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Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation — Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan, is expected to be the lead investor in the much-contested next round of funding for Silicon Valley's hottest start-up, Pinterest.
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| Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Blog: |
Rakuten CEO on why Pinterest is worth $1.5bn — Rakuten has led a $100m funding round into Pinterest, which values the online “curation” community at around $1.5bn. — The Japanese ecommerce giant won out over major US venture capital firms who were vying for a piece of Silicon Valley's new sweetheart …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward — Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook. — “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
US-citizenship renouncing Facebook cofounder Saverin may be effectively banned from the country — Oh dear, I don't think that too many people saw this coming. I do hope that Eduardo Saverin did, however, as his move to renounce his US citizenship may carry a penalty …
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| Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog: |
Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings — Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I'm really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph …
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| Christopher Dawson / ZDNet: |
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player — Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it's pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused, users can also preview entire seasons … | DealBook: |
Ahead of Facebook I.P.O., a Skeptical Madison Ave. — With Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has created a seemingly perfect home on the Web, one where people feel comfortable chatting with friends, playing games, sharing photos and videos, listening to music and revealing the most intimate details of their lives.| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
| Sue Marek / FierceWireless: |
Verizon will kill ‘grandfathered’ unlimited data plans, push users to data share — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) plans to eliminate the $30 per month unlimited data plan that it still provides to 3G customers who were “grandfathered” into the plan because they were data customers prior …
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| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS — Summary: The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days.
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Retina MacBook screens: Already here — and pricey — A pixelated MacBook screen. — (Credit: CNET) — Apple is said to be on the verge of rolling out new high-resolution displays for its computers that, up until now, have only been available on its iPhones and iPads.
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| Matthew Braga / Ars Technica: |
Say hello to the real real-time Web — It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web. — Real-time technologies are making Web apps faster—and in some cases, indistinguishable from desktop apps. — Garret Voight — It started with a simple idea … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Sleepover Time! All-Night Hackathon Precedes Facebook IPO At Headquarters — Carrying on in the esteemed tradition of Facebook hackathons, there will be an all-nighter on Thursday at the company's Menlo Park headquarters that culminates with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing in the NASDAQ bell ahead …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook rolling out new “Pages Manager” app for iPhone — Facebook has just broken out another feature of their main app and released Pages Manager for the iPhone. The app appears to function just like the main Facebook app, but with all of the features dedicated to fan pages.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Google's bots learn to read interactive webpages more like humans — Google can now index parts of the Web that weren't indexable before — Google feeds its search engine's index with site data from a virtual army of “bots”—Web-crawling applications that scour sites for content.
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swapped.cc/blog and Engadget
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
HTC shipping custom Android builds on US devices to avoid Apple patents — The HTC One X for AT&T and Evo 4G LTE for Sprint already bear the distinction of being the first Android devices to face an import block at US Customs for potentially infringing an Apple patent, but the ignominy may be fleeting …
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| Neal Gompa / ExtremeTech: |
Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies — Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new wireless transmission system that works above all currently regulated spectrum frequencies. The new system works at the range of 300GHz to 3THz (terahertz) … | Antony Savvas / Computerworld UK Public Sector: |
Met Police uses ‘quick’ mobile data extraction system against suspects — Police will have immediate access to data on handset — The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data “within minutes” from suspects' phones while they are in custody.
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Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days — Summary: The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it's not clear, but something is definitely happening.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone — Google's social team has had a lot of love for iOS lately: Just days after rolling out a revamped iPhone app for Google+, the company now released an iOS app for its social activity service Schemer. The app mimics Schemer's Android app in form … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent Fraud Claim — When last we tuned in to the ongoing drama that is the patent infringement lawsuit Yahoo aimed at Facebook, Yahoo had a CEO — Scott Thompson — who was full steam ahead in pressing the controversial legal action.
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CNET, ZDNet, FOSS Patents, TechRadar.com and Softpedia News
| Nancy Messieh / The Next Web: |
Anonymous takes down Indian government sites in response to clampdown on The Pirate Bay, Vimeo and others — Anonymous have just successfully taken down their latest target, this time setting their sights on the Indian authorities, The DNetworks reports. — One of the Anonymous Twitter accounts … | Hyunhu Jang / The Verge: |
LG Optimus LTE 2 and Optimus UI 3.0 hands-on (update: video) — We just wrapped up a launch event for the LG Optimus LTE 2 here in Korea, and there's little doubt that it's LG's flagship play. The center of attention is definitely the screen: the phone boasts a 720p, 4.7-inch IPS display that looks pretty great to our eyes.
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| Rebecca Mackinnon / Foreign Policy: |
The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police — Activists are fighting to rein them in. — In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St. Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website. For the past seven years, he and a handful of local volunteers have been publishing regular updates … | David Kravets / Wired: |
Banned PlayStation Hacker Sees Hope of Return in Jailbreaking Deliberations — Hacking sensation George Hotz, aka “GeoHot.” Photo: George Hotz — George Hotz, an infamous hardware hacker better known online as Geohot, has a PlayStation that he's not allowed to play with … Sponsor Posts
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