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In Facebook Deal for Instagram, Board Was All But Out of Picture — On the morning of Sunday, April 8, Facebook Inc.'s youthful chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, alerted his board of directors that he intended to buy Instagram, the hot photo-sharing service.
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Betabeat, The Register, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, T3 News, The Next Web, Screenwerk and Simply Zesty
Tweets: @cookie, @scottmaustin and @bryce
| Adam Messinger / Twitter Blog: |
Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement — One of the great things about Twitter is working with so many talented folks who dream up and build incredible products day in and day out. Like many companies, we apply for patents on a bunch of these inventions.
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Tweets: @lorenb, @ginatrapani, @parislemon and @erickschonfeld
| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
The Twitter “Patent Hack” — Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. I've been aware of this effort inside of Twitter for a while and I like to call …
| Leonid Kravets / Startups and IP Strategy: |
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sources: current Windows Phone devices will not get ‘Apollo’ upgrade — Earlier today, a developer evangelist for Microsoft was quoted as saying that all Windows Phone devices would get an upgrade to the “next major version” of the operating system. Now, a trusted source close to Microsoft tells us …
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CNET, BGR, netbooknews.com, WMPoweruser, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, TechEye, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, The Next Web, gHacks Technology News, App Advice, LiveSide.net, Engadget and Gizmodo. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
CEO Scott Thompson To Cut 50 Properties: “Yahoo Has Been Doing Way Too Much” — CEO Scott Thompson outlined his vision today for how Yahoo can start growing again. His big theme: Focus, focus, focus. — “Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and was only doing a few things really well,” Thompson said.
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| Ian Katz / Guardian: |
Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook — Exclusive: world wide web inventor says personal data held online could be used to usher in new era of personalised services — Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data …
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| Ian Katz / Guardian: |
Government urged to stop snooping bill — Exclusive: Extension of surveillance powers ‘a destruction of human rights’ — The government's controversial plans to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the internet use and digital communications of every person in the UK suffered a fresh blow …
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| Brent Schlender / Fast Company: |
The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes — A treasure trove of unearthed interviews, conducted by the writer who knew him best, reveals how Jobs's ultimate success at Apple can be traced directly to his so-called wilderness years. — If Steve Jobs's life were staged as an opera, it would be a tragedy in three acts.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Square's Next Round Could Swipe a $4 Billion Valuation — Square is seeking to raise a fresh round of capital at a massive valuation of up to $4 billion, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. — If the company is successful, it will have quadrupled … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple and Samsung CEOs and chief lawyers agree to meet in San Francisco court for settlement talks moderated by magistrate judge — Apple and Samsung, the number one and number two in the mobile devices industry, are embroiled in litigation against each other in nine countries …
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Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Good E-Reader, Android News, Rumours …, Computerworld, The Verge, The Next Web, T3 News, Macworld Australia, PadGadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Techie Buzz, TechnoBuffalo, Android Phone Fans, BGR, PhoneArena, Pocketables, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, AllThingsD, SlashGear, Engadget, New York Times and 9to5Mac
| Mark Sullivan / PC World: |
3G and 4G Wireless Speed Showdown: Which Networks Are Fastest? — We tested 3G and 4G wireless data transfer speeds—indoors and out—for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, at multiple locations in 13 major cities. Here's what we found. — It's been a year since we looked closely … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Larry Page on the stand in Oracle trial: 'We didn't do anything wrong' — Oracle and Google's legal fight has finally made its way to the courtroom, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison taking the stand earlier this morning. The other big name to appear was Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page …
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| Elad Blog: |
VC Signaling Coming Home To Roost — VC SIGNALING IS SCREWING UP THE ABILITY OF SOME COMPANIES TO RAISE A SERIES A … Dear Entrepreneur - remember that TechCrunch story you placed about your funding round that mentioned the VCs who invested in your seed round?
| Poornima Gupta / Reuters: |
Apple investors brace for more turbulence — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's results will be dissected more closely than ever next week, after a share swoon raised concerns on Wall Street that the stock's gravity-defying rally may be losing steam. — Five straight days of stock losses for the world's …
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter — When it comes to the road to success in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky was definitely on the right path. — His idea for creating a watch that can display messages from your smartphone was embraced by Y Combinator, the prestigious business incubator.| Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Math is Busted — A view of the huge roof of the Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple said today that the facility will use 20 megawatts of power, far less than an estimate by Greenepace. (Image: Apple). — Apple says it will use 20 megawatts …
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| Andy Baio / Wired: |
Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs — I don't watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.| Alexandra Chang / Wired: |
Intel Shows Off Ultrabook-Tablet Hybrid Running Windows 8 — Super-thin, super-light and super-speedy, ultrabooks were designed to make us forget about traditional PC notebooks. They were all the rage at their big CES coming-out party in January, but now even “traditional” ultrabooks are passe.
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Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, PC World, Neowin and SlashGear
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Chrome For Android Gets Desktop View, Home Screen Bookmarks, File Downloads — Chrome for Android is becoming somewhat of a flagship mobile app for Google, but given that it's only available on phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, its reach is pretty limited.
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Google Chrome Blog, Inquirer, Softpedia News, The Register, WebProNews and TechnoBuffalo
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Even after Apple's fix, 140k machines are still affected by Flashback malware — According to a post on the Symantec security blog, Apple's attempts to get rid of the Java-based Flashback malware that affected 600,000 computers haven't solved the problem completely.
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BGR, Gizmodo, Help Net Security, Symantec Connect, Inquirer, Engadget, MacNN, Digital Trends, The Verge, 9to5Mac and CNET
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
SkyDrive updated to include 300MB browser uploads, short URLs for Windows Phone images, and ODF support — Microsoft announced several changes to its SkyDrive cloud storage service today, introducing features that improve the usability for its web and Windows Phone-based users.
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Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, All about Microsoft Blog, Neowin, PhoneArena and Techie Buzz
| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
Google's Sergey Brin says coverage of his views on Internet freedom was “distorted” — Google co-founder Sergey Brin has published a post on his Google+ account seeking to clarify the article on Web freedom that ran in the Guardian on Sunday. — To describe his reasons for a further update …
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CNET, SlashGear, The Verge, Sergey Brin, Slate, memeburn and Internet Evolution
| Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Permission to Procrastinate: Wait to Get a New Laptop — If you're thinking of buying a new laptop this spring, my advice is to think again. Unless your laptop is on its last legs and you have to move quickly, there are compelling reasons to wait until at least the summer, and probably the fall … | Richard Sandomir / Media Decoder: |
At London Olympics, NBC Says, 'If Cameras Are on It, We'll Stream It' — All 32 sports at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be streamed live at nbcolympics.com. — “The hot topic is always, 'Why don't you show all your sports live?'” said Rick Cordella, vice president and general manager of NBC Sports Digital Media.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET and paidContent
| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
GOP chairman: Google ‘supportive’ of controversial cybersecurity bill CISPA — Google has been working behind the scenes with lawmakers in the House on a controversial cybersecurity bill, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) told The Hill. — Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee …
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