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Dell has decided not to build out its public cloud and will instead rely on partners such as Joyent to provide infrastructure services. A source close to the matter said layoff notices at the company went out on Friday. The group had more than 300 people in it. It is not known who was laid off or offered other jobs in the company. A spokesperson said Dell would not comment about personnel issues.Read similar

Tumblr is wasting no time in ramping up the amount of advertising it serves now that its $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo has been announced. Tumblr will launch a test of "in-stream" ads on its desktop users' dashboards as soon as tomorrow, a source tells Business Insider. A company representative declined to comment. The ads will look like normal posts from other Tumblr users, appearing in users' personal news feeds. Previously, ads on Tumblr have been restricted to the "radar" and "spotlight" section of users' dashboards. Those positions are less intrusive and easily ignored by users. In-st... Read similar

This week traffic in the game console realm has ramped up, and not just because Microsoft will be releasing one half of the information necessary to understand their next release in the Xbox 720. While Xbox evangelist Major Nelson makes sure the world knows that they’ll be able to watch the whole event with a Read The Full StoryRead similar

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is appearing before Congress tomorrow to talk about the company's taxes and offshore profits. It looks like it's going to be a showdown in D.C. between Apple and Senators who think it's conducting shady business to avoid paying taxes. Senators Carl Levin and John McCain put out a statement saying Apple has subsidiaries in Ireland that it funnels profits through, thus allowing it to avoid paying taxes. Apple admits that it has a subsidiary in Ireland, but says it's completely legal. It also says it doesn't use tax gimmicks. Sen. Levin disagrees with Apple, saying: "Apple was... Read similar

Today has been quite a roller coaster ride for Yahoo -- the company put days of reports and rumors to rest this morning when it confirmed that it would acquire the social blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, and now CEO Marissa Mayer has confirmed that Yahoo's New York employees will now be moving. They'll all soon be working right around the corner from Times Square in the same building that used to house the New York Times (229 West 43rd Street, to be more specific).Read similar

Nicole Muxo is a senior at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High in Miami. She's also a huge fan of Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. So last month, she made a minute-and-a-half YouTube video asking Wade to be her prom date.Fat chance, right? Social media prom invites from fans have become a fairly standard trapping of modern celebrity, but — understandably — they rarely lead to an actual date.SEE ALSO: OMG, Prom! The 13 Cutest PromposalsThis time, however, the story has a cute ending. On Friday, after calling Muxo to tell her he wouldn't be able to make it, Wade showed up dressed in a s... Read similar

At this years’ Google I/O developers conference, a Fireside Chat with several members of the core Google Glass team proved to reveal much on not just the future of the device, but its origins as well. While earlier in the day a single slide had been shown depicting a set of six original prototypes of Read The Full StoryRead similar

Yahoo has announced a brand new Flickr experience for the desktop and its Android users. Unveiled at a press event in New York City Monday, the new look aims to breathe new life into the once struggling brand.It's move is so big, in fact, a terabyte of storage is coming to Flickr. This is enough to take 537,731 photos and more than 2,000 in each country"You can take all the pictures ever taken and upload them to Flickr... and there would [still be room]," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said.Mayer emphasized event had nothing to do with the Tumblr acquisition announced Monday morning. "Flickr was once... Read similar