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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
DISH Wins Bankruptcy Auction, Buys Blockbuster Assets For $228M In Cash — DISH Network this morning announced that it was selected as the winning bidder in the bankruptcy court auction for substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, which went belly up in September 2010.
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BGR, The Digital Home, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, TheStreet.com, DealBook and Bloomberg
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google's new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out — Wondering what Google's answer to Amazon's cloud music player for Android will look like? Then it would seem you now have your answer —the Tech From 10 website somehow managed to receive a developer version of the Android Market …
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Pulse2, SAI and FierceMobileContent
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Tim Schiesser / Tech From 10:
The Android Test Market...?
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CNET News, Droid Life, Pocket-lint, ITProPortal, Geek.com, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, Download Squad, Gadgetell, Download Squad, Android Police, Neowin.net, Electronista, iClarified, Media Maverick, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, Android and Me, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, Know Your Cell, AndroidGuys, Gizmodo and Android Phone Fans
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Motorola Mobility: Xoom, Atrix Both Duds, Pacific Crest Says — Xoom: No boom, just gloom. — Motorola Mobility (MMI) isn't seeing much love for its current cornerstone smart phone and tablet products, Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette asserts in a research note this morning.
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IntoMobile, Shiny Objects, SocialTimes.com, Technologizer, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Android Phone Fans, BGR and Electronista
John Casasanta / tap tap tap:
Camera+ hits 2 million sales / Revealing details about upgrade numbers and in-app purchase sales — Fresh off the heals of the Camera+ 2.2 release including our killer feature, Clarity, I'm happy to announce that this weekend we've sold our 2 millionth copy of Camera+.
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AppleInsider, Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM and MacStories
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Bashing Microsoft ‘like kicking a puppy,’ says Linux Foundation chief — Linux has already defeated Microsoft, Linux Foundation chief says — Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won …
Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
USB 3.0, Thunderbolt Possible in Future iOS 30-Pin Connectors — For those of you wondering how Apple is planning on supporting next-generation high-speed data port technology for future (and current) iPads, Pods and Phones, you might have your answer. Patently Apple has unearthed …
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AppleInsider, Engadget, Patently Apple, O'Grady's PowerPage, BGR, IntoMobile, SlashGear, TUAW, MacRumors, CrunchGear, iClarified, The Next Web, MacNN, GeekSmack, 9 to 5 Mac and MacDailyNews
Wall Street Journal:
Lions Gate Finalizing Netflix Deal to Stream All Seasons of “Mad Men” — Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which produces the hit television series “Mad Men,” has finalized a deal with Netflix Inc. to stream all seven seasons of the critically-acclaimed show about a 1960s advertising agency, according to people close to the situation.
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Variety, SAI, Softpedia News, Reuters, Voices on All Things Digital, Hacking NetFlix, Electronista, Gizmodo and paidContent
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Vote Is in and Twitter Gets its Tax Breaks. Now, What about Everyone Else? — We just got word that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 8-to-3 to approve the Mid-Market incentive plan that would give Twitter- and other companies- a six year payroll tax deferral for net …
Fred A. Bernstein / New York Times:
A Corporate Campus Made to Mirror Facebook — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook, which started out in a dormitory at Harvard, transferred to a rented house in Silicon Valley and now occupies a cluster of office buildings in Palo Alto, Calif., is about to make its biggest move yet …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Near-Future of Mobile Gaming Is Going to Be Pretty Epic (But Maybe Not on Android) — The light-spraying, shadow-bending dreamscapes carved out of our noir nightmares made possible by the latest version of the Unreal Engine are the reason why we're always looking for what's next in gaming.
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Electronista, PhoneArena, @mrinaldesai, Android Phone Fans, SAI, AppleInsider and Kotaku
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
One-Third Of Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone Soon — Teenagers are fickle, but one thing never seems to change. — They love Apple products. — More than one-third plan on buying an iPhone in the next six months, and 20% are planning to buy a tablet — which probably means iPad.
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AppleInsider and Between the Lines Blog
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Introduce New Final Cut Pro on April 12th? — ProVideoCoalition claims to have heard rumors that Apple is planning to use the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet to announce the next version of Final Cut Pro. … The post goes on to talk about other sponsors including Avid …
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Computerworld, PVC | CUT.N.COLOR, TUAW, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, GeekSmack, CrunchGear, iClarified, Edible Apple and Electronista
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Accidentally Shows Users Someone Else's Timeline, Disables #NewTwitter To Fix — Twitter has been acting mightly strange for the past hour or so, with people reporting seeing random chunks of other users tweets in their timelines, including retweets while using the Twitter web client and browsing.
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Mashable, PC Magazine, @rsarver, MobileWhack, Pocket-lint, @mat, @support, Neowin.net and Pulse2
Joe Brockmeier / Network World:
Canonical abandons ShipIt program: free Ubuntu CDs too pricey — All good things must come to an end, including free Ubuntu CDs via Canonical's ShipIt program. Though a major factor in Ubuntu's success, Canonical is cutting costs and closing the doors on the free CD program it has sponsored since 2005.
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Canonical Blog, Softpedia News and The Register
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Sulzberger: $40 Million Estimate For Paywall Cost Is ‘Vastly Wrong’ — Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) spent $40 million or more to build the digital paywall that went live late last month. Not so, insists Arthur Sulzberger …
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:
Bloomberg opens NYC data to entrepreneurs — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — New York City's government agencies are sitting on a deep reservoir of data — a geeky treasure trove of information on topics ranging from crime reports, building complaints and traffic stats to public health.
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NYConvergence.com and Inc.com
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
A keyboard-less webOS phone - the Stingray? [Exclusive] — The enterprising tipster who sent us the image of a Verizon Pre 3 has one more device to show you: the above device that by all appearances is a webOS device without a keyboard. Our best guess is that it has a screen resolution of 480x800.
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Gizmodo, Electronista, IntoMobile, Fonehome, Engadget, SlashGear and CrunchGear
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Toyota Pulls Out From Cydia - Struck By Apple's Lightning — We hear from time to time about apps that avoided Apple's approval process by going to Cydia. Those apps can then be sold to jailbroken users. If you're a big company like Toyota, it might not be that simple to do, not to mention naive to even try.
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9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, BGR, Pulse2, Examiner, MobileCrunch, Daring Fireball, PhoneArena, GigaOM, IntoMobile and MacRumors
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter unveils a new homepage, with a focus on interests — Reports around Twitter are telling us that some people are starting to see a new homepage on Twitter.com. In fact, we've now seen a screenshot of it ourselves, so here you go. — Before: — After:
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MediaMemo, The Huffington Post, Technologizer, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb and Switched, Thanks:bradmccarty
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu — By the end of this year, an estimated 2 million households in the U.S. will have abandoned TV for the Web, cutting the cord with their cable companies. This estimate comes from Convergence Consulting Group …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Google Chrome to warn of malicious Windows executables — Social engineering put on notice — Google says it's expanding its blacklist of malicious websites to include those that use deceptive claims to push harmful Windows programs. — The addition to Google's Safe Browsing API …
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Nokia announces Symbian smartphone event for April 12 — It looks like Nokia is planning a little get together in London next Tuesday. That is, at least according to the invite posted at Mad For Tech — and verified ourselves, after a quick call to the company (it seems …
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BGR, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, MobileWhack and Electronista
Sebastian Moss / PlayStation LifeStyle:
Anonymous Gets Serious, Attacks Sony Employees [Updated] — Infamous hacking group, Anonymous, began a series of attacks against Sony earlier today, bringing down several Sony sites and the PlayStation Network. However, a radical offshoot of the main group believe that the attacks aren't enough …
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msnbc.com, VentureBeat, Techland, PC Magazine, PC World and TG Daily
Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
How Microsoft learned ABCs of D.C. — My first day of work at Microsoft, 15 years ago, I wore a DOJ baseball cap that a friend had given me when she heard I was going to work in Redmond, Wash. “DOJ” stood for Department of Justice, which is where my friend worked.
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Verne G. Kopytoff / Bits:
Intel Unveils Chips for ‘Mission Critical’ Server Tasks — Generating buzz for a new microchip — one that is for servers, no less — is challenging. But Intel gave it a try with its latest line of microprocessors, the Xeon E7, unveiled on Tuesday, by renting a former bank and briefing reporters in the vault.
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TechEye, Neowin.net, News Stories, TechSpot and Between the Lines Blog
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Brix, a New Google Docs App — Google Docs code includes references to a new application code-named Brix. The files created using this application are called “Brix documents”, so Brix can't be a photo editor or a video editor. — Here's an icon that could be used for Brix documents: it shows some Lego bricks.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
In-Game Ad Startup Kiip Raises $4 Million From Hummer Winblad, Others — Kiip, the in-game ads startup founded by teen entrepreneur Brian Wong, as well as Amadeus Demarzi and Courtney Guertin has just announced a $4 million Series A round. The round was lead by Omniture investor Hummer Winblad …
