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Mark Zuckerberg promises a native Android app, says betting on HTML5 for mobile was a ‘mistake’ — Speaking with Michael Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that “we've had a bunch of missteps on [mobile],” specifically referring to its mobile app strategy.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Zuckerberg: Facebook Stock Drop Is Disappointing; Mobile Strategy Is Misunderstood — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it is “disappointing” that the stock has dropped as much as it has but said that the company's mobile strategy that will guide its growth is “misunderstood.”
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Zuckerberg On Building A Search Engine: Facebook Is Pretty Uniquely Positioned, At Some Point We'll Do It — Mark Zuckerberg is on stage at Disrupt talking about the potential for Facebook to get serious about creating a search engine, saying “we're basically doing 1 billion queries a day and we're not even trying.”
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (7-inch) — Amazon brings the fight to Apple's iPad and the Nexus 7, but is the beauty more than skin deep? — To put a review of the Kindle Fire HD in perspective, you have to peer just a tiny bit into the past. It was barely a week ago that the world watched Amazon begin …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Amazon's Play — The video of Amazon's Kindle press event last week is well worth watching. Amazon is, to my eyes, the only company playing in the same league as Apple. The only ding is that the event was oddly-paced — it felt too slow. It lasted over an hour but I think it could been done …
| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Lose Cheyer, Co-Creator of Siri Voice Unit — Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple Inc. (AAPL), is no longer working for the iPhone maker, according to three people familiar with the situation.
| Austin Carr / Co.Design: |
Will Apple's Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt? — By now it's almost inevitable given the company's track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innovative thinking and bold hardware design.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Mayer Set to Get Yahoo's Alibaba Billions in One Week (But Will Investors Get Some Back Too?) — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo will officially close the multi-billion sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group in one week.
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| Antoine Leblond / MSDN Blogs: |
Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 markets … At every major Windows 8 development milestone - Release Preview, Consumer Preview, RTM - we've added markets toward our commitment to a truly global offering. We often hear from those who don't yet have support in their market, and we've said we'll keep expanding.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
As Nokia waits, Microsoft fights to keep Windows Phone 8 on schedule — It's all hands on deck at Microsoft right now: with a variety of high-visibility phone launches from partners scheduled before the end of the year, the company has not yet finished the Windows Phone 8 software, The Verge has learned.
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| Dave McClure: |
Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds. — There are probably better things for me to do today, however i feel compelled to respond to the Black Swan Farming post by Paul Graham, founding partner of Y Combinator. — Maybe you can call this post “Grooming for Ugly Ducklings”.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Quora Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Steps Back From Day-To-Day Role At The Company — Quora co-founder and early Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever is stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company after starting the site in 2009. — He'll be taking time off after a very long stretch of work … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
“Six strikes” Internet warning system will come to US this year — “Barry, don't think of it as a strike. Think of it as strike zone education.” — Rudi Riet — Even as France looks set to scrap its three-strikes antipiracy scheme known as HADOPI, US Internet providers are inching forward …
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| Andrew Hoyle / Crave: |
Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update confirmed for October … Samsung has confirmed its flagship phone the Galaxy S3 will receive the update to the latest version of Android, known as Jelly Bean, as soon as October. If you can't wait that long then the 4G version will be available with Jelly Bean as standard.| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Apple is already fighting Amazon in the ebook price wars — Apple would prefer agency pricing on ebooks — that, we know. In fact, Apple is likely to appeal the DOJ's ebook pricing settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, which was approved last week.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
How Many iPhone 5s Can Apple Sell in a Weekend? — On Wednesday morning, Apple will officially unveil its next-generation iPhone, setting the stage for what some observers say will be one of the biggest upgrade cycles in consumer electronics history. — Hyperbole? Maybe.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
YouTube links already opening in new standalone app on iOS, which is huge for Google's ad dollars — Back when the news that the YouTube app would be pulled from iOS 6, I conjectured that Google would be using the built-in hooks in Apple's OS to send video links directly to its own standalone app.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy Says Our Crash Wasn't Anonymous, It Wasn't A Hack, It Wasn't A DDoS. It Was Internal Network Issues — GoDaddy has confirmed that its DNS problems yesterday, which caused thousands of websites to go down for most of the day, are now over. And while an alleged member … | Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Acer Smartphone to Use Alibaba Operating System — HONG KONG—Taiwanese personal computer maker Acer Inc. said Tuesday it will release a new smartphone in China that is powered by Aliyun, a mobile operating system developed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. that is trying … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Apple ramping up Genius program with new double-row Genius Bar retail layout — Apple's Garden State Plaza retail store will be getting a first-of-its-kind enhancement in the form of a double-row Genius Bar that should help the iPhone maker meet the growing demand for technical support from its customers, ifoAppleStore reports.| James Trew / Engadget: |
CyanogenMod 10 now available in ‘M-Series’ monthly builds — If keeping up with those CyanogenMod 10 nightly builds was hard work, or just a little too bleeding-edge, then you might be interested to hear about the introduction of “M-Series” releases for CM10.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
It's Not Just For Women Anymore: LearnVest Brings Financial - And Now Investment - Planning To Everyone — LearnVest, a TechCrunch50 startup originally aimed at teaching women to become more financially savvy when it debuted back in 2009, has come a long way in the years since.
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Salesforce CEO gets candid about Google, Facebook and Yammer — Summary: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff talks philanthropy, Yammer and Dreamforce '12 hints at TechCrunch Disrupt. — Rachel King — SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff sat down for a candid fireside chat …
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| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Appeals court sides with RIAA, Jammie Thomas owes $222,000 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacates a lower court's decision and rules that Thomas-Rasset, an admitted music pirate, must pay the top four labels $222,000. — The top four record labels have won … | Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
A Creator of Turntable.fm Plans Online Hub DJZ — The music industry's latest gold rush is over dance music, which lures tens of thousands of fans to festivals and dominates pop radio. — But to Seth Goldstein, a technology entrepreneur who was one of the creators of Turntable.fm …
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