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  • Pandora posts in-line 1Q loss upbeat sales

    Internet radio company Pandora reported higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter, with losses in line with analysts' forecasts, as the number of subscribers who pay for ad-free listening rose above 2.5 million.The net loss in the three months ending April 30 grew to $28.6 million, or 16 cents per share, from a loss of $20.2 million, or 12 cents per share, a year ago.Excluding ...

  • Google faces new federal antitrust probe source

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on ...

  • Open source development surges for Android and surprisingly iOS

    Open source developers launched 15,000 Android mobile projects in 2012, representing a 96 percent increase over 2011. By contrast, iOS developers launched nearly 2,500 open source projects for Apple's mobile platform, a 32 percent increase year over year, which isn't half bad when you consider that ...

  • Lambda Labs readying Google Glass face-recognition API

    Based on its face-rec API released last year, Lambda Labs' Google Glass Face Recognition API could help you recognize people who are less famous than Tiger ...

  • Twitter attempts to beef up security

    Twitter lets users add a second layer of password protection, Jennifer Lopez has a new mobile brand, and Nextdoor brings text alerts to the ...


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That Thing You Do!

"That Thing You Do!" is a movie that remembers with sharp clarity a time in America when cars had fins, pea green and orange were stylish colors, a mop top was the haircut to have, clock radios were the size of small TVs, sunglasses were a new innovation, and kisses still meant something. In his first stint in the director's chair, actor Tom Hanks has made a snappy little ode to a time when Americ ... ...

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  • Is protecting intellectual property from cyberthieves futile

    Mandiant report earlier in the year linking China's People's Liberation Army to ongoing and massive cyberattacks against U.S. corporations, government agencies, universities, and other organizations, policy makers and industry experts have been trying to figure out how to better secure their intellectual property against cyberattacks. Call it a work in progress. "The frustration ...

  • Facebook users share 1 billion stories through outside apps

    MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook highlighted its developer platform on Thursday, throwing out some big numbers around how third-party apps benefit from connecting to users through the social network. The social network opened up its platform to independent developers six years ago Friday, Director of Product Manager Doug Purdy told journalists today at a press conference at Facebook's ...

  • Commodities Tomorrow Hurricane Forecast Energy

    CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. The hurricane forecast is for 7 to 11 hurricanes this season, which could be bullish for the energy markets. Nat gas was up on the day because storage levels rose less than ...

  • Apple Android and a truckload of watermelons

    Two farmers bought a truckload of watermelons, paying five dollars apiece for them. Then they drove to the market and sold all their watermelons for four dollars each. After counting their money at the end of the day, they realized that they'd ended up with less money than they'd started with. "See!" said the one farmer to the other. "I told you we shoulda got a bigger ...

  • Ashton Kutcher Media $ Twitter up

    "For lack of a better verb, the media came and @&$#%! [expletive deleted] it up," Kutcher said at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday. "When I first got on, it felt like the democratization of media. Now it just feels like ...

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