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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
What Is Steve Jobs Announcing Monday? Here's The Scoop About iCloud & Time Capsules [Exclusive] — Apple has already revealed that Steve Jobs will talk about iCloud, iOS 5 and OS X Lion during his WWDC keynote on Monday morning. — In addition, it's rumored that Apple's wireless Time Capsule backup/router will get a big update.
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CNET News, SAI, Gizmodo, App Advice, MacRumors, Mashable!, Apple Bitch, TiPb, iClarified and AppleInsider
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Kevin Fox / fox @ fury:
My guesses on the huge changes Apple will unveil at WWDC — I get the feeling that the announcements at next week's Apple WWDC are going to represent the same kind of fundamental shift in Apple's offering that the iPod did in 2001. — I don't have any inside info, and I make a point …
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Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Fortune and MacDailyNews
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Silliest Idea Ever: Facebook Going After Google In Search — Yesterday, Blue Nile and Wetpaint founder Ben Elowitz hypothesized on TechCrunch that Facebook could kill Google completely by getting into the search business. — I heard the same idea floated at a dinner for tech journalists hosted …
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Beyond Search and The Business Insider
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Ben Elowitz / TechCrunch:
How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business — Editor's note: Guest author Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, an online publisher with an audience of 10 million monthly uniques, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods.
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@scottbreynolds and SAI
Niall Harbison / The Next Web:
McDonald's Brilliant Interactive Billboard Campaign — We thought we had seen every type of app and interactive billboard campaign under the sun until we came across this brilliant one from Mcdonald's that the company ran in Sweden recently. The concept is a simple one in that users …
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9 to 5 Mac
John Hiesler / Edible Apple:
Vandals plaster Windows Logo on upcoming Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany — On Friday morning, folks walking past the upcoming Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany were greeted with some Banksy inspired nerd vandalism on the side of one of the building's construction barricades.
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CNET News, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, WinRumors, AppleInsider, OSNews, TiPb, Fortune, GeekWire, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, TUAW, Neowin.net, MacDailyNews and ifoAppleStore
MG Siegler / parislemon:
On Grouponzi — While I have an account, I've never actually used Groupon. And I may never use Groupon. It's just not really my thing. But the massive backlash following the company's S-1 filing (so they can IPO) strikes me as a bit odd. — The fast rising consensus now in certain tech circles …
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E-Commerce Times, @stevecheney, @manan, @kevinrose, @hnshah, @semilshah and TechCrunch
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Conor Sen / Minyanville:
Groupon is Effectively Insolvent
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Yipit Blog, Don Dodge on The Next …, philco.squarespace.com, knewton.com, SAI, Chicago Business, Digital Trends, Examiner, eWeek, @dondodge and dan shipper
David Sinsky / Yipit Blog:
Groupon S-1 Reveals Business Model Deteriorating in Oldest Markets
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Felix Salmon, SAI, Brij Singh's Blog, Short Logic, GigaOM, Andrew Chen and Online Marketing Trends, Thanks:yipitdata
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Amazon/iBookStore post pre-releases of iSteve authorized biography: The Book of Jobs — Amazon today lists the Walter Issacson authorized Biography of Steve Jobs, the one commissioned by the Apple CEO last year. Issacson will have had three years of access to the normally reclusive Steve Jobs.
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Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Fortune and Electronista
JC Fletcher / Joystiq:
Nikkei: Wii successor has touchscreen controller, will arrive in second half of 2012 — The Nihon Keizai Shinbun — the same publication that successfully “predicted” the DSi, the DSi XL and 3DS — posted an article today stating that the Wii successor's controller will feature a six-inch touchscreen, as previously rumored.
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IndustryGamers, Neowin.net, Geeky-Gadgets, VG247, Electronista, Eurogamer and GoNintendo
Electronista:
AT&T working on Apple mini-SIM, sees low Windows Phone sales — AT&T's wireless head Ralph de la Vega in an interview late this week said his company was also joining in Apple's plan to develop an even smaller SIM card. He hesitated to directly make the link with Apple, like France Telecom's CEO did …
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AllThingsD, Neowin.net, AppleInsider, TUAW and WMPoweruser.com
Fred / A VC:
Investing In The Cultural Revolution — In a talk with Erick Schonfeld at Disrupt a couple weeks ago, we talked about what is coming next for the Internet. Erick asked me what I thought was coming after the infrastructure and application phases of the Internet.
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@semilshah
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Exclusive: CEO says hackers tried to extort data, money — Karim Hijazi knew his nightmare was just beginning when he saw that a mysterious e-mail had arrived in his inbox at 3 a.m. on May 26 that included his e-mail password and the subject line “Let us talk.”
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Pastebin.com, Digital Trends, Electronista, DailyTech, Examiner, Disruptors, PC Magazine, @lulzsec, @lulzsec, Unveillance, Naked Security, Gawker, thinq_ and pastebin.com
TechEye:
Taipei insists Apple and Google give seven day free trial for apps — On the last day of Computex 2011, Apple and Google were hit by a bombshell when consumer forces in the capital, Taipei City, dictated that both American firms offer a seven day free trial on apps for the machines that use their operating systems.
