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Microsoft codename ‘Threshold’: The next major Windows wave takes shape — Summary: Microsoft's wave of spring 2015 updates to its various Windows-based platforms has a codename: Threshold. — When I blogged recently about Microsoft's plans on the operating-systems front following Windows 8.1 …
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Apple acquires Topsy, a company specializing in Twitter search and analytics, for more than $200M — Apple Taps Into Twitter, Buying Social Analytics Firm Topsy — Apple Inc. has acquired social-media analytics firm Topsy Labs Inc. for more than $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future — Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers. What's next for the company that prides itself on disrupting tradition? There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller …
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U.S. Department of Justice gives Microsoft-Nokia deal the OK — Summary: The U.S. DOJ has given its approval to Microsoft's planned $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has given its approval to Microsoft's pending acquisition …
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Google plans ‘floating retail store,’ builder says — It turns out that the mysterious high-tech barge that Google is building at Treasure Island is just the first of three floating wonders the company plans to launch, at a total cost of $35 million. — In a confidential budget report we obtained …
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Engadget's Cyber Monday 2013 roundup — As tempting as post-Thanksgiving savings are, some of us simply aren't brave enough to face the Black Friday hordes. That doesn't mean stay-at-home shoppers aren't still looking for a bargain: Cyber Monday is upon us, and there are deals aplenty.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple Gets “Significant Bounce” On 5c, 5s iPhones; Android Still Trumps With 71% Share Of All Sales — Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP market research division that provides a rolling check-in on how smartphones are selling in key markets, has put out its latest figures this morning covering the 12 weeks that ended October 31.
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Yahoo Acquires Natural Language Processing Company SkyPhrase To Help Drive Intent Identification — Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a startup that builds natural language processing technology, the company revealed today in a blog post. SkyPhrase will join Yahoo's New York office …
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Amazon Rejected by U.S. High Court on New York Sales Tax — The U.S. Supreme Court stayed out of the multibillion-dollar fight over Internet sales taxes, leaving intact a New York law that forces Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) to collect money from customers in that state.
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Lack of competition, not technological barriers, prevents ISPs from offering gigabit speeds — Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren't selling you gigabit Internet — “Perhaps you should switch to another cable company... oh, that's right, we're the only one in town.” — Viacom
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BlackBerry Sends Out Another 'We're Not Dead' Notice, This Time Homing In On Enterprise — BlackBerry got a lot of chaff from the press for issuing full-page print newspaper ads effectively reminding customers they're not dead, likely to counter rumors to the contrary in a lot of headlines and article feature art.
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Amazon Kindle Fire commercial mocks the iPad Air with a Jony Ive parody — Amazon is the latest company to take on Apple's distinctive advertising style in its own commercials, this time by pitting the iPad Air against Amazon's 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX using what seems like a thinly veiled parody …
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