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* News curation app Flipboard, which demoed at Fortune's 2010 Brainstorm Tech conference, finally launched Flipboard for iPhone. The streamlined version includes a new feature, "Cover Stories," that pulls recent news articles from various sources along with updates from your social networks and offers them up in one place to read. And whereas the iPad app presented several stories onto each virtual page, Flipboard for iPhone offers up one story per screen -- to emphasize photos and readability -- with scrolling or "flipping" from story to story consisting of swiping top to bottom or vice versa. (Flipboard)
* Note-syncing startup Evernote, debuted two complementary apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Evernote Food lets users chronicle what they're eating and drinks via photos, captions, locations, and text. Evernote Hello is intended to augment the experience of meeting people for the first time. When two people meet, Evernote Hello expects users to exchange phones and create a simple profile. According to the company, once that's done, that profile will keep and show a history of encounters with that person. (Evernote)
* The mobile payments war continues to heat up. After butting heads, Google (GOOG) agreed not to include its mobile technology on handsets sold by Verizon Wireless. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Amazon (AMZN) is expanding its publishing efforts by buying more than 450 titles from Marshall Cavendish Children's Books. Although the e-commerce giant has published several children's books in the past, the company says this acquisition marks the company's first major push in this area of publishing. (The New York Times)
* In a 200-page report, a panel concluded Olympus's management was "rotten" at the core. The report comes after news surfaced earlier this year that the Japanese company hid almost $1.5 billion in investment losses. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Expect a public beta of Windows 8 to hit this February. (The Verge)
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* HP CEO Meg Whitman told the French newspaper Le Figaro that, if you count iPads as PCs, Apple (AAPL) will likely surpass her company as the leading PC vendor next year. (Though, HP wants to reclaim that title come 2013.) Also, Whitman said the company could announce the fate of its webOS operating MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 1, 2011 9:24 AM ET
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*Adobe (ADBE) is restructuring and laying off 750 employees in North America and Europe. Also, sources tell ZDNet that the company is stopping development on Flash Player for mobile browsers and focusing its efforts instead on mobile apps, desktop content, and HTML5. That last bit about HTML5 may cause some Apple MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 9, 2011 4:50 AM ETFew boardroom scandals have the flair of the one shaking Japan's Olympus Corp. Each new turn brings fresh questions, like who is Hajime Sagawa and how did he score $680 million from the firm?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Update: The saga continues. On Tuesday, Oct. 26, Olympus chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa stepped down, vacating the posts of chairman, CEO and president. Shuichi Takayama, a 41-year veteran of Olympus who ran the company's imaging MORE
Oct 21, 2011 11:59 AM ET
Motorola has a fantastic superphone coming out in the next few months but it will get passed over because Motorola has crippled it with its Blur overlay.
As far as upcoming Android smartphones are concerned, few are more anticipated than Motorola's (MOT) Olympus which is rumored for release either in December or January on AT&T (T) and a month or so later on Verizon(VZ). Rumored specs include a dual-core Nvidia Tegra MORE
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