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| CNBC: |
As Investors Fawn Over Facebook, Poll Finds User Distrust, Apathy — Facebook's initial public offering will be the largest and perhaps the most highly anticipated Internet deal in history. — Faced with great expectations, however, Facebook is staring down some unnerving obstacles …
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PC World, CNBC, Computerworld, msnbc.com, Internet Evolution, Forbes, USA Today, CNN, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, SlashGear, SocialTimes, the Econsultancy blog and CNET
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| David Benoit / Deal Journal: |
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Google's Chrome Browser Is Coming For iOS, Says Macquarie — Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter has a surprising report out this morning. — He writes, “Google Chrome browser for iOS is coming.” — He adds, “Apple may already be reviewing Google's submitted code for a Chrome browser for iOS.”
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CNET, PC World, Macgasm, Daring Fireball, MobileSyrup.com, BetaNews, MacNN, GigaOM, macq.wir.jp, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Redmond Pie, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Lifehacker, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors and AppleInsider. Thanks:@jyarow
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Chrome 19 Stable arrives, shares live tabs across your computers and phones (video) — Google first teased live tab syncing in Chrome 19 beta, and it's now available for all of us who tread the safer path of Stable releases. If you weren't living on the bleeding edge for long enough …
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Expand Android Mobile-Device Partnerships — Google Inc. plans to give multiple mobile-device makers—rather than just one partner—early access to new releases of its Android mobile operating system and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter.
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| Matt Galligan: |
Socialcam's Shady Secret — I had a hunch that Socialcam was doing some really shady tactics to get more of a bump in engagement at the detriment of user experience. Looks like my hunch was right. The app has been on quite the tear lately with how much it's growing and getting insane engagement.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
T-Mobile USA's Philipp Humm announces restructuring, ‘difficult decisions’ to staff — T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm had previously announced a round of layoffs with a net loss of some 1,000 jobs back in March, and the company's restructuring continues today with another memo sent to employees.
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GM to Stop Advertising on Facebook — General Motors Co. GM -1.04% plans to stop advertising on Facebook after the company's marketing executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers, people familiar with the matter said, a move that comes as more companies question …
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| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
Please Don't Learn to Code — The whole “everyone should learn programming” meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. — A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New York City actually needs … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple also working on MacBook Airs and iMacs with Retina Displays — Mockup showing Retina Display 11 and 13 inch MacBook Airs — On Monday we broke the news that Apple is readying a brand-new 15-inch MacBook Pro with cornerstone features like an ultra-thin design and USB 3 ports for incredibly fast data transfers.| Mat Honan / Gizmodo: |
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet — Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art.
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Thanks:@mat| Bloomberg: |
Disney's ESPN in Talks With Apple to Expand Digital Access (Update 1) — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN sports network is talking with Apple Inc. (AAPL) about including the WatchESPN application on the computer maker's television device, network executive Sean Bratches said.
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Those suave Google glasses are now patent-protected — Google has successfully patented the “ornamental design” of its augmented reality eyewear. To you, me and Aunty Dee they might look almost like regular Ray-Bans, but there's a lot of secret technology concealed within those sleek lines …
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Wired, Bits, CNET, VentureBeat, SEO by the Sea, CNET, The Verge, WebProNews, Android News, Rumours …, 9to5Google and Pulse2 Technology …
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Exclusive: New Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement — Larry Page recently called Google+ the company's “social spine.” If that's the case, then Google's backbone might be much weaker than Page has been letting on, at least according to a new report from RJ Metrics.
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Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, info.rjmetrics.com/blog, BGR, WinBeta, The Verge and Mashable!
| Tony Werner / Comcast Voices: |
The Facts about Xfinity TV and Xbox 360: Comcast is Not Prioritizing — As we previously announced, Xfinity TV customers are now able to watch Xfinity TV On Demand on the Xbox 360 — the latest new platform that we are using to bring more content to consumers.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat: |
Kevin Ryan Asks Jetsetter CEO Drew Patterson to Step Down After ‘Mutiny’ From Staffers — Gilt Groupe founder Kevin Ryan and Gilt Groupe chairman Susan Lyne spent Monday in meetings at the offices of Jetsetter, an independent deals site for luxury travel bookings under the Gilt umbrella.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears — Facebook has just closed a deal to hire the full team of seven employees from Android photosharing app developer Lightbox, which should reduce worries that mobile will be its downfall.| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Yahoo, AOL vet Garlinghouse named CEO of YouSendIt — Brad Garlinghouse, who once headed up AOL's Silicon Valley operations, is now CEO of YouSendIt, a provider of file sharing and storage software for businesses. — In early April, reports surfaced that the current CEO …
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| Alexandra Chang / Wired: |
It's Official: Cellphone Owners Love Apple Hardware — According to the latest ACSI report, cellphone users are most satisfied with Apple's iPhone. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired — Hey, Apple — it turns out the world does love you. RIM? Not so much. — The American Customer Satisfaction Index …
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Computerworld, theacsi.org, Neowin, everythingiCafe, TUAW and IntoMobile
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
EXCLUSIVE: How Mark Zuckerberg Booted His Co-Founder Out Of The Company — Ahead of Facebook's $15 billion IPO later this week, Billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship in order to avoid a boatload of taxes. — One reason this is possible: Saverin no longer works at Facebook.
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television — This week, when they ring the bell on the television upfronts, the annual orgy of advertising buying, I hope the industry isn't counting on my house to lift ratings. — So far in the month of May, our household has watched exactly two minutes and one second of live television.
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BuzzFeed, iDownloadBlog.com and Holtz Communications …
Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu and @jonathanwald
| Tim Bray / ongoing: |
Browsers and Apps in 2012 — It's like this: The browser's doomed, because apps are the future. Wait! Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future. I see something almost every day saying one or the other. Only it's mostly wrong. [If you don't want to read my opinions …
Tweets: @natekoechley
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech — A new breed of social media sites led by visual rather than text-based interactions is now spawning a new breed of marketing service catering to the new format.
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Marketing Land, Digital Trends and AllThingsD
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Sony VAIO S upgraded with Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs and Nvidia's Kepler GPUs — Sony has announced a refresh of its VAIO S Series laptops, along with a pair of new E Series models. The S Series will come with a choice of 13.3- and 15.5-inch displays; the 15.5-inch model has a 1080p IPS screen …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright? — Oracle's Larry Ellison says APIs can copyrighted - and that raises questions across the computer industry. Photo: Oracle — What does an API look like? — Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products.| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple introduces the Steering Wheel Remote Control — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-one newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The most surprising one of them all is one that snuck through the patent system until today.
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