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Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out — Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram, a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails.| Andy Baio / Wired: |
Instagram's Buyout: No Bubble to See Here — Instagram's billion-dollar sale to Facebook raised eyebrows Monday, renewing fears of a new tech bubble. But compared to other major acquisitions since the dot-com bust, turns out it's a pretty sane deal. — To put the acquisition in perspective …
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Gawker and Inside Facebook
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
The 4 inch iPhone 5 — In the past year of so the smartphone landscape has seen a trend of screen size increasing from around 3.2/3.5 inches to 4.3, 4.65 and as high as 5.3 inches in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Note. The iPhone screen however, has remained at 3.5 inches since its debut in 2007.
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9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Pulse2 Technology …, TUAW, The Next Web, App Advice, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, The TechBlock and IntoMobile. Tweets: @reckless
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
It's Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!) — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new organization for the company. — “It's time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really, with nice comma deployment).| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Nokia Confirms Lumia 900 Software Glitch, Offers Fix and $100 Credit — Nokia said late Monday that it has identified a problem that has left some early Lumia 900 customers unable to connect to the Internet. — Nokia U.S. chief Chris Weber told AllThingsD that the problem is a memory-management issue … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Availability of Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pros constrained ahead of redesigned models — Multiple authorized resellers this week are reflecting stock outs of 15-inch MacBook Pros, suggesting that Apple is ramping down production of existing models before introducing redesigned offerings … | Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple developing Flashback malware removal tool — In response to Flashback malware that's been in the news lately, Apple on Tuesday revealed that it is developing a tool to detect and remove it. — There is no date that the tool will be released, but considering it is Apple …
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AllThingsD, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, MacNN, TUAW, Apple, Apple Fan Site, MacStories, The Next Web and iClarified. Thanks:@jdalrymple
| Jason Snell / Macworld: |
iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship — When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, MacStories and Macgasm
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Please Welcome Peter Ha, Frederic Lardinois And New Co-Editor Alexia Tsotsis — Sure, legends like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle don't play for the Yankees now, but the team hasn't just survived the ups and downs over the years. Hate it or love it, the franchise attracts many of the best players …
Tweets: @mg, @alexia and @digiphile
| MJ Lee / POLITICO: |
Hillary Clinton likes ‘Texts from Hillary’ Tumblr — “Texts From Hillary” has just added one VIP to its fan base: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself. — Adam Smith, who created the Tumblr account that has quickly gone viral with his friend Stacy Lambe - both communications professionals based …
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The Huffington Post, Mashable, Washington Post, Gawker, CBS News, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed and Daily News. Tweets: @kashhill
| Don Clark / Digits: |
Intel Develops Small, Sturdy Tablet for Education — Companies have been trying to transform education with computers for decades, with mixed results. But there is new enthusiasm for the possibilities represented by tablets, and Intel has a new entry.| Reuters: |
DOJ may sue Apple over ebooks early as Wednesday: sources — (Reuters) - The Justice Department could sue Apple Inc as early as Wednesday over alleged electronic book price-fixing, while settling with several publishers as early as this week, two people familiar with the matter said.
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VentureBeat, CNET, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, TeleRead, Know Your Cell and MacNN. See also Mediagazer
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Free Adobe Reader app for iPad and Android can now sign and annotate PDFs — Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe's making it a little easier — the free Adobe reader app for iOS and Android is being updated to support electronic signatures and basic annotations.
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Acrobat Blog, Business Wire, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @stshank
| Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller: |
Maryland bans employers from asking for employee social media passwords — Maryland became the first state in the U.S. to ban employers from asking their employees and applicants for the passwords to their personal social media accounts. — A state Democratic-led effort co-sponsored the bill …
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PC Magazine, Gizmodo, The Verge, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times and msnbc.com
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Latest Chrome beta release adds tab syncing across computers and Android — The introduction of Chrome for Android brought a baked-in solution for syncing your tabs from computer to your phone, and now Google's rolling that out more broadly. The latest beta version of Chrome for Mac … | Ruth Sutherland / Daily Mail: |
Apple ‘made £6bn’ in UK... but paid only £10m in tax — Apple paid a paltry £10million in UK corporation tax in the last financial year, despite earning an estimated £6billion in the country over the period. — It is the latest technology firm to be accused of avoiding UK tax, following Amazon and Google.| Reuters: |
Court narrows reach of computer fraud law — (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court rejected the government's broad reading of a computer fraud law to prosecute workers who steal from company computers, saying it could expose millions of Americans to prosecution for harmless activities at work.
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Courthouse News Service, Mercury News and Law Blog
| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
500px aims to take out Flickr with $20/year plan, unlimited storage, market function and Mac uploader — In a move that should be a surprise to nobody, technology darling 500px is moving to take out Flickr with a new Plus plan. The company had previously held a high-level plan that was priced … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Gnip Adds Data From Sina Weibo's 300M Users — Social-data provider Gnip will provide access to updates on Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging service with more than 300 million registered users. — The intent is for Gnip's social-media monitoring customers to help their own clients keep track …
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The Next Web, GigaOM and Tech in Asia
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference — Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference. — It will be Cook's first appearance at D …
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BGR, afr.com, Pulse2 Technology …, iPhone, Macgasm, PC Magazine, TUAW, The Verge, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Engadget, Edible Apple, App Advice, MacStories and The TechBlock. Thanks:@ahess247
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
YouTube adds pay-per-view to live streaming — YouTube is adding monetization options to its live streaming platform, including the ability for publishers to charge for live events. The new feature was announced on YouTube's publisher blog Tuesday:
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CNET, YouTube Creator Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, 9to5Google and Mashable!
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Takes In-App Purchases Out Of Beta: Here's How They Compromised On Revenue Share — Amazon is taking the wraps off a new in-app purchasing service today in an effort to make its app store competitive with what Apple and Google offer developers. That should let developers …
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Amazon Appstore Developer Blog, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, FierceMobileContent, internetretailer.com, WebProNews, dailywireless.org, Macgasm, MarketingVox News & Trends, CNET, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans, App Advice, Amazon.com, Between the Lines Blog, Bloomberg, Dice Blog Network, BetaNews, Forbes, IntoMobile and GeekWire
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Lookout and T-Mobile bring you phones that will scream if lost — Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile are teaming up today to bring you a unique security feature in mobile phones: custom Scream tones. — With the new Scream tones you can try to pinpoint a missing smartphone on a map …
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AllThingsD, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Mobile Marketing Watch and AndroidGuys
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's latest Facebook project: Meet ‘A Year In The Like’ — Microsoft and Facebook are quite the buddies, with strong product integration, and Redmond owning a piece of the social giant. That friendship was recently on display with the launch of a new little Microsoft project called …
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AllFacebook, Friending Facebook Blog, The Verge, Redmond Pie and Ubergizmo
| Todd Haselton / TechnoBuffalo: |
Samsung Galaxy Note Variant On the Way to Sprint? — Well look what we have here: It looks an awful lot like the Samsung Galaxy Note has made an appearance on Sprint's website. Neither Sprint nor Samsung have announced any intention to launch the 5.3-inch “phablet,” but our own Mark Hearn …
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Android Phone Fans, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Life, PhoneArena, 9to5Google and Pocketables
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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“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).
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