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| Kathy Savitt / Yahoo!: |
Introducing Our New Logo! — We're excited to share the new Yahoo logo with you. It will begin appearing across Yahoo properties globally tonight. — We wanted a logo that stayed true to our roots (whimsical, purple, with an exclamation point) yet embraced the evolution of our products.
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See also Mediagazer| Marissa Mayer / Marissa's Tumblr: |
Geeking Out on the Logo — So, tonight we unveiled the new Yahoo logo, concluding our 30 days of change. — We hadn't updated our logo in 18 years. Our brand, as represented by the logo, has been valued at as much as ~$10 billion dollars. So, while it was time for a change, it's not something we could do lightly.
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| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
How Yahoo Picked a New Look For An 18-Year-Old Brand — Portal's Design Team Created New Typeface for Company's Mark — Yahoo has refreshed its 18-year-old logo to match the nearly two-decade-old portal's ongoing makeover under CEO Marissa Mayer. — Capping a thirty-day campaign leading … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung's Galaxy Gear is a smartwatch like no other — On sale for $299 in the United States from early October — The Galaxy Gear, Samsung's latest foray into the smartwatch category, is now official and it's quite unlike anything you've seen before. Yes, it's a smartphone accessory …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Path adds new privacy features and Premium subscription in 3.2 update, announces Deutsche Telekom partnership — One of the benefits of Path when compared to social networks like Facebook and Twitter is that it's more private than public. It's only accessible via mobile app and the service limits …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 is bigger, faster, thinner, and lighter, but is it any better? — The back cover now features faux leather and stitching, the S Pen is symmetrical, and the camera's been stepped up to 13 megapixels — Samsung's made an annual tradition of introducing a new Galaxy Note … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Qualcomm Shows Off Toq Smartwatch Due in October for Around $300 — As expected, Samsung is showing off its Galaxy Gear smartwatch at an event in Berlin. In a surprising twist, though, it isn't the only company announcing a wrist computer today. — Qualcomm is showing off a wearable known as Toq.
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
The Terrifying Search Engine That Finds Internet-Connected Cameras, Traffic Lights, Medical Devices, Baby Monitors And Power Plants — Marc Gilbert got a horrible surprise from a stranger on his 34th birthday in August. After the celebration had died down, the Houston resident heard … | Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry Seeks a Sale by November — The Board Aims to Wrap Up Auction by November — Beleaguered BlackBerry Ltd., intends to run a fast auction process that could be wrapped up by November, according to people familiar with the matter. — The smartphone maker announced in August …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Microsoft awarded $14.5M in Motorola patent licensing suit — In second phase of landmark patent trial, jury finds the Google handset maker in breach of contract for failing to license standard essential patents at a reasonable rate. — Microsoft on Wednesday won another key courtroom victory …
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| Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
A Bloody Ballmer and Stalled Discussions on the Long Road to a Nokia Deal — SEATTLE — “We are on different planets.” — That was the response of Risto Siilasmaa, the chairman of Nokia's board of directors to Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, after a team from Microsoft presented …
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Thanks:@nickwingfield| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Toshiba reveals two laptops and a tablet that bring sub $400 touchscreens to the mainstream — Joining a big tech parade, Toshiba is introducing three new computing devices at the IFA Berlin trade show this week in Germany. — The devices are meant to make it much easier to transition …
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| TechCrunch: |
Secret-Sharing App Whisper Snags $21 Million From Sequoia, Adds Roelof Botha To Its Board — Secret-sharing app Whisper has closed a new round of funding, bringing in $21 million at a $75 million to $100 million post money valuation. The round, as originally reported by Om Malik …
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| Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog: |
Evernote 5 for Windows Desktop is Here — Dramatically changing something that's used by millions of people daily can be a daunting task. You have to be sure that the new product is smarter, more powerful and friendlier than anything that came before. That's why we're so excited …
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| Reuters: |
China's Huawei rules out acquisitions to grow in smartphones — (Reuters) - China's Huawei will not buy another mobile phone maker, such as Blackberry, to grow its market share in smartphones, senior vice president and board member Chen Lifang said on Wednesday.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Bing Improves Its Video Search With High-Res Pop-Out Previews, Improved Filters And Navigation — Microsoft's Bing today launched a major update to its video search experience that gives the service's video search results pages a complete overhaul. The update, which Microsoft says was …
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| Mike Shields / Adweek: |
Pressure Mounts on Yahoo's De Castro COO needs to deliver results or could face ouster by end of the year — Yahoo finally got its latest ad savior yesterday when the company officially announced that former AOL executive Ned Brody will become svp of Americas, reporting directly to chief operating officer Henrique De Castro.| Zee / The Next Web: |
MyOpenID to shut down. Will be turned off on February 1, 2014 — MyOpenID, a service created by user management platform Janrain as a free OpenID Identity registrar/server, has announced it is shutting down. The service will completely shut its doors on February 1st 2014.| Jonah Peretti / LinkedIn: |
Memo To The BuzzFeed Team — Earlier today I emailed all BuzzFeed employees outlining our plan for the coming year. I wanted to all share the memo here on LinkedIn so future BuzzFeed employees could read it too. BuzzFeed's Next Year.... Hello BuzzFeeders,
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