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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Co-Founders Lazaridis, Fregin Mulling Bid to Buy Back Company — BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is considering taking a run at his former company with fellow co-founder Doug Fregin. — According to a regulatory filing released Thursday …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
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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| 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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| 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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Facebook, CNET, The Register, Ars Technica, Digits, PC World, NBCNews, Digital Trends, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gawker, Mashable, Geek News Central, Marketing Land, GigaOM, AllFacebook, PC Magazine, Inside Facebook and Search Engine Land. Tweets: @dansinker. Thanks:@joshconstine
| 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 … | AllThingsD: |
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.| Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Your Playstation 4 may be built by Chinese students in the worst internship ever — Updated with comment and detail from Foxconn. — Foxconn believes that students are the future, at least judging by its deal with China's Xi'an Institute of Technology to expose more than 1,000 …
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| 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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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
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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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
A first look inside Google's futuristic quantum lab — In May, Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and technical expertise from NASA. It was an ambitious open research project aimed at exploring … | John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter's “experiments” aim to pull you back to its app (and ads) with personalized notifications — Twitter's Plan To Get Your Attention Again — The future of Twitter is all about live events, video, news, and TV. But this future depends on one unexpected thing: notifications.
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store — Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider. It will rake in about $75 billion this year. For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone spoke to hundreds of current and former friends of founder Jeff Bezos.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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 … | Jason Evangelho / Forbes: |
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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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
Broadcasters Will Petition Supreme Court to Review Aereo Case (Exclusive) — Justices will have to choose between taking case or letting legal proceedings play out further — Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed Aereo … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
| 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.| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Bye, Bye Cookie: Microsoft Plots Its Own Tracking Technology to Span Desktop, Mobile, Xbox — Redmond Joins Google, Apple, Amazon and Others In Plotting the Cookie's Demise — Microsoft is set to become the latest tech giant to develop its own tracking technology to replace the ubiquitous … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Snaps Up Online Math Instruction Company TenMarks To Help It Make Education Apps — Amazon has announced plans to snap up online education company TenMarks. The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together …
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Amazon.com, The Next Web, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Digits, AllThingsD and internetretailer.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Photo-Sharing Service Familiar Gets Acquired By Taser's Evidence.com For An Enterprise Turn, After Offers From Twitter And More — The consumerization of enterprise services is one of the more persistent trends in the world of IT today, and today it's gaining yet more ground by way of an acquisition …
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NYT Bits, GeekWire, VentureBeat, TASER International Inc. and The Verge
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
VC's best friend: DogVacay raises a hefty $15M Series B round, eyes the $11B pet services market — It's said that Series A rounds are raised on promises, and Series B rounds are raised based on delivering against those promises. If this is true, then the behind the scenes numbers …
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, GeekWire, VatorNews, Betabeat, socalTECH.com and Forbes. Thanks:@moxiegrouppr
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Launches An Android Tablet Optimized App For The First Time - On One Tablet — In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It's been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets …
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