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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Analysts' estimates for iPhones sold last quarter range from 50M to 60M, or 55.3M on average — How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? — The analysts' estimates range from 50 million to nearly 60 million. Average: 55.3 million. — FORTUNE — There's a lot chatter …
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| Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO: |
The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO — Okay, I'm calling it: if you're using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it's become a more and more spammy practice, and if you're doing a lot of guest blogging then you're hanging out with really bad company.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Beats Music streaming service launches on iPhone for $9.99 a month — Beats Music is now available for iPhone on the App Store, after being originally announced back in October. The app is a very stylised adaption of a typical music streaming service app, with Beats heavily pushing the idea …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Beats Will Shut Down MOG Music April 15; MOG Founder Joins Stealth Mobile Startup Chosen.fm — As Beats Music turns up the volume on its new streaming service (which is now live in the App Store), it is calling it a day on MOG, the streaming service its parent Beats Electronics acquired …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Verizon agrees to buy Intel's failed internet TV project — After publicly announcing and failing to follow through with a big plan to launch a set-top box, Intel is selling the project to Verizon. The telecoms company will purchase assets of Intel Media, a division set up to develop “over the top” TV services.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Airbnb Design May Lead Black Hosts to Charge Less, Say Researchers — Airbnb's prominent and large profile photos may facilitate discrimination against home-rental hosts who are black, according to a study conducted by two Harvard Business School professors.| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Initial D-Wave 2 quantum computer benchmarks show mixed results — Google gives an update on D-Wave 2 quantum computer benchmark status — As a tech company, Google has been known to branch out into different areas of interests, from self-driving cars to smart wearable technology and, more recently, to robotics.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple insists on anti-cloning provision as part of any patent settlement with Samsung — When the CEOs of Apple and Samsung, accompanied by several in-house lawyers, meet for their (court-requested) settlement negotiations on or before February 19, there will probably be flexibility …
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Stealth marketing: Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox One mentions — Machinima campaign offered undisclosed money to videos promoting new console The line between traditional, paid advertising and organic editorial content on the Internet can sometimes be hazy.
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| Terence Kawaja / Re/code: |
Color by Numbers: A new valuation framework for the Ad Tech sector — Ad-Tech Valuation: Color by Numbers — This past summer, trade press commentary focused on the impending doom of the ad-tech space, pointing to the industry's fragmentation and noting the underperformance of recent IPOs: Millennial Media, Tremor Video and YuMe.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links — The major travel website, Expedia, seems to have lost 25% of their search visibility in Google according to Search Metrics. It appears that drop was due to an unnatural link penalty … | Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Spammers use automated calls and caller ID masking to extract sensitive personal data — Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet's Tactics — SEATTLE — Phone swindles are practically as old as the telephone itself. But new technology has led to an onslaught of Internet-inspired fraud tactics … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google encourages employees to attend SF hearing on shuttle regulations, issues talking points — Google's “High Handed” Bus Memo — Like the last time people tried busing as a solution to a socioeconomic problem, the tech busing in San Francisco has become a hot-button topic.
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Valleywag, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Technology Chronicles and Medium
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| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
In Developing Countries, Google and Facebook Already Defy Net Neutrality — In much of the world, the concept of “net neutrality” generates less public debate, given there's no affordable Net in the first place. — Net neutrality—the idea that all Internet traffic should generally be treated equally … | Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Tencent's CrossFire and League of Legends top 2013 revenue rankings for free-to-play PC games — 10 online PC games that made more than $100M in microtransaction sales last year — The developer is one of many that is making a huge amount of cash by selling virtual goods in its online PC games.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
VLC gets iOS 7 redesign, Google Drive integration, Dropbox streaming, the ability to download files, and more — VideoLAN today updated VLC for iOS with a slew of new features, including a new design for iOS 7 as well as Google Drive and Dropbox features. You can download the new version now from Apple's App Store.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
As Netflix Rises, HBO and Showtime Subscribers Shrink as Percentage of U.S. Households — NPD finds that U.S. households subscribing to premium cable channels dropped 6 percentage points over 18-month period, while Netflix and other SVOD services grew 4 points — Is Netflix putting a dent in premium cable subscriptions?
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Gigaom, Digital Trends, Betabeat, CNET, BBC, DSLreports, SlashGear, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista and WebProNews
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Yahoo tops the most-trafficked Web site list for desktop in US — While Yahoo's earnings haven't been exactly stellar over the past few months, its Web traffic certainly has. According to new data from analytics firm ComScore, Yahoo had more than 195 million unique US visitors … | Tracey Xiang / TechNode: |
iOS Jailbreak Rate in China Decreased Sharply in 2013 — As you can see from the graph above, the iOS Jailbreak rate in China decreased from above 30% to 12.7% as of the end of 2013, according to mobile analytics and service provider Umeng. — The causes, according to a Umeng analyst …
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Gearburn and Cult of Mac
| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public — Proponents of the open access model for academic research notched a huge victory Thursday night when Congress passed a budget that will make about half of taxpayer-funded research available to the public.Sponsor Posts
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