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Google unveils search updates for mobile, new Page Rank algorithm, and Knowledge Graph comparisons — This week, Google marks its 15-year anniversary and the team brought members of the media to the original Google House to talk about the future of the company.| Robert Hof / Forbes: |
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Is Ford's Alan Mulally Now in the Lead to Be New CEO of Microsoft? — According to sources close to the situation, Ford CEO Alan Mulally has vaulted to the forefront of the candidates to become the new CEO of Microsoft. — Earlier this month, the well-known leader of the car maker categorically denied … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft building a single app store for the next Windows Phone and Windows releases — Microsoft is planning to combine its Windows Phone Store and Windows Store into a single app store. Sources familiar with the company's plans have revealed to The Verge that Terry Myerson … | Joan Lowy / Associated Press: |
As expected, FAA panel recommends easing ban on electronic devices during takeoff and landing — Panel backs easing electronic device use on planes … WASHINGTON (AP) — A Federal Aviation Administration advisory committee recommended Thursday that airline passengers be allowed to use smartphones … | TechCrunch: |
EBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash — Ebay's PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree, in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on the block, with Square and PayPal both in acquisition talks for the company.| David Marcus / PayPal: |
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A backpack to remember: can Evernote become a lifestyle company? — With Evernote Market, the company starts selling goods that make you smarter — A year ago, Phil Libin stood on stage at Evernote's annual conference and announced a cease-fire with paper.
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| Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times: |
L.A. Unified reports 71 iPads are missing — The lost iPads are from a trial program last year, the district says. L.A. Unified officials say security is being tightened and that student hacking is also being addressed. — Students work on iPads in April at the Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills.Thanks:@obrien
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Netflix expands Super HD and 3D streaming to all of its members — Prepare for your Netflix streams to look better: Netflix is making its Super HD video quality available to all of its members. All members will also have access to 3D titles on Netflix. Both 3D and Super HD were previously … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Intel Looking for Help from Amazon or Samsung to Keep Its Web TV Project Alive — Intel executives, who have promised to launch a Web-based pay TV service by the end of 2013, are now looking for a strategic backer to help them fund and distribute the service. If they don't find one soon, it's possible the project will be scrapped.
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Clinkle becomes a tech celebrity magnet, landing Richard Branson as an investor — The hype keeps building around Clinkle, a still-secretive Palo Alto mobile payments startup founded by 22-year-old Lucas Duplan. It's already raised $25 million in seed funding from an impressive list … | Wall Street Journal: |
Discontent Mounts Over CEO Pay at Oracle — Larry Ellison Received Compensation Valued at $76.9 Million Last Fiscal Year — Investors are growing more dissatisfied with Oracle Corp.'s years of high pay for Chief Executive Larry Ellison—discontent that may produce a showdown at the technology company's Oct. 31 annual meeting.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake — Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few errors. — Bill Gates chats with David Rubenstein, Harvard Campaign co-chair.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Lets You Edit Posts After Sharing On Android And Web Now, iOS Soon — Typo ruin your social media masterpiece? Facebook is starting to let you edit a post's text after you publish it. The feature comes to the web and Android in an update today, and to iOS soon.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft, promises it will ‘deliver the next big thing’ — Microsoft's Steve Ballmer bid farewell to employees today at his final company meeting as CEO. After announcing his intentions to retire within the next 12 months, Ballmer's speech today was clearly an emotional moment for him personally.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disposable Phone Number App Burner Grabs $2 Million In Seed Funding — Before the world was informed of the massive and invasive government spying programs run by the NSA and other countries, a mobile app called Burner appeared on the scene offering users disposable phone numbers …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple boosts Apple TV content offerings with Major League Soccer, Disney Junior — This morning, Apple has sent an over-the-air update to the Apple TV to add two new apps of content: Major League Soccer (MLS) and Disney Junior. The MLS app allows Apple TV users to watch soccer games live …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Manufacturing Partner Looking to Bail — BlackBerry's ongoing collapse is becoming a serious drag on the company's manufacturing partner Jabil Circuit. So much so that Jabil is considering ending its business relationship with the struggling smartphone pioneer.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Major update to VLC for Mac adds 4K support, improved MKV support, interface improvements and more — VideoLAN has released version 2.1 of its popular open source video player, VLC. The update — codenamed “Ricewind” — brings new audio processing to the app, to improve both processing performance and audio fidelity.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
FastMail goes independent again after team buys itself free of Opera — Paid-for email service FastMail is returning to independence after its staff purchased the company back from Opera in an undisclosed deal announced today. Web-browser-maker Opera acquired the company back in 2010.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Academia.edu, The Social Networking Platform For Researchers, Raises $11.1 Million — For about five years, Richard Price and the team at Academia.edu have been quietly building a social networking platform for academics and researchers. — For years, it was slow going.
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| Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
Candy Crush creator King files for IPO in America — King, the British computer games maker behind Candy Crush Saga, has quietly filed documents for an initial public offering in the US, expected to value the firm at more than $5bn. — It is understood that King will float on the Nasdaq exchange … Sponsor Posts
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