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BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies; Thorsten Heins out — BlackBerry Ltd. is abandoning a plan to find a buyer and will instead raise $1-billion of new funds and replace its chief executive and some directors, sources said. — The Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone company had spent the past …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Takes $1B Investment From Fairfax, Others, Replaces CEO Thorsten Heins — BlackBerry is replacing its CEO and some of its board of directors, according to official PR this morning. The push to replace CEO Thorsten Heins comes as BlackBerry's purchase deal with investor Fairfax …
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Google's Schmidt: NSA Spying on Data Centers Is ‘Outrageous’ — HONG KONG—Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt bristled at reports that the U.S. government allegedly spied on the company's data centers, describing such an act as “outrageous” and potentially illegal if proven.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM Claims Twitter Infringes On At Least 3 Of Its Patents, According To Twitter's Latest S-1 Update — As Twitter embarks on its initial public offering roadshow, the company has issued another update to its S-1 today with a curveball. IBM has recently issued a letter to Twitter alleging …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Twitter revises IPO price; pegs $23-25 per share — Give yourself a unified view of your global IT systems' performance, availability and capacity across all server platforms, network devices, applications and IT business services with up.time. Try up.time now. (Available in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia only.)
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We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future — Can the company behind ‘Half-Life’ build hardware worthy of the TV? — Valve Corporation, the video game developer responsible for Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress , and the digital distribution platform Steam …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook pens op-ed urging Congress to pass bill prohibiting anti-gay discrimination — Tim Cook: Workplace Equality Is Good for Business — Long before I started work as the CEO of Apple, I became aware of a fundamental truth: People are much more willing to give of themselves …
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| Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
‘Glass Guides’ to educate new Explorers over Hangouts — In-person-pickups of Google Glass are no longer necessary, but Google still wants to make sure you understand the $1,500 device — The still-relatively exclusive Google Glass club is set to grow by as much as 300 percent in the days and weeks ahead … | Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central: |
Revealed - The Nokia Lumia 929, Verizon's 5 inch 1080P Windows Phone — Although Nokia had a lot to announce a few weeks ago in Abu Dhabi, one of those devices not mentioned was the Nokia Lumia 929, destined for Verizon. That device is said to be in carrier testing right … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iPad Air Adoption 5X That Of iPad 4 After Opening Weekend, Says Fiksu — Apple may indeed have attracted a much broader audience of upgraders for its redesigned 9.7-inch iPad versus last year, according to new early data from mobile app analytics firms. The iPad Air enjoyed somewhere around five times … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Western Digital Adds Something New to Hard Drives: Helium — When you think about it, aside from the fact that, over time, they increase in capacity while getting cheaper, there's not that much new about hard drives. They store our digital stuff, occasionally give out, and that's pretty much that.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Google finally tightens access to saved passwords in Chrome — Having come under fire earlier over its relaxed attitude towards saved passwords in Chrome earlier in the year, Google is finally looking to do something about it. In a post to his Google+ page, Chrome tinkerer François Beaufort notes …
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