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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Exclusive: $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect bundle launching next week with two-year subscription — Microsoft is planning to launch a $99 Xbox console package with a monthly subscription as early as next week, according to our sources. The software giant will offer the 4GB console with a Kinect sensor …
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Liquidmetal Inventor: Apple Will Use It In A ‘Breakthrough Product’ — We've been hearing a lot about Liquidmetal lately, mostly because of rumors that Apple could be using the alloy in its next iPhone. — But what exactly is Liquidmetal? What makes it so special that Apple decided to license the rights to use it in its products?| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab — Over the weekend, I reported that Duncan Watts, the well-known social network researcher, had left Yahoo to join Microsoft. Turns out he's not the only one. — Microsoft snatched up not only Watts … | Paul McNamara / Network World: |
EXCLUSIVE: Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple's long-lost takeoff on famous ‘1984’ Macintosh TV commercial — If all you want to see is Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - here's that short clip before we get to the longer version …
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Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles — Target, signaling its growing irritation with its rival Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it would stop selling the online retailer's Kindle e-readers. — Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers … | Ross Miller / The Verge: |
| Forbes: |
The Midas List — 2012's Top Tech Investors — 1 Jim Breyer Accel Partners Facebook — 2 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz Skype — 3 Reid Hoffman Greylock Partners LinkedIn — 4 David Sze Greylock Partners Facebook — 5 Peter Fenton Benchmark Capital Twitter — 6 Josh Kopelman …
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| David Cohen / AllFacebook: |
Facebook Introduces Open Graph Action Links — Move over, action verbs, and make way for action links, which Facebook introduced today as a way for users to interact directly with timeline applications. Action links are customizable links that permit app developers to allow users … | Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Tumblr Wants $25,000 Per Ad—Here's What They Look Like — Tumblr, the blogging platform with a massive audience but negligible revenues, has set its entry-level ad price at $25,000, the company said in an email. — The ad spots are on Tumblr Radar and Tumblr Spotlight …
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| Tero Kuittinen / Forbes: |
Is the OMGPOP Acquisition Haunting Zynga? — Zynga's much-anticipated quarterly report was very close to being a non-event - ten minutes after the press release, the share price was within 0.3% of the close. Yet ZNGA declined from nearly $16 to $8 between early March and late April.
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| Wil Wheaton / WWdN: In Exile: |
Google is making a huge and annoying mistake. — I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I've ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing. — But Google is doing everything it can to force Google Plus on everyone, and it's pissing me off. — Yesterday, I tried to like a video on YouTube.
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GigaOM, Business Insider, Marketing Land and parislemon
| Thomas Houston / The Verge: |
Rdio launches in the UK and France — We're seeing reports on Twitter that music streaming service Rdio has launched in the UK and France with a 7-day free trial of unlimited listening. There's no official word yet from Rdio, but we've also been able to successfully sign up for the free trial …
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Zillow to buy RentJuice for $40M in cash, posts record revenue and profits — Zillow is using some of its new-found cash to gobble up San Francisco's RentJuice, adding a new set of technologies that help landlords and property managers more easily keep track of properties, upload photos, manage revenue and deals.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Yelp's Post-IPO Earnings: $27.4M in Revenue, Up 66% From A Year Earlier, But Net Loss Triples — In its first ever earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Yelp said it earned $27.4 million in revenue in the first quarter, up 66 percent from the $16.5 million it made in the same time a year ago.
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Business Insider, VatorNews, VentureBeat and WebProNews
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost, Shares Unblocking Tips — Last Friday the UK High Court ruled that several of country's leading ISPs must censor The Pirate Bay website having ruled in February that the site and its users breach copyright on a grand scale.| Daniel Frankel / paidContent: |
Demand and Google leave farm fight behind with “premium” YouTube channels — It was only about 14 months ago that Google made headlines for targeting Demand Media with algorithmic pesticides, classifying the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company's freelancer-produced content …
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Weebly Adds Slick iOS App To Its Quietly Huge Web Site Creation Business — I keep hearing rumors about the ridiculous amounts of money that Weebly is making. But the San Francisco company, which provides a set of tools for small businesses and other organizations to easily create their own web sites …
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AllThingsD, Technorati, San Francisco Chronicle, iClarified and PandoDaily
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Novel Android Malware Spotted on Compromised Web Sites — Demonstrating the increasing sophistication of mobile malware, a new Android Trojan is spreading via compromised Web sites and could potentially be used to crack corporate and government networks. — The bug, dubbed NotCompatible …
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ZDNet, Gizmodo, PC World, The Official Lookout Blog, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, msnbc.com, PC Magazine and PandoDaily
| Jennifer Baker / PC World: |
Programming Languages Not Copyrightable Rules Top EU Court — Europe's top court ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright. — The European Court of Justice made the decision in relation …
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TechEye, Jan Wildeboer, Ars Technica, Techdirt, Paints The Future, ZDNet, The Register and Inquirer
| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Verizon's LTE-powered in-home broadband goes national — While Sprint and T-Mobile are struggling to launch their 4G LTE networks, Verizon apparently has enough LTE to power your devices at home. — Starting Thursday, Verizon's HomeFusion Broadband service will bring LTE-powered Internet access nationwide.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, IntoMobile, PC World, ZDNet, PhoneArena, dailywireless.org, SlashGear and Engadget
| Regan Clark / Yodel Anecdotal: |
Yahoo! Small Business Launches Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard — A free offering that changes the way small business manage their online marketing and reputation — Today, Yahoo! Small Business launched the Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard, a free tool that helps entrepreneurs discover … | Stephen Lawson / Computerworld: |
Judge again orders Apple, Samsung to streamline claims in iPad patent case — The companies' lawyers have until Monday to simplify the case enough for a scheduled July 30 trial — Apple and Samsung Electronics have until Monday to further boil down the number of claims to be considered …
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AppleInsider and CNET
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Apple Is Beating Android In The U.S., Despite Reports To The Contrary — Apple appears to have taken control of 50% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2012, despite a report to the contrary by NPD this morning. — NPD put out a press release saying Android …
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TechCrunch, parislemon and Daring Fireball
| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
The dark side of IAP: EA shuts down Rock Band for iPhone — Decision to make music game unplayable is controversial, but it's not the only example … The glory days of guitar-based music games may be firmly in the past, yet there are plenty of people still firing up Rock Band or Guitar Hero on their consoles for a nostalgic glow.
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IGN, CNET, VG247, RockBandAide and The Next Web
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Templates And More — Google today announced that it is bringing web fonts to Google Docs. Thanks to this update, you can now use 450 new fonts in your Google documents. These are the same 450 fonts Google already features on its Web Fonts site for web designers.
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Docs Blog, Simply Zesty, Techland, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web and Engadget
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Castlight Lands A Whopping $100M D Round To Bring Transparency To Healthcare Costs — One of the biggest causes of the high cost of healthcare in the U.S. has been an utter lack of transparency in pricing, even for the most routine procedures. A recent study at UC San Francisco revealed … | Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
Senate to examine Obama plan for online privacy ‘bill of rights’ — The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will examine the Obama administration's plan to protect users' online privacy at a hearing on May 9, committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced Wednesday.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
German court says Motorola can block Xbox, Windows — but U.S. court stands in way — Setting up an unusual conflict between courts on different continents, a judge in Germany ruled overnight that Microsoft violates two of Motorola Mobility's digital video patents — ostensibly preventing …
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DailyTech, Dow Jones Newswires, BBC and VentureBeat
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