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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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CNET, The Next Web, Business Insider, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Inside Facebook, msnbc.com, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Engadget, Current Editorials, MacStories, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Adotas, Mashable!, GigaOM and WebProNews. 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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BetaNews, USA Today, GigaOM, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Verge, ABCNEWS, Engadget, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Fast Company, parislemon, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Vic Gundotra, WebProNews, Marketing Land, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, 9to5Google and The Next Web. Tweets: @kfury
| Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps: |
| 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% … | 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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Bloomberg, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, PandoDaily, Reuters, PandoDaily, Digital Trends, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Business Insider and The Tech Trade. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer
| 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,” …
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eWeek, Baseline, Business Insider, DailyTech, MacRumors, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, 9to5Mac and The Verge
| 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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VentureBeat, The Tech Trade, GigaOM, CNET, MobileBurn.com, TmoNews and Pulse2 Technology …
| 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 and WebProNews
| 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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ZDNet, msnbc.com, BGR, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Apple, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, TUAW and MacStories
| 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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Lilliputian Systems, WebProNews, Gizmodo, Engadget and Digital Trends
| 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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Pulse2 Technology …, Macgasm, MacStories, Lifehacker, GadgeTell, Engadget, Apple Bitch and The Verge
| 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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CNET, Softpedia News, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews and Search Engine Land
| 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 … | 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 … | 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.
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GigaOM, The Next Web, Business Wire and AllThingsD
| 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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| 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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The Verge
| 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!
| 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 … | 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 …
| 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 … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Cheezburger Creator Launches SimpleHoney To Find Hotels You'll Love — People deal with the pain of online hotel search is different ways. For many, it means spending hours and hours of research spread across dozens of browsers tabs. In my case, I usually throw up your hands and say …
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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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Bloomberg, CNET, PR Newswire, Mercury News, Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear, Tech and China and paidContent
| 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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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 …
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Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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“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).
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