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MIDDAY UPDATE: Obama's regulation reform, finding a successor for Steve Jobs
Jan 18, 2011
President Barack Obama will sign an executive order today requiring federal agencies to review regulations that might hurt economic growth. Juli...
Facebook backtracks on data sharing
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John Moe
Jan 18, 2011
Just before the weekend, Facebook rolled out new functionality that allowed third party app developers to ask users for their address and mobile...
Boring headline but a true one: Without Jobs, Apple will be much the same in short term
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John Moe
Jan 18, 2011
Today, Apple is reporting what will probably be pretty robust earnings. It's a big year coming up for Apple, new iPhones, new carrier for iPhone,...
Geek Chow: Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to change the way they run web addresses. For a day.
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John Moe
Jan 14, 2011
It seems we're running out of web addresses and unless something is done, we'll have used them all up by November. Not URLs, mind you, there are...
Murdoch's "Daily" delayed several weeks
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John Moe
Jan 14, 2011
I've been following the path of this allegedly impending "tablet newspaper" for a while now since the whole thing seems too screwy to exist. But...
Google may face challenges on ITA purchase
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John Moe
Jan 14, 2011
Bloomberg is citing anonymous sources as saying that it's very possible the Justice Department will launch an anti-trust lawsuit against Google,...
Myspace, which is no longer myspace or yourspace, could be someoneelsesspace
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John Moe
Jan 13, 2011
After slashing the company's work force by half, executives at parent company News Corp said they are exploring possibilities to merge the over-the...
For public good, not for profit.
PC growth slowing, market getting eaten by tablets
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John Moe
Jan 13, 2011
We kind of knew this anecdotally for some time but now there are some numbers to go along with it. PCs are still getting more popular as more and...
GM goes big on electric cars
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John Moe
Jan 12, 2011
GM announced that it will introduce two new electric plug-in hybrid vehicles in the next few years based on the early success of the Volt. One of...
"App Store" shouldn't belong to Apple, says Microsoft
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John Moe
Jan 12, 2011
Apple is in the process of trying to trademark the term "App Store" but Microsoft has stepped forward to try to block that move. Microsoft has...