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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
With Instagram Deal, Facebook Shows Its Worth — To win over Instagram, Facebook was forced to show its hand. — In early April, Facebook bought the photo-sharing service for $1 billion, agreeing to pay roughly 30 percent in cash and 70 percent in stock, according to people briefed on the negotiations.
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CNET, The Next Web, Tech and China, ZDNet, PhoneArena, Business Insider and Friending Facebook Blog. Tweets: @pkafka
| Wall Street Journal: |
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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PandoDaily, CNN, Ars Technica, AllFacebook, Washington Post, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, Network World, PopWatch, Neowin, The Register, Business Insider, Deal Journal, SocialTimes, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, Digital Trends, CNET, T3 News, Fast Company, The Verge, Marketing Land, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Guardian, Betabeat, New York Post, Screenwerk and Simply Zesty
Tweets: @scottmaustin, @cookie and @bryce
| 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 … | Sergey Brin / Google+: |
I believe the internet has been one of the greatest forces for good in the world over the past quarter century. So when the Guardian requested that I speak to them over the past few months about internet freedom, I decided it was important to participate. — I think the article is a pretty …
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ZDNet, Silicon Valley Watcher, Pulse2 Technology …, Engadget, Friending Facebook Blog, TUAW, Mashable!, ONI Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Inquirer, PC Magazine, WebProNews, Digital Trends, CNET, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Macgasm, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Telegraph, dailywireless.org and Slate
| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
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| 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 … | 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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Wired, Computerworld, CNET, IntoMobile, windows8update.com, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketables, TechSpot, PC World, BetaNews, VentureBeat, PhoneNews.com, Mashable!, Pulse2 Technology …, TechnoBuffalo, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, TechEye, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, App Advice, LiveSide.net, gHacks Technology News, WMPoweruser, Ars Technica and Engadget. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| 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 … | Ian Katz / Guardian: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plots wireless server hubs at Genius Bars for users to temporarily store, sync content for iOS device replacements — According to sources, Apple is planning a major new addition to their Apple Store Genius Bars; an addition that will change the way the company handles Genius Bar support.
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| Laura Stampler / Business Insider: |
Tumblr Will Start Selling Ad Units On May 2 — In a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp said, “We're pretty opposed to advertising. It really turns our stomachs.” — How times have changed. Karp announced at Ad Age's Digital Conference that on May 2 … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Apple Stores have seventeen times better performance than the average retailer — Thanks to RetailSails we have some data on retailers in the US which can be used to calibrate the performance of Apple retail. RetailSails compiled a table of the top 20 chains by sales per square foot (annual basis).
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9to5Mac, PadGadget, Fortune, WebProNews, Business Insider and iClarified
| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future — After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups. — We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we're living in it.
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| Grant McCool / Reuters: |
Apple wants trial on e-book price-fixing: lawyer — (Reuters) - Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court on Wednesday.
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MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac and paidContent
| Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report: |
The ugly side of Kickstarter: the risks in backing game dev campaigns are greater than you think — The Penny Arcade Report has an email address for story leads and tips, and a significant percentage of those “tips” are solicitations for coverage of indie game Kickstarter projects.
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| Biz Stone / Obvious: |
Why Obvious Invested in Neighborland — We need only glance at the headlines—from Arab Spring to Occupy—to understand that people are passionate about connecting over issues. We all have issues, big and small. Toppling oppressive regimes and protesting corruption are appropriately top of mind.
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TechCrunch and The Next Web
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Amazon's Secretive Cloud Carries 1 Percent of the Internet — An Amazon data center in Sterling, Virginia. Photo: Eric Hunsaker/Flickr — Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it's silently becoming a core piece of the internet.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Uber Experiments With Lower-Priced Taxis In Chicago Through Newly Launched Labs Group, ‘Garage’ — Back when Uber launched in San Francisco, it was heralded as a service that would disrupt the taxi industry by providing black cars on-demand via mobile phones.
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Engadget, Uber Blog, The Verge, USA Today and Chicago Tribune
| Leslie Horn / Gizmodo: |
AT&T Stores Are Almost Completely Out of Lumia 900 Stock — Both Nokia and Microsoft need the Lumia 900 to succeed. Windows Phone is struggling. So is the once-top handset maker. But while they and AT&T has been pushing the Lumia 900 hard it looks like the carrier just doesn't have enough to go around.
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DailyFinance.com, AllThingsD, WMPoweruser and IntoMobile
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
eBay Beats; Q1 Revenue Up 29 Percent To $3.3B; Net Income Up 20 Percent — eBay just reported stronger than expected first quarter 2012 earnings today. Revenue increased 29% to $3.3 billion, compared to the same period of 2011. Non-Gaap earnings came in at $0.55 per diluted share.
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CNET, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Tech Trade, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews, Business Wire and eBay Ink
| 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 …
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Betabeat, Wired, BGR, TechStars, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Next Web, PC Pro, Continuations, TechSpot, the Econsultancy blog and Guardian
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Spotify press event lacks sizzle or substance — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, third from the left, was doing his best to sell his company's ad deal with Coca-Cola as something to get excited about. — (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) — NEW YORK—Someone needs to remind Spotify that you need news at a news conference.| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Draw Something gets more social with chat and Facebook/Twitter sharing — Dan Porter talks new features, TV possibilities and localisation plans for popular game. By Stuart Dredge — 50m downloads and a $180m acquisition by Zynga later, hit mobile game Draw Something is getting even more social with its latest update.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Verizon Aims New Data Package at Global Travelers — Aiming to make international cellphone use slightly less excruciatingly expensive, Verizon Wireless announced a new $25 plan that gives users 100 megabytes of data when traveling; it will be available in 120 countries.
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Engadget, Computerworld, GigaOM and Gotta Be Mobile
| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Larry Page evasive with Oracle's lawyer, but admits Google never obtained Java license — SAN FRANCISCO — Google (GOOG) CEO Larry Page completed his testimony in federal court Wednesday morning after an hour of laborious grilling by an attorney for tech rival Oracle (ORCL) …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Security researcher unearths plans for Iran's halal Internet — Iran appears to have recently published a Persian-language “Request for Information” (RFI) for an even-more filtered and monitored version of the Internet than what presently exists in the Islamic Republic.
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Amazon, seeking to relieve partner angst, launches partner program — Amazon, the provider of public cloud services which have — at times - made its technology partners nervous, is launching an official partner program. — The new AWS Partner Network, (APN) targets ISVs, SaaS companies …
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WebProNews, Amazon Web Services Blog and The Register
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Google Cloud Print can now “print” to an Android device or local FedEx store — Although modern computing devices and software offer much richer ways to consume, manipulate, and share content, there are still people who prefer to put their documents and images on slices of dead tree.
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TechCrunch, CNET, Google Chrome Blog and WebProNews
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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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