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Instagram reaches 27 million registered users, shows off upcoming Android app — Instagram, the photo-sharing app that has taken a definitive lead on iOS, said it has surpassed 27 million registered users. — Co-founder Kevin Systrom didn't disclose daily active users.
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Khan Academy: The future of education? — (CBS News) Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face. Khan is the voice and brains behind Khan Academy, a free online tutoring site that may have gotten your kid out of an algebra bind with its educational how-to videos.| Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
Review: iPhoto for iOS out-does Adobe for mobile image editing — Apple released the final piece of its iLife suite for iOS on March 7, delivering a universal version of iPhoto for iPad and iPhone (sorry, iPod touch users). We spent some quality time with the app using an iPad 2 and iPhone 4 …
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Stores Smarten Up Amid Spam Flood — Retailers have started to wear out their welcome in customers' email inboxes, forcing stores to rethink their spam strategies. — Last year, the nation's top 100 retailers by e-commerce revenue sent recipients an average of 177 emails apiece …
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Walmart Buys Facebook's Birthday And Holiday Reminder App Social Calendar — It looks like retail giant Walmart has made another acquisition. The e-commerce giant has bought Social Calendar, an app on Facebook that allows you to get birthday and holiday reminders by email and SMS …
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Gawker Founder Nick Denton Plans To Revamp Site's Comment Strategy — Once upon a time, in the early days of blogging, Gawker founder Nick Denton said, publishers hoped that the Web would help them “capture the intelligence of the readership.” — But now? “That's a joke,” he said.
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Well that's that. Gowalla shuts down. — Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide's homepage. — The termination is a timely one.
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| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy — You might not think about the Fourth Amendment while you're using Facebook and other online tools, but you probably should. — You are no doubt familiar, now, with Facebook's concept of “frictionless sharing.”
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Wake Forest Law Review and Scripting News
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Apple: iPad preorders sell out, demand ‘off the charts’ — If you are hoping to score a new iPad from Apple, you might have to wait. Apple's website shows March 19 as the earliest ship date for online orders of its popular tablet computer. And there is a limit of two per customer on the number of tablets that can preordered.
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AllThingsD, iPad in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, parislemon, RazorianFly, AppleInsider, The Next Web, T3 News, MacNN, iClarified and Fortune
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Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Android's App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role — There was more than meets the eye with this week's rebranding of Android Market as Google Play. — Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed.| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2 — It's been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you're still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2. You're keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one of those buy-back sites before Wednesday's launch.
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