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| Suzanne Choney / Microsoft Corporation: |
Microsoft, Nokia Devices and Services business aim to remake mobile market — The completion of the Nokia Devices and Services business acquisition April 25 will enable Microsoft to accelerate its share of smartphones and feature phones in developed and emerging markets, and increase its role as a devices and services company.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft morphs into a hardware giant with closure of Nokia deal — Microsoft is no longer just a software giant, it's now a hardware giant. — Nearly eight months after its original announcement, Microsoft has completed its deal to purchase Nokia's devices and services unit today.
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| Tiina Jaatinen / Nokia Conversations: |
Our journey begins — Today is a big, new and exciting day for us. We are announcing that the acquisition of substantially all of the Nokia Devices and Services business by Microsoft has reached completion, following approval by Nokia shareholders and regulatory authorities.
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Amazon smartphone could be an AT&T exclusive, offer “Prime Data” plan as a key selling point — The Amazon smartphone's secret weapon: Prime Data — 3D effects and unique gesture controls aren't the only big selling points for Amazon's upcoming phones
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| Matt Hickey / Forbes: |
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| Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
Google tells 34 candidate cities for Google Fiber that it's considering deploying Wi-Fi as well — Exclusive: Google may offer Wi-Fi for cities with its Google Fiber — Cities getting gigabit-speed fiber Internet could also gain Wi-Fi networks — Google is considering deploying Wi-Fi networks …
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
The FCC's new net neutrality rules will kill Aereo, even if the Supreme Court doesn't — This week, we heard a lot about Aereo, the New York-based startup that could upend the television business if it survives a Supreme Court battle with broadcasters. But even if it squeaks past … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
| TechCrunch: |
Stewart Butterfield's Slack Is Raising $30 Million In New Funding — Slack, a collaboration platform founded by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, is raising $30 million-plus in new funding, we've learned. — For background, Butterfield left Yahoo and started TinySpeck … | Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
No airwaves for you! Verizon, AT&T will face bidding limits in incentive auction — Last week the Federal Communications Commission laid out all of its proposed rules for next year's controversial broadcast airwave incentive auction, save one. It didn't address the most contentious rule of them all … | 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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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
| 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.
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| 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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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Forget speed, T-Mobile has started building a more resilient LTE network — T-Mobile has begun upgrading its LTE network with a new kind of antenna technology that will help fix one of the biggest problems in mobile: the inconsistent signals and connection speeds our phones see as we move through the mobile network.Thanks:@kfitchard
| 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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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn Sells Communications Technology Patents to Google — Foxconn, Also Known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Has a Sizable Patent Portfolio. — HONG KONG—Foxconn, which assembles gadgets for companies such as Apple Inc., said it has sold a number of its communications technology patents to Google Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook news feed: The algorithms, A/B tests, and surveying that make the social network so addictive — We all know by now that Facebook isn't cool. — And yet somehow it's more popular than ever. On Wednesday the company announced that its growth continues to surge …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Netflix finally comes to cable in the US — For the first time, Netflix will be available in the US from its natural enemy: cable companies. Atlantic Broadband, Grande Communications and RCN all announced that subscribers will be able to access the streaming service through their TiVo DVRs as soon as April 28th.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu now has 160M daily active users, mobile monetization is growing even faster than traffic — Baidu Profiting From Smartphones — First-Quarter Net Profit Rose 24% From a Year Earlier — BEIJING— Baidu Inc. reported it was making more money off Chinese using smartphones and other gadgets …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Google Is Preparing To Pay A Huge Fine For Tax Noncompliance In France — France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des finances) has been investigating Google for tax noncompliance. With only €138 million of revenue reported in France in 2011, something wasn't right.
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Twitter will use Yahoo Japan's ad platform to sell ads to small businesses in the country — Twitter teams up with Yahoo in Japan to open up its advertising doors to small firms there — Twitter announced today that it is partnering with Yahoo in Japan to make its suite …
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| 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 buildingSponsor Posts
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