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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft Office on iPad: It's alive and coming sooner than most think  —  Summary: Microsoft's Office for iPad, codenamed Miramar, isn't dead.  In fact, it just might beat Microsoft's own touch-first Office implementation for Windows to market.  —  It must be a slow news day.
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Major League Baseball Completes iBeacon Installation at First Two Ballparks  —  Major League Baseball is set to announce on Friday morning that it has finished outfitting its first two ballparks with iBeacon sensors that will shoot messages to baseball game attendees' phones this upcoming season.
Mayumi Negishi / Wall Street Journal:
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to buy voice-call app maker Viber for $900 million  —  Rakuten to Buy Voice-Call App Maker Viber  —  Japanese e-commerce Giant to Spend $900 million  —  TOKYO—Japan's Rakuten Inc. said it will acquire call-application maker Cyprus-based Viber Media Inc …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Exclusive Interview: Rakuten's Mikitani Calls $900 Million He Paid for Viber a “No-Brainer”  —  “This is a no-brainer,” was the first thing that Hiroshi Mikitani, co-founder and CEO of Japan's online commerce giant Rakuten, said to me in his first interview after he spent $900 million in cash to buy messaging app Viber.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Apple and Samsung headed back to court after mediation talks fail, say reports  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung's mobile chief and co-CEO JK Shin reportedly met last week to try and thrash out a settlement to their long-running intellectual property dispute.
Shane Cole / AppleInsider:
Court grants Apple's motion to dismiss Siri misrepresentation lawsuit  —  After two years of legal maneuvering, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken on Friday dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit alleging that Apple's iPhone 4S advertisements had misrepresented the capabilities of the company's Siri personal digital assistant.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft extends date for OEM preloads of Windows 7 for business users  —  Summary: Business users will be able to buy PCs with Windows 7 Professional preloaded beyond October 2014, according to a new change in Microsoft's lifecycle policy.  —  Microsoft is going to allow OEMs to continue …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
UrbanSitter Raises $15M To Harness The Power Of Social Recommendations In Child Care  —  UrbanSitter, an online service for parents and sitters to connect, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by DBL Investors with participation from Match Group, a division of IAC …
Peter Sayer / Computerworld:
Google discloses details of E.U. antitrust settlement bid  —  Google reveals how it plns to settle an antitrust case over search result ranking  —  Google has done what the European Commission declined to do: publish the details of the latest commitments Google made in a bid to settle …
Cam Bunton / TmoNews:
New T-Mobile “Jump” terms: upgrade as often as you like if 50% of old device is paid off  —  Details on upcoming JUMP! changes - Confirmed for Feb. 23 … Yesterday, we were given information by one of our sources on some upcoming changes to the JUMP! program.

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

Wall Street Journal:
UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40%+ over the past 12 months

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