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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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Tweets: @timcohn, @monkbent, @rabois, @sdkstl, @qthrul, @caseynewton, @selviano and @dannysullivan
| TechCrunch: |
Google+ to become a platform, integration with other products to be optional, teams reshuffle — Google+ Is Walking Dead — Today, Google's Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question is where this leaves Google+ … | 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: |
Facebook buys Helsinki-based ProtoGeo Oy, maker of popular fitness tracking app Moves — With App Acquisition, Facebook Enters Fitness Tracking Market — Facebook is leaping into the fitness tracking market by buying a Helsinki-based maker of a mobile app that can track users …
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| 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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
The FCC doesn't want to destroy net neutrality, but it's going to anyway — The Federal Communications Commission doesn't want companies like Netflix or Viacom to have to pay to get their content to end users of broadband networks, but it doesn't see a way (or maybe even a reason) to ban the practice.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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New York Times, Mercury News, VentureBeat, BGR, Ars Technica, Mercury News, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, InfoWorld, Re/code, MacRumors, iMore, Gigaom, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @harrisonweber
| 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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VatorNews, Forbes, ZDNet, Gigaom, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Quartz, Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @gregbensinger
| Ken Florance / Netflix US & Canada Blog: |
Netflix says it opposes Comcast/TWC merger because Comcast charges both Netflix and its customers to connect 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| Jennifer Khoury / Comcast Voices Blog: |
| 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 Register, Mashable, TechSpot, The Verge, SlashGear, Business Insider and TechCrunch
Tweets: @murraymatt 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, Network World, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, Computerworld, The Tech Report and Gotta Be Mobile
| 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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Ars Technica, RT and The Register
| Nate Swanner / Android Community: |
No, Google Glass is not available for everyone — A few news articles are touting that Google Glass is available to all today, effectively ending the Explorer beta program and opening up the world of Glass to anyone. Clicking a specific link gave access to the Glass order page from their April 15 sale …
| Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
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Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and TechnoBuffalo
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Launches In 24 New Markets, Cuts Fares By Another 10% — On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is expanding aggressively in the U.S., announcing the launch of service in 24 new markets today. Along with the expansion, Lyft company will be offering free rides to new users in all launch markets …
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Lyft Blog, Gigaom, Phandroid, VentureBeat, Android Community, GeekWire, Business Insider and Engadget. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.9M for open source projects to avoid the next HeartBleed — Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.
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New York Times, Digital Trends, Marketwired, CNET, SecurityWeek, SiliconANGLE, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, SC Magazine, Reuters, PandoDaily, Washington Post, 9to5Google, Engadget, Help Net Security, PC Magazine, TechSpot, Softpedia News, PC World, Inquirer and Mashable. Tweets: @martinkl
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla's new CTO: JavaScript, Firefox OS expert Andreas Gal — Gal, recruited six years ago by former CTO and short-lived CEO Brendan Eich, brings continuity to the nonprofit organization's top techie job. — Andreas Gal, an engineer who helped speed up the Firefox browser at a crucial moment … Sponsor Posts
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