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Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix
According to sources close to the situation, Wal-Mart Stores paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix. The six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company–which has built a social media...
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A "Probe in Your Pocket"? Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Andy Rubin Talk...
We’ve done a lot of onstage interviews at our D: All Things Digital conferences with the leaders of tech. That includes Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google smartphone kingpin Andy Rubin, both of whom are...
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It's a So-Lo-Mo World, After All
Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white Apple iPhone is agonizing. To explain:...
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Groupon Updates Privacy Rules, Including on Mobile Tracking and Sharing of...
Groupon sent out emails to its users this weekend, about changes it has made to its privacy statement and terms of use. Among the most notable changes is more information about the Chicago-based...
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Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament and Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and...
This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec) — as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks — march on down to the...
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Pixazza Changes Name to Luminate, Launches Image Apps Platform
Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate. Well, from a brand perspective, at least, as the image advertising start-up changes to an easier-to-say name and also launches a new platform for image...
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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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