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| Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC chair updates proposed broadband rules after criticism, seeks comment on reclassification — Agency Won't Let Firms Segregate Web Traffic Into Fast, Slow Lanes — The head of the Federal Communications Commission is revising proposed rules for regulating broadband Internet …
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Tim Wu, who developed the concept of net neutrality, says it should be protected by regulation — Defending the Open Internet — The future of the Internet — which means the future of communications, culture, free speech and innovation — is up for grabs.
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
An internet fast lane could provoke a SOPA-like backlash from Silicon Valley — Warnings Along F.C.C.'s Fast Lane — The next time the loudmouth in the next cubicle interrupts you with yet another recap of his weekend, just start talking about “net neutrality.”
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Square Finally Gives Up on Square Wallet and Bets on New Order-Ahead App — The grand Square Wallet experiment is over. As of today, Square has pulled the app from the Apple and Google app stores. At the same time, it is introducing Square Order, an app that lets shoppers place pick-up orders from …
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Thanks:@delrey| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With New Food App Square Order, Square Wants A Bigger Bite Of The Restaurant Industry — Square, by many accounts, is hungrily in search of new revenue streams to feed its expanding ambitions in e-commerce, and today we are getting another glimpse of where that strategy is taking it.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Visual Studio goes cross platform with Cordova integration from Microsoft — At its TechEd conference today, Microsoft announced the next step in its “mobile first, cloud first” strategy with a preview of Apache Cordova support in Visual Studio. Cordova is a toolkit for building apps for iOS …
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Microsoft Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses — Today is a big day for Microsoft. It's making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple interested in Beats for paid streaming conversion rate, plans to improve its headphones — Apple's Deep Ties With Iovine Key Driver of Beats Deal — When news spread last week that Apple Inc. (AAPL) was near an acquisition of Beats Electronics LLC for $3.2 billion … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Launches Paid Ads With Select Brands In Form Of Promoted Pins — Last fall, Pinterest announced it would begin experimenting with advertisements on its service in the form of “Promoted Pins,” which would be featured placements from select retailers and other businesses.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Andreessen-inspired Tweetstorms™ are inconsiderate, and maybe abusive, to Twitter followers — Why Twitter's Newest Tweetstorm™ Trend Must Be Stopped — Twitter's sanity depends on it. — Warzel/BuzzFeed — Here's a thing you probably haven't noticed unless …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba Is Not A Threat To US Internet Companies — Everybody loves superlatives, and it is definitely Superlatives Week for the tech press. Alibaba's IPO will represent “surely one of tech's largest ever” Kara Swisher of Re/code intoned. Heather Somerville and Brandon Bailey …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Plaintiff in SV no-hire agreement lawsuit asks judge to reject the deal his lawyers negotiated — Plaintiff Maligns Deal in Silicon Valley Suit — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has more than $150 billion in the bank, eclipsing the combined cash reserves of Israel and Britain.Sponsor Posts
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