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Another Googley "Acqhire" -- Contextual Search Start-Up Apture to Join the...
Google has bought Apture, the start-up that makes a browser plug-in that adds additional contextual information to Web pages for the Internet’s most prominent publishers. The financial details of the...
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Ex-Yahoos Getting Downloaded by PE Firms and Others on Possible Deals
One of Yahoo’s biggest problems — brain drain — has turned out to be an asset for private equity firms and other players interested in figuring out their best moves related to the Silicon Valley...
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One More Reason to Occupy Wall Street: "Concern" Over Accurate Tech News
In one of the odder things to happen in my journalism career, I was forwarded a flash analyst report by Wall Street’s Macquarie Capital on the news that AllThingsD.com broke yesterday (and...
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WolframAlpha's Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine (Video)
Last week, when he was making the rounds of reporters and showing off the new paid version of his “computational knowledge engine” called WolframAlpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram, its eponymous creator, had...
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The way I see it, If I can spend 20 minutes in the morning and have a 90 percent chance of knowing anything important that someone might mention that day, I’m informed. A person mentioning news that I...
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We're Expanding: All Things Digital Would Like You to Meet All Things Reviewed
Tomorrow, as part of the commitment that AllThingsD has to providing its readers with ever more high-quality content, this site will be launching a new reviews section, All Things Reviewed. Simply...
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A Big Digital Kiss to Britannica: Change -- It Is Okay (Look It Up!)
The folks over at Encyclopaedia Britannica posted today to say they are discontinuing the 32-volume printed book edition of the invaluable information resource “when our current inventory is gone.”...
View ArticleGoogle Engineer Told Others of Data Scoop
A Google Inc. engineer told others at the company about his plan to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes, but the practice continued...
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Yahoo Should Expect Incoming Lawsuit Lobbed by Loeb Tomorrow on CEO Hiring
On Friday, Third Point’s Dan Loeb — the activist shareholder who is waging an ever-nastier proxy battle against Yahoo — said in a letter regarding the inexplicable errors in the resume of its CEO...
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Your Smartphone as Superman: 86 Percent Use Phones for “Just-in-Time” Situations
Many mobile phone owners use their devices for non-urgent purposes like gaming (an addiction to Draw Something doesn’t qualify as urgent). But a huge chunk of U.S. consumers are using their cellphones...
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential...
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about moving off the board of Twitter. It is not...
View ArticleTwitter Faces Fines, Contempt of Court in Occupy Wall Street Case
Twitter has until the end of the week to hand over information on one of its users, or the company will be slapped with fines and a contempt of court charge, a New York State Supreme Court judge has...
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Zynga Files Suit Against Former Staffer, Claiming Theft of Trade Secrets
Following the departure of several high-level employees, Zynga is striking back by filing a lawsuit against one of its former general managers, alleging “the wholesale theft of some of its most...
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Zynga Says Former Employee Admits to Taking Confidential Files
A judge has granted Zynga’s request to move forward in a lawsuit it filed against a former employee, who is believed to have stolen confidential documents before joining a rival social games maker....
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Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into):...
Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. Not to cranky me, of course, but to the much more amenable...
View Article23andMe Raises $50 Million in New Funding, Adding Yuri Milner as Investor
Personal genomics company 23andMe said it has raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, a near doubling of its investments so far. 23andMe has already raised over about $68 million since it...
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Fandango Says 2012 Ticket Sales Highest Ever
After it set a single-day ticket sales record on Christmas Day, Fandango said that 2012 was the best performing year in its 12-year history for ticket sales, as well as for traffic and app download...
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Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe on One Million-DNA March and More (Video)
Last week, I paid a visit to the Mountain View, Calif., offices of personal genomics company 23andMe, which just raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, to add to the $68 million it has...
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Out-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook's...
Yes, it’s possible to stay on top of the news entirely from within Twitter and Facebook … but it takes work. Following the right number of people (so as not to get overwhelmed) posting about a broad...
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LivingSocial Hack Update: Investigation Ongoing, While Emails Out to 50...
After a massive breach of its computer systems yesterday, LivingSocial has sent out emails to all of the 50 million customers impacted, a company spokesman said, and is now working with law...
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Checking Into Foursquare? Yahoo's CFO Talks About Next Mobile M&A --...
I always like to listen to the dulcet tones of Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman, especially when he talks about what’s next for Yahoo. That’s because the last time he appeared at an investor conference, the...
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FISA Request Data Could Soon Be Public, With Google Also in Talks With U.S....
After AllThingsD.com reported earlier today that Facebook had been in advanced discussions with the federal government to allow it to disclose requests under national security laws, including the...
View ArticleVenezuela Offers Snowden Asylum
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden — whom the U.S. government is trying to arrest for revealing classified information about its spying programs — has been offered asylum by...
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When I Say Jump … Marissa Mayer Gives Yahoo Employees Up Fitness Bands
It’s clear that CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to get the employees of Yahoo to start moving faster to innovate. And now, she is also doing it quite literally, apparently giving its more than...
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AOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot
After buying it in 1999 — at the height of the Web 1.0 bubble — for upwards of $500 million in stock, AOL has pretty much let Moviefone languish ever since. As others — from a myriad of entertainment...
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