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Verizon reportedly plans to launch new tiered data plans on July 7: 2 GB for $30 a month, 5 GB, for $50 a month, and 10 GB for $80 a month for both 3G and 4G. (If users want to add a data tethering option, so their phones act as WiFi spots, tack on an additional $20 per month.) The change would only apply to new subscribers, though it's unknown whether current users will be able to keep their current plans. (Droid Life and Gizmodo)
* Remember yesterday's Bloomberg report insinuating that various Skype execs had been fired prior to the Microsoft deal to keep employee payouts as low as possible? The company's investors deny that claim and say the former execs will receive 75% of the payouts due to them. (GigaOm)
* At a meeting in Singapore, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a change allowing domain names with any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters. Applications for new domain names will be accepted starting January of next year. (CNN)
* Dropbox reportedly pushed out a code update over the weekend that temporarily took down the file-syncing service's password protection system, allowing users to login without the correct password for four hours before being detected. (Gizmodo)
* Ten companies besides Pandora that survived the dot-com bust and are ready to cash in on the new boom (or bubble). (Silicon Alley Insider)
* According to an SEC filing, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake is raising some $2 million for a new social-focused, consumer-facing social-focused startup with investors like True Ventures and Square COO Keith Rabois. (All Things D)
* Foursquare announced that there are now 10 million user accounts and that later this week, the location-focused social network will also pass the 750 million check-ins benchmark, with users now averaging 3 check-ins a day. Check out the chart below for a visual history of Foursquare. (TechCrunch)
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"If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company." - Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO (GeekWire)
* Bloomberg reports that Skype fired several high-ranking executives -- including vice presidents David Gurle, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 20, 2011 6:30 AM ET
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*Groupon CEO and founder Andrew Mason
* With 7,000 employees and a recently-filed initial public offering (IPO), Groupon is one of the fastest growing companies in tech right now, but it's business model remains a mystery to most. Here's a primer, and for further reading, check out two opposing MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 6, 2011 6:30 AM ET
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* Sources tell All Things D that Facebook game maker Zynga is on the cusp of filing an initial public offering, a move that could happen this week or next week. The company has been on a roll lately with a string of smaller acquisitions for talent and/or MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 25, 2011 6:30 AM ET
There's a fight ready to break out in the music-locker room. But to Michael Robertson, founder of MP3Tunes an old hand at the digital music game, it's nothing new.
Michael Robertson. Image via CrunchBase
FORTUNE -- After six years of waiting, the day Michael Robertson always knew would arrive finally got around to arriving. On Tuesday Robertson, the former CEO of MP3.com and general digital music gadfly, read the news that MORE
Chadwick Matlin - May 13, 2011 11:16 AM ET
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* Members of the media are still reeling from yesterday's revelation, courtesy of The Daily Beast, that Facebook hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to pitch anti-Google stories to publications. And while some, like TechCrunch's MG Siegler, think Facebook's actions were deplorable, others pointed out that unfortunately, this is not an industry MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 13, 2011 10:26 AM ET
According to one analyst, Apple legal didn't include iPad 2s in its Samsung complaint
Source: This is my next
"By March 2011, Apple sold more than 19 million iPads."
That's the language Apple's (AAPL) legal team used in the complaint filed Monday against Samsung. (See This is my next for the document.)
This caused some confusion among Apple watchers, because as of Dec. 25, 2010, Apple had sold a total of 14,789,000 iPads. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 20, 2011 11:57 AM ET
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Google CEO Larry Page
New Google CEO Larry Page just upped the ante as far as workflow goes. Last Friday, he sent out a company memo explaining to all employees that 25% of their annual bonuses will be tied to the success of Google's social strategy this year, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 8, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Two weeks before Apple's Q2 earnings report, a flurry of negativity in the business press
"Apple shares aren't just cheaper than the S&P, they're bizarrely cheaper," writes Tiernan Ray in the current issue of Barron's. "Backing out cash and marketable securities of $60 billion, or $64 per share, ... it trades at 11 to 12 times this year's projected earnings per share, versus the S&P's average of 14 times, despite MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 4, 2011 6:30 AM ET
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Yep, Google wants to know your face with a new mobile app. Photo: CNN
Google is developing a mobile app with facial recognition technology MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
| Citigroup Inc | 32.36 | -1.00 | -3.00% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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| Dow | 12,938.67 | -27.02 | -0.21% |
| Nasdaq | 2,933.17 | -15.40 | -0.52% |
| S&P 500 | 1,357.66 | -4.55 | -0.33% |
| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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