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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Flex it, baby! Nokia's new interface is seriously twisted — The Nokia kinetic device scrolls through photos and music playlists when its edges are twisted. — LONDON—Multitouch revolutionized user interfaces, and if Nokia researchers get their way, a mobile device that's sensitive …
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WinRumors, Inquirer, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, Pocketables, New York Times, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch and Mashable!
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Why no front-facing camera on first Windows Phones from Nokia? — Summary: There are no front-facing cameras on Nokia's first two Windows Phone handsets. Some users are asking why. — As I noted in a Nokia World blog post from earlier today, there are no front-facing cameras on the Lumia 800 or 710 Windows Phones.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
iPad 3's dense display a challenge for manufacturers — Apple Retina Display. — The 10-inch-class screen on Apple's upcoming iPad 3 will be one of its most remarkable features. But getting to the higher resolutions is a big step, according to a source who spoke to CNET.
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AppleInsider, Tech-On!, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News, T3 News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Geek.com and Liliputing
Richard Orange / Telegraph:
Facebook to build server farm on edge of Arctic Circle — Facebook is to build a multi-million ‘mini town’ on the edge of the Arctic circle to house all its computer servers, which would us as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people. — Luleå is situated at the northern tip of the Baltic Sea …
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Reuters, Disruptors, The Next Web, The Local, Friending Facebook Blog, CNET News, InfoWorld and Business Insider
Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:
Case Dismissed. (Again.) — The reason tens of millions of people use Yelp every month to help them find a great local business is because they trust Yelp's review content. We work hard to keep that trust by protecting the integrity of our review content, and use a number of methods …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, L.A. Times Tech Blog and CNET News
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Mayor Bloomberg Welcomes Yelp to New York
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AM New York, Mike Bloomberg, Betabeat, @mikebloomberg, NY Daily News and NYConvergence.com
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple now has $81.5B in cash, 13.2M sq. ft. of facilities and 60K employees — Apple today filed its Form 10-K with the SEC that discloses information to stockholders and the commission. In an amongst the normal legal statements there were a few interesting facts.
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Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac and CNET News, Thanks:speedmaster
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Andreessen Horowitz Raising Huge New $900 Million Fund III — You can't accuse Andreessen Horowitz of spending money too slowly. Their first fund, $300 million, was raised in 2009 and was promptly invested in companies like Skype and Fusion.io. In late 2010 they raised Fund II …
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TechCrunch
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed a slew of partnerships with media companies and well-known personalities to produce original content for the popular video website, said people familiar with the matter.
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Softpedia News and SiliconANGLE
Jim Giles / New Scientist:
Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system — FACEBOOK has released details of the extraordinary security infrastructure it uses to fight off spam and other cyber-scams. — Known as the Facebook Immune System (FIS), the massive defence network appears to be successful …
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The Next Web, Gizmodo Australia and Gizmodo
Guardian:
BlackBerry outage: RIM faces US class action — US and Canadian users seek damages for breach of contract and negligence after three-day service failure — Consumers in the US and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a three-day service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month.
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Matt Hartley / Financial Post:
RIM facing class action suit over BlackBerry outage
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CNET News, BGR, TechCrunch, mocoNews, The Register, VentureBeat and Ubergizmo
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Don't look now, but AWS might be a billion-dollar biz — Analysts and shareholders spent yesterday being up in arms over Amazon's missed earning targets — a shortsighted mindset that we've addressed before — but the cloud computing watchers might have noticed something very noteworthy in Amazon's quarterly statement.
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Amazon.com and The Register
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Sony Will Buy Out Ericsson's Stake In Sony-Ericsson Mobile For $1.47 Billion — Sony Corp. has just announced that it will pay $1.47 billion (or $1.05 billion Euros) for Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson 50% stake in the joint Sony-Ericsson mobile handset venture. Based in Tokyo and Stockholm respectively …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America — As was unfortunately expected, the House version of PROTECT IP has been released (embedded below) and it's ridiculously bad. Despite promises from Rep. Goodlatte, there has been no serious effort to fix …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
‘Codify’ Brings Touch Based Programming to iPad — iOS developers TwoLivesLeft have just released an interesting new app called Codify, which brings touch based programming to the iPad. — The app allows users to create their own programs using the Lua programming language by typing code directly on your iPad.
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Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, Touch Arcade and RazorianFly
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Notable: LSI buys SandForce for $400M — Venture capitalists have generally given semiconductor startups the cold shoulder for years now in favor of the web and software spaces. But an acquisition announced Wednesday afternoon indicates it may be time for VCs to warm up to chip technology once again.
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CNET News, Reuters, Electronista, PR Newswire, EE Times, Digits, AnandTech, Forbes and silicontap.com
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Coldplay latest act to freeze out streaming services (scoop) — Coldplay, one of the world's biggest music acts, has declined to offer songs from the company's new album “Mylo Xyloto,” to streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody, multiple sources told CNET.
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Tech Europe, The Next Web and VatorNews
Chikodi Chima / VentureBeat:
Report: Netflix hogs 32 percent of peak Internet bandwidth — Netflix again leads the pack as North America's largest consumer of Internet bandwidth, creating 32 percent of peak downstream traffic, according to the 2011 Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report, which was released today.
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Bloomberg, ReadWriteWeb and Sandvine Press Releases, more at Mediagazer »
Reuters:
Groupon CEO says replacing 10 percent of sales staff — (Reuters) - Daily deals site Groupon is replacing the worst 10 percent of its sales staff as it pushes to win stronger deals from merchants and ensure it can keep growing, the company's chief executive told potential IPO investors on Wednesday.
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@kevinnorman and Business Insider
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Google Maps rolls out business interiors in Street View — Google is taking its Street View feature indoors. The company announced last May it would be taking interior shots of stores, but now it is moving out of its pilot phase with more 360 degree interiors cropping up online.
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The Atlantic Wire, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, Electronista, LAUNCH and SiliconFilter
The Local:
Swedish password hacking scandal widens — Double click on a word to get a translation — A password hacking scandal which on Tuesday exposed login details of 90,000 Swedes, including several journalists and celebrities, has widened to include 180,000 users on nearly 60 websites.
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Help Net Security, The Register, Fast Company and Falkvinge on Infopolicy
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
First look: Apple's Cards offers quality & convenience at a low price — One completely unexpected announcement made by Apple at this month's iPhone 4S media event was Cards, a new application that lets iPhone users quickly and easily order a custom-printed greeting card.
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GigaOM
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Facebook-Funded Sociable Labs Helps Retailers Be More Friendly — Sociable Labs, which is helping retailers to integrate Facebook's social graph into the shopping experience, has raised $7 million from investors. — The second round of funding was led by Battery Ventures.
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silicontap.com, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Inside Facebook, Venture Capital Dispatch, Social Markets and All Facebook
