Business
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Apple’s Big New Hire Sure Doesn’t Like Apple Sometimes
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch — that’s the guy in charge of technology at a very powerful and important technology company — is jumping ship, reportedly for Apple. It’s odd, because he’s said a lot of mean, frustrated things about Apple!
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Dropbox Just Bought Mailbox
Mailbox, the iOS mail app that caused quite the splash when it burst, has just been acquired by Dropbox. The announcement comes by way of a Dropbox post, in which Dropbox says it was floored by how Mailbox actually delivered on its promise to simplify mail and wants to bring that goodness to Dropbox users…
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Publishers File Complaints Over Amazon’s Bid To Secure .Book Domain
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers have filed formal objections to Amazon’s bid to secure new generic top-level domains like “.book”, “.author” and “.read”.
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European Union Fines Microsoft $730 Million Over Browser Monopoly
The European Union competition police has handed Microsoft an enormous $730 million fine after the software giant admitted that a “technical error” saw new Windows machines arriving without the option to choose a default web browser.