Where Is Yahoo Headed? Its Product Chief Has A Clue [INTERVIEW]

Yahoo Chief Product Officer Blake Irving says that he’s not interested in the vacant Yahoo CEO job, but is instead focused on a big pipeline of mobile products and beating Nielsen at its own game. In an interview with Mashable, the charismatic Yahoo executive claims he’s not vying to replace Carol Bartz, who was unceremoniously bounced from the ...

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Groupon’s IPO: What You Need To Know

Groupon is expected to finally set a price for its IPO late Thursday, the last in a series of hurdles in its path to go public that have included questions about the viability of its business model and SEC questioning over accounting practices. Sources have told Reuters and The Wall Street Journal the share price will likely be slightly higher than ...

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ASUS: Windows 8 Tablets Coming In Q3 2012

Evidence is starting to pile that Windows 8 will be widely available on tablets in the third quarter of 2012. Today, a slide from ASUS revealed that it is planning to release a Windows 8 tablet at roughly this time next year. This follows similar leaks from both HP and Dell that pointed to the same time frame for the ...

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Google Launches “Why These Ads” To Educate Consumers On Ad Targeting

Today, Google announced a new initiative from its ad team called “Why these ads”. The reason behind the feature, the company says, is to bring transparency to ad targeting. The feature is available now for ads shown within search results, and will be rolling out for ads in Gmail soon. Advertising is at a crossroads online. With content ...

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Best Buy Will Sell 32GB TouchPad, Priced At $ 149

Here’s one to file under “completely unexpected” — remember HP’s long-dead TouchPad? Well, apparently it’s got some life it in yet, as Best Buy will be allowing their customers to purchase a 32GB model for $149 so long as they buy an HP computer at the same time. The deal starts on November 1, and I suspect ...

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Movie Review: Beautiful Boy

It's a parent's worst nightmare. There's a shooting at your son's college. You're frantic that he is wounded or worse. Instead, the cops arrive at your door and announce that your beautiful boy is not the victim but the shooter, responsible for the deaths of 21 students. Out of that premise, horrifically familiar from tragedies at ...

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Your True Social Network: Your Address Book

For as long as you’ve been carrying around a cellphone, you’ve been carrying around a social network in your pocket. And it’s your most important social network. But you probably don’t realize it. Your address book. For years, you didn’t realize it because the original cellphones pre-dated the online social movement and there was no way ...

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Will Siri Drive New Big Screen Apple TV?

It sure didn’t take long for Steve Jobs‘ obsessive secrecy to start falling away at Apple. Bloomberg quotes three sources — who refused to be named — saying the developer behind iTunes, Jeff Robbin, is leading the team building a new Apple television set. Of course, it helped that before his death, Jobs told biographer Walter Issacson that he had ...

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iPad 3 Launching In March With New Dock Connector, Same Screen Size [REPORT]

A report from Japanese blog Macotakara claims that Apple's iPad 3 will begin production in late January and feature a new, smaller dock connector, Cnet reports. The tablet, which will feature the same 9.7-inch screen, is being "rushed into production due to Chinese New Year celebrations" at the end of January, Cnet notes. This would pinpoint the iPad 3's launch date for sometime ...

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Following Major Earthquake, Google Launches Person Finder App For Turkey

Google has launched its Person Finder service in Turkeyfollowing yesterday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake which has killed at least 217 people and injured a further 350. First launched to assist with the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, Person Finder offers tools that allow people to publish missing person reports and other individuals or organisations to offer information that helps ...

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