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Victoria Stilwell, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 2 at 8:44 am PT
Micron Technology Inc. agreed to acquire troubled Japanese rival Elpida Memory Inc. for $2.5 billion, in a move that will allow the U.S. chip maker to grow its portfolio of memory products and become more competitive against rivals in South Korea and Taiwan.
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Paul Mozur and Loretta Chao, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 2 at 3:30 am PT
Apple Inc. will pay $60 million to settle a trademark dispute with a Chinese company over the iPad name, according to a Chinese court, potentially resolving a case that illustrated new intellectual-property challenges for foreign businesses in China.
As someone who lives out most of her life online and revels in the Web, I can tell you it feels very weird not to have an outlet for one of the biggest events of my life to date, right up there with graduating from college, getting jobs, moving to New York, all of which were shared, celebrated, praised on the Internet.
– Jenna Wortham of The New York Times, in a post about discussing death online
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Digits Blog, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on June 30 at 2:12 pm PT
As the iPhone turns five years old today, here’s a look back at WSJ columnist Walt Mossberg’s reviews of each iPhone over the years.
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Beth Callaghan in Numbers on June 29 at 11:02 am PT
Both Apple and Microsoft made big product announcements within a few days of each other this month, and with so much buzz in the air, it was hard to tell who was winning.
The real lesson here is that the scoop is and always has been a dangerous act of journalistic narcissism. Did it truly matter if one outlet “broke” the same information that other outlets — and the world of the Internet — knew a second before another?
– Jeff Jarvis on the failure of CNN, Fox and other outlets to report Thursday’s Supreme Court decision accurately
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Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on June 28 at 4:23 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
