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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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Bloomberg Tech Blog, Mashable!, Computerworld, Dustin Curtis, Business Insider, Fast Company, BriefMobile, BuzzFeed, ReadWriteWeb, CNET, Inside Facebook, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Next Web, ZDNet, Inside Mobile Apps, msnbc.com, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, Current Editorials, Geekosystem, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, MacStories, Android Community, AllThingsD, The Verge, SlashGear, Adotas, Marketing Land, WebProNews, Gizmodo, T3 News, GigaOM and ZDNet. 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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Daring Fireball, Digital Trends, GigaOM, BuzzFeed, Vic Gundotra, BetaNews, Ars Technica, USA Today, ABCNEWS, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup.com, AllThingsD, SlashGear, PadGadget, Fast Company, Engadget, PC Magazine, parislemon, The Next Web and Marketing Land. 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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PC World, Mixed Media, The Loop, NYConvergence.com, Tech Trader Daily, Pulse2 Technology …, InvestorPlaceGadgets … and Gawker
Tweets: @eldon, @nero, @rahulnihalani, @alexia, @samgustin, @stevefarnworth and @tolles
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Bloomberg, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Pulse2 Technology … and Reuters. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Oracle's request for fair use ruling denied, Google down to one count of infringement — Following the jury's inability to decide on the issue of fair use in the Oracle vs. Google trial, Oracle asked the judge to rule on the issue as a matter of law (JMOL).
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The Verge, Computerworld and CNET
| James Niccolai / PC World: |
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| 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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BGR, SlashGear, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, TmoNews, CNET, GigaOM, MobileBurn.com and The Tech Trade
| 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,” … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Tech Nation's Gunn Says She and Yahoo CEO Discussed Their CS Degrees Before 2009 Show (Video and Audio) — Last week, I posted an audio recording of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, from a radio interview he did in early 2009, in which he did not deny he had a computer science degree when the host …
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| 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 … | 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 …
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Los Angeles Times, Internet2Go, Bits, CNET, Betabeat, The Tech Trade and AllThingsD. Thanks:@eldon
| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Accused of Hindering Firefox Browser — The company behind the Firefox Web browser says Microsoft Corp. is limiting its ability to distribute its browser on some hardware being designed for the next version of the Windows operating system. — Mozilla Corp.'s contention focuses …
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CNET, Asa Dotzler and The Mozilla Blog
| 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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| 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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WebProNews, Boing Boing and Daring Fireball
| Andy Ihnatko / Chicago Sun Times: |
Results make up for awkwardness of iPhoto for iPad — Any review of iPhoto for iPad (released back in March, priced at just five tiny dollars) has to deal with an awkward truth: It isn't a terribly intuitive app. During your first go, you'll find yourself feeling mystified about what certain buttons do …
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| 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.| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Google adds more semantic smarts to its search engine — Google seems to be eking out a major new tweak to its search results. — Reportedly spotted by several users, the search pages are now displaying semantic data nestled to the right of the regular results.
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State of Search, Engadget, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch
| 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, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Gotta Be Mobile and BetaKit
| 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 … | Frank Reed / Marketing Pilgrim: |
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Google Commerce, Google Mobile Blog, The Next Web, Lifehacker and TechCrunch
| 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, Search Engine Land, Hillicon Valley, Softpedia News and WebProNews
| 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.| 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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VentureBeat, Apple, Naked Security, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, TUAW, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacStories and Gizmodo
| 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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Gawker, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Mashable! and Betabeat
| 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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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
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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 …
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:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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