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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, Business Insider, Dustin Curtis, BriefMobile, Fast Company, CNET, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Reuters, BuzzFeed, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2 Technology …, Current Editorials, Inside Facebook, Geekosystem, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, MacStories, Engadget, Android Community, The Next Web, ZDNet, AllThingsD, The Verge, SlashGear, Adotas, Marketing Land, msnbc.com, WebProNews, Gizmodo, T3 News 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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Digital Trends, GigaOM, Daring Fireball, Vic Gundotra, BuzzFeed, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable!, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, USA Today, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, MobileSyrup.com, Ars Technica, 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% … | Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
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Bloomberg, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Digital Trends and Pulse2 Technology …. 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
| 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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| 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 …
| 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 … | 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, AllThingsD, Business Insider, DailyTech, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, MacRumors, The Verge, Baseline and 9to5Mac
| 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, Marketing Pilgrim, MarketBeat, CNET, Internet2Go, Bits, Betabeat, Wall Street Journal, The Tech Trade and AllThingsD. Thanks:@eldon
| 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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| 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.| 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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SlashGear, The Next Web, InfoWorld, PandoDaily, Gotta Be Mobile, BetaKit and Engadget
| 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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| 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, Search Engine Land, Engadget and Search Engine Watch
| 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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Apple, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Naked Security, Ars Technica, TUAW, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacStories and Gizmodo
| 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
| 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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Gizmodo, Gawker, WebProNews, Mashable! and Betabeat
| 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.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
SoundCloud announces “Next” version of its site, hits 15M users — Social audio sharing service SoundCloud is announcing its “next” version of the service during a press event in San Francisco. We last told you about the company when it hit 10M users in January of this year.
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SoundCloud, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, SocialTimes, Wired, Audio Silver Lining, VentureBeat, The Verge and TechCrunch. Thanks:@jamaaludeen
| Politico: |
Apple's D.C. lobbying effort has yet to ripen — Apple is taking a bruising in Washington, and insiders say there's a reason: It's the one place in the world where the company hasn't built its brand. — In the first three months of this year, Google and Microsoft spent a little …
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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