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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.
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New York Times, Backupify, Jack Shafer, Appolicious Advisor, The Awl and Business Insider
| 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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Inside Facebook, Business Insider, Gawker and Pulse2 Technology …
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
What Facebook backlash? Instagram becomes #1 free app on the App Store for the first time ever — I guess all of the hue and cry about quitting Instagram over its acquisition by Facebook turned out to be a bunch of hot air, because it hasn't stopped people from downloading the app.| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble? — Facebook has bought the photo-sharing service for $1bn. What does history tell us about the wisdom of such mega-deals? — A company with no revenues and barely any staff gets acquired for a billion dollars? It has to be a bubble, doesn't it?| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
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| 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: |
| 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, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Pulse2 Technology …, TUAW, App Advice, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, The TechBlock and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @reckless
| 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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Apple, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, CNET, MacNN, MacStories, The Next Web, iClarified and Securelist. 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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| 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: @alexia, @mg and @digiphile
| 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.| 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, Daily News, Washington Post, CBS News, Gizmodo, Gawker, BuzzFeed and The Atlantic. Tweets: @kashhill
| 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, Mashable!, Business Wire, Between the Lines Blog and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @stshank
| 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, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, FierceMobileContent, CNET, internetretailer.com, Amazon.com, The Verge, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, Mashable!, WebProNews, App Advice, GeekWire, Forbes, dailywireless.org, Bloomberg, Android Phone Fans, Macgasm, BetaNews, IntoMobile, MarketingVox News & Trends, GigaOM, Dice Blog Network, Softpedia News and TUAW
| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
A million Instagram Android app downloads in a day isn't cool. You know what's cool? 5 million in 6 days. — Instagram is enjoying the biggest week in its existence. The company, already riding high on its iOS success, launched its Android app and captured 1 million downloads … | 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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afr.com, iPhone, Pulse2 Technology …, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, The TechBlock, PC Magazine, TUAW, The Verge, CNET, Edible Apple, Engadget, MacStories, App Advice and 9to5Mac. 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, TechCrunch, Digital Media Wire, The Verge, 9to5Google and YouTube Creator Blog
| 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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GigaOM, Tech in Asia and The Next Web
| 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, The Verge, Friending Facebook Blog, Redmond Pie and Ubergizmo
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Market Cap Hits $600 Billion — Another market cap milestone for Apple. — With the broader market in decline, shares in the company rose to a new 52-week high this morning: $644. And that jump was enough to carry Apple's market cap across the $600 billion threshold.| 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, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, msnbc.com, Computerworld, The Verge and Examiner
| 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 issue is a memory management issue …
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Unlocking In-Contract iPhones for Deployed Service Members — This weekend, AT&T began unlocking iPhones for off-contract customers. This allows the iPhone be used with a SIM-card from overseas carriers, or T-Mobile in the U.S. In addition to unlocking phones for off-contract customers …
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Pulse2 Technology …, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, Redmond Pie, The Verge and iPhone. Thanks:@jlgolson
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