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May 29, 2012, 9:25 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present — Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.

Electronista:

Separate leaks claim to show new iPhone's back, ports

More: msnbc.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million — Enterprise, meet social: Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.

More: Social Markets, TechCrunch, CNET, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Fast Company, Social Media and Mashable!

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right — We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things wrong, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try. This seems to be quite true of Google's efforts to develop a cloud PC.

More: Engadget, Google Chrome Blog, PC World, CNET, BGR, Business Insider, parislemon, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, BetaNews, ZDNet, Bits, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, Google Enterprise Blog and The Verge

David Pierce / The Verge:

New Samsung Chromebook & Chromebox review: Chrome OS grows up — 2012 is the year of Chrome OS — or so we're told. When we spoke with Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, he told us that this is the culmination of “a long, slow march” for Google's cloud-based operating system.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, Liliputing, Gotta Be Mobile, blog.laptopmag.com, Gizmodo and BetaNews

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's third writedown since December.

More: asymco, LAPTOP Magazine, www.pocketgamer.biz, Gizmodo, wmpoweruser.com, PhoneArena, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and IntoMobile

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options — Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an operating loss in the quarter ending June 2. — The company also said it has hired J.P. Morgan …

More: Computerworld, GigaOM, ZDNet, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, parislemon and PE Hub Blog

Tweets: @pkedrosky and @alex_ari

Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal:

RIM Hires J.P. Morgan, RBC for Strategic Review

More: ReadWriteWeb, Business Insider, Market Wire, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Globe and Mail. Tweets: @stacycowley

Amazon.com:

Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video — Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and use Kinect for Xbox 360 to find and play videos with the wave of a hand or sound of their voice

More: BetaNews, TechCrunch, DSLreports, Gizmodo, msnbc.com, Pulse2 Technology …, Techland, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, LiveSide.net, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Engadget and TechSpot

Yusuf Mehdi / TechNet Blogs:

Xbox Beyond the Box — Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has struck me is the amount of opportunities we have ahead. — Before joining Xbox, I had the fortune …

More: CNET, PC World, wmpoweruser.com, SuperSite for Windows, Everything Microsoft, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web and Seattle Times

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground — Can Newly Public Company Withstand Demands for Ads That Interrupt User Experience? — GM wanted to brand Facebook. And Facebook wasn't selling. — In a now-notorious meeting between General Motors Global CMO Joel Ewanick …

More: CNET, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, WebProNews, Adotas, MediaFile, AllFacebook, Business Insider, Mashable!, Internet Evolution and SocialTimes

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Why Facebook Won't Just Give Advertisers Like GM What They Want

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29 — Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook's stock. Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today, declining about 9 percent as options trading started. The decline also came a day after a third wave …

More: Guardian, Inside Facebook, GeekWire, VentureBeat, The New Persuaders, The Atlantic Online, Bloomberg, The Atlantic Wire, broadstuff, Mashable!, AllThingsD, BetaNews, GigaOM, Pulse2 Technology … and Fast Company

Dee Gill / Forbes:

A boo.com Moment? Facebook's IPO Faceplant, Carnage in Social Media Stocks

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and ZDNet

Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass — Google's co-founder manipulates the Google Glass touch pad. Image Capture: Current TV — Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass — but this time he let someone else wear Google's augmented reality headset.

More: 9to5Google, The Next Web, Stuff.co.nz, CNET, Mashable!, The Gavin Newsom Show and The Verge. Thanks:@strngwys

Dan Webb / Twitter Engineering:

Improving performance on twitter.com — To connect you to information in real time, it's important for Twitter to be fast. That's why we've been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed. — When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built it around …

More: CNET, The Verge and The Next Web

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources — The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources. — Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days.

More: DailyFinance.com, ITworld.com, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, GigaOM, SlashGear, Business Insider, digitaltrends.com, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:

Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff — When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to make calls or play games, but to rip it apart. — Technicolor, an unprofitable French company that invented …

More: BuzzFeed and Gizmodo

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms — Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. — EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues …

More: msnbc.com, CNET, Forbes, ZDNet and The Next Web

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

HTC says One X and Evo 4G LTE have cleared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings — HTC says that it has completed the review process with US customs, and that “HTC devices have been released, as they are in compliance with the ITC's ruling.” The company's One X and Evo 4G LTE phones …

More: Reuters, VentureBeat, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo and Gotta Be Mobile

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Coming Up: Apple CEO Tim Cook's First Time in the Hot Seat at D — While he has presided over a number of events since taking over as Apple CEO last year, Tuesday night promises to offer a new look inside the mind of Tim Cook. — Cook, as Steve Jobs did several times during his career …

More: The Verge, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Mashable!, MacStories, The Verge, CNET and AppleInsider

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others — 10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team.

More: TechCrunch, the Econsultancy blog, NEA, Betabeat, VatorNews, The Register, Pulse2 Technology …, ServicesANGLE and The H Open Source

Evan Ackerman / Automaton:

Japanese MH-2 Shoulder Robot Wants To Be Your Friend, Literally — Nobody likes being alone, and Japanese researchers from Yamagata University are developing a robot to make sure you'll never have to be alone again: the MH-2 wearable miniature humanoid lives on your shoulder and can be remotely inhabited …

More: Geekosystem, msnbc.com, PC World, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Technabob

Diane Bartz / Reuters:

Facebook faces extended US review of Instagram deal — (Reuters) - Facebook has received notice that U.S. antitrust regulators will give its proposed purchase of the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram a lengthy investigation, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.

More: CNET, The Next Web and TechnoBuffalo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 Release Preview leaks out ahead of official debut — A Chinese edition of Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Preview, due in the first week of June, has leaked ahead of its official debut. ISO files for an 8400 build of Windows 8 have been circulating on Chinese forums and bit torrent websites …

More: Tech Trader Daily and VentureBeat

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology — Summary: Moonlight, the open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux and Unix, is no more. — Given the continued downplaying by Microsoft of Silverlight, it shouldn't be too surprising that the Moonlight implementation of Silverlight for Linux/Unix is no more.

More: The Verge, I Programmer, InfoQ, InfoWorld and Liliputing. Tweets: @solaadio

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

1M Students Strong, Echo360 Secures $31M From Steve Case, Ted Leonsis To Flip Higher Ed — As the old school gives way to the new, technology has begun to play an increasingly active role in the learning process — from primary to higher education. This has given rise to “blended learning …

More: Inside Higher Ed

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