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Silicon Alley Insider  May 17 13 :

Why Microsoft's Stock Is At A Five-Year High Even Though The PC Business Is Imploding (MSFT) -

At first glance, things could not be going worse for Microsoft.

Its long-dreaded nightmare scenario is playing out.
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TechDirt  May 14 13 :

Why ESPN's Offer To Pay To Have Its Content Bypass Data Cap Meters Plays Right Into The Hands Of Wireless Providers -

ESPN has been making a little bit of noise recently about being willing to throw a few bucks towards wireless providers in exchange for letting its content roll through to users without affecting their data caps.
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Ubergizmo  May 06 13 :

Budget iPhone Could Steal Samsung’s Market Share According To JP Morgan Analysts -

We have been hearing rumors for quite a while now that Apple could be working on a budget iPhone.
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Silicon Alley Insider  May 02 13 :

How Amazon Is Trying To Create A Huge Mobile Business (AMZN) -

U.S. mobile commerce is exploding. Amazon, as a leading ecommerce site, is set to grab a big chunk of that.
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Mashable  Apr 22 13 :

Soccer Star Bites Opponent, Gets Twitter Follow From Mike Tyson -

Only on Twitter, folks. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up

Luis Suarez, our antagonistic protagonist, here, is something of a bad boy in the soccer world — that is, not necessarily known for his sportsmanship or sense of fair play.
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Engadget Mobile  Apr 11 13 :

Sprint leak reportedly has LTE reaching Los Angeles, 20 other markets on April 12th (update) -

Sprint has been teasing for weeks that its LTE network would soon launch in Los Angeles.
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CrunchGear  Mar 26 13 :

The New Flipboard Lets You Create Your Own Mobile Magazine, Adds Search, Etsy And More -

TechCrunch is like most other publications founded before 2011 in that our readers have gone mobile way faster than our products have.
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Ubergizmo  Feb 13 13 :

Opera Chooses Webkit Rendering Engine, Makes The Web A Bit More Compatible -

Opera has announced that it would stop using its in-house rendering engine in favor of the open-source Webkit project, a web page rendering engine created by Apple and used in numerous browsers including Google Chrome and Safari (of course).
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Engadget  Feb 08 13 :

UPS takes 100 EVs on the road in California, makes delivering packages eco-friendlier -

The Golden State's without a doubt at the forefront of the so-called green movement, and thus it shouldn't come as a surprise that UPS chose it as the destination for 100 of its brand-new electric trucks.
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TechCrunch UK  Feb 05 13 :

MediaTek Anticipates Slow Q1, But Still Confident About Its Fattening Chunk of China’s Smartphone Market -

MediaTek reported lower-than-expected revenue in its fourth quarter, but the Taiwanese handset chip maker says its still poised to stand strong against rivals like Qualcomm.
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ReadWriteWeb  Feb 05 13 :

Mobile-Only Magic: How Instagram Just Killed What Makes It Special -

Well, that's it folks. It's all over. Instagram has come to the web - and not just via static web profiles like the company introduced last year.
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Engadget  Jan 31 13 :

Toshiba's 2012 Q3 makes $322 million net profit, sees a future in nuclear -

Toshiba's latest numbers may not reach the dizzying heights of last quarter, but at least it's not back to filling out its spreadsheets in red pen.
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Smashing Magazine  Jan 21 13 :

Sneak Peek Into The Future: Selectors, Level 4 -

  

The buzzword “CSS4” came out of nowhere, just as we were getting used to the fact that CSS3 is here and will stick around for some time.
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CrunchGear  Jan 16 13 :

Analyst: 5-Inch+ Phones Will More Than Double Marketshare In 2013 — 60M Incoming, Up 136% -

Smartphones with very large displays are set to take a much bigger chunk of the market this year, according to analyst IHS iSuppli which is predicting so-called phablets will more than double their share this year.
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Ubergizmo  Jan 15 13 :

Nissan Leaf Gets $6,400 Discount -

Over at the North American International Auto Show, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn made the announcement that would make folks who are on the lookout for the Nissan Leaf very, very happy.
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Mashable  Jan 14 13 :

11 Things We’d Change About Instagram -

1. Independent Brightness/Contrast Adjustments

Currently, we rely on Intagram's auto-enhance tool for a generic color and shadow boost.
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CrunchGear  Jan 13 13 :

Iterations: Lessons We Can Draw From Cherry -

Every week, it seems, a new marketplace or services business is born. Some of the hottest companies of 2012 -- after photo-sharing apps, of course -- were online and/or mobile marketplace- or services-based companies, pioneered by the likes of Uber, for instance, and all the way to a newer company (with a common investor) to help you find someone to watch your four-legged friends while you’re away from home.
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