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Nokia Conversations:
Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft — GLOBAL - Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem.
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Nokia:
Nokia outlines new strategy, introduces new leadership, operational structure — London, UK - Nokia today outlined its new strategic direction, including changes in leadership and operational structure to accelerate the company's speed of execution in a dynamic competitive environment.
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Microsoft:
Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build a New Global Mobile Ecosystem — Companies plan to combine assets and develop innovative mobile products on an unprecedented scale. — Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership …
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asymco, Internet2Go, TechFlash, Search Engine Land, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Tech Trader Daily, All about Microsoft Blog, Between the Lines Blog, The Tech Trade, MSDN Blogs, FOSS Patents, Smartphones …, Neowin.net, Black Web 2.0, Search Engine Roundtable, DailyTech, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Neowin.net and GeekSmack, Thanks:dtmunir
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team, Organizational Changes — Ahead of its Strategy and Financial Briefing in London, Nokia has shared some details on what it plans to announce at the event. As expected, the company is aligning its strategy with Microsoft.
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The Register, Computerworld, LiveSide.net, The Loop, TechEye, Nokia Conversations, TechCrunch Europe, PhoneArena, Engadget and SAI, Thanks:robinwauters
Jussi Rosendahl / Reuters:
Nokia to cut thousands of jobs in Finland: union — (Reuters) - Nokia is set to cut thousands of jobs in Finland as part of the strategic overhaul which it unveiled on Friday, the chairman of the local labor union said on Friday. — “It seems it means thousands of jobs in Finland,” …
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Engadget
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia Q&A reveals more MeeGo details and tablet plans — says Android ‘risk of commodification was very high’ — The Steve show just ended with both Elop and Ballmer hosting a very informative media Q&A following the reveal of Nokia's plan to use Windows Phone 7 as its “primary smartphone platform.”
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Computerworld, All about Microsoft Blog and MobileTechWorld
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development
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Download Squad, WMPoweruser.com and Download Squad
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia: Symbian and MeeGo not dead yet, still shipping this year (updated)
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LiveSide.net
Bloomberg:
Apple Working on Cheaper, More Versatile IPhone Models — Apple Inc. is working on new versions of the iPhone that are aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google Inc.'s Android software, according to people who have been briefed on the plans.
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TechEye, Inquirer, Faster Forward, TiPb, Engadget, VentureBeat, Penn Olson, PhoneArena, I4U News, Geeky-Gadgets, Edible Apple, Examiner, Apple Bitch, Electricpig.co.uk, Redmond Pie, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Technologizer, Tech Check, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, MobileBurn.com, ITProPortal, MobileCrunch, Ars Technica, Recombu, CNET News and Electronista
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Could Apple Be Your Next Phone Company?
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Los Angeles Times, Thanks:sgbass83
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The iPhone Nano Rumor Reborn: 1/3rd Smaller, Older Components, $200 With No Contract
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Fortune, Electricpig.co.uk and TiPb
Information Arbitrage:
Froth or famine? — Let's be serious - EVERYBODY is wondering if there is another shoe to drop in the Great Internet Gold Rush of 2011. $6 billion for Groupon? Nah, too low. Something between $8-$10 billion for Twitter? Sure, why not? Eight-figure pre-money valuations for numerous West Coast consumer web start-ups?
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Despite Leave, Jobs Keeps a Hand on Apple — Three weeks into a medical leave he took “to focus on my health,” Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is staying closely involved in the company's strategic decisions and product development, according to people familiar with the matter.
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AppleInsider, DailyTech, Gearlog, Disruptors, Edible Apple, Electricpig.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, CNET News, The Loop, MacRumors and MacNN
Bloomberg:
RIM Said to Plan PlayBook Software to Run Google's Android Apps — Research In Motion Ltd., looking to score a hit with its PlayBook tablet computer, is working on software to allow the device to run applications for Google Inc.'s Android, three people familiar with the matter said.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
PayPal's Micropayment Solution Opens to the Public — Online payment company PayPal has opened up its micropayment solution to “game developers, media publishers, or anyone interested in selling digital content on a global scale.” The solution was first announced last October when the company …
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Fast Company, SAI, Softpedia News, The PayPal Blog and @davepell
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
eHarmony Hacked — Online dating giant eHarmony has begun urging many users to change their passwords, after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity.com to a potential security breach of customer information. The individual responsible for all the ruckus is an Argentinian hacker …
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Download Squad, The Next Web, CNET News and Switched
BBC:
Stop the presses: Facebook CTO says news next in social revolution — Facebook CTO Bret Taylor says news and media are set get the social treatment — Each week we ask chief technology officers and other high-profile tech decision-makers three questions.
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The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb
David Meyer / ZDNet:
Common charger ready, but Apple stays mum on adapter — A sample of the new common mobile phone charger for Europe has been ceremonially handed over to European industry commissioner Antonio Tajani, ahead of a continent-wide roll-out this year. — The charger was given to Tajani by Bridget Cosgrave …
AppleInsider:
Apple doubling orders for ‘hot-selling’ Macbook models, suppliers say — Apple's Asian manufacturing partners have seen orders for popular Macbook models as much as double, while shipments of notebooks to other brand-name vendors have failed to meet expectations, a new report claims.
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DigiTimes
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Facebook Earned ~$250 Million In Q4, Profits Growing At An Astounding Rate — Facebook generated ~$250 million of net income in the fourth quarter of 2010, two sources briefed on Facebook's finances tell us. — Previous reports say Facebook profited $355 million over 2010's first 9 months.
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PE Hub Blog
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Exploring Permitting a Tender Offer for $1 Billion …
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The Register and Fortune
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
MacBook Air ‘Sandy Bridge’ update expected in June — Apple is targeting a MacBook Air update for this summer that will include a move to Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, CNET has learned. — Initial shipments of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor were snafued on January 31 by a minor glitch …
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Laptops and Desktops Blog, MacStories, Geek.com, Electronista and Fudzilla
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter Tells Advertisers To Dig Deeper: “Promoted Trends” Get a Price Hike — Twitter's “promoted trends” ads may be the company's most consistent source of revenue. Now the company wants to wring more money out of them: It has told buyers to expect a significant price bump for the ads in the next few months.
Royal Pingdom:
Microsoft's woes: It's a Windows-eat-Windows world — Pardon the wordplay on “dog-eat-dog world,” but as you'll see it applies perfectly to what is going on with Windows in the desktop OS space. — Because there are several interesting things going on. Some quite expected, others not so much.
Michael Wolf / GigaOM:
Pure Digital CEO Leaving Cisco; Was Flip Deal a Flop? — Updated. Pure Digital CEO Jonathan Kaplan will be leaving Cisco on Friday, less than two years after Cisco bought the maker of the Flip video camera franchise for a cool $590 million. According to the company, as part of the reshuffling …
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Computerworld, Cisco Blog, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and NewEnterprise, Thanks:michaelwolf
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
(Virtually) face to face: how Aaron Barr revealed himself to Anonymous — Aaron Barr, CEO of security company HBGary Federal, spent the month of January trying to uncover the real identifies of the hacker collective Anonymous—only to end with his company website knocked offline …
