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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Sorry Bit.ly, Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener — Another hole is about to be filled in Twitter's product features. CEO Evan Williams just confirmed plans to launch its own link shortener on stage during the final Q&A session at Chirp.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Will Have An Official Android App — At Twitter's Chirp conference today, Evan Williams announced that the microblogging network would be launching an Android app. It's unclear whether Twitter will acquire an existing app (like it just did with Tweetie), if the company will partner …
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VatorNews, Download Squad, The Blog Herald, Android Phone Fans, Telegraph, AppScout, Silicon Alley Insider, Android Central, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, Electronista, MobileContentToday, Android Community, Phones Review, Google Android News …, AndroidGuys, leakdroid.com, Android Police and Software Journal
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
Twitter Reveals: 75% of Our Traffic is via API (3 billion calls per day)
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Twitter Makes Itself More Useful
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
The details: How Twitter's newfangled revenue model will work
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Dow Jones Newswires, TechCrunch, paidContent, The Next Web, Conversion Rater, GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, The Social and Search Engine Land
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Opera Mini iPhone App Downloaded 1 Million Times On First Day In App Store — On its first day of availability on the App Store since it was - surprisingly, to many - approved by Apple, Opera Mini for iPhone (iTunes link) was downloaded one million times. — Opera this morning announced …
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App Advice, eWeek, The Register, PC World, EverythingiCafe, Obsessable, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net and Lifehacker
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Opera off to nice iPhone start; Will it have staying power?
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Macworld, PC World, MacRumors iPhone Blog, mocoNews, Erictric, Opera Press Room, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and Ubergizmo
Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Toshiba U.S. PC sales surge, slates coming — (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp's personal computer sales in the United States jumped 50 percent in the first quarter, and the company said it was preparing to roll out tablet-style computing devices later this year to compete with Apple Inc's iPad.
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Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, I4U News, Techland, Liliputing, SlashGear, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Go Rumors, AndroidGuys and leakdroid.com
Paul Graham:
Organic Startup Ideas — The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you? — There are two types of startup ideas: those that grow organically out of your own life, and those that you decide, from afar …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress outlaws all Caller ID spoofing (VoIP too) — The House has passed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010” (PDF), which does exactly what its name would lead you to believe. — Under the bill, it becomes illegal “to cause any caller ID service to transmit misleading …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
At Startup Incubator Bootup Labs, a Scandal Brews — Bootup Labs, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based startup incubator, has been caught in the middle of a firestorm in the last day, after one of the entrepreneurs who was accepted into the group's Y Combinator-style program wrote a blog post saying …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police — This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Fiore took home the editorial cartooning prize …
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
Intel Says Its Light Peak Optical Cables May Succeed USB — Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as potentially succeeding USB 3.0, a change that in several years could mean the disappearance of a port used almost universally in gadgets today.
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Neowin.net, X-bit labs, DailyTech, Electronista, Softpedia News, Engadget, CrunchGear, SlashGear, TG Daily, TechSpot and O'Grady's PowerPage
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Hands-on with the WebStation Android Tablet — Expectations are a very dangerous thing indeed. As a user, if you expect a new device to do something — however unrealistic that expectation may be — you are bound to be disappointed when you find that it doesn't.
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Israel blocks iPad imports over Wi-Fi concerns — Israelis had to wait a long time for the local launch of the iPhone; it was late last year before the country's three cell carriers began selling it, and some estimates indicated more than 80,000 unlocked phones were already in use there.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Droid Incredible officially official for Verizon, April 29 for $200 — Though some information leaked out of Verizon's pipes yesterday, HTC just got really real with the Droid Incredible at the 99% Conference in New York today. Specs are pretty much what we expected: Android 2.1 with Sense …
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HTC, LaptopMemo, Android Community, Boy Genius Report, BaltTech, Maximum PC, Redmond Pie and Go Rumors
Oana Florescu / Gmail Blog:
Insert a calendar invitation — Since my friends share their schedules with me in Google Calendar, when I want to see a movie with them, I can check to see which nights they're free before sending out an email about it. However, I need to switch between Gmail and Calendar in order to check …
Subrahmanyam KVJ / VentureBeat:
Why platforms like iPhone and Twitter are becoming control freaks — Small app developer shops have had a great couple of years. Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and a host of other platforms opened up and let these third-party developers build games and other apps to entertain their users …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details On Imeem Founders Next Startup: Picplz (Updated) — There are two financing rumors buzzing through Silicon Valley this week. The first is the huge Groupon funding which we wrote about yesterday. The second, on the other end of the scale dollar-wise, is the new startup created …
Ty McMahan / Digits:
You've Heard Of Foursquare. How About This Start-Up? — From Venture Capital Dispatch: — In the shadow of Foursquare, which is fast becoming a start-up darling, the marketing chief of a competing location-based service wondered how hype could help propel his company.
Brett Terpstra / TUAW:
Big upgrades for premium Evernote users — It's been no big secret that I'm a fan and frequent user of Evernote. It's useful, both as a memory augmentation and as a general information collection utility that makes it easy to locate what I need, when I need it.
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CNET News, Evernote Blogcast, MobileCrunch, Gadgetell, The Mobile Gadgeteer, jkOnTheRun, MobileContentToday and GottaBeMobile
Ben Patterson / Yahoo! News:
Boxee hints at streaming video apps for iPhone, iPad — Guess who's shopping around for a “lead iPad and iPhone app developer”? Yep, none other than Boxee, the “social” streaming video service that's set to launch its new video set-top box later this year.
Gopal Shah / Google Enterprise Blog:
Q1'10 spam & virus trends from Postini — Editor's note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which processes more than 3 billion email connections per day in the course of providing email security …
Ilya Vedrashko / Hill Holliday:
Apple iAd Team Visits Hill Holliday, Shares Details — Back in January, we greeted the announcement of Apple's upcoming ad network with cautious optimism and a lot of questions. Today, Apple's iAd team headed by the now former CEO of Quattro Wireless Andy Miller visited Hill Holliday to fuel the former and answer the latter.
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Owen Fletcher / Computerworld:
Intel execs give lukewarm predictions for tablets — IDG News Service - Netbooks have become a big business for Intel Corp., but company executives seem less bullish on tablet PCs even as Apple Inc.'s iPad boosts interest in the device category. — Some companies have already shown off …
