Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation

The largest e-commerce site in Japan is about to get pinned by Ben Silbermann in massive funding round.
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
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At CES, Control Your Computer Screen With Your “Gaze”

Mouse? Trackpad? Touchscreen? Who needs them? Just use your eyeballs!
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Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
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Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.
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Loeb on Yahoo Board: I’ve Looked at Clowns From Both Sides Now

Hedge fund tough guy Daniel Loeb unloads on Yahoo, after it hung up on him. With more than five percent of the company — big mistake. Biiiiiig mistake.
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Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC

Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.” You think?

Google Shows Off Honeycomb Features, Android Web Market

Today’s event in Mountain View provided new details on the tablet-friendly version of Android and a new way to acquire apps. Mobilized was there liveblogging.

Former Apple Designer Launches Digital Book Start-Up Push Pop Press

Mike Matas, the designer known for joining Apple at age 19 after creating the media management tool Delicious Library, today launched a new start-up called Push Pop Press.

Exclusive: Google to Show Off Honeycomb Next Week

Google is planning an event on Wednesday to show off the inner workings of Honeycomb, the next version of Android that is optimized to work on tablets and other devices. The event is seen as a deep dive into the operating system that Andy Rubin first showed off at December’s D: Dive Into Mobile.

RIM Buys Android UI Gurus

Palm, Qualcomm Chiefs Weigh Wireless Future

Windows Phone 7: It’s Now or Never

Twitter for the iPad Says Hello!