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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Music Label Talks “Going Backwards” — Google has spent a year trying to build a music service that could compete with Apple's iTunes. But those efforts seem to have stalled again. — Google's negotiations with the big music labels are “broken,” says a source familiar …
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BGR, MacRumors, TechSpot, PC World, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, WebProNews and MacDailyNews
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Glyn Moody / open:
Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry — Rumours about Google's music service have been swirling for a while now, but they certainly seem to be reaching a new stage with stories like this: … When there are rumours that you're about to give up on a project, you know it must be real.
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Still need an iPad 2? Head to Best Buy on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday — Well now, this is interesting. We've been hearing a lot of chatter about Best Buy and the iPad 2, rumors that the company was sitting on a giant pile of tablets ahead of some great event.
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AppleInsider, wirelessgoodness.com, PadGadget, CrunchGear, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb and Electronista
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Phantom Punch — Yesterday, the story on everyone's mind in the tech world was the turmoil at Twitter. Led by the Fortune cover story written by Jessi Hempel, if you read it, you might think the sky is falling on Chicken Little. Not surprisingly, Twitter responded — sort of.
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Biz Stone:
The Trouble Bubble — We founded Twitter, Inc. in March of 2007 and while we have long said it's about the users, not the service, we have nevertheless enjoyed favorable media coverage. What took so long for somebody to write the article that says we are falling apart?
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CNN, PC Magazine, NBC Bay Area, BoomTown, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Venture Capital Dispatch and SAI, Thanks:mdoeff
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Financials Exposed: $2.9 Billion Valuation, $50 Million In Revenue Per Month — There's nothing like full disclosure during the negotiating process in an acquisition deal. LivingSocial acquired SocialMedia for just $3 million in stock, we reported earlier today.
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VentureBeat, Fortune, Screenwerk, Pulse2, GigaOM and SAI
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS — Adobe previewed some new streaming video capabilities of its Flash Media Server at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show, including new compatibility with iOS devices like the iPad.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning And Sean Parker Are Back With An Ambitious New Project; Investors Abound — Longtime collaborators Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are back together working on an ambitious new project, we've learned. — In 1999, Fanning and Parker introduced the world to Napster.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, Social Markets, @karaswisher, Online Dating Insider, VentureBeat, Electronista and PE Hub Blog
Nick Bilton / Bits:
iPad Resellers Now Camp Overnight at Apple Stores — On Wednesday morning I stopped by the SoHo Apple store in New York City to purchase an iPad for a family member. As I had anticipated, a store clerk said they were out of stock and recommended that I check back the following morning.
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MacNN and Electricpig.co.uk
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Betrayal of Bnter — We filmed this week's Ask a VC on Tuesday, and I started out by asking Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital about the danger of venture capitalists investing in competitors. There was no ulterior motive on my part. It's just a question I've seen coming up increasingly …
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Pulse2 and Learn to Duck
Fred Vogelstein / Wired:
The Android Explosion: How Google's Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone — ndy Rubin needed a hit. It was January 2009, three years since Google had bought the company he cofounded, a little startup called Android. — Rubin had created a slick operating system for mobile phones …
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@bill_gross, @johnacook and 9 to 5 Mac
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhone 4 shows up in Verizon's inventory — It's real this time. After several false hopes along the way, Apple will finally release the white iPhone 4 very soon. We've been expecting an AT&T version since summer 2010 and reports of a Verizon version of the white model being in the works emerged earlier this week.
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MobileCrunch, TUAW and Electronista
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows 8: Portable Workspace allows you to run Windows from a USB device … An early copy of Windows 8 leaked to the Internet this week and enthusiasts have been digging their way through the various new bits in Microsoft's next-generation operating system.
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Engadget, PC World, iThinkDifferent, TechSpot, Electronista, Geek.com, Liliputing, The Tech Report and Gizmodo
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Updated: Google Video To Delete Uploaded Videos on May 13 — One of my colleagues in Switzerland just forwarded an email from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) which includes a very important update regarding the Google Video service. Two years ago Google announced that they would discontinue support for uploads to Google Video.
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TechCrunch and @dannysullivan, Thanks:cocaman
Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Poker Websites Targeted in Federal Crackdown — NEW YORK—Eleven people, including the founders of three of the largest online poker companies doing business in the U.S., have been charged in the latest crack down on Internet gambling by U.S. authorities. — Federal prosecutors …
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Ars Technica, Reuters, SAI, @cnbc, @benhuh, Techdirt, Tech Trader Daily, TorrentFreak, The Next Web, Techland, Associated Press, NewsGrange, Voices on All Things Digital and StartupMuse
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A. Ananthalakshmi / Reuters:
Chinese Facebook, Renren, shoots for U.S. IPO — (Reuters) - China's largest social network, Renren, filed for a U.S. initial public offering to raise up to $573.1 million, the first of a clutch of Facebook clones hoping to boost their profile with an American listing.
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Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires and Pulse2
Peter Farago / Flurry:
Apple and Google Capture U.S. Video Game Market Share in 2010 — Last year, Flurry reported that iPhone and iPod touch game sales surged from 2008 to 2009. From a standing start, and in just one year, iPhone games captured 5% of the mature U.S. video game market.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Could Smartphones Kill The Portable Gaming Star?
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Networking Blog:
It's official: Asia's just run out of IPv4 Addresses — Well, that was fast. The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has just released the last block of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses in its available pool. We knew this was coming when the Internet Corporation …
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Neowin.net, @bonforte, The Register, SlashGear, DSLreports, Ars Technica and Network World
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Chatroulette Posts Lawyer's Notes In Privacy Policy For Your Entertainment And Edification — Note to startups: Don't publish your lawyer's notes about the various ways you may or may not profit off of user data. — Video chat site Chatroulette seems to have just done just that with its privacy policy …
Electronista:
E-book sales triple, top paper as most popular format in US — The Association of American Publishers said late Thursday that e-books had surged and established a foothold as the most popular format for reading in the US. Results from February saw e-book sales triple from just a year ago to $90.3 million.
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VentureBeat, The Association …, Softpedia News, Kindle Review, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CrunchGear, TechCrunch, Engadget and Slashdot
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Kills Tags In Favor Of Boost — Google is killing Tags, an advertising product for local businesses which allowed them to enhance their Google Maps or Places listings. For a flat $25 monthly fee, local merchants could make their their natural listings stand out a bit with a yellow tag …
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Google LatLong, Search Engine Watch, WebProNews, Screenwerk and Understanding Google …
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Cisco Displays New Cloud Data Center, Touts Efficiency — Data Center Hall in Cisco's new green data center. — Cisco today took the covers off a new Allen, Texas, data center that will serve as the foundation for Cisco's private cloud computing effort, which it calls Cisco Elastic IT Services.
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Market Wire, Datamation, eWeek and internetnews.com
Paul McIntyre / AdNews:
Google: we want iPhone to grow — Google's Android platform might be in a fierce battle with Apple to dominate smartphone handsets and apps, but the search giant's APAC boss says iPhone is delivering so much mobile search traffic they want their rival competitor to keep growing.
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IntoMobile, Technologizer, Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista
