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May 10, 2012, 12:40 PM

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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 …

Rafe Needleman / CNET:

Facebook App Center: More showcase than store, actually — Or, how Facebook makes money and advances its own interest by helping Apple sell apps on its own store. It's a surprisingly clever move. — The Facebook App Center will “sell” iOS apps. — The app store model is winning the evolutionary battle for software businesses.

More: Fortune

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google agrees with Mozilla's Windows RT browser concerns — Mozilla says only a crippled version of Firefox could run on Windows for ARM chips, effectively restricting user choice to IE10, and now the maker of Chrome says it's worried, too. — Google has joined Mozilla in its attempt …

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition — Summary: Microsoft will restrict third-party browsers like Firefox and Chrome to the Metro sandbox in Windows 8 for ARM devices, while treating Internet Explorer 10 as an “intrinsic feature” of Windows.

More: 9to5Google, The Register, Asa Dotzler, TechSpot and CNET

John Ruwitch / Reuters:

Apple, supplier Foxconn to share costs on improving factories — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving labor conditions at the Chinese factories that assemble iPhones and iPads, Foxconn's top executive said on Thursday.

More: The Verge, Engadget, GigaOM, Business Insider, Gizmodo, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, WebProNews, Macgasm, Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, iLounge, TUAW and TechEye

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Finally, Harry Potter Is Touching Down on Amazon's Kindle — J.K. Rowling has been one of the big holdouts, refusing to sell Harry Potter in electronic form through booksellers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble. — That is apparently about to change, according to Amazon.com …

More: Betabeat, The Verge, ABCNEWS, The Tech Trade, The Next Web, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Techland, Mashable!, the Econsultancy blog, WebProNews, New York Times, Amazon.com, paidContent, Ubergizmo and The Verge

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

A Circle of Tech: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up — FACEBOOK LEGACIES Matt Cohler, left, employee No. 7 at Facebook, is now a partner at Benchmark Capital. Adam D'Angelo, a former chief technology officer at Facebook, is a founder of Quora. Ruchi Sanghvi was Facebook's first female engineer and helped start Cove.

More: Betabeat

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Was Zynga's Deal To Buy OMGPOP That Disastrous? Here's Some Perspective. — Draw Something, the game that could do no wrong now seems like it can do little right, at least according to the blogosphere. There's been a string of stories from virtually everyone saying that the OMGPOP acquisition is …

More: Forbes. Tweets: @cdixon

Michael V. Copeland / Wired:

Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley's Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet — Kevin Hartz is sitting this one out. — Sure, Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of online ticketing startup Eventbrite, but it's not a time management thing that keeps him from his usual angel-investing habit.

Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:

Start-Up Staff Getting More Cash — As Silicon Valley's start-up scene continues heating up, closely held technology companies are boosting the cash compensation they dole out to compete with publicly traded firms. — According to a new study from Radford, a compensation-consulting unit owned by Aon PLC …

More: Pulse2 Technology …

Joseph L. Flatley / The Verge:

Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster — My first true look inside the world of Internet Marketing came courtesy of a 37-year-old businessman named Bedros Keuilian. The Chino Hills-based Californian specializes in fitness and personal training marketing, and he is also something of a would-be auteur.

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Pirate Bay Scolds Anonymous Hackers For Cyberattacks On Its Behalf — Some hackers aim to free the flow of information, while others aim to stifle it. The Pirate Bay has taken a moment to remind the hacker group Anonymous of the difference. — Anonymous has been launching a series …

More: TorrentFreak, Pulse2 Technology …, Betabeat, WebProNews, I4U News and PC Magazine

Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:

Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle — Joe Weisenthal wakes up around 4 a.m. most weekdays, afraid that in the five or six hours he has been sleeping, something happened that could move financial markets. His alarm is his cellphone, and after he silences it so that his wife can sleep …

More: Felix Salmon. Tweets: @antderosa. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple bid $16m for Chinese iPad trademark but Proview holds out for at least $400m: Reports — With Apple said to be entering serious negotiations with Proview, looking to settle the lengthy legal battle over rights to the Chinese iPad trademark, Apple representatives are reported to have offered $16 million for the mark.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Pulse2 Technology …, MacDailyNews, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, iClarified and MacNN

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Klik App Does Mobile Facial Recognition in Real Time — Is taking pictures of your friends on your phone, tagging their names and uploading them just too darn hard? Now there's a free helper app for that, called Klik, which launches out of testing today on the iPhone.

More: TechCrunch, Wired.co.uk and Technology Review. Thanks:@gdelman

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

SocialCode hires 15 employees from Digg.com — SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., announced Thursday that it has hired 15 members from the engineering team at the social news site Digg. — Digg was once one of Silicon Valley's most promising start-ups.

More: VentureBeat, Digg Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, Poynter, AllThingsD and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Google looks to replicate iOS Game Center, app purchasing — In an attempt to bolster Android's presence in mobile gaming Google is reportedly developing an app that is similar to Apple's Game Center, and is looking to revamp its Google Play payment system to streamline purchases.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Gamasutra, FierceMobileContent, Ubergizmo, The Appside, Know Your Mobile and MacDailyNews

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Amazon launches Vegas trade show for AWS developers, users — Amazon is looking more like old-school IT vendor every day. In November, it will host its first-ever partner and customer conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The web services giant posted a “save the date” for the three-day AWS re:invent show on its blog Wednesday.

More: Amazon Web Services Blog, DevOpsANGLE, The Register, ZDNet and All Things Distributed

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

Meet Silk, the Semantic Web for the rest of us — Almost since Tim Berners-Lee first came up with the original concept of the web, there's been a new, improved version on the horizon: the much-promised Semantic Web. This, goes the thinking, is a way to make the online world more useful …

More: The Next Web

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

New York State Pensions Are Funding Startups: The Limited Partners VCs Rarely Discuss — Movable Ink cofounder Vivek Sharma and Mr. DiNapoli via Twitter @NYSComptroller — When a startup raises a round of funding, the news typically includes a list of venture capital firms and angel investors that participated.

More: WNYC News Blog and NY1.com

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led By Andreessen Horowitz, Now Provides Analytics For Viddy And Path — Y Combinator-backed analytics startup Mixpanel can now add Andreessen Horowitz to an already-impressive list of investors. — Mixpanel previously raised $1.75 million from Sequoia Capital …

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, PandoDaily and Peter Levine

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Coupa scoops up $22M to help companies cut costs — Coupa Software netted $22 million in new funding to boost its cloud-based e-procurement (or spend-management) services. — New investor Crosslink Capital led this E Series round, joining previous backers Battery Ventures, BlueRun Ventures …

More: VatorNews, ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and silicontap.com

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.

More: CNET, Techdirt, gHacks Technology News and Gizmodo

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 …

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 …

More: App Advice, ZDNet and Pulse2 Technology …

Kim Zetter / Wired:

FBI Fears Bitcoin's Popularity with Criminals — The FBI sees the anonymous Bitcoin payment network as an alarming haven for money laundering and other criminal activity — including as a tool for hackers to rip off fellow Bitcoin users. — That's according to a new FBI internal report …

More: Gizmodo

Kunal / Sammy Hub:

Galaxy Note Android 4.0 update rolling out now — It seems Samsung has started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update for Galaxy Note (N7000). Few users have started receiving notification for the firmware upgrade that will bump the Android to version 4.0 and bring in the Premium Suite apps.

More: SlashGear, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gadgetsteria, IntoMobile, Know Your Mobile, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena, Phones Review, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News and Engadget

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

In a SoHo Lab, HuffPo Mafia rekindles the old magic — After the Huffington Post was acquired by AOL last year, HuffPo chief technology officer Paul Berry estimated 15 percent of his time was spent dealing with corporate politics. A year later, that figure had zoomed to 85 percent …

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