today, at the very bottom of its press release, Zynga made a very important strategic announcement, saying that it would not pursue real-money gaming in the U.S.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords — Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. — The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Q2 Disappoints, Sales Up 22 Percent To $15.7B, Net Loss Of $7M — Amazon just reported second quarter earnings, with sales increasing 22% to $15.7 billion in the second quarter, compared with $12.83 billion in second quarter 2012. Net loss was $7 million in the second quarter … | Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Chromecast Coming To Google TV And Existing Hardware, Two Products Will Coexist Going Forward — Chromecast may perhaps be the evolution of the Nexus Q, but it's not a replacement for Google TV. True to form, the company believes that the two products do not compete with one another and can co-exist comfortably side by side.
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Apple's Secret Weapon: the iPhone 4 — Three-Year-Old Smartphone Propels Company's Sales in Price-Conscious Markets — Apple Inc. is known for drawing crowds with its latest and greatest technology. But one of its most potent weapons in some markets came out three years ago.
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Apple's iPhone Activation Servers Experiencing Extended Outage — While Apple is still working to bring its developer site back up a week after taken offline due to a security breach, the company appears to be experiencing another problem with its systems today, as a number of MacRumors … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Lays Off 250 Employees From Its New Product Testing And R&D Department — Layoffs at Waterloo-based smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry cut deep last year, with around 5,000 employees being let go. Those cuts continue into 2013 as BlackBerry undergoes what CEO Thorsten Heins called a … | Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Verizon calls on President to veto coming iPhone ban — As an import ban on Apple products gets set to take effect two weeks from now, a Verizon executive is asking the White House to take the unusual step of intervening with the U.S. trade agency that imposed the ban.
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Fast Car: Uber Funding Auction Could Reach a $3.5B Valuation — Uber, the ride-logistics startup, could be valued at up to $3.5 billion in a new funding round led by TPG Capital, said multiple sources close to the discussions, which are ongoing but advanced. We had first reported that Uber was seeking the round in June.
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Facebook Stock Opens Up 26% After Last Night's Big Earnings Beat — Facebook's stock is up 31% in off-hours trading as of this writing following a glowing earnings report from the company yesterday. — Most importantly, Facebook showed significant revenue growth in mobile ads …
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Citymaps, an ambitious Google Maps competitor with a social twist, launches on the iPhone — Taking on Google, Apple, or Nokia in the maps space as a small startup is a little crazy. But that isn't stopping Citymaps, a high-reaching service that has mapped every city in the U.S. and includes …
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Microsoft rolls out developer preview of IE11 on Windows 7 — Summary: Microsoft is making available for download immediately a test build of its IE11 browser for Windows 7, along with various new dev tools and discounts. — At Microsoft's Build conference, the IE team confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 … | Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Healthcare Crowdfunding Platform Watsi Grabs $1.2M From Tencent, Paul Graham, Vinod Khosla, Ron Conway And More — At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC back in April, former Facebook exec-turned-venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya delivered a deflating critique of the tech industry — in particular, the quality of its startups.
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OpenStack's Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now. — An Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: — Our Future Depends on Embracing Amazon — Dear Stackers, — For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack against incumbents … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
MetroPCS doubles reach, outs its own Lumia 521, Optimus F3 — T-Mobile and MetroPCS want to move quickly to capitalize on any uncertainty in the prepaid market caused by AT&T's looming acquisition of rival prepaid business Leap Wireless. — The Lumia 521 will show up to MetroPCS tomorrow.
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WikiLeaks Founder Assange to Run for Australian Senate — SYDNEY, Australia — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, formally inaugurated a new political party bearing the name of his antisecrecy organization on Thursday and declared his own unorthodox candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate …
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Bigcommerce Raises $40M From Steve Case's Revolution Growth To Help SMBs Manage E-Commerce — Bigcommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised $40 million from Revolution Growth, the firm founded by former AOL CEO Steve Case.
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Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks—With Me Behind The Wheel (Video) — Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop-or even slow down-produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV's chassis.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Geeksphone Peak+ up for preorder at €149 with FirefoxOS 1.1, 1GB RAM — Interested in jumping on the Geeksphone Firefox OS bandwagon? Its first consumer-oriented device, the Peak+, is up for pre-order and we now know a lot more about it. It doubles up the RAM to 1GB over its Peak …
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