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New Tools for Surfacing Conversations on Facebook — If there is something interesting going on, people are talking about it on Facebook. From favorite television shows to sporting events to the latest news; the conversations are happening on Facebook. Last week's kick-off …
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| Vindu Goel / NYT Bits: |
Facebook allows media partners to search public posts, see aggregate, anonymized data on private posts — Facebook Offers New Windows Into Social Conversation — Facebook is releasing two new search tools on Monday designed to give news organizations — and potentially, marketers … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Windows Unit Gets Fresh Leaders as Phone, PC and Xbox Efforts Move Closer Together — Less than two months after the big “One Microsoft” reorganization plan was announced, more units are starting to learn how the high-level changes will affect their operations. — Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
New PlayStation Vita coming October 10th: lighter, thinner, more battery life — If it's big enough for a live broadcast (with English translation), it's going to be good, right? Sony has announced a new version of its PS Vita, just weeks after announcing a price-drop across both the US and Europe.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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| Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg: |
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iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data — The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google offers new concessions to avoid fine in EU antitrust case — (Reuters) - Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible $5 billion fine, the European Commission said on Monday.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Carl Icahn Ends Effort To Take Control of Dell — The last bit of lingering drama 14-month old effort to take the computer company Dell private in a leveraged buyout just came to a close as activist investor Carl Icahn said he would not pursue any further efforts to take control of the company.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram will have ads within a year, now has 150 million monthly active users — Instagram Pictures Itself Making Money — Leading the Charge to Woo Advertisers Is Facebook Veteran Emily White — MENLO PARK, Calif.—When Emily White joined Instagram from parent company Facebook Inc. in March …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera Launches Coast, A Slick New WebKit-Based iPad Browser — About a year and a half ago, a small team at Opera started working on a new browser for tablets and today, it is launching the result of this project: Opera Coast, a new, almost chrome-less browser for the iPad.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google, Yahoo and Facebook urge the US government for permission to release national security requests — Google, Facebook and Yahoo have filed separate motions with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) today, requesting that they are allowed to publicly disclose the number … | Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Worries That Microsoft Is Growing Too Tricky to Manage — SEATTLE — At a time when many people in business believe the number of products at Microsoft should be getting smaller, it is about to become a lot bigger. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset and services operations …
Tweets: @deanemurphy
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Xbox Music gets iOS and Android apps, free web playback; cloud locker to follow — The times they are a-changin' at Microsoft, and we are not just talking about the company's executive leadership: Xbox Music, the company's Spotify-like music subscription service, is launching on iOS and Android Monday …
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| Reuters: |
EU regulators tell Samsung to offer more to end antitrust case — (Reuters) - European Union regulators have told Samsung Electronics to offer more concessions to settle EU charges that its use of patent lawsuits against rival Apple breached antitrust rules after a first offer fell short.
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