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AT&T claims common carrier rules would ruin the whole Internet — AT&T today urged the Federal Communications Commission to avoid reclassifying broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service, which is something network neutrality advocates are asking the FCC to do.
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Apple trade-in promotion begins: up to $99 for iPhone 4, $199 for 4s towards purchase of 5s, 5c — Apple kicks off its big in-store iPhone upgrade event — In line with our earlier report, Apple has just kicked off a big iPhone trade-in event at its U.S. retail stores … | Wall Street Journal: |
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine expected to take on senior roles at Apple as part of Beats acquisition — Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Would Both Join Apple in Beats Deal — Duo Could Help Tim Cook Broker Deals in Music Industry — Music mogul Jimmy Iovine gravitates to the limelight in a way that previously might …
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Facebook has pulled Poke and Facebook Camera from the App Store — Facebook Poke is dead — To Facebook, Poke was always “more of a joke” than anything else — so why did the company leave it in the App Store for more than a year after its troubled debut? We may never know, but today, Facebook finally put an end to Poke.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightable — We sort of expected this to happen after the appeals court for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) held its oral arguments back in December, but CAFC has now spit at basic common sense and has declared that you can copyright an API.
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Thanks:@fosspatents| Gwynn Guilford / Quartz: |
All the Western companies you'd have to combine to get something like Alibaba — Alibaba, which filed for its IPO on May 6, isn't just the “Amazon of China”—it's also the Dropbox, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, ING Direct, and more. Though Google has its fingers in a similarly high volume of pies …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Samsung Won't Be Launching Any New Products at May 28 Health Care Tech Event — A lot of people assumed when they saw a teaser invite from Samsung for a May 28 event that the company was looking to launch some new health-care product just ahead of Apple's developer conference the following week.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
The Wayback Machine passes 400 billion indexed webpages, covering the Web from late 1996 to a few hours ago — The Internet Archive today announced a massive milestone for its Wayback Machine: 400 billion indexed webpages. The data encompasses the Web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Kik introduces a virtual currency to encourage engagement and (potentially) make money — Messaging apps are the flavor of this year, as evidenced by Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp deal, but lately we've barely heard from Kik, the Canadian startup that beats WhatsApp, Snapchat and others in the US market.| Stephen Lawson / InfoWorld: |
Cisco's Internet of things chief resigns — Guido Jouret led Cisco's efforts to link sensors, machines, and other equipment — a trend predicted to generate $19 trillion in value over the next 10 years — Cisco Systems' point man on the Internet of things (IoT) has resigned just as industries start …
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Quora, now valued at $900M, to join YC's summer batch, “a new experiment for us” — Quora in the next YC batch — This month, YC will be participating in Quora's most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer's YC batch. This is a new experiment for us …
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Tweets: @startupljackson, @caseynewton, @besvinick, @amir, @mathewi, @schlaf, @eringriffith and @eringriffith
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba's IPO puts more pressure on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to deliver results — Is Marissa Mayer's time in the sun coming to an end? — Yahoo Chief Will Have to Show Results Ahead of Expected Alibaba IPO — The clock is now ticking for Marissa Mayer.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Store employees switching from iPod touch to iPhone 5s for EasyPay POS system — Apple is in the process of updating the iPod touch units used by Apple Store employees as a mobile point-of-sale system to the iPhone 5s, according to sources familiar with the roll out.
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