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May 25, 2012, 7:40 AM

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Dirk Stoop / Facebook Newsroom:

Introducing Facebook Camera — Today, we're introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier. — See friends' photos all in one place — When you launch the app, you'll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

As Facebook Launches a Standalone Camera App, the Instagram Buy Comes Into Focus — We know that Facebook is serious about photos. Heck, it dropped a cool $1 billion on Instagram, the immensely popular mobile photo-sharing app. — What we didn't know, however, is that Facebook …

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Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Why Facebook Needs Two Photo Apps — Facebook released Camera today, an iPhone app that lets you take photos, add filters to them, and share them on Facebook. — Hey, wait a second. Isn't that what Instagram does, which Facebook just smartly agreed to acquire for $1+ billion? — Yes and no.

More: Quick Online Tips, Instagramers.com and Royal Pingdom

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Facebook Camera hands-on

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Exclusive: HP's webOS Enyo team is going to Google — The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS's HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned. What this means for the future of Open webOS is unclear …

More: The H Open Source, Engadget, CNET, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Techie Buzz, IntoMobile, SlashGear and PhoneArena. Tweets: @jkendrick. Thanks:@forrestkoba

Paul Kafasis / Under The Microscope:

Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store — Since 2009, Airfoil Speakers Touch has made it possible to send audio from your Mac or Windows machine to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, using Airfoil and its audio streaming capability. Last month, we introduced Airfoil …

More: The Verge, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Daring Fireball, iLounge, Macgasm and TUAW

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

More on Apple's Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store — After some interesting back-and-forth with a few informed sources, I think Apple's removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch from the iOS App Store is not as mysterious or capricious as I first thought. The key is to focus on what's new in version 3 of the app:

More: The Next Web

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 — You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps. — Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson — Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications …

More: Computerworld, The Verge, Guardian, Engadget and Within Windows

Mike Shields / Adweek:

NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com — Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O' Donnell and Chris Matthews Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images — Chris Matthews must be getting that tingling feeling down his leg again. He and his colleagues may soon have a giant news site to call their own.

More: The Verge, Neowin, SlashGear, GeekWire, AdExchanger.com, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Tech Trade and Seattle Times. See also Mediagazer

Ibrahim Elbouchikhi / Android Developers Blog:

In-app Subscriptions in Google Play — We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a year ago to give developers more ways to sell and engage users over the lifetime of their apps. Since the launch, In-app Billing has been extremely successful in helping developers monetize their apps through try-and-buy …

Brad Sams / Neowin:

This is Dell's Windows 8 tablet — Dell is working on a Windows 8 tablet; we know this because Dell told us that they are planning to launch a Windows 8 tablet, easy enough. What we did not know is what will be driving the tablet under the hood, at least, until now.

More: The Verge, SlashGear, I4U News, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, PhoneArena, CNET, Softpedia News, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com and Liliputing. Thanks:@bdsams

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL — 19-year-old entrepreneur Eric Simons spent two months secretly living at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif. campus, sleeping each night on a couch like this one. — (Credit: Eric Simons) — It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling.

More: Business Insider and Tecca

Mat Honan / Gizmodo:

Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run in Belize — It's been a while since I've posted anything. “I've been busy” is everyone's excuse for laziness, but I can't come up with a better one. For those of you who follow the news in Central America …

Thanks:@leshorn

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus — Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: you have to give up the notion that animates Google Plus. — Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called California City that's fascinated …

Thanks:@alexismadrigal

Pino Bonetti / Nokia Conversations:

Nokia brings live traffic advice and geocoding to Bing — As you all know, our partnership with Microsoft goes beyond Windows Phone on our Nokia Lumia smartphones. We're also teaming up with Bing to offer the best location-based services and apps. — One of the results of this partnership …

More: SlashGear, Bing, My Nokia Blog, The Verge, LiveSide.net, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, Teaching How to use PC …, WMPoweruser and Neowin

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Nvidia touts thirty Tegra 3 smartphone designs for 2012, faster LTE with Icera i500 and next-gen ‘Grey’ processor — Nvidia says its Tegra 3 system-on-chip is doing exceptionally well: the company claims 30 smartphones are slated to sport the quad-core silicon this year, double the 15 design wins that Tegra 2 had in 2011.

More: Softpedia News, PC World, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, VentureBeat and eWeek

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

New Jersey mayor, son, arrested on charges they nuked recall website — The father and son used a low tech hack—password recovery—to take down the site. — FBI — The mayor of a small New Jersey hamlet has been arrested, along with his son, on federal charges that they shut …

More: TechEye, Politico, The Verge, New York Times, Fox News, Mashable!, Gizmodo, CNET, The Huffington Post, Hudson Reporter, Associated Press, Tecca, nbcnewyork.com, Examiner and The United States Department …

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Flickr adds much needed features for Groups: upload options, Justified View and more — Flickr has just announced new Groups features on its blog, including a Justified View, the ability to submit photos directly to Groups via the Uploadr and brand new API methods for developers.

More: Flickr Blog, GadgeTell, Code, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection and VentureBeat

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Bazaarvoice To Acquire PowerReviews For $151M — Two big customer review platforms are teaming up: Bazaarvoice just announced that it has agreed to acquire PowerReviews. — The agreement is for up to $31 million in cash, plus stock, bringing the total estimated value to be $151 million.

More: GlobeNewswire, AllThingsD, Dow Jones Newswires, silicontap.com and Deal Journal

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Meddik Grabs $750K From Chris Dixon, Founder Collective & More To Build A Better WebMD — Entrepreneurs, please start paying more attention to healthtech. Rather than trying to build the next billion-dollar mobile photo app, go lean and deep into bigger problems.

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Google takes down 1.2 million search links a month over piracy, copyright issues — Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.

More: TorrentFreak, Inquirer, TechEye, The Official Google Blog, Wired, Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, CNET, Digital Trends, Sydney Morning Herald, Engadget, Techdirt, Gizmodo and VentureBeat

Dan Misener / misener.org:

Kickstarter hides failure — (TL;DR: Kickstarter does not want you to see failed projects. Failed Kickstarter campaign pages include robot meta tags to keep search engines from indexing them. Plus, Kickstarter's front page and “Discover” interface never show failed projects. Ever.)

More: Daily Dot, TechCrunch, App Advice and DVICE

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple Paying Dividends to Employees with Restricted Stock Units, CEO Tim Cook Declines to Participate — Apple's board has decided to award dividend equivalent payments to employees holding restricted stock units or RSUs. Apple announced a quarterly dividend of $2.65/share in March, to commence in July.

More: AllThingsD, Reuters, CNET, Fortune, Business Insider, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, GeekWire, ZDNet, Washington Post, MacNN and AppleInsider

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google prepping ‘Events’ and ‘Local’ features for Google+? — Google rolled out version 2.6 of the Google+ app for Android today, updating its UI and adding several new features, but it appears to have left something hidden under the hood as well. A source informed us — and we have confirmed …

More: 9to5Google and Ubergizmo

AppleInsider:

Apple settles patent dispute, signs license deal with SimpleAir — Apple has settled an infringement suit with patent holder SimpleAir out of court for an undisclosed sum, the company announced on Thursday. — The terms of the license agreement between Apple and SimpleAir are confidential …

More: Dow Jones Newswires, Electronista, Softpedia News, CNET and AllThingsD

Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:

Fox Sues Dish Network Over Auto Hop Ad-Skipper — Fox has sued Dish Network over its new Auto Hop service, which allows consumers to skip television ads. Fox issued the following statement on Thursday: … The suit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday on behalf of Fox Broadcasting …

More: Zatz Not Funny!, paidContent, Digital Trends, The Tech Trade, Lost Remote, Reuters, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Engadget, GeekTonic and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Gigabit Squared raises $200M to bring super fast internet to 6 communities — The dream of bringing a gigabit-per-second high-speed broadband internet connection is becoming a reality for at least six university communities in the U.S. — a country that's known for the speed of producing …

More: Gigabit Squared, Computerworld, GigaOM, New York Times, BGR, DailyTech and DSLreports

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