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Amazon's Tactics Confirm Its Critics' Worst Suspicions — Amazon is confirming its critics' worst fears and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. — For years, authors and publishers have warned that Amazon, Jeff Bezos' book-selling giant, would one day use its power for ill. Sure, so far …
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Amazon escalates battle with Hachette, refuses coming book orders, lists some as unavailable — Amazon Escalates Its Battle Against Hachette — Amazon, under fire in much of the literary community for energetically discouraging customers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, has abruptly escalated the battle.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Twitter experiments with suggesting videos to include when composing your tweet — Twitter Experiments With a New Video-Sharing Feature — So it doesn't look like Twitter is going to get into the audio business, after all. But Twitter has liked video for quite a while.
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Apple seeking U.S. permanent injunction against Samsung based on this month's jury verdict — Surprise. Not. In a follow-up to this month's $119 million jury verdict in the Northern District of California, Apple filed a motion for a U.S. permanent injunction against Samsung late on Friday by local time.
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Apple requests retrial of Samsung patent case, demonstrates dissatisfaction with jury verdict — After the original version of the Apple v. Samsung II jury verdict that came down on May 2 (and had to be amended on May 5), Apple's PR department had issued a premature statement that basically described …
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Sony's PlayStation 4 is already profitable and on course to beat the PS2's success — If Sony is to reverse its heavy losses, big-selling products like the PlayStation 4 need to turn a profit. The good news is that the company's newest console is already fulfilling that requirement … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Surface Pro 3 review: impressive hardware, ideal form factor for Windows 8.1, so-so battery — Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review — This tablet wants to replace your laptop — Imagine if you had a time machine that could send you back exactly 13 years. The rules of time travel …
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Apple-Beats deal delayed due to discussions over Beats Music valuation, Dre/Iovine roles in Apple, outrage over Dre/Tyrese video, more — Five Things Holding Up the Apple-Beats Deal — When news broke on Thursday May 8 that Apple was in talks to buy Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre's Beats Electronics …
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FreedomPop launches a $20 “Unlimited” plan, with data switching from LTE to 3G after 1GB usage — Free phone service FreedomPop unveils $20 ‘Unlimited’ plan — Firm launches paid “Unlimited Everything” plan, adds LTE phones to offerings to mark its move to Sprint's LTE network.| David Murphy / PC Magazine: |
Medium Updates iOS App to Support iPad — Medium, the increasingly popular publishing platform for all sorts of content has officially updated its app for iOS to include support for Apple's iPad. — You can now finally read through all sorts of witty, interesting, and otherwise eye-opening articles on a larger screen.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Unsealed court documents show Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft are arguing against gag orders on national security requests on First Amendment grounds — Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft say government has no right to suppress data request disclosures
| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
Court Approves F.C.C. Plan to Subsidize Rural Broadband Service — WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Federal Communications Commission's effort to convert its $4.5 billion program that pays for telephone service in rural parts of the country into one that subsidizes …
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