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The Six Juiciest Documents From the Apple-Samsung Trial This Week — Internal Apple document provided by Samsung — You'd think a corporate patent infringement battle would be boring — and you'd usually be right, even during the high-profile Round Two of Samsung versus Apple.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Internal slides show why Apple needs a big iPhone: no growth for 4-inch phones costing $300+ — Why Apple has to make a bigger-screen iPhone 6, in its own confidential internal wording — There has been no shortage of rumors that the iPhone 6 will have a big screen ranging from 4.7-inches to over 5 inches.| Kevin Rose / Instagram: |
Anti-tech protesters visit Kevin Rose's SF home, distribute leaflets calling him a “parasite” — My house was protested today by anti-tech folks, they had a large banner saying “Kevin Rose Parasite”, handed these to my neighbors:
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How Techmeme Became The Must-Read News Site For Everyone In The Multibillion-Dollar Tech Industry — Over the past 10 years, the technology industry has evolved from photo-sharing websites like Flickr to photo-sharing apps like Instagram. — And, we suppose, there's been a few other changes along the way.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's open sourcing of .Net: The back story — Summary: Microsoft's decision to open source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. — Microsoft's move to open source key chunks of its .Net platform …
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HTC Posts Second Loss in Three Quarters Ahead of M8 Smartphone — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its second loss in three quarters after sales at the Taiwanese maker of smartphones slowed ahead of the release of a new version of its mainstay One device. — First-quarter loss was NT$1.88 billion …
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Yahoo, like Netflix and Amazon, looks to produce full half-hour TV comedies — Yahoo Makes New Push Into Video Production — Internet Company Hunts for Original Web-Series Programming — Yahoo Inc. is raising its ambitions in online video, with plans to acquire the kind of original programming …
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See also Mediagazer| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online: |
Meet Mobile Accord, the company that built “Cuban Twitter” ZunZuneo with help of US government — The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter’ — The United States discreetly supported the creation of a website and SMS service that was … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard — Creating an ISP? You'll need millions of dollars, patience, and lots of lawyers. — There are probably many reasons that US households have so few choices for Internet service, but not least among them is the fact … | Nolan Feeney / The Atlantic Online: |
HBO's Silicon Valley the most recent attempt to lampoon increasingly pervasive startup culture — Revenge on the Nerds: Why It's So Cool to Laugh at the Tech World Now — In a lavish Silicon Valley mansion, amid ridiculous liquid-shrimp appetizers and a performance from Kid Rock …
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| Emily Weinrebe / ACLU: |
ACLU introduces searchable archive of all leaked NSA documents — Introducing the ACLU's NSA Documents Database — The public debate over our government's surveillance programs has reached remarkable heights since the first set of NSA disclosures in June 2013 based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, The Register and Daily Dot
| Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge: |
Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire — In the late '90s, Antje Danielson's son Max and Robin Chase's daughter Linnea often played together on a tire swing in Cambridge's Dana Park. The two women had met at their kids' kindergarten, but supervising the playground is how they got to know each other.
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