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Exclusive: Windows Phone 8 Detailed — Microsoft has some major changes in store for Windows Phone 8, we've learned, which is the version of the platform currently being referred to by codename “Apollo” (the one scheduled for deployment after the upcoming Tango update).| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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Facebook's Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery — So the numbers are out, and we know that Facebook's ad business really is huge. And it really is growing like a weed. Just like we thought. — But how exactly does Facebook's ad business work? We still don't know a lot about that part.| AJ Glasser / Inside Social Games: |
Zynga's market cap climbs more than $1B a day after Facebook's IPO filing — Zynga shares jumped almost 17 percent today after Facebook's IPO filing yesterday revealed that the social network's payments revenue climbed 20 percent quarter-over-quarter by year-end — suggesting Zynga might see a comparable boost in its own bottom line.| Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tim Cook boasts about Apple's charitable contributions during internal all-hands meeting — Apple CEO Tim Cook held a town hall meeting last week to celebrate Apple's record quarter, and in addition to giving employees deep discounts on Apple products, we're now hearing that he spent quite … | Kellex / Droid Life: |
GSM Galaxy Nexus Receives Google Wallet Access on AT&T, Still Nothing for the LTE Variant on Verizon — By now, most of you know the story behind Google Wallet and the fact that it has only been officially available to the Nexus S 4G on Sprint, something that irritates the hell out of all new Galaxy Nexus owners.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Feds Seize Sports Streaming Domains in New Super Bowl Crackdown — US authorities began another round of domain name seizures a few hours ago, targeting several sports streaming sites. — Thus far, neither the Department of Justice nor Homeland Security's ICE unit have officially commented … | Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Peek killing off US email and Twitter devices after ‘lifelong service’ — There's an old saying that eternal love lasts for two years. Apparently, that also applies to Peek's bare bones email and Twitter devices, which launched in 2008 and 2009 respectively.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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Nokia Lumia 900 now available for pre-order at Microsoft's retail stores with $25 downpayment — We're still not sure when we'll see Nokia's Lumia 900 (signs currently point to March), but if you want to ensure you'll be among the first to have it, you can pre-order the handset now at Microsoft's retail stores.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Super Bowl XLVI releases free official app for iOS and Android — If you're going to the Super Bowl, you've probably already spent plenty of money. Fortunately, the NFL isn't asking anything for its official Super Bowl XLVI app, released yesterday. While it's out on both iOS and Android … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
RIM Offering Free PlayBook Tablets to Woo Android Developers — Research In Motion plans to give away tablets to Android developers who quickly port their apps to run on the PlayBook device. — RIM developer executive Alec Saunders mentioned the program in a Twitter message on Thursday … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tests Photo Viewer That Encourages Comments, Google+ Comparisons — Facebook is testing a new photo viewer layout that mounts engagement buttons and comments to the right rather than beneath images. See, Facebook doesn't want you to just view comments, it wants you to start a conversation.| Colleen Taylor / GigaOM: |
How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic — There's no question that Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm headed up by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has become a major force since it was founded back in 2009. The young VC firm has funded some of the best and brightest companies … | Alex Leo / MediaFile: |
Introducing Reuters Social Pulse — Today we launched Social Pulse, our new social media hub on Reuters.com designed to show you the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web. — The first thing you'll see on the page is the news most popular in Reuters social network.| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Judge complains of too many patents in Apple case against Motorola — Circuit Judge Posner has expressed dissatisfaction with the number of patents Apple is arguing against Motorola, asking the company to “winnow” its claims. — Apple originally brought 15 patent claims against Motorola … | Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence: |
10 Key Statistics about Facebook — As Facebook Inc. filed for its initial-public-offering yesterday afternoon, now is the perfect time to examine the website's performance online and how its audience compares with that of other social networks. Given the expected $75 billion … | Tyler Holman / Neowin.net: |
One studio accounts for 1/3 of Twitter DMCA takedowns — Twitter recently released all of the DMCA takedown notices they have received in the past year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 4,410 claims reveal that a single studio, Magnolia Pictures, was responsible for a third of them.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Under new CEO, AMD will launch processors for tablets this year — Advanced Micro Devices said at its analyst meeting today that it will ship its first chips designed to provide the processing and graphics power for tablet computers. — Rory Read (pictured), chief executive of Sunnyvale … | Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
Apple researching social fitness tech sporting real-time sharing of performance data for competitive workouts — In the future, hitting the gym along with your iPhone-toting pals could spur competitiveness in ways unlike ever before. Apple's mobile devices run a variety of fitness apps … | Jeremy Kirk / Techworld: |
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Avid Brings Its “Pro-sumer” Video Editing App to iPad — Avid, maker of high-end digital video and audio production tools, is bringing its “pro-sumer” video editing software to the iPad. — The app is available starting Thursday as part of the Avid Studio suite.
Multi-Language, Multi-Framework, what about Multi-Cloud? — Previously, developers had to put a lot of energy into preserving choice across operating systems and minimizing hard dependencies on specific operating systems.
Will Lifeline Guarantee High-speed Internet Access? — http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ technology/2012/01/will-lifeline- guarantee-high-... February 2, 2012 — TechFreedom's Larry Downes was recently quoted …
GoingNative 2012: Now Streaming Live! — We are sold out! But have no fear: The entire event will stream live globally (in fact, GoingNative 2012 will be the world's first globally simulcast C++ convention).
Flex Images: Blur the Line Between Cloud and Dedicated — Our customers are not concerned with technology for technology's sake. Information technology should serve a purpose; it should function as an integral means to a desired end.
Four-Peat: The 3,000,000 Salesforce Users Vote EchoSign #1 - For the 4th Straight Year — The 3,000,000 users of Salesforce.com have spoken. And we're extremely pleased to note that Salesforce.com has announced that … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:NEW |
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