Daily Archives: January 17, 2013

PHOTO: 12 Of The Most Important People In Silicon Valley Ate Dinner Together Last Night (YHOO, YELP, GOOG, FB, AAPL)

January 17, 2013
PHOTO: 12 Of The Most Important People In Silicon Valley Ate Dinner Together Last Night (YHOO, YELP, GOOG, FB, AAPL)

A key reason why Yahoo’s board hired Marissa Mayer as its CEO was her deep-reaching social and professional connections through Silicon Valley. Those connections were on display last night at a dinner hosted by Nirav Tolia, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who’s now running Nextdoor, a local social network. A prominent guest: Jony Ive,...

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Slow Windows 8 Sales Hurt Intel (INTC, MSFT)

January 17, 2013
Slow Windows 8 Sales Hurt Intel (INTC, MSFT)

Flickr/umpcportal.com Intel CEO Paul Otellini See Also This Cisco Exec Has A ‘Blank Check’ To Acquire Security Startups Layoffs, Hiring To Come At HP’s Autonomy Unit How Intel Plans To Kill The Cable Industry With Its New ‘IPTV’ Intel accidentally dropped its quarterly earnings report a few minutes before the stock market closed today....

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Cisco Is Coming To Intel’s Rescue (CSCO, INTC)

January 17, 2013
Cisco Is Coming To Intel’s Rescue (CSCO, INTC)

AP Cisco CEO John Chambers See Also Slow Windows 8 Sales Hurt Intel This Cisco Exec Has A ‘Blank Check’ To Acquire Security Startups Intel Earnings Leak Early… Intel had a surprising bright spot in its rough quarter. Data Center Group revenues were $2.8 billion, up 7% sequentially and 4% from the year-ago quarter....

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Outlook.com users report missing emails following transition to the new webmail product

January 17, 2013

As early as the middle of October, new users of Outlook.com who switched to the product from other webmail providers were reported account access issues, and missing emails. TNW did not take note of the issue until today, when a report on the sharp Neowin brought the issue to our attention. This sort of...

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Google+ iOS apps arrive in 48 new countries and territories

January 17, 2013

Albania, Anguilla, Barbados, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chad, Republic of Congo, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, Macau, Malawi, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands,...

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Sony announces $1.1 billion sale and lease-back deal for its US head office

January 17, 2013
Sony announces $1.1 billion sale and lease-back deal for its US head office

Struggling Sony has continued its restructuring after the Japanese tech giant announced that it has struck a deal to sell its New York-based headquarters in the US to a group of investors for $1.1 billion. The company has agreed to a lease that will see it remain there for the next three years. Sony...

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The Google & LG Nexus 4 Partnership Has Been A Failure Of Logistics

January 17, 2013
The Google & LG Nexus 4 Partnership Has Been A Failure Of Logistics

If you have been looking for a new Android Nexus 4 smartphone from Google and LG, you have probably been banging your head against the wall in frustration. The Nexus 4 has been scarce both through the official Google Play store and carriers like T-Mobile in the United States. The unavailability of the latest...

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Forget Twitter, SoundCloud Is Social Music’s Rising Star

January 17, 2013
Forget Twitter, SoundCloud Is Social Music’s Rising Star

2012 was a very good year for SoundCloud. The social music and audio-hosting platform saw a massive uptick in user activity, according to data released by music analytics firm Next Big Sound.  The State of Online Music report contains some big, but not altogether unexpected numbers: More people are listening to music online and...

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Facebook’s VoIP Service Proves ‘Move Fast And Break Things’ Mantra Won’t Fly For Mobile

January 17, 2013
Facebook’s VoIP Service Proves ‘Move Fast And Break Things’ Mantra Won’t Fly For Mobile

If you can’t keep up with Facebook’s identity crisis, you aren’t alone. After claiming over and over that it would get serious about mobile – and then debuting an entirely un-mobile product at a press conference earlier this week – the company is now tacking on one more feature to its collector’s set of...

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Kickstarter project wants to expose idea thieves of Silicon Valley

January 17, 2013

A San Jose man who launched a failed lawsuit last year against prominent VC firm Benchmark Capital is now asking the public to fund a film about venture capitalists who steal the ideas pitched to them by entrepreneurs. Raj Abhyanker, a lawyer and film producer, claims that an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark stole his idea for...

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