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Stefan Magdalinski / Mocality Kenya:
Google, what were you thinking? — I'm very proud of the business that we've created here at Mocality, but I'm especially proud of two things: — Our crowdsourcing program. When we started this business, we knew that (unlike in the UK or US, where you can just kickstart your directory business …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Busted: Google gets caught scraping Kenya's biggest business listings database — When Google enters a new market, it likes to fully commit itself to its work and building its services. However, when it entered Kenya and attempted to help get Kenyan businesses online, it seems to have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: Google To Act Against Staff For Poaching Kenyan Rival's Clients — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has “apogised unreservedly” after its Kenyan outfit poached customers from a rival business directory by systematically accessing its database. — The CEO of local business directory startup Mocality …
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Jim Forsyth / Reuters:
Author of U.S. online piracy bill vows not to buckle — (Reuters) - The lawmaker behind a bill to combat online piracy vowed on Thursday to press ahead in the face of fierce criticism from Internet giants such as Google and Facebook. — “It is amazing to me that the opponents apparently …
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Jamie Lee Curtis Taete / Vice:
The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator — Wanna spend your Thursday night looking for hypocrites on the internet? Help us expose other SOPA-supporting, copyright-flaunting hypocrites here. US Congressman and poor-toupee-colour-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Author of Controversial Piracy Bill Now Says ‘More Study’ Needed
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
As SOPA/PIPA Becomes Toxic, Frantic Congress Test Runs Dropping DNS Blocking Provisions
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Facebook Finds Quieter Ways to Complain About Google's Search+ — While Twitter lead the charge this week in publicly and unequivocally blasting Google's new promotion of Google+ in its search results, Facebook stayed quieter. — Well, on the surface. Multiple stories about Google …
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Christina Bonnington / Gadget Lab:
Why Windows Phones Are the Most Exciting Handsets at CES — LAS VEGAS — There's a curious thing happening in the smartphone space at this year's CES. Two Windows Phone devices — the HTC Titan II and the Nokia Lumia 900 — are the most hyped, talked-about phones at the show. Yeah, that's right: Windows Phones.
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Lumia 900 to be released in March, says Nokia developer newsletter
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Ben Rudolph / Windows Phone Blog:
VIDEO: Windows Phone wins 88% of #smokedbywindowsphone challenges at CES 2012!
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iPhone 4S Sales Cancelled at Beijing and Shanghai Apple Stores — Apple has decided to postpone the retail availability of its new iPhone 4S at some stores in mainland China after a rowdy crowd disrupted the device's debut at its Sanlitun store in Beijing. — Would-be customers …
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
iPhone 4S launch in China draws large crowds, unnecessary violence and SWAT teams (video)
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BBC:
Ex-Apple boss Sculley sets record straight on Jobs — Former Apple boss John Sculley said he enjoyed a great working relationship with Steve Jobs during ‘the good times’ — Apple's former chief executive John Sculley is perhaps best known as the man who first mentored and then clashed with Steve Jobs …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
OnLive Desktop for iPad Now Available on App Store — OnLive's virtual Windows 7 / Office app for the iPad has arrived on the App Store. As we reported earlier this week, OnLive Desktop offers iPad users access to full-featured versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Hands-On With OnLive's Windows 7 iPad App: Nice Tech Demo, Not That Useful Yet
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents — After half a decade of loyal service, The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker in November 2009. — The Pirate Bay argued that BitTorrent trackers have been made redundant by technologies such as DHT and PEX. In addition, The Pirate Bay team …
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Rupert Murdoch / @rupertmurdoch:
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Apple reveals a list of its suppliers for the first time — For the first time ever, Apple has released a list of its official suppliers on its supplier responsibility page. This is significant because Apple has previously been notoriously secretive about who supplies its components.
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Don Reisinger / CNET:
RIM hires Goldman Sachs to field buyout offers? — Talk of Research In Motion being acquired just won't go away. But this time, it might be RIM's fault. — The BlackBerry maker has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to help it field potential buyout offers, according to the rumor mill on the Wall Street trading floor.
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Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:
This is the New YouTube Player with Storyboards — The next version of YouTube video player will have one very useful feature - you can hover your mouse to any point in the video, without actually moving the playhead, and the YouTube player will show you an image thumbnail of the video frame at the position.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Texas Instruments demos first OMAP 5, Android 4.0-based reference design, promises it in laptops next year (video) — Texas Instruments promised us a new helping of OMAP right around a year ago, and sure enough, OMAP 5 processors will be sampling to partners as early as next week.
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Nicole Perlroth / Bits:
Malicious Software Attacks Security Cards Used by Pentagon — Chinese hackers have deployed a new cyber weapon that is aimed at the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and potentially a number of other United States government agencies and businesses, security researchers say.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Xbox Accounted for 40 Percent of All Videogame Sales in 2011 — Microsoft dominated the videogame industry last year, with the Xbox capturing nearly half of all consumer spending from physical sales in 2011. — According to NPD data released today, about $6.7 billion …
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Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:
2011, 2012 and beyond. — We just closed the books on a big 2011 for Hulu. As a team, we recently reflected on our 2011 investments in innovation and thought it would be an appropriate time to share some of those thoughts via this post. — First, some results:
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
“Soft” Ad Sales Ding Hulu's 2011 Growth
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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
AMD's Lightning Bolt: Low Cost Thunderbolt Alternative for USB 3.0/DP — One of the things I love the most about AMD is the balance it provides to Intel. While I've spent much of CES looking for Thunderbolt products and lamenting the cost of controllers and devices, AMD put together a concept it calls Lightning Bolt.
