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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg weds on day after IPO — A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to “married.” Zuckerberg wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nearly a decade, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple.| John Letzing / Wall Street Journal: |
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Google will keep Android free and open for at least five years — According to the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the Associated Press, Google had to agree to keep Android free and available for anyone to use for at least the next five years in order to gain China's approval to purchase Motorola Mobility.| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: |
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Sorry, But This Whining And Umbrage About Facebook's IPO Is Ridiculous — This isn't going to be a popular thing to say, but it needs to be said. So here goes... All this whining and umbrage about Facebook's IPO is ridiculous. — When are people who voluntarily speculate on stocks finally … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung's S Voice available for Android 4.0 devices through leaked Galaxy S III ROM — The firmware for Samsung's Galaxy S III has leaked, a little over a week ahead of the device's release. While you can't flash the ROM to another phone just yet, developers are able to poke around inside … | Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Creating the Windows 8 user experience … At the D: All Things Digital conference in June 2011, we demonstrated for the first time the new user interface that we developed for Windows 8. This new UI is fast and fluid to use, and optimized for mobile form factors such as laptops, tablets … | Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Facebook vs. Twitter — The best way to compare Twitter and Facebook is to look at the old children's story The Tortoise and the Hare. — For those that don't remember curling up in bed as a child, listening to an adult narrate it, this is the old fable of an arrogant hare who loses a race to a slow tortoise.| Danny Weitzner / The White House Blog: |
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Sprint now offering $100 credit when you trade in an iPhone from any other carrier — In an effort to attract iPhone users to its network, Sprint has begun offering a $100 credit when you turn in an iPhone from any other carrier. — Sprint sent us the details of the offering … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Report: Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemous Content, Facebook Complies? — Another day, another example of a country making it harder for its people to use the web and some of its most effective channels of communication? There are reports coming in from Pakistan that it has become the latest country to ban the use of Twitter.
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
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 …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:55 AM ET, May 20, 2012.
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