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Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android — Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform efforts more closely with Android.
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Apple Inc looks to poach BlackBerry Ltd workers in Waterloo — Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.'s business model and now it's after the Canadian company's decimated workforce. — Just days after BlackBerry Ltd. revealed plans to lay off 40% of its global workforce amid … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name, Highlighting Lack Of Universal Privacy Controls — “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” Anyone you haven't blocked. Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who had hidden themselves that they'll be searchable.
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Seven Key Designers of BlackBerry 10 Left the Company in January — The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) has decamped BlackBerry. — Earlier this year, seven members of the Swedish design house acquired by the smartphone maker to help develop BlackBerry 10, left it to found a new design group called Topp.
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| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Zuckerberg buys four houses near his Palo Alto home — PALO ALTO — Living the fantasy of every homeowner who's faced the prospect of a nuisance project next door, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has bought four homes adjacent to his own 5-bedroom crash pad in one of Palo Alto's toniest neighborhoods.
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Sheryl Sandberg: The real story — The motorcade that snaked through 1 Hacker Way earlier this year surprised even jaded Facebook employees, who are used to on-campus celebrity sightings and visits from politicians and world leaders. So a few days later, at the question-and-answer session …
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| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
GE's Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves — The card-based UI and focus on contextual smarts make comparisons to Google Now a no-brainer. … A few years back, after an internal audit of their vast and various business holdings, the folks at General Electric made something of a discovery … | David Meyer / paidContent: |
Anonymous comments could suffer under European Court of Human Rights ruling — An Estonian court did not violate a local news site's right to free expression by holding it liable for offensive anonymous comments made under one of its stories, the ECHR has ruled.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Reportedly Cutting iPhone 5c Production as Chinese Gray Market Prices Drop — Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone 5c production in half from 300,000 units to 150,000 units per day, according to claims by C Technology [Google Translate], which leaked a number of photos of the iPhone 5s … | Ryan Gallagher / Guardian: |
Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA — Ten years ago, the calling service had a reputation as a tool for evading surveillance but now it is under scrutiny for covertly passing data to government agencies — Skype is being investigated by Luxembourg's data protection commissioner … | Yuliya Chernova / Digits: |
Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar — Andreessen Horowitz is one of the biggest venture firms around and an investor in some of the most prominent consumer startups in recent years, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Groupon and Zynga.
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play, not a smartphone companion (analyst) — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch launched a couple of weeks ago as a fat, ugly, and expensive smartphone accessory that our own Devindra Hardawar called “relentlessly inessential.”
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Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014 — In a statement to Forbes, a Valve representative has confirmed that AMD graphics hardware will be included in commercially available Steam Machines next year. The more interesting story, however, is why Valve needed to confirm this in the first place.
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As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City — Y Combinator has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley, with an office not far from the Mountain View Caltrain station. * Over the years, however, the seed-stage venture firm has seen more of its companies …
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Apple legend Bill Atkinson's new mission: Save the postcard — The creator of the Macintosh's QuickDraw graphics system, MacPaint, and HyperCard wants to save the postcard from extinction. — It's 5:00 a.m., and Bill Atkinson makes his way downstairs to begin his daily routine of, as he calls it, milking the cow.
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Can Silicon Valley boot camps get you a $120K job? — These crash courses accomplish in 12 weeks (or less) what top computer science schools might teach in four years. Welcome to the 21st century vocational school. — FORTUNE — Hiring a good software engineer in Silicon Valley these days … | Digits: |
Judge: Google's Tracking Not Harmful — It just got even tougher to stop a company from tracking your movements online. — A federal judge in Delaware Wednesday dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against Google and two other tech companies, arguing that the Web users who brought …
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Vivian Schiller Is a Lock as Twitter's Head of News — Vivian Schiller, NBC News' SVP and chief digital officer, is being tapped for Twitter's head of news position, according to sources familiar with the matter. AllThingsD reported last week that she was the leading pick for the high-profile job.
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| Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg: |
Hulu Said Close to Naming Fox's Mike Hopkins CEO of Web Service — Hulu LLC, the streaming service controlled by Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox Inc., is close to naming Fox executive Mike Hopkins as its new chief executive officer, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
| Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: |
Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV — Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says. — Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer research … | Patricia Sellers / Fortune: |
Profile of Katie Stanton, tech veteran helping Twitter expand in crucial international markets — Katie Stanton: Twitter's ambassador — In 2010, two weeks after Katie Jacobs Stanton joined Hillary Clinton's innovation team at the U.S. State Department, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti.
Tweets: @clairecm, @gibbongal, @twellie, @eddie and @nytimesbits
| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn Admits to Labor Violations at Factory — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. acknowledged that some student interns worked night shifts and overtime at a production site in northeast China in violation of company policy, the latest hit to the labor practices of the contract manufacturer …
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