|  posted by Peter Ha And we're live from Nokia's joint press conference with Microsoft here in rainy New York City. On tap for today's festivities include the launch of one or two... |  posted by MG Siegler It turns out we may have been over-thinking it.... |  posted by Drew Olanoff If you're into all of this political hoopla and you gauge the interest of America from the number of tweets during political events, then Michelle Obama has put... |  posted by Chris Velazco Nokia has finally put weeks of speculation to rest at its New York press conference today, as the Finnish phone company just pulled back the curtains on its... |  posted by Ingrid Lunden Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of visionary Apple co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs, is joining the board of trustees of Stanford University. She has... |  posted by Billy Gallagher The rise and fall of Facebook's stock has been one of the most-covered topics of the summer, and for good reason. Everyone wants to know what will happen... |  posted by Jordan Crook At Nokia's press event today in New York, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore hopped on stage to demo Windows Phone 8 on the new Lumia 920. Windows Phone 8 was announced a... |  posted by Leena Rao After appointing former Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt as Yahoo's CMO, the company's new chief Marissa Mayer is staffing another key role—executive vice president... |  posted by Jordan Crook Nokia has taken the stage in New York City, hand-in-hand with Microsoft of course, to deliver its latest round of Lumia smartphones, powered by Windows 8. While... |  posted by Ingrid Lunden Ahead of Nokia and Microsoft's big event in New York today, where they will formally announce new Nokia/Windows Phone devices, Microsoft is making a little... | | |
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 | John Biggs Hacker group Antisec has released 1,000,001 pieces of data related to Apple's UDID identification scheme. This data, if cross-referenced with Apple's developer... read more | |  | Romain Dillet Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from Free in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more important,... read more | |  | Mike Butcher Cast your minds back - if you can - to the days when the web was a jumble of random pages. 'Web surfing' consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden Nokia didn't fare so well with its streamed mobile music service called Ovi Music Unlimited. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming... read more | |  | Steve O'Hear Self-funded and hailing from Russia, Buy Me A Pie! is boasting some big numbers: The cloud-powered grocery list maker for iOS now claims 2 million downloads... read more | |  | Anthony Ha Maybe you haven't heard of the Hugo Awards, but to science fiction geeks, especially print science fiction geeks, they're a big deal. They're given out at the... read more | |  | Steve O'Hear Some of our most precious memories exist online-only, in the form of photographs scattered across various and disparate social networks. And when the time comes... read more | |  | Mike Butcher There are a few significant trends going on in this particular era. There is an explosion of technology adoption and innovation happening in developing regions... read more | |  | Sarah Perez Amazon's steady growth in building up its Amazon Prime Instant Video collection continues today with yet another deal with a content provider: this time, EPIX,... read more | |  | Billy Gallagher Have a good day off? Some of us will return to work Tuesday morning rested and ready to go. Others may have enjoyed the holiday a bit too much and will be... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | | | | |
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 | Gregory Ferenstein President Barack Obama managed to steal an impressive amount of Gov. Mitt Romney's press coverage with a few, cheap social media tricks, including the most... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden We've seen a lot of images of an (alleged) iPhone coming soon with a bigger screen, and some numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market... read more | |  | Frederic Lardinois Earlier today, there was a rumor that Bruce Willis was considering to sue Apple to clarify who owns content downloaded from iTunes. The U.K.'s Daily Mail... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-baked fashion sites modelled on Zappos -- an undisclosed investment into... read more | |  | Steve O'Hear Swarmly, a newly-released app for iPhone, thinks it's seen a gap in the location sharing market. Unlike check-in apps like Foursquare or indeed Facebook's own... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden Over the last year, we have seen some notable advances in mobile carrier billing -- which lets people pay for services and content on their phones by charging... read more | |  | Gregory Ferenstein For all the millions spent on the Republican National Convention, the entire operation could only speculate whether their keynote speeches had any meaningful... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden T-Mobile today becomes the latest operator to leverage the popularity of free internet phone calls and texts in hopes of luring in more users around its brand.... read more | |  | Leena Rao In 1967, 25-year-old Damyanti Gupta immigrated to Detroit with one goal—to be an Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Only there was one problem: there were no... read more | |  | Steve O'Hear In a move that seems like a bit of a no-brainer, but for which the company is claiming a UK first: MyVoucherCodes has added the ability to make a restaurant... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | | | | |
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