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CoverHound Lands $4.5M From RRE, Bullpen & Blumberg To Become The Kayak Of Online Insurance

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don’t happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your wallet on fire. Of course, insurance companies are great at reminding us that the world is a wild and dangerous place and that more coverage equals better protection from the vagaries of the road and…

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Everyone Is Going Nuts Over A ‘Leaked’ Video Of A Secret Google Product – But It’s Probably A Publicity Stunt

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Nicholas Carlson Here’s a really neat commercial for a Google product that hasn’t been release yet. Cool, right? Problem is: it’s probably not real. It’s the product of a marketing firm called Slinky.Me, and as ComputerWorld points out, Slinky.me has a history of making fake Google commercials. It’s pretty obviously a way for Slinky.Me to get everyone’s attention for the kind of excitement its work it can do. It worked!  

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Dell’s downward spiral: 10 years of failed consumer devices

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As reported on The Verge. By Nilay Patel Things haven’t gone so well since the Dell Dude split It’s no secret why Dell’s struggling so badly it just took a $2b loan from Microsoft and bought itself back from shareholders to become a private company: after more than a decade of effort, the company never figured out what consumers actually want beyond low prices, or why they might want it. You might laugh, but it’s true — a look…

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Evernote, Now With Its First COO, Takes Its Premium Evernote Business App To 26 New Markets

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app, is taking another step today in building out its premium service offerings: its enterprise app, Evernote Business, which formally launched in seven markets inDecember 2012, has now been switched on throughout the European Union, Norway and Iceland, with Australia and New Zealand coming online next week. In keeping with the company’s growth, it has also now appointed its very first chief operating officer,…

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ABI: Windows Phone To End 2013 With 45M Handsets In Play, BlackBerry 10 Close To 20M — Out Of 1.4BN Global Smartphone Total

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS The Android + iPhone duopoly in the smartphone space will ease up slightly this year, according to a marketshare forecast by ABI Research. The analyst predicts Google’s platform will take a 57 per cent share of the global smartphone pie, while Apple’s iOS will cut itself about a fifth (21 per cent) — giving the two rival platforms a 78 per cent chunk of the market. (In Q4 last year the…

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Sony posts a net loss of $115 million for Q3, stays on track for full-year operating profit HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler Still-in-turnaround-mode Sony has reported its earnings for the October to December period, and has recorded a net loss of about 10.8 billion yen ($115 million). It did however improve its revenue to $21 billion as the yen weakened, despite slower sales of items like HDTVs and Blu-ray players. Key for Sony is that it managed an operating profit for the quarter of 46.4 billion yen ($496 million) and remains on…

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Microsoft rumored to be taking a ‘meaningful look’ at Office for Linux

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr  Open source obsessive Michael Larabel says he has it on good authority that Microsoft is considering a native version of Office for Linux. Specifically, the company is taking a “meaningful look” at the idea, now that Linux is showing signs of becoming more of a player in the OS stakes. The information came to Larabel from an unnamed source during the Free Open-Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, and this…

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ComScore: iPhone up to 36 percent of US phone share in December, Android stayed put Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas There’s been indications that Apple staged something of a comeback in the US during the fourth quarter, owing partly to an iPhone 5-related spike. ComScore’ssmartphone share data for December appears to bear that out. It estimates that the Apple claimed a 36.3 percent slice of the American market in the last month of 2012: that’s a noticeable boost from 35 percent in November, and two points up since the iPhone 5’s September arrival. Android…

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Here’s What An American High Speed Rail Network Could Look Like

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Alex Davies High speed rail is moving forward in California, but progress is pretty stagnant around the rest of the country. Still, there are a lot of proposals out there, and when placed on one map, they form an impressive rail network. This map was put together by California Rail Map, led by Alfred Twu, which combined existing proposals from high speed rail advocacy groups around the US. The US High…

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Software support: Microsoft’s loan to Dell is a protective move to secure big business

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren It’s all about the cloud, tablets, and mobile Following rumors of a Microsoft multi-billion dollar investment in Dell, the software giant has confirmed its moves to help take Dell private. Microsoft will invest around $2 billion in the form of a loan to Dell, a deal that was supervised by Silver Lake — the same private equity firm that helped Microsoft acquire Skype for $8.5 billion back in 2011. The loan may seem…

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