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Archives for July 2014


Plus, Surface Mini’s untimely end, Apple’s massive R&D spend and the first volley of Amazon Fire phone reviews.


The phone, which goes on sale next month, is priced at 85 euros, or around $115.


Without the hardware unit’s drag, the software giant would have hit its numbers easily.


Internet service providers continue to outspend Internet companies in D.C.




Big guns from the search giant swoop in to help the popular online music service.


A businessman and a criminal team up to take on the NSA; police sketches drawn from DNA samples.


Microsoft and Yahoo battle for the worst week in tech, Airbnb’s fresh new logo, IBM and Apple’s new partnership and more.


Plus, Elon Musk’s Mars Oasis project and Stephen Elop’s lousy layoff memo greeting.




Plus, Satya Nadella breaks Steve Ballmer’s layoff record.


The studio is a casualty of Microsoft’s shifting corporate priorities.


Top executives Terry Myerson and Scott Guthrie are leading an effort to revamp the company’s tools and processes for writing software.


The plan is to shift the Nokia X line over to Windows Phone-based products.


Will this jumpstart the transformation?