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Sharp to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple this month — (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. — “Shipments will start in August … | Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Drops Below $20: Worth Less Than What MSFT Offered For Yahoo In 2008? — Today, Facebook hit a new milestone, perhaps one that it won't be celebrating much: the stock went down past $20 a share. In fact, as this post is being written it's trading at $19.99.
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MarketBeat, broadstuff, The Next Web, CNET, GigaOM, MarketWatch and The Verge
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Facebook Is Now Worth $58 Billion, Not The ‘$39 Billion’ Everyone Thinks... Last week, I noted that most financial and market data sites are wrong about a key piece of information for Facebook: Its market capitalization. — These sites, which include Yahoo Finance and Google Finance … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft advises developers to stop using ‘Metro’ name in apps following possible trademark dispute — Microsoft has started to notify its Windows developers that they should refrain from using the word “Metro” throughout their applications if they refer to the Windows Phone or Windows 8 interface.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Q2 Earnings Beat The Street: $228.2M In Sales; EPS of $0.03 — LinkedIn has just released Q2 earnings, and the enterprise-focused social network continues to rise. It's posted revenues of $228.2 million and earnings per share of $0.03 (non-GAAP EPS: $0.16).
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VatorNews, CNET, Mashable, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Marketing Land, The Next Web, LinkedIn, MarketBeat and SocialTimes. Tweets: @levie
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Apple seeks patent for Smart Cover with embedded secondary display — According to an application to the USPTO this morning, Apple believes it's possible to build a flexible display into an iPad cover in order to “greatly enhance” the functionality of the tablet itself.| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Apple initially wanted an iPhone with shaped glass, deposition reveals — The Apple-Samsung trial has provided us with an absolute treasure trove of information regarding Apple's iPhone prototypes. Below is why Apple initially shied away from shaped glass and why an iPhone prototype resembling …
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MacRumors, TUAW, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, Business Insider and SlashGear. Thanks:@ionapple1
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Mayer Brings in First Googler — in PR — to Yahoo — New CEO Marissa Mayer has brought in her first Googler over to Yahoo — one of her longtime PR staffers, Anne Espiritu. Espiritu has worked closely with Mayer at the search giant, especially on various media appearances and on consumer products.
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell's Mixed Media Labs Board — Wednesday was an ugly day for infighting in the Valley, after Dalton Caldwell, a Silicon Valley veteran and serial entrepreneur, posted a withering missive to his personal blog on Wednesday, in which he accused Facebook …
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Thanks:@mikeisaac| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
BlackBerry: other manufacturers could license our new BB10 platform — Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research in Motion, has told the Telegraph that manufacturers such as Sony or Samsung could licence the new BlackBerry operating system. — New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins introduced BlackBerry 10 in Florida
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Final copy of Windows 8 leaks online — The final build of Windows 8 has leaked to the internet, just a day after Microsoft confirmed it had finished the development cycle for the new operating system. Although MSDN and TechNet customers won't officially receive access …
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| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
Facebook Stories: A Facebook Site With Collected Stories and Infographics — A lot of people — close to 950 million, in fact — are sharing their lives on Facebook. As it turns out, Facebook thinks many of them have some interesting stories. Some of them are so interesting that they could be part …
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Demonoid Starts Redirecting to Ads and Malware — Demonoid is one of the world's largest and longest standing sites that not only indexes torrents, but also operates its own tracker. — Although the site has a reasonable uptime record, there have been a few occasions where it has not only gone down, but has disappeared completely.
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| Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo: |
BREAKING: David Pogue Has Lost His iPhone (UPDATE #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16—THEY GOT IT—Still Updating #17 #18) — New York Times technology writer David Pogue has lost his iPhone. He has posted a screenshot of where it might be on Lockerz.com, though.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
3-week old Jelly Bean hits 0.8% Android device adoption, as Ice Cream Sandwich reaches 15.9% — It's been just over a month since Google officially announced Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and barely three weeks since the first rollout, but already the latest flavor of Android is installed … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IDC: Apple's iPad Grew Q2 Tablet Share To 68% As It Braces For Windows 8, Amazon And Nexus Competition — After Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire tablet last autumn, a lot of observers thought it could prove to be the competition to Apple's iPad that other Android tablets had so far failed to deliver.| Emil Protalinski / CNET: |
Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users — Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. — Follow @emilprotalinski — Does she have a Facebook account? — Last week, during …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills — A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants' legal costs. Introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Deutsche Telekom Invests $9 Million in Mobile Payments Player LevelUp — It's takes money to make money: Boston-based LevelUp, a mobile payments service, has raised $9 million from T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's investment arm and other investors. This cash injection will be added …
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TechCrunch and BetaKit
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Amex Knocks Google for Misleading Comments About Its Role in Google Wallet — American Express has not formally agreed to participate in Google Wallet, which is why it was surprised yesterday when Google said it, along with Visa, Discover and MasterCard, were now forms of payment in Google's mobile payments application.
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Getaround, Flush With $13.9M, Will Now Pay You $1,000 Per Month to Rent Your Car Full-time — Getaround, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, has raised $13.9 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.
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| Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Cortica gets $7M to bestow computers with the power of sight — Israeli startup Cortica raised $7 in a second round of funding. The investment was led by Horizons Ventures, not to be confused with Silicon Valley's Horizon Ventures. Horizons Ventures (mind the “s") is owned by the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Ching.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Dead Trigger goes free on iOS, where piracy is apparently also a problem — Madfinger Games, the studio behind mobile first-person shooter Dead Trigger, earned a fair bit of notoriety recently by making its game free on Android in response to what it called an “unbelievably high” piracy rate.
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BetaNews, Gamezebo, PhoneArena and Pocketables
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Aereo Celebrates a Court Victory with Clever Marketing: Free Web TV for an Hour, or a Dollar for a Day — Fresh off the heels of a court victory, Barry Diller's Aereo is ramping up its marketing push with a clever new pricing scheme: The TV-on-the-Web service is rolling out new plans …
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Stellar growth sees China take 27% of global smart phone shipments, powered by domestic vendors — Shanghai, Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 2 August 2012 — Canalys published its final Q2 2012 country-level shipment estimates to clients yesterday.Sponsor Posts
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