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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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| 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, everythingiCafe, Pulse2 Technology …, Daring Fireball, TUAW, The Next Web, App Advice, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, The TechBlock and IntoMobile. Tweets: @reckless
| 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 … | 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: |
| 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 …
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TUAW, Computerworld, MacRumors, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, Apple Bitch, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Tecca and Macworld
| 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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MacRumors, AllThingsD, Apple, Engadget, The Verge, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, MacNN, The Next Web, MacStories, Apple Fan Site and TUAW. Thanks:@jdalrymple
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
| 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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TUAW, MacStories and Macgasm
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice — After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption.
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VentureBeat, CNET, The Register, AllThingsD, Digits, Wavii Blog, Techland and Technology Review
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“New” Roku HD Lands On Retail Shelves — “New” Roku HD Lands On Retail Shelves originally appeared on Zatz Not Funny! — Just last month we reported that a new “Roku HD” SKU had hit the FCC, and today I found it nestled amongst the Roku 2 XD and XS models.| 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.| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Tumblr updates Android app with a radical new look — Hot blog-baker Tumblr has cooked up a zany and colorful update to its Android application. — Five-year-old, New York-based Tumblr is the go-to blogging platform for the young and hip. The company now powers more than 51 million blog sites …
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9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Gotta Be Mobile and The Verge
| 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
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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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CNET, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, The Verge, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, TeleRead, iDownloadBlog.com, Know Your Cell and MacNN. See also Mediagazer
| 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
| 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 … | 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, Between the Lines Blog, Mashable! and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @stshank
| 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.| 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 … | 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, Mobile Marketing Watch, AndroidGuys and Gizmodo
| Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: |
CISPA Is A Really Bad Bill, And Here's Why — The forces behind HR 3523, the dangerous Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act which is going to move forward in Congress at the end of the month, are beginning to get cagey about the growing backlash from the internet community.
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Los Angeles Times and DSLreports
| 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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The Verge, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine and msnbc.com
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple working on iTunes 11 with iOS 6 support, improved iCloud integration — According to sources, Apple has recently begun internally seeding the next major release of the iTunes application for computers, iTunes 11. Work on iTunes 11 began prior to the release of iTunes 10.6 …
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The Verge, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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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