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Justice Department defends journalist email search

The Justice Department said on Friday that senior officials including Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, News Corporation, Television, FOX News Network, Search Engines

Fri May 24, 2013

Contra Costa Times

And here's The Pitch: New venture capital Q&A feature debuts with Paul Santinelli of North Bridge

Welcome to The Pitch, a new weekly Q&A feature that puts top Silicon Valley tech investors under the spotlight and gets them chatting about what kinds of deals they're looking for -- and the common pitfalls that can trap entrepreneurs.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Red Hat, Palo Alto, CA

The Campbell Reporter

Google plans to build wireless networks across Africa, Southeast Asia

Google intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, Wireless

Red Bluff Daily News

Google may face new FTC antitrust probe

A Google sign is seen at a Best Buy electronics store in this photo illustration in Encinitas, Calif.

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Related Topix: WebMD, Search Engines, Startups, Encinitas, CA, Napster, Reuters, Advertising

MSN Money

Icahn seeks up to $7 billion for Dell bid

Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization proposal for Dell Inc, banking sources told Thomson Reuters LPC on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Computers, Dell, Venture Capital, Silver Lake Partners, Startups

KJCT

FCC hopes to avoid 'end of world' for cellphones

The path to clearing up enough airwaves to satisfy the insatiable demand for mobile downloads is a confusing, complicated mess.

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Related Topix: Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Cellphones, T-Mobile, Wireless

Contra Costa Times

Cassidy: TiE's Vish Mishra embodies the secret of Silicon Valley

It should be easy. I've covered the place for years. Entire books have been written about the innovative ecosystem of collaboration, venture capital, risk-taking entrepreneurs and change-embracing immigrants.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Startups, Clearstone Venture Partners

Thu May 23, 2013

Albany Times Union

Rue21 agrees to go private in nearly $1B deal

Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Apax Partners, Startups

SFGate

Here's Where Some Former HP Big Data Engineers And Execs Have Ended Up

HP is facing the decline of several key businesses, but it still has talented engineers and execs that are coveted by other enterprise tech vendors.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Marketing, Cambridge, MA, Business News

SiliconValley.com

Lyft gets a $60 million lift from Andreessen Horowitz

Ride-sharing service Lyft said it had raised $60 million from venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, underscoring the growing appeal of services that tap into consumers' willingness to share goods and services for a fee.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Google, Startups

Northern Michigan News

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, World News, Ecuador, Mountain View, CA

Network World

Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network

Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless

CIO

Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablets to Go on Sale in 170 Countries on June 13

Amazon.com is expanding the distribution of its tablets in a big way with the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 now available for preorder in over 170 countries, and its Appstore open in nearly 200 countries.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Search Engines

WTAE-TV Pittsburgh

J. Lo's new gig: Verizon retailer

Jennifer Lopez has found a new gig: majority shareholder and chief creative mind behind a new line of Verizon Wireless retail stores.

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Related Topix: Dance, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Jennifer Lopez, J Lo, Cellphones, Wireless

The Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Google, Startups, Search Engines, Spotify, Cell Phones, Electronics

Hotel Online

A Restaurateur's Guide to Successful Digital Marketing / Emily Ditman

Restaurant industry sales in 2013 will total more than $660.5 billion, a 3.8 percent increase from 2012 .

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management, Marketing, Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization, Internet, Science / Technology

Wed May 22, 2013

CIO

Flickr Android App Gets Gorgeous New Interface, Photo-Editing Tools

Yahoo is determined to be relevant again, and the company's recent Flickr photo-service and app updates, just might do the trick, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Search Engines, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, Gmail, iPhone App, Instagram

Reuters

British opposition leader says Google tax behavior 'wrong'

Google Inc's tax affairs came under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accused the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, Conservatives (UK)

InfoWorld

Apple: Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 patents

Apple wants to add the new Galaxy S4 to an ongoing case involving Apple and Samsung being heard in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, according to a filing with that court on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Google, Enterprise Mobile, Startups, Search Engines

PC World

Chinese search engine wars heat up

China's Baidu has long dominated China's search market. But a local rival to the company--Qihoo 360--is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Search Engines, Baidu, Alibaba, Pop/Rock, 360'S

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