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HP Fires Back at Oracle With a Document Drop of Its Own

This one is not quite as juicy, but it’s still interesting.
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Samsung Rides Android Past Nokia to Take Sales Lead

A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.
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Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s Top Lawyer, Is Out

Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s longtime lawyer, left the company earlier this week. A person familiar with Universal said Geller was now headed for another job but didn’t have other details. His name will be familiar to many digital-media companies, since he often led fierce and sustained battles against them on behalf of the world’s biggest music label.

Google Gets Semantic, Launches Knowledge Graph Starting Today

Google today formally launches some anticipated and previously glimpsed semantic features for its core English search engine on Google.com accessed through computers, phones and tablets.
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iPhone Engineer and Gmail Designer Team Up on Electric Imp to Connect Devices

A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.
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iSwifter’s New App Brings All Flash-Based Facebook Games to the iPad

While Facebook is slowly working out the kinks to bring more games to mobile, there’s a small company in Menlo Park, Calif., that has beat them to it.
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Exclusive: Groupon Hires Amazonian as VP of Engineering, Opens Seattle Office

The Chicago-based daily deals company expects to announce the appointment of Vinayak Hegde as VP of engineering later this afternoon.
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Tripping Becomes a Kayak for Home Rentals and Couchsurfing

Tripping now includes home rentals through partnerships with FlipKey, HomeAway and Roomorama.
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Oracle Drops New Documents in Itanium Trial, and They’re Juicy

Oracle takes its case that HP lied to its customers about Itanium to the court of customer opinion with a huge document dump.
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Sprint’s Hesse: We’ll Make Money on the iPhone … Eventually

“Carrying the iPhone will be quite profitable,” says Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, for the umpteenth time.
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Fab.com Ditches Google+ in Favor of Pinterest

Fab.com, the shopping Web site that raised $40 million late last year in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, has revamped its site to highlight more social features, including the ability to filter its live shopping feed by category, buy straight from the feed and see what Facebook friends are buying. Fab has also removed its Google+ button in favor of a Pinterest pin. The company claims four million members in the 10 months since its launch.

Dominant in China, UCWeb Brings Its Mobile Browser to Silicon Valley

With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.
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Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens

Apple Inc., which is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone later this year, has ordered screens from its Asian suppliers that are bigger than the ones used in iPhones since they debuted in 2007, people familiar with the situation said.

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Facebook Bumps Up Amount of IPO Shares Offered by 25 Percent

Facebook is increasing the number of shares in its initial public offering by nearly 25 percent, pushing the total amount to more than 420 million shares. The increase means the company may end up raising $16 billion on Friday.