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Apple's worldwide communications VP Katie Cotton retiring after nearly two decades at the company — Code/red: Apple PR Impresario Katie Cotton to Retire — // HAPPENING TODAY — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will drop by TechCrunch Disrupt to dodge some questions. — AOL will be hammered following an earnings miss.| Writankar Mukherjee / The Times Of India: |
Apple reportedly stops selling the iPhone 4 in India less than three months after relaunch — Apple withdraws iPhone 4 from Indian market — KOLKATA: Less than four months after relaunching iPhone 4, Apple decided to once again withdraw its only phone below Rs 20,000 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants — Google today made one more acquisition that points to its interest in building up its relationship with local businesses, and particularly in the restaurant vertical to compete better against the likes of Yelp.| Bob Rosin / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
LinkedIn partners with Evernote to scan business cards, will shut down its CardMunch app — Evernote + LinkedIn: Powering Professional Relationships — Business cards are one of the many ways people initiate professional relationships, so it is important to us that our members can quickly … | Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
HP to invest $1B over two years in OpenStack, integrate its cloud services under HP Helion brand — HP Makes $1 Billion Bet on Open Cloud — Hewlett-Packard is making its big bet on cloud computing, with a significant change of its own products and business, and the biggest endorsement yet … | Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
‘Unparalleled Ruthlessness’ Awaits: Jack Ma's Letter to Alibaba Employees. — One element missing from Alibaba's initial public offering prospectus - weighing in at 248 pages before notes and exhibits - was a letter from founder Jack Ma. — People familiar with the matter had said that some missive … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
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Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’ — MOSCOW — Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers … | United Nations: |
Internet well on way to 3 billion users, UN telecom agency reports — Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end 2014, there will be nearly three billion Internet users - two-thirds of them from the developing world … | Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Google snaps up Stackdriver and its cloud analysis expertise — Another small, smart Boston-area startup has been acquired by a Silicon Valley superpower. Google is buying Stackdriver, which specializes in monitoring and honing cloud workload performance.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo reports third consecutive annual loss as Wii U sales fizzle out — Nintendo made an annual operating loss for the third consecutive year in 2013, ending up ¥46.4 billion ($457 million) in the red as Wii U sales failed to pick up following the holiday season.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Next Big Thing You Missed: Inside Tindie, a Thriving New Marketplace for DIY Gadgets — By day, Emile Petrone was a web programmer. But in his spare time, he would tinker with the Ardruino and the Raspberry Pi, two inexpensive kits that let you build your own hardware devices.| Rich Trenholm / CNET News: |
Samsung Knox 2.0 makes Galaxy S5 safe for work with split billing — Samsung has updated its business-focused Knox with a dedicated app store and split billing so you can pay for work and personal calls separately. — Samsung gets down to business with Knox 2.0 on the S5 — Samsung| Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon clocked $67.8B in online sales in 2013, more than its next 10 biggest competitors combined — Apple Jumps to Second Place in Online Retail … In the crusade to capture clicks and pull in dollars from online sales, Amazon remains the clear frontrunner.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Tech Leaders Call on California to Boost Computer Science — High-profile technology executives and investors are asking for a meeting with California Governor Jerry Brown to discuss augmenting computer science education in the state's public schools. — In a letter they circulated to the press … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Tech Stocks Crumble As The Market Demands What They Can't Deliver — It's a nasty day for technology companies in the public markets, as aging giants like AOL are falling right alongside upstarts with larger market caps like Twitter and Groupon that are popping negative. — Forget your IPO window.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
ARM Expects ~1B Entry Level Smartphones in 2018, $20 Smartphones Coming This Year — When we first started covering mobile, nearly every silicon vendor I spoke with issued the same statement: eventually, all phones are smartphones. Continued scaling on process technology … | Erin McCarthy / Wall Street Journal: |
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Former Angry Birds creators raise $3.6M for Boomlagoon game studio — Boomlagoon, a Finnish game studio created by former Angry Birds creators, has raised $3.6 million in funding to build mobile games. — Helsinki-based Boomlagoon is one in a series of Finnish game startups … | TechCrunch: |
Restaurant Reservation Service LaFourchette Gobbled Up By TripAdvisor For ~$140M — European restaurant reservation service LaFourchette — the so-called OpenTable of France — has entered into agreement to be acquired by NASDAQ-listed travel site TripAdvisor, with whom it already had a partnership.| Ray Willington / HotHardware.com News: |
Seagate's Wireless Plus Streaming Hard Drives Add Cloud Storage Integration — Another day, another batch of mobile hard drives to store your ever-growing library of memories and documents. Seagate has today announced that its Wireless Plus mobile storage family has added a 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB version.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Down 24% As Q1 Earnings Beat On Sales Of $583M But Miss EPS On $22M Of Charges — AOL is trading down almost 24% on the day that it reported its first quarter earnings. It posted revenue of $583.1 million but had startlingly low earnings per share of $0.11 and a 66% drop in net income to $8.7 million.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Hands-on Huawei's new flagship Android phone, Ascend P7: 1.8GHz quad-core, 5-inch, 1080p — Huawei's Ascend P7 wants to be the LTE phone of the people — With the Ascend P6, Huawei looked to build a smartphone that emphasized design and material quality over performance.
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