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| Joshua Schnell / Macgasm: |
Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free — Haven't upgraded to Lion or iCloud because you still haven't forked out money for Snow Leopard yet? No worries, Apple has your back. Apple is now giving away Snow Leopard to potential iCloud customers.
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CNET, MacNN, MacRumors, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Techie Buzz, Engadget, TUAW, The Next Web, Softpedia News and iClarified. Thanks:@joshuaschnell
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Date — This just in: According to multiple sources close to the company, Facebook is eying IPO on May 17th — depending on whether the SEC agrees that all the reams of paperwork (including those concerning its recent acquisition of Instagram) are in order.
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Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Examiner, CNET, ZDNet, peHUB, AllFacebook, bub.blicio.us and GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @pkedrosky. Thanks:@chasinggodot
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Galaxy S II successor to have quad-core processor with ‘superlative’ benchmarks, will be shown on May 3rd — Though it's already been broadly assumed that Samsung's “Next Galaxy” event in London early next month would be for the hotly anticipated Galaxy S II successor … | Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
With Help From Facebook Timeline, Viddy Becomes Top Free iPhone App — With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there's an ongoing race to apply Instagram's wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startups vying to claim the …
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| 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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WMPoweruser, IntoMobile, DailyFinance.com, Internet2Go, AllThingsD and CNET
| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Talks With Instagram Suggest a $104 Billion Valuation for Facebook — To win over Instagram, Facebook was forced to show its hand. — Facebook bought the photo-sharing service for $1 billion in early April, agreeing to pay roughly 30 percent in cash and 70 percent in stock … | 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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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Microsoft aims to make iPad an underdog with Windows 8 — Will Windows 8 tablets hurt iPad market share? — (Credit: Brooke Crothers) — Microsoft reportedly hopes to push Apple's worldwide iPad market share under 50 percent by the middle of 2013 with Windows 8-based tablets, Digitimes reports today, citing unnamed sources.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Samsung asserts eight more patents against Apple in California, including two FRAND patents — There's further escalation between Apple and Samsung. — In February, Apple brought a new U.S. federal lawsuit against Samsung, the second of its kind in the Northern District of California.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
These Guys Are Making Over $1,000 A Day On Windows Phone Game — Here's a great success story for Windows Phone 7. — A year ago, FourBros Studio launched a free Windows Phone game called Taptitude. As of today, the company has pulled in over $100,000 of revenue on the game, with more than 300,000 users.
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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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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Digital ecosystems: an in-depth comparison — Putting the six biggest digital ecosystems to the test to find out who excels where There was once a time when the business of consumer technology was conducted with tangible goods. You bought a thing, whether it was a Sony VCR or a Sega console … | 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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WebProNews, ZDNet, TUAW, Friending Facebook Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, ONI Blog, Business Insider, The Register, Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Inquirer, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Engadget, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, dailywireless.org, The Verge, 9to5Google, Macgasm, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Telegraph
| 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.
| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Draw Something gets more social — 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.
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VentureBeat, Games.com News. CityVille …, TUAW, VG247, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, T3 News and Inside Mobile Apps. Thanks:@stuartdredge
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Mystery company backed by James Cameron and Google executives may be an asteroid mining project — MIT's Technology Review has just gotten news of a mysterious new project that claims it will “create a new industry and a new definition of ‘natural resources.’” Space exploration company Planetary Resources …
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Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Deadline.com, CNET, The Museum of Flight, SlashGear, Technology Review and GeekWire
| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Square Said to Seek $250 Million Investment — Square, the mobile payments company, is passing the hat again. — Less than one year after raising $100 million, which valued the company at $1.6 billion, the company is going back to its investors. It is now seeking to raise as much as $250 million … | Scott Lowe / The Verge: |
Game consoles consumed nearly 70 percent of their energy idling in 2010, study finds — A new study from a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University estimates that that roughly 68 percent of all energy consumed by game consoles in 2010 was spent in idle mode, wasting 10.8 TWh of energy … | 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 …
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FM Signal, Betabeat, Digiday, Mashable!, GigaOM, Ars Technica and Marketing Land. See also Mediagazer
| 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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MacNN, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, WebProNews, Fortune, Business Insider and iClarified
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
RingCentral Launches New Mobile, Cloud-Based Phone System For Businesses — Cloud-based phone systems provider RingCentral is debuting a new version of its platform that allows businesses to setup, manage and use their phone system from mobile devices. — RingCentral, which is backed …
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ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and PandoDaily
| Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: |
Sony Is Said to Gain Europe's Approval on $2.2 Billion EMI Bid — Sony has won European regulators' approval for its $2.2 billion takeover of EMI Music Publishing, which would create the largest catalog of songs in the world, according to a person briefed on the process.
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New York Post, Guardian, New York Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and hypebot
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Time's “Most Influential” List Snubs Zuckerberg, Googlers, Includes Tim Cook, Marc Andreesen — People love rankings, lists — and awards. And publishers love them too because the sell issues and drive page views. Lists and awards inspire jealousy and envy and they're often controversial accordingly.
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NBC Bay Area, AllFacebook, USA Today, iDownloadBlog.com and TUAW
| Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: |
SkySQL raises $4 million for database product development — Summary: SkySQL shores up more VC funding as it prepares to shift towards becoming a fully-fledged database products and solutions provider. — MySQL solutions provider SkySQL has just completed another successful round of venture capital fundraising.
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ArcticStartup and VentureBeat
| 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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