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Samsung partners with Best Buy to bring Experience Shops to 1,400 stores Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Brad Molen Not content with a gazillion Galaxy phone sales, Samsung is hoping to continue winning the smartphone war in one of the biggest battlegrounds any manufacturer can face: retail. The Korean OEM has partnered with Best Buy to bring its Experience Shops to the big box retailer nationwide — 1,400 of them by early summer (with 900 launching this month), to be precise. So what does Sammy hope to achieve? In addition to the…

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Business

Arthur Frommer takes brand back from Google, will keep guidebooks going

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler The tale of Google and Frommer’s famed travel guides has taken another twist this evening. Associated Press writer Beth Harpaz reports Arthur Frommer confirmed over the phone that he has retaken control of the brand from Google, and plans to continue publishing them in e-book and print formats, as well as maintaining the Frommers.com website. This comes after Google acquired the brand from publisher Wiley in 2012, followed by Skift.com’s revelation last month that it apparently intended…

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Business

Here’s What Makes NO Sense About Goldman Sachs’ Downgrade Of Apple

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Sam Ro Glassdoor On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs downgraded Apple by removing the stock from its exclusive “Americas Conviction Buy List.”  And this is causing tons of  confusion about how Goldman really feels about the iPhone maker. Here’s the key excerpt from their note: Despite our optimism on this front, we believe the stock’s outperformance over the next 12 months will be more closely tied to whether or not the company’s next product cycles can reinvigorate market share momentum and installed base growth.…

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Business Entertainment

Explainer: What’s Aereo, why does it matter, and will it kill cable?

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As reported on The Verge. By Greg Sandova With an important court decision in its favor, here’s how Aereo could change the future of live TV Aereo is trying to make live TV available over the Internet and yesterday the company got a step closer. The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request by some of the country’s largest television networks to issue a preliminary injunction against Aereo, which would have closed the service…

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Dell CEO memo talks of a ‘significant’ boost to PCs and tablets in restructuring

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas When Michael Dell signaled intentions to take his company private for an overhaul, there were questions as to just what he wanted to do if and when shareholders weren’twatching his every move: was he going to shift attention away from PCs toward the enterprise? There’s no reason to worry, according to a staff memo that his company has published through the SEC. Dell tells his employees that the firm will “significantly increase investment” in…

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Twitter Announces “Twttr” — Will Start Charging $5 A Month If You Want To Tweet Using Vowels

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Vowels aren’t really necessary in today’s digital age, are they? Twitter doesn’t think so, as it announced a new “two-tiered” serviceincluding its free model called “Twttr.” You can only tweet without vowels though. Want the vowels back? Pony up $5 a month. Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Luckily, Twitter really cares about its users and will offer up the “sometimes Y” free of charge…forever. Also free are…

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Business Culture

The Psychology Behind How Clothing Influences How People See You At Work

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Thorin Klosowski How you dress has a big impact on how people view you, and how you view yourself. According to 99U, it’s not about dressing one specific way though, it’s about considering your audience and using that to your advantage. We know about some of the science behind how your clothing choices affect how people view you, and that extends to the office dynamics as well. For example, if you want…

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Business Legal

Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented, Dismisses Uniloc Claim Against Rackspace

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim againstRackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc USA asserting that processing of floating point numbers by the Linux operating system was a patent violation. Chief Judge Leonard Davis based the ruling on U.S. Supreme Court case law that prohibits the patenting of mathematical algorithms. According to Rackspace, this is…

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Apple Business

The 10 Biggest Mistakes Of Tim Cook’s Tenure As Apple CEO

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Jay Yarow Tim Cook‘s short run as Apple CEO has been pretty great. While the stock has fallen from its heights, it’s still up overall since he took over the company. However, he’s not perfect. No one is. Yesterday, we looked at the smartest things he’s done since taking over, we’re going to look at the flip side here. We have gathered what we consider to be his biggest mistakes as CEO. Apple Maps…

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Business Education

AlumniFunder Launches A Crowdfunding Platform Where Alumni Can Back Student Entrepreneurs

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON AlumniFunder launched in beta this week with a simple mission: Help create a deeper relationship between current students and alumni, while supporting collegiate entrepreneurship and creativity. To do that, AlumniFunder wants to give alumni a platform by which they can invest in innovative projects created by students at their alma mater. Whether it be for a new science lab, natural language processing research or a documentary film, the startup also…

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