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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing) — In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. — The attack by the Internet icon …
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SEO by the Sea, Between the Lines Blog, CNET, Gizmodo, GeekWire, The Next Web, The Next Web, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Social Media, Geekosystem, paidContent, Mercury News, eWeek, All Facebook, Bloomberg, Mashable!, The Verge, Ars Technica, NBC Bay Area, Engadget, WebProNews, Internaut and Neowin.net
Tweets: @abrams, @levie, @amir_efrati, @jeffjarvis and @dannysullivan
See also Mediagazer| Jeff Roberts / paidContent: |
Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook — Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today—claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company points to ten patents that it says cover features like messages, advertising and privacy settings.
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DealBook and Social Media
| Sachin Agarwal / The Official Posterous Space: |
Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter — Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! — The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn't be happier about bringing our team's expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe.
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Sachin's Space, Computerworld, Mashable!, CNET, The Next Web, Twitter Blog, Techie Buzz, ABCNEWS, Marketing Land, Reuters, Engadget, SplatF, BetaKit, Paints The Future, Geek Beat Technology News, Wired, PC Magazine, We Are Social, VentureBeat, Rich Man Poor Man, The Register, Ars Technica, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch Japan, TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, Current Editorials, Betabeat, SiliconFilter, New York Times, The Verge and WebProNews
Tweets: @agarwal, @thomasborowski, @marcoarment and @kfury
See also Mediagazer| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now — Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product.
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| Tim Carmody / Wired: |
The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW — It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it's absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn't be mentioned in any of the panels at South by Southwest Interactive.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Organizers Defend “Homeless Hotspots” at SXSW — The talk of Austin is a jarring campaign in which homeless people actually become Wi-Fi hotspots. “The worry is that these people are suddenly just hardware,” admits its organizer. — Source: hardlynormal.posterous.com
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Techland, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, NYT @ SXSW, LAPTOP Magazine, Gawker, Geekosystem, Geek News Central, PhoneArena, io9 and a hardly normal view. Thanks:@fwd
| Joe Palazzolo / Law Blog: |
So Sirious: iPhone User Sues Apple over Voice-Activated Assistant — Siri, the iPhone 4S's deadpan voice-activated assistant, is imperfect. She's stumped easily. Her command of English is only so so. In the U.K., she's a man. But is Siri a fraud? — A New York man represented … | Noah Shachtman / Wired: |
Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google — Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was …
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Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service — Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Report: Walmart To Charge $2-$4 Per DVD To Convert Movies To UltraViolet Cloud — Tomorrow at 1pm ET, Walmart along with UltraViolet partners Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and Fox will announce Walmart's UltraViolet offering. Studio execs I have spoken with say that consumers …
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Government — In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site's users complained that their personal files had been lost due to collateral damage. — From work-related data to personal photos, the raid disabled access to hundreds of thousands …
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CNET, The Register, GamePolitics blogs, PC Magazine, Betabeat, msnbc.com, WebProNews, Softpedia News and VentureBeat
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Microsoft unveils universal translator that converts your voice into another language — Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual voice.
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Hollywood Studios Warm To Apple's iCloud Effort — Apple Inc. and Hollywood are proving how complicated it is to build alliances in the digital-media business. — Last week Apple said five major movie studios had agreed to allow consumers to buy their films on one Apple device …
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
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iTunes 10.6 adds option to sync 192kbps, 256kbps quality audio to devices — In the newly released iTunes 10.6, Apple has quietly added the ability for users to select higher quality audio conversion bitrates when syncing to an iPhone, iPod or iPad. — Previously, users were given the option …
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TUAW, The Verge, Macgasm, iPhone and App Advice
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
OMG: 5-Week-Old App Draw Something Hits 20 Million Downloads And Generates 6-Figures Per Day — Three weeks ago, we wrote about OMGPOP's mobile app, Draw Something. The ten-day-old social game had been downloaded more than 1.2 million times. Now the company has shared even more staggering numbers with us.
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Inside Social Games, WebProNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com and dailywireless.org. Thanks:@stevekovach
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Foursquare, Vevo, Fandango, and The Onion launch new Facebook Timeline apps — THERE ARE 2 COMMENTS. ADD YOURS. — The timeline for Facebook pages is one big mess — So to use the foursquare integration, I'm assuming we just have to share our check-in to Facebook from the app?
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Facebook, MediaPost, VentureBeat, GigaOM, ABCNEWS, Mashable!, BetaKit, The Next Web, TechCrunch and All Facebook. Thanks:@hamburger
| Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: |
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police — David Carr's column today is partly about a plan masterminded by Ad Age columnist Simon Dumenco to create, quote, a “Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation,” which will ostensibly serve as a sort of trade group or …
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Marco.org, Matt Langer, Digiday, New York Magazine, WebProNews, Boing Boing and Mashable!
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mathewi and @om
See also Mediagazer| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles — When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Singles program a little over a year ago, nobody knew whether there was a market for e-books that are shorter than full-length books but longer than most magazine articles.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google+ updates mobile UI, still no iPad app — Google rolled out a new design for its Google+ mobile site Monday morning, which now looks more like the Google+ apps for Android and iOS. That's especially good news for Google+ iPad users, who have been waiting for a native app for the social network for some time.
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Tom Charytoniuk, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews and Ubergizmo
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Building a digital media empire: SB Nation and The Verge owner Vox Media raises $17 million — Online media publisher extraordinaire Vox Media, which owns and operates fast-growing tech news site The Verge, sports blog network SB Nation and an upcoming game industry news outlet tentatively named Vox Games …
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VentureBeat, AdAge, GigaOM and WebProNews
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
As web booms, so does demand for data centers — Almost overnight, Pinterest is racking up billions of page views. Instagram is touching the 27-million-member mark. Zynga wants to build its own platform. Everywhere you look, you see the web economy booming and growing like never before.| Amit Singhal / Inside Search: |
Video! The search quality meeting, uncut (annotated) — It took eight video cameras and 16 microphones, but we've done something new and special to give you another inside look at how search works. Today we've published, for the first time, a video with the uncut discussion of a proposed algorithm change …
| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
Wikia, Jimmy Wales' for-profit company, passes IGN to become the largest network of gaming sites on the web — What happens when you combine the Wiki model of open, collaborative editing with just a pinch of old-school-oversight? In the case of Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for-profit company …
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GamePolitics blogs and Social Media
| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Rumored: PayPal to launch Square competitor — PayPal's plans to announce a solution for small businesses at an event this Thursday includes a mobile payment dongle that would compete against Square, Intuit (intu), Verifone and others, according to sources we've talked to who are familiar with PayPal's plans.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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