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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post — With a history only fitting an Internet business, Digg has seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows, and everywhere in between. — We've received a tips from multiple sources that Digg may have found a suitor by way of The Washington Post.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
The Digg Team Is Going To WaPo, But The Assets Aren't — Has The Washington Post acquired Digg, as reported in The Next Web? Sort of. — We're hearing that the Post has hired the Digg team, but is not acquiring the site or the technology. In other words, this is a talent acquisition … | Dan Farber / CNET: |
Java creator James Gosling: “Google totally slimed Sun” — Gosling said that Sun was “wronged” by Google, and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android. — Follow @dbfarber — James Gosling speaks at JavaOne conference in San Francisco in May 2007.| Rachel King / CNET: |
Oracle: Google execs ‘knew this day would come’ — SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle made its closing statements during the first segment of the Oracle-Google trial this morning, and it all boils down to this: Google is making excuses for taking the property of Sun Microsystems — and now Oracle — and using it on Android.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books — Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the heating up market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them …
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| Peter Svensson / Associated Press: |
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| Anil Dash: |
Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry — If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've said before, know your s**t. Know the discipline you're in …
Tweets: @alex, @davemcclure, @codinghorror, @rafat, @anildash, @asadotzler, @bobbiejohnson, @rafat and @mathewi
| BBC: |
The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules — The Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, where it has an active supporter base — File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. — The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music and video.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Verizon launches $80 prepaid plan with 1GB of data and unlimited talk / text, plus a prepaid MiFi hotspot — Verizon's looking to put some pressure on the prepaid carriers of the world — the company just announced a new $80 prepaid plan that offers unlimited calling, texting, and 1GB of data.
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| Michelle Levi / ABC News: |
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Reveal a New Tool on Facebook that Could Save Lives in Exclusive Interviews with ABC's Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer — Zuckerberg Interview to Air on “Good Morning America” and Sandberg Interview to Air on “World News with Diane Sawyer” Tuesday, May 1, 2012| Mor Naaman / GigaOM: |
Apple squared, (four)squared — I was down in Soho last week, visiting (of course) the new Manhattan REI store. After the shopping spree, I pulled out my iPhone and found a dinner recommendation on Explore: five of my friends had eaten at La Esquina, several of them more than once. Bingo.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining — According to sources close to the situation, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz and Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy will be stepping down from the board of Groupon. — Schultz's departure will be effective today … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More — The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam, the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator's winter 2012 class, is hustling hard for the lead.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It'll Happen, But Not “Soon"] — If you love watching TV shows on Hulu but don't have a cable subscription, things could get a bit more complicated in the near future. According to the New York Post …
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| Paul Miller / The Verge: |
I'm leaving the internet for a year — At midnight tonight I will leave the internet. I'm abandoning one of my “top 5” technological innovations of all time for a little peace and quiet. If I can survive the separation, I'm going to do this for a year. Yeah, I'm serious.
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| David Kushner / New Yorker: |
George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous Hacker Wars — In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using …
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msnbc.com, Betabeat, The Verge, Kotaku, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie and 9to5Mac
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Violin Memory Boosts Latest Funding Round to $80 Million — Last month AllThingsD reported that Violin Memory, the flash memory technology start-up, had raised $50 million in a Series D round at an implied valuation of more than $800 million. — That funding round, I've since learned …
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| Phil Milford / Bloomberg: |
Google Sued by Pension Fund Over Proposed Stock Split — Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's largest Web-search provider, was sued by a Massachusetts city's pension fund claiming the company's planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares. — The Brockton Retirement Board contends …
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Skype Reveals Remote and Local IP Address Of All Online Users — If you are a user of the messaging software Skype, you know that you can see the location of your contacts in the Skype interface. What you probably do not know is that there is currently a way to display a Skype user's remote and local IP address as well.| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Groupon Now hits 1.5 million deals, outpacing original Groupon — Groupon Now has gotten off to a good start. — (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) — The original Groupon platform might have set the stage, but Groupon Now has gotten off to an even better start.
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Business Wire, The Next Web, Pulse2 Technology …, ITProPortal and WebProNews
| Sagi Cohen / Ynetnews: |
Apple's Israeli hiring goes into high gear — High-tech workers, update your CVs: In the coming weeks, Apple's Israeli headquarters will be posting dozens of positions to be filled — Sagi Cohen — Preparations for — At the end of March, Apple's international site was already running four ads …
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