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| Dan Porter / Zynga Blog: |
OMG, Zynga Welcomes a New Member to the Family — Put down your smartphones and iPads for just a sec. I've got some big news. Today I'm excited to tell you about a new addition to the Zynga family, OMGPOP. This New York-based developer of social mobile games has recently received a lot …
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Digital Trends, Digital Media Wire, Betabeat, GigaOM, MacRumors, The Loop, MobileSyrup.com, Social Media, WebProNews, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and I4U News
Thanks:@danidudeck
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Done Deal: Zynga Gets “Draw Something” Phenom By Acquiring OMGPOP. (We're Hearing $210M.) — Zynga agreed to buy OMGPOP, the maker of massive Pictionary-like hit Draw Something, winning out over several other large gaming companies who had taken a look at the deal.
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BetaKit, All Facebook, CNET, BGR, Social Markets, Inside Mobile Apps, Macworld, Business Insider, The Verge, The Tech Trade, IntoMobile, NBC Bay Area, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, TUAW, iClarified, Joystiq, Touch Arcade, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable!, The Next Web, Appolicious Advisor, WebProNews, MarketBeat, Geek Beat Technology News and Slate
Tweets: @levie and @danprimack
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
“OMGPop Sold Way Too Early — They Left $800 Million On The Table” — In the speakers room at Ignition West (our conference in San Francisco today), there has been a lot of chatter about Zynga buying OMGPop, the maker of the smash-hit app game “Draw Something.”
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| Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: |
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Exclusive: Hipstamatic, Instagram To Unveil Photo-Sharing Partnership — Last week, Instagram hit 27 million users, solidifying it not only as one of the most popular photo-sharing services on the market, but as one of the world's fastest-growing social networks.
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MacRumors, PC Magazine, parislemon, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Appolicious Advisor, The Next Web, GadgeTell, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, Mashable!, SlashGear, Gadgetsteria, The Verge, everythingiCafe, PhoneArena, DVICE, Instagramers.com, Gizmodo and Daring Fireball. Thanks:@austincarr
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Rethink Wallet Strategy Amid Slow Adoption — Google Inc. (GOOG) is weighing changes aimed at improving its Google Wallet mobile-payment system following slow adoption and the departure of two key managers, according to people with knowledge of the project.
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Business Insider, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, PhoneArena, The Next Web and MacNN. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
China Now Leads the World in New iOS and Android Device Activations — Flurry recently quantified China's meteoric adoption of iOS and Android applications. While China ranked 10th in application sessions at the beginning of 2011, it finished the year in 2nd place, only behind the United States.| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees) — At a Google-run competition in Vancouver last month, the search giant's famously secure Chrome Web browser fell to hackers twice. Both of the new methods used a rigged website …
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Gizmodo, Business Insider, Help Net Security and Softpedia News
| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days — iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days — Apple told me today that its newest iOS app, iPhoto, hit 1 million users in less than 10 days after its release. It's important to note that figure is users, not downloads.
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AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, iFans, MobileSyrup.com, Redmond Pie, Macgasm, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice and The Next Web
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
FreedomPop's New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data — Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom's new FreedomPop project was initially shrouded in secrecy, but they've recently become a bit more talkative about how the company plans to offer “free wireless broadband” to their customers.
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GigaOM, Sprint 4G Rollout …, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear, Appolicious Advisor, Gizmodo and Engadget. Thanks:@jordanrcrook
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
Video Speed Trap Lurks in New iPad — Users Find the Superfast 4G Link Carries a Big Cost: Churning Through Data Limits in Mere Hours — Brandon Wells got the new iPad last Friday, started wirelessly streaming March Madness games the next day and by Saturday night was out of gas.| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Sprint CEO defends company's decision to bet it all on Apple's iPhone — Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse is being watched closely by the company's board of directors, but the CEO has to answer to investors and subscribers as well. Last year in October, Hesse revealed that the company … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Comcast, Verizon Say They're Itching to Fight Google, Apple — Late last year, Comcast and Verizon unveiled a whopper of a deal: Verizon would buy a big chunk of wireless spectrum that Comcast wasn't using. And the cable company and the telco would agree to market each others' products …
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The Verge, Light Reading, IntoMobile, eWeek, PC Magazine, Bloomberg and The Next Web
| David Kravets / Wired: |
MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for Lawsuits — Updated — Hollywood studios want a federal judge to preserve data on all the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations …
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| enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft details how iPad app development compares to Windows 8 — Summary: In an apparent attempt to attract iPad developers, Microsoft has posted a case study comparing iPad app development to Windows 8 Metro-style tablet development. — Microsoft officials have posted to the Windows Dev Center …
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Techie Buzz, MSDN Blogs, The Next Web, windows8update.com and Neowin.net
| Jason Fagone / Wired: |
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick — James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He's been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It's a pretty low-stress job for a person with a methodical turn of mind—good pay, short commute.
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| Victoria Barret / Forbes: |
Silicon Valley's Hottest VC Is a Rug Dealer — It's a balmy February evening in Palo Alto, and Pejman Nozad is sipping tea on the deck of the Rosewood Hotel, the hot spot of venture capital's capital, Sand Hill Road. He's chosen a table situated just central enough so that he can see everyone who walks in.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
DirecTV iPad app update adds video streaming on the go — In October, the “DirecTV” app added the ability to stream video over home networks. Today, an update to the app adds the ability to stream shows and movies over 3G and Wi-Fi anywhere. The new feature is limited to video content …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Solid Signal Blog, iClarified and Engadget
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Walmart steps up with Angry Birds Space promotion — Angry Birds Space, Rovio's next big game in the phenomenal mobile game series, launches on Thursday with some major promotions from Walmart. — Angry Birds Space will debut in a variety of app stores, but this event marks Walmart's first in-store promotion with a mobile app.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
YouTube launches “one click fix” to improve the quality of your videos — When we're trying to capture something really funny, awesome, or downright amusing with our camera, the video quality is the last thing we're thinking about. Capture the moment is the goal, and if you do it right …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, YouTube Blog and WebProNews
| Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat: |
Recipe search engine Yummly grabs $6M to find mouth-watering recipes — Yummly, a recipe search engine that would make any recipe hoarder and home chef happy, announced Wednesday it has raised $6 million is its first round of funding. The site compiles recipes from several popular recipes sites …
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SiliconANGLE, GigaOM, TechCrunch, VatorNews and The Next Web
| Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: |
PayPal Here's first day: 1,000 sign-ups per hour — Summary: The competition between PayPal and Square is on as PayPal Here received 1,000 sign-ups per hour within the first day alone. — Last week, PayPal introduced its new mobile payments solution that will compete directly with Square.
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The PayPal Blog, FierceMobileContent and WebProNews
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
LED backlight a likely culprit in iPad heat issue, says expert — Reported heat issues with new iPad are most likely due to a combination of more backlights and more power needed to drive the backlights, an expert told CNET. This follows a CNET report attributing extra heat to the new iPad's A5X chip, also.
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Consumer Reports News, iDownloadBlog.com, Geekosystem, InformationWeek, WebProNews, Mashable!, I4U News and ITProPortal. Tweets: @parislemon
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Ten things Oracle v. Google tells us about the judge presiding over Yahoo v. Facebook — UPDATE: 10 hours later, the case was reassigned to a different judge — [Update] Approximately ten hours after this post went live, Yahoo v. Facebook was reassigned to Judge Jeffrey White.
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
FCC proposals would let Dish build a 4G network, make 700MHz more useful — Two important proposals came out of an FCC meeting this morning, both of which have the potential for sweeping effects on broadband wireless in the US in the coming years. First off, Dish's intention … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More Money For Big Data And The Cloud: OpenView Raises New $200M Fund — There has been a bit of a landrush of late on enterprise companies focused on big data and how best to harness that in the cloud, and today sees the launch of a new fund that will fuel the growth of even more companies working in that space.
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