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Google+ head Vic Gundotra to leave company after 8 years, with VP of engineering David Besbris replacing him — Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company — Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company.
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Vic Gundotra, Secret, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Larry Page, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Engadget, ReadWrite, PC World, Google Plus Daily, New York Times, BuzzFeed, ABC News, The Droid Guy, The Register, Pocketnow, Computerworld, PC Magazine, BGR, internetretailer.com, Mashable, Marketing Land, Forbes, GeekWire, AppleInsider, InfoWorld, Business Insider and 9to5Google
Tweets: @amir, @rabois, @sdkstl, @qthrul, @caseynewton, @selviano, @amir, @peterlauria3 and @timcohn
| TechCrunch: |
Google+ to become more a platform than product, with key staff members moving to Android team, and fewer product integrations — Google+ Is Walking Dead — Today, Google's Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question …
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Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Slate, Robert Scoble, TechSpot and Android Community
Tweets: @joshelman, @jbruin, @dangillmor, @roddrury, @startupljackson and @novaspivack
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Focusing on single-purpose social apps could be the key to Google's social future — What Would Happen If Google Really Did Kill Google+? — News is leaking out that Google might be planning to kill Google+, or at least put it into a Walking Dead-like “zombie” mode, as TechCrunch characterizes it — and something Google denies.| Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog: |
FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner” — Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …
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See also Mediagazer| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's position on Net neutrality conflicts directly with what it warned against in 2010 — The FCC's “fast lane” rule is awful for the Internet—just ask the FCC — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is in damage-control mode today after word leaked that potential new “net neutrality” rules are anything but neutral.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
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| Jennifer Khoury / Comcast Voices Blog: |
Comcast: Neflix degraded its Comcast streams, seeks to shift its costs onto all Internet users — Comcast Response to Netflix — Netflix's argument is a House of Cards. But there is no need for us to engage in a point-counterpoint with Netflix to demonstrate the continued distortions and inaccuracies on which it relies.
Tweets: @jmcduling, @om, @jyarow, @thestalwart, @pkafka and @comcast
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Comcast Says Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Streams — A couple days after Netflix and Comcast fought in public, the two companies, who are supposed to be partners, are at it again. — Three days after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings publicly opposed Comcast's planned acquisition of/merger with Time Warner Cable …
Tweets: @dangillmor
| Ken Florance / Netflix US & Canada Blog: |
Netflix says it opposes Comcast/TWC merger because Comcast charges both Netflix and its customers to connect to each other — The Case Against ISP Tolls — As the person at Netflix responsible for content delivery, I spend a lot of time thinking about Netflix's Open Connect CDN and its interconnection with ISPs.
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See also Mediagazer| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Cloud Momentum Helps Drive Third-Quarter Results — Revenue growth across segments and cost discipline drive earnings per share of $0.68. REDMOND, Wash. — April 24, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $20.40 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.
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CITEworld, Business Insider, Re/code, Ubergizmo, Computerworld, Forbes, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, BBC, ZDNet, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo and WinBeta. Tweets: @dinabass
| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe agree to pay $324M to settle hiring conspiracy lawsuit — Exclusive: Apple, Google agree to pay over $300 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit — (Reuters) - Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle …
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Tweets: @harrisonweber and @dangillmor
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook: nobody's figured out mobile payments yet, and Apple won't rush out new products — Apple's Cook on New Products: ‘Take the Time to Get It Right’ — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said its strong fiscal second-quarter might silence chatter that the company is in decline.
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9to5Mac, Forbes, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow and DisplayBlog
| Moves: |
Moves joins Facebook, will continue as standalone app, will not “commingle data with Facebook” — Moves joins Facebook! — 24 April 2014 - Today, we're delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app. Since we launched Moves …
| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
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Mapbox, Associated Press, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable and Agence France-Presse. Tweets: @movesapp
| Amazon: |
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 23% to $19.74 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014. — Operating cash flow increased 26% to $5.35 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $4.25 billion …
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ZDNet, VatorNews, Forbes, CNBC, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, Gigaom, Business Insider, Quartz, Re/code, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @gregbensinger and @curtwoodward
See also Mediagazer| TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Hits 30 Billion Total Pins, Up 50% In 6 Months — Tonight at an event in the company's San Francisco headquarters, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann announced that users had contributed more than 30 billion Pins since the service was founded, a number that has grown by nearly 50 percent in the past six months alone.
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Wall Street Journal, ReadWrite and TIME
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| Andy Mitchell / Facebook: |
Facebook partners with Storyful to launch FB Newswire: Facebook and Twitter feeds of newsworthy Facebook content — Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around the world.| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon accelerates plans for its own delivery network, following last winter's shipping woes — Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network — Alternative to FedEx, UPS Could Deliver Goods the Same Day They Are Purchased — The future of Amazon.com Inc. is hiding in plain sight in a San Francisco parking lot.
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Businessweek, Engadget, The Verge, The Register, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, TechSpot and Mashable
Tweets: @murraymatt, @wsjbusiness, @dmac1 and @gregbensinger
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Rumoured Microsoft Surface Mini Tablet Crops Up In Amazon Listings — Although it hasn't happened yet, it's clearly only a matter of time before Microsoft officially unboxes a smaller form-factor version of its Surface tablet. A Surface Mini has been rumoured for well over a year …
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ZDNet, BGR, The Tech Report, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine and Computerworld
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
California shoots down ‘kill switch’ legislation for smartphones — Legislators rejected a bill requiring device makers like Apple to include antitheft software on smartphones sold in the state. Their reason: It would be bad for business. — The senate chambers at the California state capitol building
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New York Times, The Verge, MacRumors, Ubergizmo and San Francisco Chronicle
| Mark Mazzetti / New York Times: |
Ex-Anonymous hacker Sabu launched cyberattacks on Iran, Syria, Brazil, and Pakistan while an FBI informant — F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad — WASHINGTON — An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites …
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