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| Aaron Brady / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Introducing the App Center — Today, we're announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. — In the coming weeks …
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Business Insider, CNET, Mashable!, BuzzFeed, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, ZDNet, Engadget, Marketing Land, msnbc.com, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Android Community, Current Editorials, MacStories, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Adotas, WebProNews, GigaOM and Dice Blog Network. Tweets: @degusta. Thanks:@malliegator
| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
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| Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog: |
Google+: a mobile app with sense and soul — Sharing is deeply sensory. From cooking a favorite meal to getting together with friends, it's the smells and the stories and the smiles that make human connections so essential. With Google+ we want to extend these moments online …
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BuzzFeed, BetaNews, USA Today, GigaOM, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, ABCNEWS, Fast Company, Engadget, 9to5Mac, parislemon, PadGadget, Vic Gundotra, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile, WebProNews, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm and The Next Web. Tweets: @kfury
| Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps: |
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| TechCrunch: |
Status Update — So first thing's first: We're not being sold! Instead, we've just hired a bunch of brilliant writers and a new COO. Also, we've seen a resurgence of community support (with over a thousand people attending our NYC meetup last night, for example), are back around 12% …
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Mixed Media, Pulse2 Technology …, Tech Trader Daily, The Loop, NYConvergence.com, Poynter, CNET and InvestorPlaceGadgets …
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See also Mediagazer| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Tim Armstrong Says AOL Plans to Invest in TechCrunch and Engadget, Not Sell Them — Domestic Display Advertising Falls as Activist Investor Seeks Shakeup — AOL reported a 4% drop in average monthly visitors to AOL owned-and-operated properties, when it reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HP on laptop design similarities with Apple's: it's a struggle as we drive to simplicity — HP's spent the afternoon here in Shanghai to share some details about its latest products and strategy, and to our delight, there was one session dedicated to “Style Meets Function,” … | Jenna Wortham / Bits: |
Etsy Raises $40 Million for International Expansion — Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods, is getting a very non-D.I.Y. present. — On Wednesday, the company announced it was raising a $40 million Series F round in venture financing, from Index Ventures … | Bloomberg: |
Deutsche Telekom Said to Discuss MetroPCS Deal for T-Mobile — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is discussing a merger of its T-Mobile USA unit with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) as it reviews options for the customer-losing business, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Amends IPO S-1 To Admit Advertising Biz Hurt By Increasing Shift To Mobile, Note RSUS Grant — Facebook has just filed a sixth amendment to its S-1 filing to IPO in order to provide more transparency about how the shift of its user base from the web to mobile is causing … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Quietly Launches Groupon Now-Like Free Google Offers Across The U.S. — Google today announced its latest update for Google Maps for Android with support for Google Offers. One interesting piece of this announcement that stood out was that Google Maps for Android users now get access …
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internetretailer.com, Google Mobile Blog and WebProNews
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
What's Behind the Drop in Kindle Fire Shipments? — Once hailed as the first true rival to the iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire no longer seems to be much of a threat to Apple's tablet. The Fire had no impact on Apple's March-quarter iPad sales. Indeed, during the company's second-quarter earnings call …
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| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Search engines have same speech rights as the New York Times, says Google report — Just as the New York Times can decide “All the News That's Fit to Print,” search engines have a free speech right to choose who or what to put in their search rankings. — That's the conclusion of a prominent …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Acquires Mobile Entertainment And Music Streaming Startup mSpot — Samsung Electronics has acquired mobile entertainment startup mSpot, according to a release issued today. Financial terms were not disclosed, but previous reports point to an acquisition price of $8.8 million.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Klout In The Airport: A High Score Gets You Into Cathay Pacific's SFO Lounge — Last month, Klout launched its iPhone app. Today, it's announcing its first big mobile partnership, one that should make app pretty appealing to any air travelers in San Francisco.| 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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| 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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| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Apple releases OS X 10.7.4, FileVault bug gets addressed — Hey, Mac users: are you ready for an update? Because Apple is dropping its latest OS version on your heads. 10.7.4 just hit, and it brings with it a number of small fixes to help improve things like security, stability and compatibility for your system.
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| 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 … | Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
CloudOn brings Microsoft Office to Android tablets, gets Google Drive support — After releasing a major update to its iPad app last month, CloudOn is today bringing its Microsoft Office virtualization technology to Android tablets. — And, going alongside support for cloud storage services Dropbox …
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InfoWorld, Engadget, Computerworld, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Gotta Be Mobile and BetaKit
| Michael Degusta / Technology Review: |
Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? — Mobile computers are on track to saturate markets in the U.S. and the developing world in record time. — Today's technology scene seems overheated to some. Apple is the most valuable company on earth.
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ExtremeTech, Geekosystem and Mashable!
| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Ustream is pissed about DDOS attack, may launch Russian site tomorrow — Ustream is undergoing what chief executive Brad Hunstable says is the “largest and most coordinated DDOS attack Ustream has ever seen” today and the team is pissed. The attack is rumored to be an attempt to censor … | M. Alex Johnson / msnbc.com: |
Viewing child porn on the Web ‘legal’ in New York, state appeals court finds — Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache.
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| Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal: |
Venture-Capital Firm NEA Raises $2.1 Billion — In the venture-capital industry's most significant fundraising this year, New Enterprise Associates has closed on $2.08 billion for a fund that could grow in size to become one of the largest ever raised. — In a securities filing on Wednesday …
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Safari update automatically disables old versions of Flash — Apple on Wednesday released Safari 5.1.7, an update to its Web browser. One of the new security features is that Safari will automatically disable old versions of Adobe's Flash Player. — “Out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Loeb Again Calls for Thompson Firing From Yahoo, as Former eBay Boss Support Him — As expected, Yahoo activist shareholder Daniel Loeb released a new letter on the bio controversy he set off at Yahoo, again calling for the firing of CEO Scott Thompson. — “It seems farcical to us …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Rovio Passes 1 Billion Angry Birds Downloads, Still Mulling IPO — Rovio released its first financial figures this week, but the company has not decided when, where or whether to go public. — “This is a decision of Rovio's owners if Rovio will file for IPO, when it would be and in what market,” CEO Mikael Hed told AllThingsD.
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MacStories, 148Apps, The Appside, PC World, TechCrunch, rovio.com, Macgasm, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat and VG247
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings — The old FBI copyright warning gets an upgrade. — You know those FBI warning messages that appear at the beginning of DVDs and Blu-ray discs? They're getting an upgrade—and they're multiplying.
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