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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel KingArchive: March, 2012
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Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.
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Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor at ZDNet and editor of SmartPlanet. As a journalist based in New York City, he has written for Popular Mechanics and Men's Vogue and his byline has appeared in New York magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Editor & Publisher, New York Press and many others. He also writes The Editorialiste, a media criticism blog.
He is a New York University graduate and former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been named "Howard Kurtz, Jr." by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. He lives in his native Philadelphia with his wife, cat and Boston Terrier.
Rachel King
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Rachel King
Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.
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Groupon backtracks, lowers Q4 2011 revenue estimates
Groupon has been forced to revise its fourth quarter earnings report, lowering revenue and net income. However, there might be more reason to worry.
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Security breach extends to Global Payments card processor
Card processor Global Payments has reportedly been struck by a security breach that puts approximately 50,000 cardholders at risk.
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Yahoo layoffs reportedly starting next week
Most of the job cuts will happen withing Yahoo’s product, research and marketing units.
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Facing budget scrutiny, USDA adds managed print services
With its budget under review, the U.S. Department of Agriculture hires Lexmark for managed print services in a five-year deal worth $50 million.
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Warning over 'massive' MasterCard, Visa security breach
Both Visa and MasterCard have reportedly sent out non-public alerts to banks, warning of a possible “massive” data breach, and that specific customer accounts could be compromised.
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PC bill of materials creeps higher
Vendors will face higher costs to make PCs throughout 2012. Apple is catching a break on NAND prices.
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BlackBerry maker denies consumer market retreat
RIM has clarified comments to deny that the company is leaving the consumer market, in favour of reestablishing its enterprise and business customer base.
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RIM 'considers' sale options: Should Apple buy BlackBerry?
If Apple made a bid for Research in Motion, it could take a leaf out of Google’s book by spinning out the business to avoid antitrust conflicts, and spark a real smartphone war.
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Repeat after me: There is no perfect smartphone
Bottom line: There is no perfect smartphone. A lot of these devices are starting to blend together. And they will all annoy you, but in different ways.
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Western Union targets emerging markets with mobile money service
Mobile payments is a hot trend these days, and it’s arguably taken off considerably faster in developing markets where consumers rely on cell phones probably more than any other personal...
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Apple's supply chain: A profile of a Foxconn factory employee
The Fair Labor Association’s report on Foxconn’s working conditions provides a nice composite sketch of your average Apple supply chain worker.
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RIMageddon: Heins follows turnaround playbook, doubles down on enterprise
RIM struggles to hold its subscriber base as it refocuses on enterprise services and pulls back on me-too consumer efforts.
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New Foxconn regulations will ripple through Apple's supply chain
Foxconn gets slammed by the Fair Labor Association after an investigation, which could have a ripple effect throughout Apple’s supply chain.
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U.S. government commits big R&D money to 'Big Data'
The U.S. government is investing $200 million in big data projects to help the U.S. jump ahead in the next frontier of computing.
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Oracle acquires cloud-based clinical apps provider ClearTrial
Oracle plans to combine its analytics resources to ClearTrial’s cloud-based clinical trial operations applications to produce a single, cheaper option for biopharmaceutical and medical...
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Google attempts to revitalize market research with Consumer Surveys
The tricky part is that Google Consumer Surveys is sort of a carrots and sticks method.
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Why Apple should abandon its 'thermonuclear' war against Android
As Apple and Samsung continue to be at loggerheads, rumours rumble that top executives of the two are trying to settle the ongoing, global war on patents.
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Smartphone platform wars: It's an iOS, Android world and stinks to be 'other'
The sad reality in smartphone land for RIM and Microsoft today boils down to this: It’s an Android and iOS world. You just live in it.
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Dell throws in the towel on smartphones in U.S.
Dell exits the U.S. smartphone market in an attempt to start over. It’s a temporary setback for a key entry point into the enterprise.
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eBay names new PayPal president
PayPal president was named today as David Marcus, who previously run a mobile payments company that eBay bought in 2011.
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