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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
BlackBerry 10: a closer look (video) — We've taken a closer look at the UI elements revealed during RIM's BlackBerry World keynote and put together a video detailing the major new elements we've seen. Firstly and foremost, RIM is focusing heavily on gestures to move between and within apps.
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Barnes & Noble CEO: NFC coming to the Nook — The battle for e-book dollars became a lot more interesting earlier this week when Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft (MSFT). Over the next five years, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant will invest …
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| Satya Patel / Twitter Blog: |
Discover better stories — The Discover tab makes it easy to discover information that matters to you without having to follow additional accounts. Starting today, the Discover tab will begin to surface content that is even more personalized and meaningful to you.| Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS: |
Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool — Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs …
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| Michelle Maltais / Los Angeles Times: |
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| AppleInsider: |
Samsung overtakes Apple to claim smartphone market share lead — Despite strong growth year-over-year, Apple ceded its spot as the world's top smartphone vendor in the first quarter of 2012 as Samsung boosted both smartphone and feature phone shipments to record levels.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's Roadshow to Start Monday; IPO Set for May 18 — Facebook Inc. is planning to start its roadshow to pitch its stock to investors on Monday, as the social network enters the final stages of its coming public offering, said people familiar with the matter.
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| Foursquare Blog: |
A faster way for businesses to start connecting with customers on foursquare — Over 20,000,000 people use foursquare to discover and share new experiences. It's also an incredibly powerful tool for businesses who want to connect with their customers, and over 750,000 of them have already signed …
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| Miguel de Icaza / Xamarin: |
Android Ported to C# — Oracle and Google are currently in a $1 billion wrestling match over Google's use of Java in Android. — But Java is not the only way to build native apps on Android. In fact, it's not even the best way: we have been offering C# to Android developers as a high-performance … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated) — Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most common types of hack attacks, a security researcher said.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
OMGWHAT? GREE Acquires Mobile-Social Game Developer Funzio For $210M — Japanese gaming giant GREE just acquired mid-core, mobile game developer Funzio for $210 million in an all-cash deal that should boost its ability to build games for Western audiences.
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CNET, VentureBeat, Inside Mobile Apps, AllThingsD, The Tech Trade and The Next Web. Thanks:@elinblesener
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Motorola Mobility loses $86 million in Q1, device shipments way down — Well, the first quarter of 2012 is officially over Motorola Mobility, and the financial news is rather sobering for the company. While revenues were up, the climb was modest, to just $3.1 billion.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Revealed: Facebook Messenger for iPad, iPhone app with video chat in the works — While Facebook has focused on smartphones for its standalone Facebook Messenger app, the company is currently developing a version for the Apple iPad. A reliable source has provided an in-depth look …
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parislemon, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and MacNN
| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Twitter Said to Have Considered Buying Mobile Photo App Camera+ — Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Apps using Dropbox are being rejected because Apple is playing hardball — If you've ever developed an iOS app, you know that the submission process can be a scary one. Apple provides developers with a HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) that must be followed, but sometimes something obscure trips you up during the process.| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
New Firefox design will offer uniform look across desktop and mobile — Mozilla recently combined its desktop and mobile design teams with the aim of unifying the Firefox user experience across form factors. A presentation slide deck published by Mozilla's Madhava Enros offers some insight …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M — For a social network that's, for lack of a better term, monogamous, social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I'm having trouble picking who to include in this headline … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Acquires YC-Backed Collaborative Text Editor Stypi — It looks like the team from Y Combinator-backed Stypi is heading to Salesforce, according to this blog post. UPDATE: We've confirmed that Salesforce has acquired Stypi. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Stypi Blog and The Next Web
| Kay Kremerskothen / Flickr Blog: |
Attributed sharing from Flickr to Pinterest — Making sure you receive proper attribution when your photos on Flickr are shared elsewhere on the web is very important to us. Given the sheer volume of fantastic photography that you upload to Flickr on a daily basis, it's no surprise that photos … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Graduates Automatic Email Translation Feature From Gmail Labs, Expels Old Snakey And Others — In 2009, Google brought its translation feature to Gmail as a Gmail Labs experiment. Today, almost exactly two years after it first launched, this features is finally graduating from Gmail Labs.
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Gizmodo, Gmail Blog, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, 9to5Google and The Verge
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple wants U.S. district court to obscure Samsung logo on video display for jurors — After just blogging about the technical and timeline-related part of a joint Apple-Samsung filing made a few hours ago, I now have some tidbits from the filing that are, in a way, more entertaining.
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