Techmeme: With $1.5M From Adecco, Path.To Wants To Be The EHarmony For Jobs In Silicon Valley And Beyond (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

April 24, 2012, 3:50 PM

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Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog:

Introducing Google Drive... yes, really — Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist. — Today, we're introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.

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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Google Drive officially launches with 5GB free storage, Google Docs integration — Google has just made Google Drive official. As expected, the service will offer 5GB of storage space for documents, videos, photos, PDFs and other files, and Google Docs is built-in to the service.

More: BetaNews, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Macworld, IntoMobile and Reuters

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Thanks Google, It Only Took You Six Years — Today's launch of Google Drive, official at last, is kind of a relief. Internet rumors and reports have seen the industry discussing the possibility of a consumer-facing cloud storage service called “GDrive,” since as far back as 2006.

More: CNET, Inquirer, Google Operating System, The Technology Chronicles, SlashGear and Appolicious Advisor. Tweets: @cdixon

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared — Sometimes a table says a thousand words. Now that Google has finally announced its cloud service, Google Drive, we're sure more than a few of you are crunching the numbers in your head in an attempt to figure which is the best deal.

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Gmail bumps free storage to 10GB — Along with the launch of Google Drive today, the company is tossing a bonus to Gmail customers as well: they'll now get 10GB of email storage at no cost. That's up from the 7.5GB that users were getting before — and as always, that number will slowly creep up over time.

More: Gmail Blog, The Next Web and Engadget. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Google Stores, Syncs, Edits in the Cloud — For years, some people who wanted to store files on remote servers in the cloud have been emailing the files to their Gmail accounts, or uploading them to Google's lightly used Google Docs online productivity suite, even if they had no intention of editing them there.

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Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:

The Google Drive Review You've Been Waiting For

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Kate Kelly / CNBC:

Facebook IPO Could Be Delayed by Deals, Distractions — Less than two weeks before the potential launch of Facebook's initial public offering roadshow, a string of acquisitions and other business distractions are threatening to delay the sale, say people familiar with the matter.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

What if Facebook isn't so special after all? — As the fateful day of Facebook's initial public offering draws closer, the giant social network's financial results are attracting more and more attention. And while there are some blockbuster numbers in its recently updated securities filing …

More: Associated Press

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Facebook Acknowledges That It May Cut Its 30% Revenue Share For Apps That Are Not Games

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Apple Found to Violate One Patent on Android Phones — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) won a partial U.S. International Trade Commission judge's ruling in its bid to block imports of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s devices including the iPhone and iPad tablet computer.

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight review — An ebook reader you can read in the sun — and in the dark Odds are, if I'm reading a book I'm doing it in bed. At night. In the dark. That's not so great for ebook readers, which (like a paper book) require a light in order to be seen.

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Brian Heater / Engadget:

Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight shipping this week, B&N warns of limited supply

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Google back in the smartphone sales game: unlocked Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ (GSM) available for $399 — Hang on to your kneecaps, folks. Google's just announced that its making the Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ available in its Play web store for $399 contract-free. That's right: the unlocked, unbranded …

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Reuters:

Proview owns iPad trademark in China -govt official — (Reuters) - Proview Technology (Shenzhen), which is battling Apple Inc in a Chinese court over the iPad trademark, is the rightful owner of that mark, a senior official with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) said on Tuesday.

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPhone Activations Drop 43% at AT&T, But Represent 60% of Total Postpaid Phone Sales — AT&T today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, revealing that it activated 4.3 million iPhones during the quarter. The number marks a substantial drop from the 7.6 million iPhones activated …

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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:

AT&T Profit Beats Esitmates on Solid Wireless Growth

Jamie Keene / The Verge:

Samsung's US Android 4.0 upgrade plans revealed, Galaxy S still excluded — A list of phones on US carriers set to receive an upgrade to Android 4.0 is now available on Samsung's support pages, providing confirmation for a number of devices. It's not the first time the manufacturer's update plans …

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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Apple's Q2 results: Are Qualcomm, iPhone 5 worries overblown? — Summary: Apple may deliver more iPhones than expected in the March quarter and iPad units should be solid. Mac units could be light. — Apple is expected to deliver strong second quarter earnings, but analysts will be looking …

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Donald Melanson / Engadget:

Firefox 12 now available for download, Windows users get silent updates — It doesn't yet include the opt-in system for plug-ins that Mozilla is working on, but Firefox users can now download an update that adds a few other new features and new tools for developers.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources to launch first ‘Arkyd’ spaceship within 24 months — After releasing some details this morning, Planetary Resources is outlining its plan to open up deep space exploration by mining near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) for water and precious metals.

More: Forbes, VentureBeat and Forbes

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Firefox kills off favicon in URL bar — According to the blog of Mozilla Software Engineer Jared Wein, M.Sc, the Firefox team has just killed off the age-old favicon in yesterday's nightly build. Wein states that the changes are set to arrive in the release channel in mid-July …

More: JAWS, the Econsultancy blog, Engadget, Softpedia News and WebProNews

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Near-Final Version of Windows 8 Due in Early June — A near-final “release preview” version of Windows 8 is due in the first week of June, Microsoft confirmed late Monday. — Windows unit President Steven Sinofsky made the announcement at a Windows Developer Days event in Japan.

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Frank Gillett / Forrester Blogs:

Why Tablets Will Become Our Primary Computing Device — Tablets aren't the most powerful computing gadgets. But they are the most convenient. — They're bigger than the tiny screen of a smartphone, even the big ones sporting nearly five inch screens. — They have longer battery life …

More: Computerworld, WebProNews, VatorNews, TechCrunch and Los Angeles Times

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

With $1.5M From Adecco, Path.To Wants To Be The EHarmony For Jobs In Silicon Valley And Beyond — The job-hunting market today is getting a little more social: Path.to, a kind of About.me-meets-LinkedIn service that lets people create image-filled, sleek professional profiles for themselves online …

More: WebProNews and The Next Web

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD takes a swing at Intel and Nvidia with new mobile graphics chips — A day after Intel launched its Ivy Bridge combo graphics-microprocessor chips, Advanced Micro Devices is launching a new series of fast and power efficient graphics chips for notebook computers.

More: TechEye, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo and Engadget

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

PinDollars Brings Affiliate Links Back to Pinterest — But Gives Money Directly to Pinners — Here's a little hack meant to nudge Pinterest into sharing revenue with its curators. PinDollars is a substitute for Pinterest's bookmarklet that scans pinned items and attaches affiliate links to related products when appropriate.

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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Feature: “The hidden side of your soul”: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot — The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or penis pills.

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