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Bach, Allard leaving Microsoft in big shift for consumer business — Robbie Bach and J Allard, founding fathers of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, are leaving the company as part of a broader restructuring that will give CEO Steve Ballmer more direct oversight …
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Q&A: Microsoft's Bach on his exit, and the future of the company — Q&A: Microsoft's Bach on his exit, and future of the company — Robbie Bach may have been viewed at one point as a potential successor to Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's chief executive — but Bach says he never aspired to the job …
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Making sense of Microsoft's reorg — The exit of Microsoft's two top entertainment executives on Tuesday has many wondering just what is going on within Redmond's executive offices. — Although Microsoft reorganizes itself in some way on a nearly annual basis, the departure of both Robbie Bach and J. Allard is clearly a big deal.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Beyond Bach's departure: What else changed today at Microsoft? — Most Microsoft watchers are focused on the depatures of President Robbie Bach and Chief Experience Officer J Allard that were announced on May 25 by CEO Steve Ballmer as part of a big reorg at Microsoft.
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A new Chrome stable release: Welcome, Mac and Linux! — In our most recent beta release, we fired up all engines to bring to life our fastest version of Chrome to date. — Today, we're bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it's available to all Chrome users.
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Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
Chrome Brings Stability, Syncing and HTML5 Across All Platforms
Chrome Brings Stability, Syncing and HTML5 Across All Platforms
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Confirmed: Apple's next iPhone will have video chat, feature to be shown in ads directed by Sam Mendes — Well this can't be tremendously surprising. Apparently American Beauty director Sam Mendes is in the process of putting together a series of commercials for Apple's next iPhone …
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Motorola Droid Shadow Found In Gym — The story goes that this phone was left in a corporate Verizon gym in Washington, but before it was remotely locked the finder saw a text message confirming it was “unreleased”. What is it? Why, the Motorola Droid Shadow.
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Dell Streak: The versatile 5-inch Android tablet — I'm pumped to finally get a chance to blog about the upcoming Dell Streak tablet device. Since we first previewed the Dell Streak at CES 2010, it's been making waves in the blogosphere ever since. The 5-inch tablet will launch …
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Dell Streak official: exclusive to O2 UK in early June — Let's all feign surprise now, as Dell has just gone official with its worst kept, though perhaps sexiest, secret ever. The former Mini 5 has been christened the Streak and is launching at the beginning of next month.
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New “Drastically Simplified” Facebook Privacy Controls Start Rolling Out Tomorrow — On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Facebook's vice president of product Chris Cox announced that starting tomorrow, Facebook will be rolling out “drastically simplified” and improved privacy controls.
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Alden DeSoto / Google Analytics Blog:
Greater choice and transparency for Google Analytics — Many website owners use Google Analytics and other web analytics tools to make business-critical decisions about how to improve their websites by understanding how users engage with their webpages. We've worked hard to make Google Analytics …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Google's encrypted search casts shadow on web analytics
Google's encrypted search casts shadow on web analytics
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google rolls out browser add-on to allow users to block analytics software
Google rolls out browser add-on to allow users to block analytics software
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Wal-Mart slashes iPhone price to $97 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to slash the price of Apple's 16GB 3GS iPhone to $97 beginning Tuesday. — Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) is widely expected to unveil a brand-new iPhone next month …
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The new Hotmail gives Gmail a run for its money. … - Hitchens: How Kim Jong-il Blackmails the West Into Supporting His Evil Regime- Why Aren't Jewish Groups in Virginia Protesting the Appointment of Fred Malek? - Maybe Psychiatric Hospitals Should Separate Male and Female Patients …
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Mayor Bloomberg Announces First Investment By NYC-Sponsored Venture Fund: MyCityWay — Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg just announced that the city-sponsored NYC Entrepreneurial Fund has made its first investment, $300,000 of a $500,000 seed round in local search startup MyCityWay.
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Mayor Bloomberg Calls For More NYC Startups At TechCrunch Disrupt …
Mayor Bloomberg Calls For More NYC Startups At TechCrunch Disrupt …
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Compass Labs Tries To Pinpoint Purchase Intent On Twitter — Consumers are increasingly socializing their shopping decisions and product reviews on Facebook or Twitter as e-commerce intersects with social media. In fact, half of all online shoppers look on a social network site before making a purchase decision.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers …
Twitter's Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers …
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Phase One Acquires Microsoft's Expression Media Product — Digital photography company Phase One, which offers in open-platform based medium format camera systems and solutions, is taking over Microsoft's Expression Media product. — The acquisition of the product is an extension …
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Amazon CEO: Color Kindle ‘still a long way out’ — A color version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader may come eventually, but it won't be soon. Speaking Tuesday at the online retailer's annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said that adding color to the Kindle's …
Sachin Agarwal / Sachin's Posterous:
To compete with Google, Apple has to make Mobile Me free — When Google announced the G1, I was not impressed. The hardware was large and clunky, the software was young and lacked polish. However, the integration with Google's cloud services was well executed.
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AOL's Armstrong: Bebo deal ‘really fell apart’ — NEW YORK—AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wasn't yet at the company when it paid $850 million for social network Bebo two years ago, a purchase that's now considered to be one of the biggest tech industry M&A blunders of the past decade.
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Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along? — Google with its annual developer conference, Google I/O, dominated the technology conversation last week. Whether it was taking jabs at Apple, launching a competitor to H.264 video technology or simply offering its own version of Amazon S3 …
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Google offered Viacom $592 million for content — Not long after Google acquired YouTube, the search engine offered $500 million in guaranteed revenue if Viacom, parent company of MTV Networks, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, licensed its TV shows and films to YouTube, records show.