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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled — About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. — While rumors of Facebook's interest were brought …
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Daya Baran / WebGuild:
Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected — Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that about 500 of them were recruiters for Google.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Why the iPod Touch Didn't Get Google Street View — The new 2.2 update for the iPhone brings a lot of great new features. Google Street View, direct viewing, listening and download of podcasts and a few small but neat tweaks. The iPod Touch also got a 2.2 upgrade, but it lacks one headline feature: Street View.
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Arn / Touch Arcade:
2nd Generation iPod Touch Faster than iPhone — While we had generally considered the iPhone and iPod Touch to be one cohesive platform, as games have started to push the boundaries of these devices, it has become apparent that there are differences in performance between the different models.
Business Wire:
EMG Technology Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Apple — CENTURY CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro (JMBM) announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit on behalf of EMG Technology, LLC against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) …
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James Sherwood / The Register:
Samsung demos amazing folding phone — A video has appeared online of what's claimed to be an OLED display able to fold itself in half to become a mobile phone. — Initially, the phone - which it's thought was recently seen on a Samsung stand at a display tech trade show in Japan …
Meghan Keane / Epicenter:
Blip.tv Brings Video Embeds to the iPhone — Viewing video on the iPhone is a source of consternation for users, as Adobe's flash player is not yet available (and probably never will be) and YouTube remains the only video provider compatible with the device.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Palm: The Beginning Of The End? — At a moment in time when smartphones are one of the few hot tech products, Palm (PALM), the industry's pioneer, appears to be dying. — This morning, Global Crown Capital analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez cut his rating on the company to Underweight from Neutral …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Research In Motion: Taken By A Storm — Research In Motion (RIMM) shares this morning continue to levitate on early consumer enthusiasm for the BlackBerry Storm; the market seems to be ignoring some cautionary comments this morning from Citigroup. Here is a rundown of some of the Street commentary …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM launches cloud computing services — IBM on Monday unveiled a series of cloud computing services including business consulting to determine return on investment, design and implementation and security architecture. — Big Blue noted that its services will focus on public, private and hybrid cloud computing set-ups.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook awarded $873 million in lawsuit against spammer — Spam marketing messages on Facebook have been getting worse over the last year as the site has grown — but maybe such spamming is about to stop. On Friday, the company won a court battle against spam perpetrator Adam Guerbuez …
Dan Frommer / Alley Insider:
‘GPhone’ Sales Strong: HTC Eyes 1 Million G1s Shipped In 2008 (GOOG) — Google's (GOOG) first cellphone — the T-Mobile G1 — seems to be finding an audience. HTC, the Taiwanese company that makes the phone, just jacked its sales estimates. — HTC now thinks it'll ship 1 million G1s this year …
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Stars & Stripes:
Not playing around: Army to invest $50M in combat training games — GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming systems designed to prepare soldiers for combat. — Lt. Col. Gary Stephens …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Final judgment: SCO owes Novell millions (plus interest) — Federal district judge Dale A. Kimball has handed down the final judgment in the SCO case. The decision dismisses SCO's latest claims, grants declaratory relief to Novell, and sustains the court's previous judgment that SCO owes Novell …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple Approves Smutty iPhone App By Mistake — Over the weekend, an interesting app made its way into the iPhone app store: Wallpaper Universe, a naughty little number that let you decorate your homescreen with pictures of women in various states of undress.
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Arthur Klausner / PE Hub News:
Zuberance Raises $4 Million — Zuberance, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of on-demand customer sales force software, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Emergence Capital Partners. — PRESS RELEASE — Zuberance, the leading provider of on-demand customer sales force software …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) alpha hops into view — The Ubuntu developers have announced the availability of Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 1, the first prerelease for this version. Ubuntu 9.04 is codenamed Jaunty Jackalope and is scheduled for official release in April.
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Serkan Toto / TechCrunch:
Xing's CEO Lars Hinrichs Steps Down, Denies LinkedIn Is Getting Any “Real Traction” In Europe — Germany-based business networking service Xing today announced its CEO Lars Hinrichs will step down and be replaced by Ebay Germany head Stefan Gross-Selbeck effective January 15, 2009.
Electronista:
Intel builds 32Gb, 34 nanometer flash chips — Intel and its memory making partner Micron today said they have begun mass producing their promised first 34nm NAND flash memory. The smaller manufacturing process lets the two firms build individual chip layers with 32 gigabits (4GB) …
Joe M / Stuff.tv:
Does LG's multitouch display mean a touchscreen iMac is coming? — Here in Korea, LG's just given me a quick look inside one of their factories. And beyond the sight of 100in TVs being cranked out faster than Lewis Hamilton on a flying lap, one interesting nugget of info caught my eye.
Ilinca Nita / Unwired View:
MOTO QA30 leaked: Motorola's first QWERTY slider — Why look what we have here: MOTO QA30, the very first Motorola slider that features a full QWERTY keyboard. — The QA30 has a pretty weird form factor, somehow resembling AT&T's Samsung Propel. — Unlike the Propel, however …
