- Apple identifies which Samsung products it will try to ban in US - With the trial stage just completed Friday afternoon, Apple wasted no time filing a notice with the court identifying which Samsung products it will now seek to have banned in the US.
- Sony to Shut Down Optical Drive Business - Sony is planning to close its optical drive division Optiarc, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports.
- IBM Takes on Salesforce With $1.3 Billion Acquisition - IBM is acquiring Kenexa, maker of cloud-based recruiting and talent management software, for $1.3 billion in cash, the company announced Monday morning.
- Prince Harry Leaves Facebook - After his naked Las Vegas party pictures publicly leaked last week, he’s decided to take a break from using Facebook.
- Twitter Apps No Longer Let You See Where Tweets Came From - Not being able to identify the source of tweets might sound like a small issue, but taken in the context of Twitter’s other changes, it doesn’t bode well for the developer community.
- Google Puts First Animated Ad on Homepage - It’s only been six weeks since Marissa Mayer left Google for Yahoo, and already the company is violating some of the tenets she established there.
- A Blue-Collar Michigan Town Goes Green - I live in Wyandotte, a city featured this week in Bloomberg's BusinessWeek celebrated for generating 30 percent of their energy from renewable resources.
- Zuckerberg’s No Longer a Top 10 Tech Billionaire - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seeing tough times as his company’s stock continues to plummet and now he has dropped out of the top 10 tech billionaires list.
- Kindle Fire Sells Out — Just in Time for Kindle Fire 2? - Amazon dropped another hint that it’s planning to introduce the next-generation Kindle Fire at its press event next week: The company said Thursday morning that the original Kindle Fire has “sold out” on its website.
- Twitter’s Promoted Tweets Are Now Targeted Based on Your Interests - The move allows those with Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts to set a list of interests that those accounts and tweets specifically target.
What do you think? Anything crucially important that I missed in my wrap up? Let me know in the comments below!
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