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Ellen Pao appeals judge’s order to pay Kleiner Perkins $276,000
Former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao has said she plans to appeal a judge’s ruling that directed her to pay the venture capital firm nearly $276,000 after she […]
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Twitter sees jump in copyright takedown notices and other requests
Think twice before you tweet or live video stream. From stealing jokes to live video streaming cable sporting events, Twitter has its hands full cracking down on copyright violations this […]
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Wolverton: Apple Watch draws reader raves
Tech Files columnist Troy Wolverton may have stopped wearing his Apple Watch, but some of his readers haven’t, saying they’d found lots of uses for Apple’s new gadget.
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Larry Page disrupts Google and himself with Alphabet
Steve Jobs once told Larry Page that he and Google were doing too much stuff. And for awhile, it seemed Page, in his early days back in the role as […]
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SOPA redux? Tech firms join to fight new MPAA piracy suit
Concerned about a possible revival of onerous SOPA regulations, a handful of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies have filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing an anti-piracy lawsuit brought by the MPAA. […]
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On topic: Tech news to know now
Here’s what the tech world is talking about this morning: Forget a spinoff, Symantec is outright selling its Veritas business for $8 billion in cash Silicon Valley is still abuzz […]
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Quoted: Alphabet a boost for Larry Page’s passion projects
“What’s the investment thesis for Alphabet? Right now it seem like whatever Larry finds interesting.” — Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Utah-based Jackdaw Research, telling the Merc’s Matt O’Brien the […]
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Off topic: Shakespeare the pothead, Kiwi flag, super artist, and Alphabet’s Easter Egg
Was Shakespeare a stoner? Wait…dude, his collar is totally the shape of a marijuana leaf! What should New Zealand’s new flag look like? (I kinda like the black & green […]
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Windows 10 upgrade: Troy Wolverton answers reader questions
Microsoft’s Windows 10 has been out for more than a week now, but consumers considering upgrading still have questions about it. The following is taken from an exchange I had […]
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Google creates Alphabet and gets new CEO; Larry Page and Sergey Brin to run new holding company
In a blog post, Larry Page, Google’s CEO, announced that he and his Google co-founder Sergey Brin would start a new company called Alphabet and that Sundar Pichai would become the […]
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