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| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Tests in-App Purchase Service to Challenge Apple, Google — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer, is testing a service that lets tablet users make purchases through mobile applications, a sign it may enter a market pioneered by Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL)
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| Shara Tibken / Wall Street Journal: |
Company's Most Common Tablet Mistakes — As companies flock to the devices, they're learning a lot from their mistakes — American Airlines was an early adopter of tablet computers. As a result, it learned a lot about how best to use tablets—and where it could go wrong.
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
With Over 30 Million Users On iOS, Instagram Finally Comes To Android — Morning guys! It's going to be a bright, bright, bright sunshine-y day for Android users, namely because photo-sharing darling Instagram is now available in the Android Market. If you want to hurry up and try …
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| Dan Balaban / NFC Times: |
Google Wallet Co-Founding Engineer Departs Google for Square — Google Wallet co-founding engineer Rob von Behren has left the Web giant for payments startup Square, following former colleague Jonathan Wall in departing the Web giant. — Von Behren disclosed the move today in his LinkedIn profile …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Study: iPhone users rely on Wi-Fi more than Android users — Besides basic divisions in hardware and software, there are some major differences in the way iPhone and Android platform smartphone users ingest data, a new study says. — According to market research firm ComScore … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Co-Founder Paul Sciarra Is Now EIR At Andreessen Horowitz — More developments for Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra, who we reported yesterday was leaving Pinterest as Ben Silbermann officially took helm as CEO. Sciarra is going VC and joining Andreessen Horowitz as entrepreneur-in-residence.
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
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| Mike Davidson / mikeindustries.com: |
What the Betamax Case Teaches Us About Readability — The Betamax SL6500! I totally had this model!!! — Several really smart people in our industry are arguing very publicly right now about a company called Readability and how great and/or evil their service is.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
TripAdvisor Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google With EU — TripAdvisor Inc. (TRIP) filed an antitrust complaint against Google Inc. (GOOG) with European Union regulators, adding a second complaint against the world's largest search- engine operator by online travel companies.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Earlybird's $100m will fund Berlin's ‘antisocial’ movement — A common complaint in Berlin that the scene has plenty of hype but not enough in the way of local investment. Well, here comes something big. — Earlybird, the VC that moved all its operations to the city last year in response …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
RIM's Server Now Manages iPhone, Android Devices, Too — Acknowledging it is no longer a BlackBerry-only world, Research In Motion on Tuesday released the first version of its server software to manage other company's mobile devices. — The update to BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, as promised … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
XRY's two-minute iPhone passcode exploit debunked — Late last month, we reported Swedish security firm Micro Systemation claimed its “XRY” application was capable of cracking an iOS device's passcode, logging keystrokes, and accessing data like GPS, call logs, contacts, and messages.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
How Does Y Combinator Scale Y Combinator? — The startups that presented at Y Combinator's Demo Day last week were remarkable in their own right, but perhaps the most striking thing was the sheer number of them. — With 66 companies and 180 founders in this season's batch … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
‘Air Display’ Updated to Support HiDPI OS X Mode on New iPad — Last month, we noted that Avatron had announced forthcoming support for the new iPad in its Air Display software that allows users to add an iOS device as a wireless external monitor for their Mac.
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TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, Insanely Great Mac, MacStories, SlashGear, PadGadget and CNET
| Chris Kanaracus / PC World: |
Dell Buys Application Modernization Firm Clerity — Dell said Tuesday it has purchased application modernization vendor Clerity Solutions, in its second enterprise software-related acquisition news this week.
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Google Writes Check to Acquire Payments Technology Company TxVia — In an effort to regain some momentum in mobile payments technology, Google has acquired TxVia, a payments technology company. — In a blog post, Google disclosed the purchase but did not reveal the terms.
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Angry Birds animated TV series to premiere in Autumn 2012 — 52 weekly episodes will be distributed ‘on all possible devices’ says head of animation Nick Dorra. By Stuart Dredge — Rovio Mobile is launching a series of 52 shortform animations for its Angry Birds in Autumn, but has ruled out a movie until after 2014.| Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
Google Ads in Australia Searches Misleading, Court Says — Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's largest Web-search provider, misled Australian consumers in 2007 by including paid advertisements from competitors in search results for businesses, an appeal court ruled.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
The Story of Skout: From Deadpool's Door to $22M Led By Andreessen Horowitz — Eighteen months ago, it looked like the location wars were over. Foursquare had just closed a $20 million Series B round and rivals like Gowalla, Loopt and Brightkite weren't having the same buzz or traction.
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
NOOK for iPad now with Retina content, improved highlighting features — Better late than never, right? Only a couple of weeks after its rival Kindle, the NOOK app is finally ready to join the new iPad's pixel-packed party. While the main feature is obviously its Retina display compatibility …
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Liliputing, GadgeTell, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and The Toybox Blog
| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
The “D” in Action: Yahoo Layoffs Coming Wednesday, International to Be Hit Hard — As Kara Swisher reported last week, big staff cuts are coming to Yahoo this week. We've heard the hard decisions are already in process, with the hammer coming down Wednesday in the US and Thursday overseas.| Frances Robinson / Dow Jones Newswires: |
EU Opens Investigations Into Motorola Mobility Holdings On Patents — BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)—The European Union's antitrust watchdog has opened two investigations into the way Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI) licenses patents following complaints from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), the European Commission said Tuesday.
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone Outselling All Other Smartphones Combined at Sprint and AT&T — Led by the 4S, Apple's iPhone line continues to rack up strong sales at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. So strong that some believe it's likely the top-selling phone at all three of those carriers.| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
MPAA Warns of Megaupload ‘Relaunch’ If Servers Are Transferred — Giving Megaupload back data would constitute a violation of studio rights, says a legal filing by the MPAA today — The MPAA is objecting to the transfer of Megaupload data, saying in a court filing today that it could pave …
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CNET, Electronista and Gizmodo
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SEC Probes Groupon — The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining Groupon Inc.'s revision of its first set of financial results as a public company, according to a person familiar with the situation. — The regulator's probe into the popular online-coupon company is at a preliminary stage …
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| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Apple's Chinese iPhone plants employ forced interns, claim campaigners — Students told to man production lines at Foxconn if they want to graduate, says Hong Kong-based nonprofit — Apple's factories in China are employing tens of thousands of students, some of them on forced internships … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
1940 US Census becoming fully searchable online through volunteer effort — Today the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released images of the 1940 Census, and a project is already underway to ensure that the information becomes easily available to anyone who wants to know a bit more about the Great Depression.
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Guardian, Examiner, CNET, Digital Trends, Mashable!, Business Wire, WebProNews, 1940 Census, Forbes, CNET and Slashdot
| Rachel King / CNET: |
Oracle and Google will go to trial — It's on: Google and Oracle are set to go to trial two weeks from today now that a last-ditch attempt at a settlement has failed. — Last week, Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal asked both parties to give settlement talks another chance, with a decision required by April 9.
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