Mike Swift
Search, Social Media and Mobile Reporter, San Jose Mercury News
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Senior Correspondent covering the Internet, media and telecom for MLex, a provider of exclusive market intelligence for legal and investment professionals.
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RT @colleen_chien: Vermont AG sues scanner #patent troll, singling out its demands of VT nonprofts to help disabled greenmountainip.com/breaking-vermo…
Breaking: Vermont Attorney General Sues Patent Troll
greenmountainip.com — Vermont Based Discussions of Patents and Other Intellectual Property
RT @MLexclusive: Objectors to #Facebook's $9.5M #privacy settlement in #Beacon case may be preparing to take their case to SCOTUS: http://t…
@hmintz I am not worried. The Cleveland Indians have a better shot at playing in that game than the Browns.
@hmintz If the Browns make Super Bowl L, I will buy your ticket. You've got it in writing right here.
In case you haven't heard, Silicon Valley lands #SuperBowl L (though San Francisco claims it) mercurynews.com/southbayfootba…
Super Bowl 50 to be hosted by San Francisco 49ers' new Santa Clara stadium
mercurynews.com — BOSTON -- Let the Bay Area's Super Bowl party begin. NFL owners today selected the San Francisco 49ers' new Santa Clara stadium to host the 50th Super Bowl in 2016, sending the nation's biggest sporting event back to the Bay Area for the first time since 1985.
RT @jguynn: Apple CEO Tim Cook to senators: 'We don't depend on tax gimmicks' [video chat]: lat.ms/180k1fh
Apple CEO Tim Cook to senators: 'We don't depend on tax gimmicks'
latimes.com — Wearing a business suit, white shirt and powder blue tie, Cook read an opening statement. He was followed by Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer. A third Apple exec, Peter Bullock, head of tax operations, was also on hand to answer questions but did not read an opening statement.
Meet the new Xbox One controller
venturebeat.com — The Xbox One is real. Microsoft's next-generation system also has a new controller that looks very familiar. Xbox One comes with a dual-analog gamepad that has nearly an identical layout to the Xbox 360 joystick. That makes a lot of sense, since many consider that controller as the industry standard.
Leave it to the Onion for analysis of #Yahoo-Tumblr deal: theonion.com/articles/yahoo…
Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs
theonion.com — SUNNYVALE, CA-Finally overcoming competition from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and AOL, internet corporation Yahoo firmly re-secured its place as an industry leader after Sunday's purchase of millions of blogs written by 13-year-old girls.
RT @pcworld: These 10 utterly ridiculous tech patents would almost be funny if they weren't, you know, PATENTS. pcwrld.us/118NPh3
10 tech patents that should have been rejected
pcworld.com — Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents-a place where you'll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but some ideas that seem so minute or so obvious that you wonder how they ever qualified as patentworthy.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Business and Finance, Technology and more.
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