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May 9, 2012, 10:40 AM
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Zuckerberg's Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says — Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas. — Now, as Facebook preps its initial public offering …
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Business Insider, Hillicon Valley, CNET, Om Malik, The Huffington Post and The Next Web
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
How Goldman Sachs Blew The Facebook IPO — IPOs are wildly profitable deals for Wall Street investment banks, and they come with huge bragging rights. — So it's no surprise that the biggest Wall Street banks fought over the Facebook IPO for years. — The inside story of the Facebook … | Tim McLaughlin / Reuters: |
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes — What's that? You're hungry for more HP laptops? Good! Because we're not nearly done yet! The company just expanded its line of Ultrabooks from two to five, and that's not even counting this guy.
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AllThingsD, ZDNet, TechEye, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld, The Verge, parislemon, Softpedia News, blogs.ft.com, The Verge, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, CNET and The Verge
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Nano-SIM update: Apple design modified to fix concerns, standard will be decided this month — We just spoke with SIM card maker (and pioneer) Giesecke & Devrient here at CTIA about progress on the creation of the 4FF standard — the so-called nano-SIM — over which Apple and Nokia have been warring in recent months.
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| Martin LaMonica / CNET: |
Two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket — Juice in a box. Lilliputian's portable fuel cell can deliver between 10 to 14 full charges for an iPhone with one replaceable cartridge. — (Credit: Lilliputian Systems) — Retailer Brookstone this year will start selling …
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| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
Apple's next iPhone coming in September, 7-in. iPad launching in August - report — Pegatron has reportedly landed orders for Apple's next-generation iPhone, rumored to launch in September, while Foxconn will allegedly manufacture a new 7-inch iPad arriving in August.| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Foursquare Joins the Coupon Craze — Foursquare doesn't want to be another popular—but unprofitable—social network. Its new plan to make money? Personalized coupons. — The company, which lets users alert their friends to their location by “checking in” via smartphone from coffee shops …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
AOL Offers Up an Earnings Beat, But a Disappointing Ad Number — First look at AOL's earnings: Revenue of $529 million and earnings of 22 cents a share. Wall Street was looking for $527 million and seven cents a share. — The earnings beat is nice for AOL.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch. Arrington “Not In The Least Bit Interested” — We weren't sure about this one at first, but now we have two independent sources confirming that AOL is exploring the sale of its cornerstone technology sites Engadget and TechCrunch.| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Twitter: We're still the free-speech wing of the free-speech party — As various levels of government both in the U.S. and around the world have stepped up their attempts to track down dissidents through social networks, the pressure has intensified on companies like Twitter and Facebook …
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| Aden Fine / ACLU: |
| Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog: |
Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!) — When I kicked off Smoked by Windows Phone at CES in January, I did it with one thing in mind - show the world that Windows Phone is simply faster at the everyday stuff that people do on their smartphones.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung Galaxy S III confirmed as official Olympic phone, delivering NFC payWave payments to athletes — We may have known this was the case for a number of months already but today Visa has announced that Samsung's new Galaxy S III will indeed be the official London 2012 Olympic Games smartphone …
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Engadget, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Inquirer, Digital Spy, Know Your Mobile, Telegraph, ITProPortal and Electricpig.co.uk
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
How Amazon saved Zynga's butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own — Five years ago, the social gaming company Zynga was cruising along with a fairly standard IT infrastructure. Servers were racked and stacked in a retail data center where Zynga rented space.| Mike Swift / Mercury News: |
Facebook spawns ecosystem of startups — To get the true measure of what's often called “The Facebook Effect,” look beyond the company. Generally ignored in the klieg lights focused on Facebook's IPO is a growing ecosystem of other startups that are using the social network's 900 million users to launch their own businesses.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Telefonica launches Tu Me for iPhone with free VoIP calling and messaging — It's not often you see a wireless carrier launch an app that directly competes with its core services, but that seems to be just what the Madrid-based Telefónica is doing with Tu Me, a new integrated communications app for the iPhone.
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The Register, Tech Europe, TechCrunch, MacNN, IntoMobile, The Next Web and T3 News
| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed — Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses. — “We are currently looking into the situation. In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected …
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Tweets: @twittercomms, @twittercomms and @qwghlm
| Zohair Hyder / Gmail Blog: |
A better Google+ notification experience in email — Notification emails are a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Google+ stream: whether someone mentions you, comments on your post, or shares with you directly. It's not always enough to just read these updates, however … | Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Garth Ancier advises Intel on virtual-MSO plan — Tech giant taps TV biz vet to help set deals with content companies — Hollywood and Silicon Valley may be worlds apart, but Intel Corp. is relying on a TV-biz veteran to bridge the gap. — Sources say former BBC Worldwide America CEO Garth Ancier … Thanks:@awallenstein
| Renata Avila / Global Voices Advocacy: |
Netherlands: First country in Europe with net neutrality — May 8th, 2012 is a day to celebrate in The Netherlands as it becomes the first country in Europe to protect its citizens by enshrining net neutrality into law. — The Netherlands is also implementing privacy protections for users … | Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast: |
Evernote for Mac Update: Card View, Word Count, New Save Features, and More — Today, Evernote for Mac gets a pretty great update (v 3.1) full of new features, redesigned screens and stability improvements. We've added a completely new Card View, word and character counts for notes, easier attachment export, and much more.
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Engadget, Apple Bitch, Lifehacker and The Verge
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Sony Xperia GX packs 13MP camera and 4.6-inch HD display, joined by Xperia SX to offer LTE in Japan — Sony's announced its first two LTE-capable phones for its Japanese customers — and there's two of 'em. The Xperia GX is up first, with a 720p 4.6-inch display squeezed in alongside … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
New iPad Coming to 30 Additional Countries Including Brazil on May 11 and 12 — As revealed by Apple's iPad selection page for Latin America, the new iPad will be launching in 13 new countries in that region this Friday, May 11. The most significant new addition is Brazil …
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TUAW, everythingiCafe, The Verge, Xverse10, Engadget, BGR, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, MacStories, The Next Web and PhoneArena
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Sina Weibo to introduce ‘user contract’ on May 28 as China's microblog crackdown continues — Fresh from admitting that it hasn't fully implemented China's new rules for microblogs, Web giant Sina is set to introduce a ‘user contract’ for its popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service at the end of May …
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PC World, CNET, China Real Time Report, memeburn, We Are Social Singapore, The Verge and Tip Desk. Thanks:@jonrussell
| Jamie Keene / The Verge: |
Flipboard for Android leaks out for all to download — At the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III, one unexpected inclusion was the Flipboard app — supposedly exclusive to the handset for the first few months. However, despite the fact that the Galaxy S III hasn't even been released yet …
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VentureBeat, The Next Web, Business Insider, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, 9to5Google, netbooknews.com and Engadget
| Alex Payne: |
What Is and Is Not A Technology Company — When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family. Over breakfast, we'd divvy up the newspaper. I'd go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with yesterday's stock prices. Scanning down the lines of tiny text, I'd look for SUN, ORCL, MSFT, AAPL, SGI.
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