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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Announces Mobile Ad Plans Thursday, and Google Can't Wait to Tell the FTC — Apple is likely to introduce its mobile ad platform Thursday at its iPhone developer event, say sources familiar with the company's plans. Expect to hear a loud cheer from Google, Apple's former ally and current competitor.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept — Is there room for another Web site for gadget lovers? … Peter Rojas, 35, and Ryan Block, 27, veterans of tech blogs Gizmodo and Engadget, think so. Last year, they launched gdgt, a new take on a discussion forum for gadget lovers.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple iPad Components Cost At Least $259 — Much of the tablet's electronics powers its touchscreen and other user-interface aspects, according to a teardown analysis by iSuppli — Apple's (AAPL) iPad tablet computer costs as little as $259.60 to build, according to analysis by the research firm iSuppli.
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Paul Harris / Guardian:
I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Rupert Murdoch — News Corp boss hails iPad as potential saviour of newspapers, but says industry must stand up for itself and charge for content — Rupert Murdoch has launched a spirited defence of putting up paywalls around …
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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Court Backs Comcast Over FCC on ‘Net Neutrality’ — WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast Corp. in 2008 for deliberately slowing Internet traffic for some users.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple iPad, iPhone OS 4 appears set to gain direct printing support — Apple has hinted at the prospect for direct printing from the iPad in its support documents for iWork apps, suggesting the feature may appear as part of iPhone OS 4.0. — Support pages for iPad's Pages, Keynote …
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
How to Turn an iPhone Into a Wireless iPad Camera — The iPad doesn't have a built-in camera, but you can give it something better. By putting an app onto each an iPad and an iPhone, you can connect the two via bluetooth and have a wireless camera for your iPad.
Charlie O'Donnell / This is going to be BIG!:
Why the Foursquare Acquisition Story Makes No Sense — So midway through their rocket ship ride to a million users and beyond, the Foursquare team is going to jump off for $100 million and a chance to work at Yahoo! for the next couple of years? — Riiiight. — If you believe that, I have a bridge app to sell you.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Yahoo Readies Launch Of iPad Advertising Model — Inspired by video game development, Yahoo has been working on a new advertising model for tablets, such as Apple's iPad, to provide another option for brands to tap its ad network. The strategy for the new screen moves more toward product placement similar …
Fred / A VC:
The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point — I was emailing with a friend of mine yesterday who is a 30 year veteran of silicon valley. He'd written a post that was quite positive about the iPad. I sent him my post which wasn't so positive. We had a good discussion. Which ended with my friend making this point:
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IAB:
Internet Ad Revenues Reach Record Quarterly High of $6.3 Billion in Q4 '09 — Slight Decline Year-on-Year to $22.7 Billion, Still A Bright Spot in Media Industry — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the full year 2009.
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
How Twitter's 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs — While Twitter mashups continue their tremendous growth, there's another area we're also noticing blossom: APIs that are based on the Twitter API. It's a growing trend, and we now have 43 Twitter-derived APIs in our directory.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How “Dirty” MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM — All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues. Most users who buy music don't know about the marking of files, or don't care.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Box.net Raises $15 Million To Take On Microsoft SharePoint In The Cloud — Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is announcing significant news today: the startup has just raised $15 million on Series C funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson …
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Microsoft cites no-email crawl pledge — Unlike Google, Microsoft will not scan its hosted mail to target ads — Microsoft has a big responsibility in maintaining users' data as part of the company's hosted applications such as Hotmail, said Tim O'Brien, Microsoft senior director of platform strategy, on Tuesday.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Say What? Yes, You Heard Right - Zynga Could Be Worth $5 Billion — Zynga, the leading social-gaming company behind Facebook hits such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, would likely be worth as much as $5 billion if it were publicly traded instead of privately held, according to SecondShares.com …
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Lenovo C200 brings NVIDIA Ion 2 stateside for $499 — If you've been patiently waiting on a low-cost NVIDIA Ion 2 system it looks like today is your lucky day since it looks like Lenovo has scored an early lead in unleashing the wrath of the new Atom / GeForce combo.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
PayPal's iPhone App Hits 1 Million Downloads In Under 3 Weeks — Ecommerce giant eBay has been reaching big milestones with its mobile apps, and apparently PayPal, its electronic payments subsidiary, is striking a chord with mobile users around the globe as well.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
The Problems with the iPad and Streaming Video — While the iPad may be a marvelous and elegant new kind of computing device, and our show looks very nice on it indeed, the inconsistent WiFi connection and subsequent buffering is insufferable for consuming streaming video.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
In the Search for a Hot Job Title, Enter the Ninja — These Silicon Valley Warriors Write Computer Code; ‘Guru Is So Web 1.0’ — Nicole Sullivan's job used to involve promoting the latest technology, so her résumé described her as an “evangelist.”
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Conan O'Brien Ventures Onto the Web to Promote His Tour — LOS ANGELES — When Conan O'Brien wanted to start a Web site last winter, he was reminded that he did not own his dot-com name, ConanOBrien.com. — Gainfully employed by NBC for some two decades, a personal Web site had hardly …
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The Technium:
How to Thrive Among Pirates — Shangri-La is the official name of a small Chinese town in a mountainous valley on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. Formerly called Zhongdian, the town was renamed Shangri-La by local businessmen with the blessings of the national government in order to spur tourism.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft rolls out CRM for nonprofits — Microsoft made available on April 7 a new, vertical-specific version of its Dynamics CRM product, known as Microsoft Dynamics CRM for nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). — Features include customizable donation and pledge management …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Fusion Garage JooJoo review — We're not sure what's harder to believe: the fact that after months and months of the soap-opera-like drama that the JooJoo (formerly known as the CrunchPad) has finally landed in our hands, or that within just a few days there are now two capacitive touchscreen …
