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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
With Google's deal expiring in 2015, Yahoo and Microsoft compete to take over as default search engine in Safari for iOS — All Eyes on Apple as Google Search Deal Expires Next Year — Mozilla's decision last week to replace Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for the Firefox browser …
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| Aaron Smith / Pew Internet: |
Survey finds majority of US internet users are familiar with web usage terms but not with historical concepts — What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web — Before you read the report, test your own Web IQ by taking the interactive knowledge quiz.
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| Reiji Murai / Reuters: |
Sony to cut TV, smartphone lineup; sees growth in PlayStation, image sensors — (Reuters) - Japan's loss-making Sony Corp plans to slash its TV and mobile phone product line-ups to cut costs, counting on multi-billion dollar revenue surges for its buoyant PlayStation 4 and image sensor businesses over the next three years.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Twitter Introduces Offers: Discounts You Claim in Tweets and Redeem in Stores — First, Twitter dipped its toes into e-commerce. Now it wants a piece of bricks-and-mortar retail, too. — The social network today is introducing Twitter Offers, discounts that users can claim right …
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| Sam Sheffer / The Verge: |
Coin beta review: limited utility, confusing setup, doesn't work at ATM, broke after 36 hours — My experience with Coin Beta in the real world — It worked, but then my unit stopped functioning — I don't carry around a traditional wallet. Instead, I've got a pile of cards held together with a hair-tie.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple reaches record breaking $700 billion market cap as stock surge continues — Shares of Apple reached another major financial milestone on Tuesday, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street. — With shares of AAPL trading at an all-time high …
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Spotify's 2013 revenues were €746.9M, 91% of revenue coming from subscriptions — Spotify revenues grew sharply in 2013, but operating losses also rose — Streaming music service's turnover up 74% to €746.9m, with 91% coming from its paying subscribers rather than ads| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft launches Driver Destination, allowing drivers to accept rides only on specific routes — Lyft Appeals To More Casual Drivers By Matching Them With Passengers To Share Commutes — For years, the founders of Lyft had imagined a world in which carpooling would become mainstream …
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| Mike Sall / Medium: |
Medium open-sources Charted, a free data visualization tool — Introducing Charted — A new way to share data — A year ago, the Product Science team at Medium created the first version of Charted, an internal tool to help us easily share charts. It has since become indispensable …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IDC: iPad to see first annual decline with wider tablet shipment growth set to fall to 7.2% in 2014, down from 52.5% in 2013 — IDC: iPad Sees First-Ever Decline As Wider Tablet Shipment Growth Drops 7.2% In 2014 To 235.7M Units — As Apple rides a cresting wave in the stock market …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
HP Reports Earnings: A Miss On Revenue — HP just reported its fourth quarter earnings: inline with profits and a miss on revenue. — HP reported Q4 earnings per share of $1.06, right in line with expectations and revenue of $28.40 billion, that's a miss.
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| Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter: |
Universal Picks Up Steve Jobs Movie — Danny Boyle is set to direct the feature, written by Aaron Sorkin — Less than a week after Sony Pictures put the high-profile Steve Jobs movie into turnaround, Universal Pictures has stepped up and adopted the project.
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