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Dan Wineman / venomous porridge:
The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA — Apple just released iBooks Author, a free Mac app for creating digital books for the new version of iBooks. I haven't played with it much, but so far it looks like a very good tool. However, a curious thing happens when you go to export your work in iBooks format:
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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
Apple Unveils All-New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch — Entire Courses from Top Universities Now Available in One App — Apple® today announced an all-new iTunes® U app, giving educators and students everything they need on their iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® to teach and take entire courses.
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9to5Mac, Apple, The Verge, The Next Web, BGR, Webomatica, dailywireless.org, CNN and Laughing Squid
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple's New Math. Or: Why A $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book. — McGraw-Hill normally sells high-school textbooks for $75 a pop. Now it says it will sell electronic versions of the same books, via Apple, for $15 apiece. How can the publisher make that work?
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Apple announces free iBooks Author app for OS X for publishing books to the App Store
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InfoWorld, CNET, GigaOM, BetaNews, GigaOM, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine and 9to5Mac, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Anonymous claims DOJ and record label site takedowns in response to MegaUpload suit — By all appearances, Anonymous isn't too happy with the Department of Justice's move to take down file sharing site MegaUpload today, because it's now claiming that it's knocked the DOJ's site off the internet …
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy — WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved against a group of suspected online pirates Thursday, targeting the popular file-sharing website megaupload.com a day after Washington lawmakers were besieged by complaints about legislation designed …
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Associated Press, The Next Web, BGR, xda-developers, TechCrunch, Domain Name Wire, The Raw Story, GigaOM, @lawgeeknz, Electronista, What's Trending … and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Justice Department calls MegaUpload an ‘international organized criminal enterprise,’ founder Kim Dotcom arrested in New Zealand — The United States Justice Department filed charges against MegaUpload today, calling the file-sharing service an “international organized criminal enterprise …
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The United States Department …, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Social Markets, Threat Level, Computerworld, CircleID, BetaNews, The Not-So Private Parts, paidContent, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Betabeat, TorrentFreak, The Tech Herald Technology …, BBC, gHacks Technology News, GadgeTell, Neowin.net and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Billboard:
Swizz Beatz's Resume: The History of a Multi-Tasker — In today's fluid economy it's not uncommon to have a second job. A third, fourth, or fifth job though, is something special. And when you're super-producer Swizz Beatz and you have a baker's dozen jobs at once, it's frankly less …
Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
Surprising New Figure in the Piracy Wars? Swizz Beatz, Megaupload.com's Secret CEO
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PC Magazine, New York Post, BET.com, FACT magazine and FACT magazine
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
The Mega empire: Details of the MegaUpload indictment
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VentureBeat, Gizmodo and Guardian, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:loyalelectron
Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. — “Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year. Full year revenue was up 29% …
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Larry Page Is Super Excited To Announce That Google+ Has 90M Users [Update: Engagement+?] — The official numbers are in for Google's new social network, Google+. Beating out most previous third-party estimates that we've seen, the company said today that it now has 90 million users worldwide.
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Mixed Media, Marketing Land, Social Markets, Mashable! and GeekWire
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google: 250M Android devices activated, 11B Android Market app downloads
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CNET, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, TechCrunch and 9to5Google
Summify:
Summify Joins The Flock At Twitter! — You've probably noticed we've been quiet lately. Well, we're extremely excited to announce that Summify has been acquired by Twitter! I know, right? We can hardly believe it ourselves! — Roughly 2 years ago, we moved from Romania to Vancouver …
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Business Insider, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Epicenter, The Verge, TechCrunch, Techvibes.com, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, Computerworld and @randfish
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue: Up 5% To $20.9B, Earnings At $0.78 Per Share — Microsoft just reported its second quarter 2012 earnings with revenues of $20.9 billion, an 5% increase from the same period of the prior year. Microsoft's operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share …
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Guardian, New York Times, eWeek, AllThingsD, The Verge, Ars Technica, PC World, Microsoft, BGR, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, Electronista and SlashGear
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Profit Tops Estimates on Xbox, Demand
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mocoNews, All about Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, GeekWire, Between the Lines Blog, CNET and The Tech Trade
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Bing Maps to get Nokia branding on all devices - including rivals' — Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, has told Pocket-lint that we shall soon be seeing the Nokia brand name within other devices and not just the company's own phones. — “You'll starting seeing the word ‘Nokia’ on a map …
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The Verge, Neowin.net, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, IntoMobile and Engadget
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Amazon Makes More Than $100 Off Each Kindle Fire — The hardware and manufacturing costs of the Kindle Fire may exceed the device's retail price, but Amazon is not losing any money on it. Every Kindle sold is another annuity revenue stream for the company, strengthening its core retail business.
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Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected?
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Fast Company and Geek.com, more at Mediagazer »
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple introduces us to Siri, the Killer Patent — On October 4, 2011Apple launched the iPhone 4S with Siri, just one day prior to Steve Jobs passing. Today, the first killer patent application behind Siri was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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NBC Bay Area, BGR, AppleInsider, WebProNews and msnbc.com
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Larry Page: Google should be like a family — In an exclusive Q&A, Google's co-founder and CEO explains how he built a No. 1 workplace — and why it matters. — Google also claimed the top spot on our list in 2007 and 2008 - making it the only three-time champion.
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Larry Page, PC World, Guardian, TechFlash, The Register and NBC Bay Area
The Politico:
On PIPA, Senate in talks to yank search — Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) are in discussions to exempt search-result blocking from the PROTECT IP Act, sources confirmed to POLITICO. — Kyl made the proposal to Leahy on Wednesday. The measure is one of the biggest sticking points …
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
SOPA protest by the numbers: 162M pageviews, 7 million signatures
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The Register, TechCrunch, PC World, MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, internetretailer.com, BBC, The Raw Story, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Bloomberg
David Goldman / CNN Money:
At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Apple's value on the stock market briefly rose to $400 billion on Thursday, a record high for what was already the world's most valuable technology company. — The company's market cap slipped below the $400 billion mark …
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9to5Mac, CNNMoney.com and AllThingsD
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Pages With Too Many Ads “Above The Fold” Now Penalized By Google's “Page Layout” Algorithm — Do you shove lots of ads at the top of your web pages? Think again. Tired of doing a Google search and landing on these types of pages? Rejoice. Google has announced that it will penalize sites with pages that are top-heavy with ads.
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Krystal Peak / VatorNews:
Nike announces FitBit, JawboneUP competition ‘FuelBand’ — As consumers demand more from mobile health, Nike pours fuel on the fire — With everyone trying to uphold their New Year's resolutions — or resuscitate them — Nike took some time out on Thursday to announce a new tool to track …
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AllThingsD, Business Wire, PC World, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile and NikeInc.com
Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:
Death sentence for Iranian programmer accused of developing software used by porn sites — Iran's stranglehold on Internet use in the country is no secret. From monitoring its users to blocking sites quicker than you can say Ahmadinejad, Iranian authorities will stop at nothing to ensure …
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Liquidmatrix Security Digest
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU to decide on Google, Motorola Mobility deal Feb 13 — (Reuters) - EU regulators set on Thursday a new February 13 deadline to decide whether to clear Google's takeover of U.S. handset maker Motorola Mobility after the Internet search engine came forward with new documents to support its case, the EU Commission said.
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CNET, BGR, Technologizer, IntoMobile, FierceWireless, 9to5Google and AllThingsD
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Facebook registers domains for something called “FB Origin” — This week, the social networking giant Facebook registered several domains for something called “FB Origin” ranging from dot-com to dot-biz. — On the same day the company held a media event where it unveiled 60 new apps …
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