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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million - $50 Million — Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the deal, and the transaction will be announced in the next few days. The $40 million - $50 million purchase price includes both cash and Twitter stock, says our source.
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The Blog Herald, Digital Trends, Reuters, TiPb, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SlashGear, BGR, Neowin.net, Electronista, @fredericl, Droid Life and Pulse2
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Sheldon Levine / Sysomos Blog:
How Fast the News Spreads Through Social Media — Unless you have been totally disconnected from any sort of news over the past 12 hours, you've no doubt heard that Osama Bin Laden has been found and killed. Barack Obama, President of the United States, made the announcement late last night …
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New York Times, Bits, CNNMoney.com, Brian Solis, @joshuatopolsky, USA Today, Fast Company, GeekSugar, Black Web 2.0, @dondodge and ReadWriteWeb, more at Mediagazer »
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Hackers Hit Guy Who Live-Tweeted Bin Laden Raid — 33-year-old IT consultant Sohaib Athar was just hanging out on Sunday at home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when he heard an explosion and a helicopter hovering above. He started tweeting what was going on, and ended up unwittingly live-blogging the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
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PC World, PC Magazine and India Real Time, more at Mediagazer »
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second — Twitter has just revised its preliminary measurements of 4,000 tweets per second from last night's announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death, tweeting out the new measurements below.
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Peter Kafka / All Things Digital:
Bin Laden Web Traffic Big But Not Historic
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Softpedia News and ITworld.com, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Gilbert / Joystiq:
Sony Online loses 12,700 credit card account numbers, 24.6 million accounts compromised [update] — Following up on this morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment servers were offline across the board, SOE announced that it has lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers as the result of an attack …
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SOE, BGR, Bits, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, GameLife, Engadget, NewEnterprise, CrunchGear, Technologizer, VG247, The Escapist, Massively, Destructoid and Bloomberg
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented — Despite awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest. — Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange …
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rt.com, The Register, Mashable!, SAI, I4U News, Network World, Digital Trends, PC World, Daily Patricia, Pulse2, All Facebook and @mrinaldesai, Thanks:cbm
Mike Gikas / Consumer Reports News:
Apple's White iPhone is not thicker than black version — Wearing black is the time-honored technique for appearing thinner without shrinking an inch. Apparently it works for the iPhone 4, as well. Recently an avalanche of news and tech sites reported that the white iPhone 4 was thicker …
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PC World, Fast Company, Edible Apple, ITProPortal, PC Magazine, The Toybox Blog, Geek.com, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Gadget Lab, CNN, techblog.dallasnews.com, Gizmodo, App Advice, Techland, eWeek and MacRumors
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple to fix location tracking bug in iOS 4.3.3; due out soon — One of our Apple sources has just informed us that Apple isn't wasting anytime fixing the infamous location tracking issue in the iPhone and other iOS devices — it's going to be addressed in an update within the next two weeks, possibly sooner, in iOS version 4.3.3.
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PC Magazine, The Business Insider, @dannysullivan, ReadWriteWeb, AppleInsider, CNET News, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, FreakGeeks, iPhone Buzz, Pulse2, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, NBC Bay Area, IGN Gear, SlashGear, PadGadget, Engadget, Mobile Marketing Watch, Apple Bitch, Appletell and Consumer Reports News
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Carriers crack down on Android tethering apps, rain on our mobile hotspot parade — Well everybody, it looks like the free ride is over: carriers in the US have started to seriously crack down on Android tethering apps. Head on over to the Android Market site and try to install an app …
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This is my next, Technologizer, Gadget Lab and Gearlog
Electronista:
Samsung takes 200K Galaxy S II pre-orders, passes iPhone 4 — Samsung claimed an at least initial win for the Galaxy S II. The company took over 200,000 pre-orders across all three major Korean carriers between Monday of last week and the launch on Friday. About 160,000 of those were at the country's largest carrier, SK Telecom.
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Techie Buzz, DroidMatters.com, Android Phone Fans and MobileCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, Google Just Pushed Chrome Canary For Mac Out Of The Nest — This morning, we noted that Google was getting ready to release an OS X version of the Chrome Canary build. Sure enough, just hours later, here it is. — Canary is the pre-Dev build of Chrome meant for users who enjoy testing …
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Chromium Blog, TechCrunch, Peter Beverloo and MacStories
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
RIM announces BlackBerry 7 OS with better browser and BlackBerry Balance, but no legacy support — The BB OS 6.1 update that grew too big for its name has just been made official by RIM as BlackBerry 7. Its ambassador into the wide world of smartphones will be the newly minted BlackBerry Bold Touch …
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eWeek, NEWS.com.au, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Technologizer, BGR, Pulse2, Between the Lines Blog, GottaBeMobile, ITworld.com, PC World, mocoNews, SAI, Pocket-lint, CNET News, Computerworld, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo and The Digital Home
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
RIM Acquires Smartphone Security Software Developer Ubitexx
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Research in Motion, Between the Lines Blog, BlackBerry Cool, BGR, VentureBeat, SAI, thinq_, Electronista and IntoMobile
DigiTimes:
Quanta receives tablet PC orders from Amazon, say upstream sources — Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer has recently received OEM orders from Amazon for its reported tablet PC and the device will also receive full support from Taiwan-based electrophoretic display (EPD) …
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Electronista and netbooknews.com
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post's top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. — The move is a big one in the online editorial arena.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion to Bring iOS-Like Uninstall Process for Mac App Store Apps — As noted by Apple iGuide (via TUAW), the latest developer build of Mac OS X Lion seeded last Friday brings a new iOS-like mechanism for deleting applications installed via the Mac App Store.
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MacNN and AppleInsider
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo — The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and Tools Business reorg announced on May 2 inside Microsoft.
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The Register, I'm Just Being Manan, WMPoweruser.com, The Next Web, eWeek and The Microsoft Blog
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook for the PlayBook is Here — This morning, at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida, RIM announced the forthcoming availability of a native Facebook application for its PlayBook tablet computer. Since no specific launch date was given at the time …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Peel Raises $16.7M To Turn Your Smartphone Into Your Television's Best Friend — Peel, a startup that's looking to turn your iOS device into a super-powered universal remote (among other things), has some big news: it's just closed a $16.7 million Series B funding round led by Ravi Mhatre …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, TUAW, Electronista and VatorNews
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
No Improved Displays This Year, Says E Ink — One of the main features of the latest version of the Kindle was its new “Pearl” E Ink screen. It offered better contrast, faster response, and so on. And since we've gotten so used to new stuff being given to us every year …
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CNET News and Electronista
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T to Take On Groupon With $10 Promotion for Daily Deal Site — AT&T Inc. (T), aiming to tap the billion- dollar market for online coupons dominated by Groupon Inc., will introduce its own discount site within the coming weeks in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth.
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MediaPost, Pulse2, NewsGrange, Daily Patricia and @jspepper
Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
South Korea police say probing Google over private data — (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday they had raided Google Inc's Seoul office on suspicions the Internet search firm's mobile advertising unit AdMob had illegally collected data, the latest setback to its operations in the country.
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Wall Street Journal, Agence France Presse and Android Phone Fans
