Top Stories of the Day // January 17, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Jan 17, 2013

Catherine Shu

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement About Her Office's Handling Of Case Against Aaron Swartz

After accusations of overzealous prosecution and a whitehouse.gov petition with nearly 40,000 signatures calling for her removal, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz... read more

Ryan Lawler

In The Fight Between Netflix And Cable Operators, High-Quality Streaming Video Is Being Held Hostage

One cable provider is arguing that because Netflix isn't offering it Super HD or 3D content, that it is essentially discriminating against ISPs based on whether... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data

The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Nokia Cuts 300 Jobs, Outsources Up To 820 More To HCL And Tata To 'Align IT With Its Business Focus'

Here's the cloud to Nokia's silver lining statement the other day of better than expected handset sales: it is cutting IT 300 jobs, and outsourcing 820 more,... read more

Darrell Etherington

Apple Job Posting Seeks Creative Individual To Breathe More Life Into Siri

A new job description spotted by 9to5Mac's Jordan Kahn this morning suggests Apple wants to do something with Siri that makes the digital personal assistant a... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Mobile Ad Revenues Will Top $11.4 Billion In 2013, Up 19% On 2012. India, China And Display Fuelling The Boost

The growing popularity of free mobile content -- largely in the form of apps -- is having a big impact on mobile advertising, the route that many developers and... read more

Drew Olanoff

Square Open Sources Squash, Its Internal Bug Analysis Tool For Developers

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Darrell Etherington

Lenovo Bringing Chromebook ThinkPads For Education To K-12 Schools Starting February 26

Lenovo announced today that it will be introducing a special version of its ThinkPad X131e, an education-focused notebook, running Google's Chrome OS. The... read more

Catherine Shu

Uber Gets More Super As It Expands Into Germany

Uber has announced that it is expanding into Germany, where "Secret Ubers" are now operating in Berlin. The on-demand car service company's first passenger in... read more

Darrell Etherington

Asus Reportedly In Talks With Microsoft To Create Windows 8-Based Padfone Smartphone-Tablet Hybrid

Asus may soon be the next Windows Phone 8 handset OEM partner for Microsoft, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal today. And the company isn't... read more
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