The scary thing about the Petraeus affair: The CIA director and a Phd in counterterrorism are too incompetent to secure their own email.
–Greg Koenig via Twitter
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Jung-Ah Lee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 13 at 3:15 pm PT
As the battle for dominance in the smartphone and tablet-computer market intensifies, South Korean conglomerate Samsung is pushing ahead with plans to start mass production of displays using plastic rather than glass, a move that will make mobile devices unbreakable, lighter and bendable.
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Rolfe Winkler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 13 at 12:18 pm PT
For a tech start-up to get to 100 million users is a remarkable feat, one that took Facebook more than four years. Online storage firm Dropbox on Tuesday announced it had achieved that milestone in nearly the same time.
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Rich Raddon, Co-founder, ZEFR in Voices on November 13 at 8:00 am PT
History has shown that any time a new technology or platform arises, it takes creators time to understand and unleash the true power of the medium.
The more pictures I see of this gun-toting, tatted-up, McAfee guy, the more I understand why PCs have so many viruses.
– Nick Bilton, via Twitter
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John Shinal, Columnist, MarketWatch in News on November 12 at 4:26 pm PT
At its current level of profitability, it will take Facebook Inc. until mid-2013 at the earliest to earn enough operating income just to offset its annual stock-compensation costs.
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Tom Gara, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 12 at 2:55 pm PT
Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile network, will pay its shareholders an $8.5 billion dividend before the end of the year, after a $10 billion payout in 2011.
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Mike Spector and Dana Mattioli, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 12 at 11:17 am PT
Eastman Kodak Co. reached a deal with bondholders for $793 million in loans that could take the onetime photography icon out of bankruptcy proceedings on the condition it sell a trove of patents for a certain amount, said people familiar with the discussions.