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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million — LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move: “Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture …
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Master of 500 Hats, SlideShare Blog, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jeffweiner, @hunterwalk, @anildash and @kristacanfield
| Deep Nishar / Linkedin Blog: |
SlideShare + LinkedIn = More Value for Professionals — Over the past few years, SlideShare and LinkedIn have been working closely together to help professionals be more effective and productive through the content they create and share on LinkedIn. I've personally been a huge fan of SlideShare …
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GigaOM, Marketing Land, bub.blicio.us, Paints The Future and WebProNews
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q1 Revenue Up 101 Percent To $188.5M; Net Income Up 140 Percent — Professional social network LinkedIn has just released Q1 earnings. Revenue for the first quarter was $188.5 million, an increase of 101% compared to $93.9 million in the first quarter of 2011.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video) — You remember that Galaxy S II? A phone so good they launched it, well, a whole load of times. But after seeing phablet cousins and LTE variants, the true handset sequel is finally here.
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, BetaNews, The Verge, Android Central, VentureBeat, The Verge, Samsung Mobile Press, Pocket-lint, CNET, Android News, Rumours …, Mashable!, Android Community, LAPTOP Magazine, Phones Review, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, Fudzilla, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, Appolicious Advisor, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Engadget, Curious Rat and Engadget. Tweets: @blumsday
| Ben Kersey / SlashGear: |
Flipboard for Android is a Galaxy S III exclusive — Samsung has fully unveiled the Galaxy S III here at the London event today, and one of the inclusions to its modified version of Ice Cream Sandwich is an exclusive version of Flipboard. It marks the first time that Flipboard will be making …
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Techland, AllThingsD, CNET, Android News, Rumours …, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, VentureBeat, The Verge, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable!, PhoneArena, Social Media and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mrinaldesai
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, eye tracking, available later this month — Capping months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has announced its Galaxy S III smartphone at an event in London today. Major specs include a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution …
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| AnandTech: |
Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast — Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time with the device at Samsung's unpacked event in London and are able to bring …
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Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range — Facebook Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 a share, in a landmark deal that would raise as much as $13.6 billion for the social network and insiders. The preliminary price range would value the company at $77 billion to $96 billion.
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, DealBook, Reuters, Social Media, The Consumerist, Digital Trends, Pulse2 Technology …, Social Markets, Computerworld, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Deal Journal, Mashable!, The Verge, Examiner, WebProNews, Mashable!, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, GeekWire, the Econsultancy blog, Business Insider, Paints The Future, ZDNet, Associated Press, Fortune, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Tweets: @joshhalliday, @dcurtis and @danprimack
| Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg Will Personally Sell ~$1 Billion Worth Of Facebook Shares At IPO — The latest iteration of Facebook's S-1 filing is out. — The hot details: the company is selling 337.4 million shares at a price range of $28-$35. — And part of the share sale is insiders selling, and that includes CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Scott Thompson Resume Scandal Is Not ‘An Inadvertent Mistake’ — He Also Claimed Comp Sci Degree As CTO Of PayPal — Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire for telling the SEC (and Yahoo's board) that he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when he does not have one.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
| Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: |
The New iPhone: Size, Screen + New Connector (Plus iPod touch) — Whether you call it the “iPhone 5,” the “iPhone 6,” or the “iPhone 4G”—well, maybe not the last one thanks to international regulators—the new iPhone is coming this fall, and we have some details to share.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Kindle Fire Shipments Fizzle — Amazon likes to tout the Kindle Fire as “the #1 bestselling, most gifted, and most wished for product” it peddles (without ever disclosing actual sales numbers). But evidently that doesn't mean quite as much as you'd think.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft to Use Dolby Sound Tech in Windows 8 — Dolby Laboratories said on Thursday that Microsoft plans to incorporate its sound technology into Windows 8. — Under the deal, computer makers will be required to license directly from Dolby and pay a royalty to use the technologies.
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NEWS.com.au, The Verge, Business Wire, CNET, Digits, SlashGear and eWeek
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million — Web video is supposed to disrupt cable TV. And maybe it will, one day. In the meantime, the cable guys are doing just fine. — Here's a proof point: Discovery Communications, parent of The Discovery Channel, has purchased Revision3 …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Startup steroids: Pinterest feels the burn of Facebook's Open Graph — A packed room of more than 200 founders, VCs and internet bankers took a moment to look up from their iPhones and listen in hushed reverence as one of Silicon Valley's top investors explained what he looks for when choosing the next hot startup.| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Reveals Wildly Intelligent Multi-Tiered Haptics System — I love days like this when we get to see a new and exciting invention from the Crazy Ones in Cupertino. In March there was a rumor that the new iPad would include new advanced haptics that didn't' pan out.
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BGR, Engadget, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com and CNET
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) — Mass-BitTorrent lawsuits have been dragging on for more than two years in the US, involving more than a quarter million alleged downloaders. — The copyright holders who start these cases generally provide nothing more than an IP-address as evidence.
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The Verge, CNET, Fight Copyright Trolls, Techie Buzz, ZDNet, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Betabeat and Boing Boing
| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft: Media Center not part of ‘the future of entertainment’ — Summary: A new blog post from Microsoft fills in details about how Media Center will fit in Windows 8, as an extra-cost option. And it's pretty clear that Media Center is not part of “the future of entertainment in Windows.”
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MSDN Blogs, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web and Liliputing
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Oracle vs. Google jury possibly deadlocked? — Developing... THERE ARE 6 COMMENTS. LOAD EM UP!| Kunur Patel / AdAge: |
Zynga's New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: ‘Draw This Brand’ — NHL Among First to Buy Paid Terms in Hugely Popular Social game — Zynga's latest big-ticket acquisition has already figured out how to draw in users, but now Draw Something has an ad model that brings brands into the picture.
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PC Magazine, Business Insider, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Betabeat, Simply Zesty, memeburn, The Next Web, Tecca and Pulse2 Technology …. Thanks:@kunur
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
The Midas List? Yeah, sure, & I'm Brad Pitt — Forbes came out with its annual Midas List, which ranks venture capitalists. Lists on the web are essentially page view machines, but at Forbes, they are a religion. I worked for Forbes.com and know how much work used to go into putting together …
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GeekWire, VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Joel Zand / Justia Tech Law News: |
Lawsuit: Apple Double Bills Customers for iTunes Purchases, Citing TOS to Refuse Refunds — A class-action lawsuit against Apple (read it below) accuses the tech giant of double billing customers for downloads made from the company's iTunes Store. — The lawsuit filed by New York resident …
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TUAW, Macgasm and paidContent
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's “Offers” News Feed Coupons Launch In Self-Serve Beta For Local U.S. Businesses — Today any local U.S. business can start using Facebook's Offers product - free-to-create coupons that businesses can share to the news feed, and that users can bring to brick-and-mortar stores for redemptions.
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Inside Facebook and ClickZ
| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Startup Zagster aims to be the Zipcar for bikes — Zagster is aiming to bring the shared-bike model to a campus, apartment complex, or hotel near you — and let you ride for free. — The startup, once known as CityRyde, just signed Cisco and Hyatt Hotels to install its shared bike service … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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