Jan 24, 2014

Samsung posts slowest profit growth since 2011, and more for Friday, January 24, 2014

Samsung posts slowest profit growth since 2011

The company's corporate earnings fell short of expectations and mobile growth was flat.

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With AirWatch, VMware gets phones and tablets and a toehold in Internet of Things

With AirWatch in the fold, VMware will have its eye not just on phones and tablets, but connected cars, smart watches, Google Glass and more.

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New OECD report shows that connected TVs won’t break the internet, but they will break business models

A report out from the OECD takes a look at connected televisions and what it will mean for broadband networks, peering, set-top-box makers and consumers.

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Frog’s Chief Creative Officer exits and launches new type of design agency

Mark Rolston has launched a new design group after a two-decade career at design agency giant Frog.

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Top jobs of the week in tech: CrowdTwist, Machine Zone and more

Looking for a job in tech? Each week we highlight some of the most interesting positions posted to Gigaom's job board. Check out the latest tech gigs at leading companies across the country.

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Apple celebrates 30th anniversary of Mac with video and redesigned homepage

It's the 30th birthday of the Mac, and Apple has rolled out a website to celebrate.

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HTC One KitKat update with US carriers, certification expected next week

The company announced that its KitKat update for the HTC One is with carriers for testing and expects certification next week.

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Singularity University to launch $50 million venture fund to tackle the world’s ‘grand challenges’

The education center and accelerator, which focuses on exponential technologies with big potential, will begin raising capital in the second quarter of 2014.

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Microsoft says (what else?) that its cloud biz is growing

Company said seats of its SaaS-based Office 365 and Dynamics CRM along with WIndows Azure were up 100 percent year over year.

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The White House is going to study big data. Here are 5 things it should know

The White House announced on Thursday that it will form a working group to study big data and report on its implications to privacy, policy and society. That might be easier said than done.

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Tablets on the rise: Microsoft Surface quarterly revenues more than double

Microsoft Surface revenues in its second fiscal quarter topped $893 million, the company said on Thursday. The figure is more than double the $400 million in Surface sales from the prior quarter and follow a $900 million inventory write-off of Surface devices in July, most of which […]

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Forget screen sizes: What screen resolution might the iPhone 6 have?

Did you hear the reports? Apple's working on a bigger iPhone. That's not a huge surprise but people don't necessarily want a huge phone. And iOS developers don't want yet another resolution to support. Here's how Apple might address the challenge.

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In the latest battle to profit from control of the internet, the consumer is stuck in the middle

Consumers complaining of poor Netflix and YouTube streams on certain ISP networks are the pawns in a fight over internet business models. Too bad knowing why this happens doesn't fix this problem.

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After ambitious plans, Xtreme Power runs out of cash, files for bankruptcy

Following some extreme plans, Xtreme Power files for Chapter 11.

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WSJ: Apple to release two bigger iPhones, abandon plastic iPhone 5c design

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is planning to introduce two new iPhones with bigger screens this year, and scrap the plastic iPhone 5c design.

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Why did IBM dump its commodity server biz? Amazon

Amazon Web Services has dealt IBM blows in a couple important ways. Now Big Blue has to get down to fighting weight.

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Will “disease-like” Facebook lose 80 percent of users by 2017? Don’t make me laugh

Facebook has risen and it may fall, but using a disease analogy is tenuous at best. That hasn't stopped a piece of non-peer-reviewed modeling by Princeton researchers from, er, going viral though.

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Apple patent reveals company's potential plans for sapphire glass

After investing in a sapphire glass plant last year, a new patent shows what Apple might be planning to do with it.

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Microsoft says it will let users choose where data is stored, but things aren’t that simple

Microsoft says foreign customers will be able to choose to have their data stored outside the U.S. However, there are a couple of problems to bear in mind, with the big one being the Patriot Act.

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Kensho, a startup doing Siri (or Watson) for financial markets, has raised $10M

A Cambridge, Mass.-based startup called Kensho has raised a $10 million seed round from a group of investors that includes General Catalyst, NEA, Accel Partners and Google Ventures. The company’s product, called Warren (as in Warren Buffett, I presume), is a natural-language search engine for data […]

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