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| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing — Are you annoyed by all those automatic Facebook news apps? Apparently you're not alone. They're falling off a cliff right now. — The Washington Post was the first publication to experiment with a “frictionless” social reader app, which launched last year.
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Inside Facebook, CNET, Marketing Land, AllFacebook, The Verge, Mixed Media, Evolver.fm and Poynter
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @nexttechblog, @pkafka, @mathewi, @jtemple and @mikeindustries
See also Mediagazer| Monica Chen / DigiTimes: |
Apple reportedly to release US$799 MacBook Air in 3Q12 — Apple is reportedly considering responding to the upcoming second-generation ultrabooks by launching a US$799 MacBook Air in the third quarter of 2012, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Apple making a $799 Air in fear of ultrabooks? Nope. — With the next iPad model at least a year away and the next iPhone a few months off, the Apple rumor mill is pondering a new Apple product line: the MacBook Air. On Monday, Digitimes reports that Apple is considering selling a MacBook Air for $799 …
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| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Google infringed on Oracle copyrights, jury finds — SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury on Monday found that Google's (GOOG) popular Android mobile software infringes on copyrights held by tech rival Oracle (ORCL), in a closely watched case that may have broad implications for Silicon Valley …
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Marketing Land, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Agence France Presse, Ars Technica, InfoWorld, Wired, Wall Street Journal, PC World, TechCrunch, The Register, BGR, GigaOM, The Verge, Washington Post, AllThingsD, parislemon, CNET, Macworld, FOSS Patents, Examiner, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, Android Phone Fans, Associated Press, Mashable!, The Next Web, Android News, Rumours …, ZDNet and VentureBeat
| Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: |
Our Source Has Seen The Apple HDTV, Here's What It Looks Like — We have a source who claims to have seen a prototype Apple high-definition television set in action, indicating that Apple is readying the long-awaited device for market. — According to our source, who has asked …
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Digital Trends, Forbes, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, VentureBeat, I4U News, WebProNews, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget, InvestorPlaceGadgets … and Appolicious Advisor. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@bst3r
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
CEO Apologizes to Yahoos — But Will the Mea Culpa Work Without an Explanation for the Borked Bio? (Memo) — He's sorry. Deeply regrets. Apologizes. Take full responsibility for the distraction. — No, it's not some scandal-ridden politicians caught in some compromising position …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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| Chee Chew / The Official Google Blog: |
Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world — Last year we introduced Hangouts On Air to a limited number of broadcasters, enabling them to go live with friends and fans, for all the world to see. Since then, this small community has grown the feature in lots of creative ways.| Nancy Messieh / The Next Web: |
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| Satya Patel / Twitter Blog: |
A new standard for the mobile web — Today we're updating Twitter for mobile web (mobile.Twitter.com) in an effort to give every person on the planet a consistent Twitter experience. People who access Twitter from feature phones, low-bandwidth networks or older browsers can now enjoy …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Amtrak to Use iPhones to Streamline Service — Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone. — Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that oversees the nation's railroad train services, has been training conductors since November …
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| Jason Pontin / Technology Review: |
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps — The future of media on mobile devices isn't with applications but with the Web. — By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical and revolutionary” new machines in San Francisco … | Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Amazon Plans Its Next Conquest: Your Closet — SEATTLE — Amazon is so serious about its next big thing that it hired three women to do nothing but try on size 8 shoes for its Web reviews. Full time. — The online retailer is shooting 3,000 fashion images a day in a photo studio using patent-pending technology.
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| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Apple improves AirPlay playback, iPad network switching, HDR with iOS 5.1.1 — Apple has released an update to iOS that fixes a number of minor (but annoying) bugs within the operating system. The update was just released on Monday afternoon (at least for those of us on the eastern half of the US) … | Reuters: |
Facebook's Zuckerberg kicks off investor show in NY — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc kicked off its IPO roadshow in New York on Monday, attracting hundreds of investors who formed a snaking line around the block keen on hearing CEO Mark Zuckerberg tout Silicon Valley's record $10 billion initial public offering.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads — On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google's license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state's roads. The state had approved such laws back in February, and has now begun issuing licenses based on those regulations.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google Gets Deeper Into the Content Business, by Putting Money Into Machinima — Google has been handing out money to video makers so they'll make more stuff for YouTube. Now it's putting money into a video maker itself. — The search giant is set to invest in Machinima … | Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Exclusive: Publisher sues Tumblr over porn pics — Updated: It's finally happened. In a case with big implications for the booming market in photo-sharing, a publisher is suing popular blogging site Tumblr for copyright infringement. — In a complaint filed Friday in Manhattan …
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Agence France Presse, Betabeat, The Consumerist, PandoDaily, the Econsultancy blog and SocialTimes. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Cable Fee Fight Takes Another Turn as Dish Networks Uses iTunes, Netflix and Amazon as Weapons — The basic contours of the TV programmer versus pay-TV provider fight are fundamental and unchanging: The programmer tries to get more money for his stuff, the pay-TV provider says that's too much, and the two sides chest-bump for a while.| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
TwitPic, now with 35M users, releases app for iPhone — Holding steady with 35 million users, four-year-old TwitPic today forges ahead on Twitter photo-sharing with the release of its first mobile application. — TwitPic for iPhone, released Monday, gives Twitter users a way to quickly post photos …
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TechCrunch, Bits, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, The Next Web, Twitpic Blog, Redmond Pie, SlashGear and MacStories
| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
Payment Processing Giant Verifone Strikes Back Against Square — Tomorrow, Verifone will introduce a mobile credit card reader, the SAIL, that plugs into the iPhone and iPad to let very small businesses and sole proprietors take credit card payments. — If that sounds familiar, it should.
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Fast Company and SlashGear
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Desperate To Reverse Negative Momentum, Andrew Mason Explains His ‘Multi-Trillion-Dollar’ Vision For Groupon — Groupon CEO and cofounder Andrew Mason just released a letter to shareholders outlining a long-term vision for the company that goes well beyond the daily emails it is known for.
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AllThingsD, Pulse2 Technology …, Chicago Business, Bloomberg and Reuters
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen: Smartphones Used By 50.4% Of U.S. Consumers, Android 48.5% Of Them — Nielsen today became the latest analyst house to call it for smartphones outnumbering more basic devices in the U.S. The company says that in March 2012 smartphones were in use by 50.4 percent of consumers in the country …
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blog.nielsen.com, Washington Post, Global Nerdy, Computerworld, ZDNet, Engadget, MacNN, Techland, WebProNews, AllThingsD and Internet2Go
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
MasterCard jumps into mobile payments with own digital wallet — Think there are too many digital wallets out there? MasterCard would disagree. The No. 2 payments processor today unveiled PayPass Wallet Services, its own take on the digital wallet. Initially, it will pop up in the form of a payment icon at merchant Web sites.| John Pletz / Chicago Business: |
Google makes plans to move Motorola Mobility to Chicago — (Crain's) — Google Inc. is shopping for more than 500,000 square feet of office space downtown for Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. once it completes its $12.5 billion takeover of the mobile phone maker.
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9to5Google and WebProNews
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