| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | BlackBerry Abandons Effort To Sell Itself; C.E.O. To Step Down
| | | Thorsten Heins, the chief executive of BlackBerry, will leave after the collapse of a tentative takeover offer from BlackBerry's largest shareholder, the company said on Monday. (NYTimes)
Why This Is Important: The attempt by Fairfax to complete its offer as Blackberry's stock never rose to the $9 required, now with a billion dollar cash infusion it will attempt to muddle along.
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| | #2 | How Google Is Beating Apple In The Fight For Emotions
| | | You may well have been having conflicted feelings over the last couple of years. On the one hand, you know that Google is, at its core, an engineering company whose aim is to get your hands off the steering wheel and implant its search engine into your brain. On the other, you're finding yourself feeling rather warm about Google, as if whatever the company says ultimately sounds mellifluous -- even if, at heart, it's menacing to your very being. (CNET)
Why This Is Important: If not because of innovation, it seems that having a more human touch might help Google fend off Apple.
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| | #3 | Half Of U.S. Adult Twitter Users Consume News On The Platform
| | | The report by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation was released on Monday. The results are based on a the survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults including Twitter and Facebook users. (Reuters)
Why This Is Important: Twitter was created as a venue to share up to minute details of our lives, but it has evolved into a source of world changing information.
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In his new book, "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal", Nick Bilton writes "Jack [Dorsey, Co-Founder of Twitter] had the germ of the idea, of people sharing their status,...Without Noah's vision of a service that could connect people who felt alone, and a name that people would remember, Twitter would never exist. It was Ev who insisted on making Twitter about 'what's happening' … and without Biz's ethical stance … Twitter would be a very different company."
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Full Steam Ahead: Inside Valve's Grand Plan To Replace Game Consoles With PCs
By Chris Kohler
The difficulty of squaring this circle is the reason why the history of the gaming business is strewn with the bodies of failed platforms. If you release a new piece of gaming hardware without at least attempting to resolve that fundamental chicken-and-egg problem, you're dead before you even launch. Yes, there are ways to do it, but they're not foolproof, even if you're an industry giant — witness Nintendo, with sales of its new Wii U platform
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