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Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said she declined to limit her company’s hiring of Google employees after being approached by two senior executives at the Internet giant. Sandberg made the declaration in a filing in San Jose federal court on Friday before a high-profile trial in May that will determine whether Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe illegally agreed not to recruit each other’s employees Sandberg and Facebook are not involved in the case, which grew out of a Department of Justice investigation that was settled in 2010. The plaintiffs are software and hardware engineers, programmers, Web developers and other technology workers who allege their wages were kept artificially low by secret non-solicitation agreements between the companies. Sandberg worked at Google and was a top executive there until 2008, when…

Apple is reportedly in talks with Comcast to provide high-quality, streaming television content through the Apple TV box, the latest sign of the Cupertino tech giant’s continued interest in changing how we watch TV in the same way it changed the way we use smartphones with the iPhone. Negotiations are in the early stages, and many challenges remain to complete the deal, anonymous sources told the Wall Street Journal. But Apple has long had interest in the television industry with Steve Jobs telling biographer Walter Isaacson that he “licked it” when talking about Apple’s TV plans and the company rumored to be working on everything from its own flats creen television to upgraded versions of its Apple TV box to new ways to control TVs with iPhones and iPads. Apple’s…

DESIGN GURU OPENS UP ON LIFE AT CUPERTINO, JOBS AND MORE What do we know about one Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive KBE RDI? Well, apart from those titles, we know that we has one of the most important and prestigious roles in the technology world today - that of Senior Vice President of Design at Apple Inc. In internal Apple parlance, he has overarching responsibility for the company’s various Human Interface (HI) software teams, in addition to overseeing the Industrial Design Group. To the average person on the street, like you or me, he’s the guy who designed a load of Apple products that have powered the company to dizzying success over the last 15 years or so. In fact, he’s been at the company since 1992, and in…

HTC is updating its flagship HTC One smartphone by giving it a larger screen, better software and a camera that’s easier to use. The original HTC One received good reviews and was named the best smartphone of 2013 at the wireless industry’s premier trade show in Barcelona, Spain, last month. But HTC has failed to translate that glowing praise into sales. According to Gartner, HTC had less than 5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in 2013. HTC executives acknowledge that the company made several operational mistakes in releasing last year’s phone, including the fact that customers of the leading U.S. wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless, weren’t able to buy it until months after its launch. This time, the phone will be available right away through all the major carriers. Online…

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Disney’s $500 million purchase of YouTube video producer Maker Studios is a sign that the entertainment industry’s content and technology startups are coming of age and proving to be as valuable to Hollywood as app makers are to the giants of Silicon Valley. The deal announced Monday also signals Hollywood’s new openness to technological innovation, an acknowledgement that media giants don’t have all the answers. The acquisition comes a month after The Walt Disney Co. launched a technology startup incubator called Disney Accelerator, which promises to seed 10 companies with $120,000 each to develop ideas that’ll have a big impact on entertainment and technology. Disney’s purchase price - which could hit $950 million if Maker hits performance targets -also validates the increasing value of so-called “multichannel networks.” Those are the…

FANS MOURN THE DEMISE OF PIONEERING MINNEAPOLIS STORE On March 29th, will come a sad moment in the history of Apple. That’s because a Twin Cities reseller of the Californian firm’s Macintosh and iOS devices will close on that day, with the loss of 75 employees across two sites in Minneapolis and Rochester. Of course, you might think that’s nothing special: electronics retailers are always opening and closing. However, this one’s a little different. That’s because the store was actually the very first to resell Apple’s personal computers back in 1977. Its story began with the delivery of a batch of Apple II computers, and continued through the decades, as the retailer rode the waves of the Cupertino giant’s own highs and lows. But alas, a very different reality to…

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The Wolf of Wall Street Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese directs this ludicrous true story of American excess, centering on a young, thrill-seeking New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The screenplay of this black comedy film, based on Belfort’s memoirs of the same name, was written by Terence Winter, while Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie and Matthew McConaughey also star. FIVE FACTS: 1. The Wolf of Wall Street is the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio. 2. Others playing starring roles include Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau and Jean Dujardin. 3. The film attracted five Academy Award nominations - including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, in addition to Best Supporting Actor for DiCaprio and Hill respectively - but failed to turn any of them…

The past four columns have been more serious than consumers of my worldly workplace wisdom have come to expect. Perhaps it’s a sign of maturity, or maybe an indication that I’ve begun viewing the working world with greater reverence. Whatever the reason, I’d like to continue this sober trend by tackling an issue of monumental importance: wearable technology. Human beings, as we all know from this sentence I’m writing, have an innate longing to adorn their bodies with technological advancements. That longing first came to light during the Pleistocene era, when some prehistoric humans attempted to “wear fire,” a style choice archaeologists say did not catch on. (Well, technically it did catch on, which was part of the problem.) Fast-forward past the back-mounted catapults worn by fashion-forward Roman soldiers and…

Facebook Ine will acquire two-year-old Oculus VR Ine, a maker of virtual-reality glasses for gaming, for $2 billion, buying its way into the fast-growing wearable devices arena with its first-ever hardware deal. The acquisition, which comes hot on the heels of its $19 billion deal for messaging service WhatsApp, marks a big bet by Facebook to anticipate the next shift in an evolving technology industry, at a time when consumers are increasingly abandoning their PCs for smartphones. The world’s largest social network was deemed late to recognize the shift to mobile devices and the company’s revenue has only recently begun to recover from the late start. Many in the industry believe that wearable devices could represent the next big platform shift. Google Ine has been testing Google Glass, a stamp…

Buyers of electronic books will get account credits this week from five publishers who reached settlements after states alleged they colluded to raise prices, New York’s attorney general said Tuesday. The $166 million national settlements were approved Dec. 6 and cover claims from April 1,2010, to May 21,2012. Buyers who bought certain e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo or Apple will automatically get partial refund credits in their e-book accounts. Notification emails to eligible buyers were going out starting Tuesday. The publishers are Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group and Holtzbrinck doing business as Macmillan. They denied wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement to avoid going to trial. Refund amounts are $3.06 for New York Times best-sellers bought during the period and 73 cents for any…

Google is hoping to make its Internet-connected eyewear more stylish as part of a partnership with the makers of Ray-Ban and Oakley frames. The alliance with Italian eyewear company Luxottica Group announced Monday represents Google’s latest attempt to make wearable technology look less geeky as it tries to develop new ways to ensure people can stay connected to the Internet wherever they go. Last week, Google disclosed that fashion accessory maker Fossil Group is working on an Internet-connected wristwatch that runs Google’s Android software for mobile devices. Luxottica will develop frames equipped with Google Glass, a computing device that includes a thumbnail-sized screen above the wearer’s right eye to view Internet content. The $1,500 gadget also includes a camera that can take hands-free pictures and video, a feature that has…

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Kevin Gates New Orleans born rapper Kevin Gates may not exactly be new to the hip-hop game, having begun rapping in 2007, making music alongside such other Louisiana natives as Lil Boosie and Webbie. However, there’s little doubt that he is inching ever-nearer to mainstream rap radio with By Any Means, his latest mixtape. It’s his third release in just over a year, following the critically-acclaimed The Luca Brasi Story and Stranger Than Fiction. FIVE FACTS: 1. Gates was born Kevin Gilyard on February 5th 1986. 2. He officially signed with Atlantic Records in February 2013. 3. He first came to prominence with his 2008 single “Get in the Way”, featuring Lil Boosie. 4. Gates was incarcerated soon after, however, returning to recording music on his release in 2011. 5.…

FileMaker, Inc. today announced schedule highlights of the FileMaker Developer Conference 2014, the largest annual gathering of worldwide FileMaker independent and corporate custom business solution developers, trainers and users. “Business without Boundaries” is the theme of this 19th annual conference, which features three new tracks, several interactive panels, and a hackathon with FileMaker challenges. DevCon 2014 will be held July 28-31,2014 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio, Texas, with a projected 1,200 FileMaker enthusiasts and 45 speakers from 27 countries participating. Attendees will hear about FileMaker Platform futures; exchange tips on developing solutions; learn new skills; network with developers from around the world; and see new products and services. Seven conference tracks will help attendees learn how to remove the boundaries to…

Mobile game maker King Digital Entertainment Pic said that its IPO was priced at $22.50 per share, which would value the maker of “Candy Crush Saga” at about $7.08 billion when it goes public on Wednesday. King’s offering of 22.2 million shares would raise about $500 million at that price, which is at the mid-point of its planned $21-$24 price range. King, founded in Sweden in 2003, will sell 15.3 million shares in the offering with the rest being offered by selling stockholders, including Apax Ventures. Apax is the company’s largest shareholder and will have a 44.2 percent stake in the company, if underwriters fully exercise their option to buy shares. The offering marks the largest U.S. IPO from a booming mobile gaming industry that has been keen to emerge…