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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.| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Ken Florance / Netflix US & Canada Blog: |
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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.
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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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| Matt Hickey / Forbes: |
Amazon's Q1 2014 Earnings Hint At Streaming TV Services As Key Element — Earlier today, Amazon revealed it's 2014 first quarter earnings in a conference call, and the news for investors was quite good. Analysts had predicted revenue of $19.4 billion, however Amazon reported that revenue went beyond that to $19.74 billion.
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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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| 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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Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo and AppleInsider
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
CEO Nadella Promises Microsoft Will Deliver “Courage in the Face of Reality” — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella praised his company's recent efforts to both grow where it is strong, but also to bulk up in areas where it has been weaker. — “I sum up this quarter in two words, execution and transition,” Nadella said.
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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 … | 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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DSLreports, TechCrunch and FierceCable
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Accompli is the powerhouse email app for iPhone that Outlook users have been waiting for — Email on smartphones is finally growing up — For all the advances the smartphone has brought us, our email is still largely chained to the desktop. Stock email apps have never had half the features …
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