Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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Daily Report: Google Buys Frommer's, in Continuing Effort to Produce Original ... - New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Google made another foray into producing original content when it announced on Monday its plans to buy the Frommer's brand of travel guides from John Wiley & Sons to augment its local and travel search results, reports Claire Cain …


Samsung Widens Handset Market Share Lead Over Nokia, Apple - Wall Street Journal
By SVEN GRUNDBERG STOCKHOLM--Samsung Electronics Co. widened its market share lead over rivals Nokia Corp. and Apple Inc. in the second quarter, research from Gartner showed Tuesday. Follow every article, video, slideshow and more in the Apple-Samsung …


Apple, Microsoft reveal their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - Register


Eyes On: iRobot's New Roomba 650 and Looj 330 - PC Magazine
By Alex Colon iRobot today announced the launch of its new iRobot Looj 330 gutter cleaning robot as well as its Roomba 600 series of vacuum cleaning robots. We got a chance to see them in action. A big step up from the previous 100 series in terms of …


Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload - Wired News
By Kim Zetter Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Russia are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the Gauss malware toolkit. The warhead gets decrypted by the malware using a key composed …


Motorola Mobility laying off 700 locally, 4000 worldwide - Chicago Tribune
Google said Monday that Motorola Mobility, which it purchased for $12.4 billion in May, is laying off 20 percent of its 20000-strong global workforce, affecting 4000 employees worldwide. Locally, the company is cutting 700 of its 3000 employees in …


7-inch Tablet Wars: How Low Can Prices Go? - TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | August 14, 2012 | + The low-end of the tablet market keeps getting more interesting, as device makers scramble to lure people in with cheap hardware. Compared to the Nook Color, the Nook Tablet has a snappier …


Microsoft names Windows RT computer makers - BBC News


AppFlow Launches the World's First Crowdsourced App Discovery Platform - Sacramento Bee
By AppFlow Inc. AppFlow is revolutionizing the way people discover apps with their newly launched iOS application. Following the success of AppFlow for Windows Phone 7 – being the largest third party app discovery tool on the platform ers – the company …


Luxury cars fare poorly in new crash tests - NBCNews.com (blog)
Only three of 11 mid-sized luxury cars and near-luxury cars earned good or acceptable ratings in the latest crash test from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. NBC's Tom Costello reports. By Dee-Ann Durbin, The Associated Press Most midsize …


Google Buys Frommer's, Groupon Next? - Forbes
Yesterday, Google (GOOG) announced it would be acquiring the Frommer's travel guide business from John Wiley & Sons (JW.A). At first blush, some may be asking why Google would be doing this, but once you start to consider the possibilities it makes …


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