Deezer Hears a Non-U.S. Beat
By ERIC PFANNER
Most of the biggest Internet companies got their start in the United States or expanded there quickly. Not this French streaming-music startup.
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Fresh Windows, but Where’s the Start Button?
By NICK WINGFIELD
Stuart Isett for The New York Times
At a Microsoft store in Bellevue, Wash., a customer got an introduction to Windows 8 on a tablet on Thursday. Microsoft made Windows 8 a one-size-fits-all operating system for tablets, conventional computers, and newer devices.
The radical new design is likely to cause some head-scratching when Windows 8 goes on sale this Friday.
Novelties
No Need to Crowd In. We Can All Talk to Mom.
By ANNE EISENBERG
Owners of high-definition televisions can use new wide-angle webcams to put their video calls on the screen.
Bits
When the Web’s Chaos Takes an Ugly Turn
By JENNA WORTHAM
A forum on Reddit, a community and social news site, has set off a debate about privacy and free speech after it encouraged people to post covert photographs of women.
Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia a Revolution of Its Own
By ROBERT F. WORTH
The medium has allowed Saudis to cross social boundaries and collectively address delicate subjects in real time.
The Boss
A Penchant for Organization
By COLIN BARRY
Inspired by his parents, who worked in the health care industry, the chief executive of MEDfx turned a passion for computers into a business developing health information software.
As Microsoft Shifts Its Privacy Rules, an Uproar Is Absent
By EDWARD WYATT and NICK WINGFIELD
The difference in reactions to broader gathering and use of users’ data at Google and at Microsoft illustrates the confusion around Internet consumer privacy.
In Wi-Fi Intoxicated Manhattan, a Generation of Teetotalers
By CARA BUCKLEY
A seminar at the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich Village introduced people in their 70s and 80s to smartphones, apps and the like, but some audience members were unpersuaded.
High Fashion, No Airbrushing
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
A Web site, Rent the Runway, is offering women the opportunity to see someone their age and size in expensive clothing before renting it.
Twitter Removes Anti-Semitic Postings, French Jewish Group Says
By STEVEN ERLANGER and ALAN COWELL
The move comes after the social-networking site blocked access in Germany to a Neo-Nazi group’s account.
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Housecleaning, Then Dinner? Silicon Valley Perks Come Home
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Airtime, a Pedigreed Start-Up, Is Tested
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Shares Fall Sharply as Google Earnings Are Released Early
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An S.E.C. Filer’s Nightmare: Making It Public Too Soon
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Microsoft’s Profit Falls as Sales of Personal Computers Shrink
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Advanced Micro Devices Posts a Loss and Plans Layoffs
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DealBook: Clearwire Is Sought by Sprint for Spectrum
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Nokia Loss Widens as Its Smartphone Sales Plummet
Disruptions
A Tiny Camera for the Stratosphere
By NICK BILTON
While the smartphone has pushed some camera companies off a cliff, a tiny, ultrahigh-resolution camera that can record that very feat has taken off into the stratosphere, figuratively and literally.
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What is Windows RT? Redmond, We Have a Problem | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
Longtime Windows writer gets piles of e-mail about Win 8 vs RT: "Most people have no idea what’s going on here." - David Gallagher
Some Advice From Jeff Bezos | 37signals.com
On Jeff Bezos: "He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds." - Brian X. Chen
SolarCity Scores First Utility Deal | Gigaom.com
A company that began as an electric retail service provider competing with utilities is now working for one. - Howell Murray
Inside Foxconn | The Atlantic
Jim Fallows goes inside a Foxconn plant and also shoots some pictures. He says he was surprised. - Damon Darlin
State of the Art
An Easy Way to Back Up, but It Costs
By DAVID POGUE
Are your noncorporate drives increasingly stuffed with data and not backed up? Drobo offers two systems intended to save all your files when drive death occurs.
Quiz: Don’t Google This
See whether you can answer a series of popular mobile Google queries — without reaching for your phone.
Disruptions
Seeking Privacy in a Networked Age
By NICK BILTON
While you’re going about your daily life, having dinner with friends or going to a concert, people are watching you on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Path and an interminable list of other social networks.
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