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HP:
HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion — Combination will accelerate HP's growth within the more than $100 billion connected mobile device market — HP and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion (PALM, HPQ) — Hewlett Packard is buying Palm for $1.2 billion, the company announced today. — HP is paying $5.70 per share for Palm, a 23% premium over today's close. Palm's stock was trading as high as $18 in the last year. — HP will be spending nearly $1 billion in cash.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
HP On Palm Acquisition: “Our Intent Is To Double Down On WebOS”
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Patent Agreement With HTC — Agreement will cover HTC's Android phones. — Microsoft Corp. and HTC Corp. have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC's mobile phones running the Android mobile platform.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft claims Android steps on its patents — The mobile phone wars got a more interesting late on Tuesday as Microsoft publicly asserted for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property. — Microsoft has taken the position …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
BREAKING NEWS: Siri bought by Apple — Back in February I said that if you miss Siri you will miss the future of the Web. — Well, Apple did not miss the future of the Web. — According to FTC Apple just purchased Siri. — If previous acquisitions by Apple are an indicator …
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Timothy Hay / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Apple Moves Deeper Into Voice-Activated Search With Siri Buy — Apple Inc. has acquired Siri Inc. just a few months after the start-up's voice-activated personal-assistant program launched in the App Store, an investor in San Jose-based Siri told VentureWire.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New iPhone Could Hit Stores During Apple's Developer Conference — Apple could put its next-generation iPhone on sale during the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), sources familiar with the situation have told us. That date could be June 7, the likely date of the WWDC keynote.
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Apple:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through June 11 at San Francisco's Moscone West. The five-day conference includes the first ever iPad™ development sessions …
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CNET News:
Prosecutors defend Gizmodo search in iPhone probe — San Mateo County prosecutors are defending the search of a Gizmodo.com editor's home and seizure of his computers that are part of a criminal investigation into an iPhone prototype lost by an Apple employee.
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Tim Wu / Slate:
Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Final Details on the iPad's 3G Data Plans — I'm already a firm believer in the iPad 3G and its no-contract data plans, but AT&T's released the nitty gritty details, in case you wanted to check the fine print. Pretty much the same, but a few new bits.
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Doantam Phan / The Official Google Blog:
Discovering pages “similar to” ones that you like — One of the great things about the web is choice. There's a website out there for nearly everything, and sometimes there are many sites all dedicated to a single topic. But how can you find all the sites that are related to the subject that interests you?
Bloomberg:
Sony Said to Announce Televisions With Intel Chips, Google Software in May — Sony Corp., trying to reverse sales declines in its TV division, will announce home-entertainment devices next month that use Intel Corp. chips and Google Inc. software, said two people familiar with the matter.
Vladimir Vukievi:
Fennec on Android — Over the last few months, we've made some great progress on bringing Firefox to Android. Michael Wu, Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin and I have been focusing on getting a build ready that's usable by a broader set of people, and we're now ready to get that build out there.
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Piero Sierra / The Windows Blog:
Preview of the new Windows Live Messenger — We've spent the last few months posting about how we look at the industry, the key customer problems that are top-of-mind for us, and where we think we can improve the lives of our customers. Today in a speech at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil …
Hitwise:
Facebook is top search term across three major search engines — Experian Hitwise announced today thatthe search term Facebook was the top U.S. search conducted in the four weeks ending March 27, 2010. Overall, Facebook related terms accounted for eight searches across the three top 10 lists.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Believe In Privacy — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy — a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Yahoo chief Bartz ready to buy startups - but tight-lipped on Foursquare — The new Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz says search will grow in coming quarter and that location-based services are important to future growth — Carol Bartz, the new chief executive of Yahoo, says the company is …
Markus Frind / Plenty of fish blog:
Match.com No longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers. — Here is comscores worldwide ranking of dating sites for march. We are doing pretty good considering we are only in UK, Canada and US. — Last year Match launched a plentyoffish clone called downtoearth.com which was supposed …
