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May 29, 2012, 9:00 AM

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Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype — PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service. — The statistics tell the story. In seven months, the number of people using …

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Forbes:

A boo.com Moment? Facebook's IPO Faceplant, Carnage in Social Media Stocks — The Facebook (FB) fiasco has spooked a lot of tech investors, especially those holding shares of recently-launched social media companies with similarly unproven earnings streams.

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Anderson Antunes / Forbes:

Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: ‘No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg’ — It took almost a decade, one Hollywood flick and roughly a billion friends for Eduardo Saverin to agree on telling his side of the story about the founding of Facebook, the social-networking website that since 2004 has changed the way we communicate.

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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

Is Yandex behind Facebook's rumored Face.com deal? — Facebook's apparent interest in Israeli image recognition startup Face.com could rely on an unexpected partner — the Russian search engine Yandex, according to reports. — Rumors that Mark Zuckerberg is interested in purchasing …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

How Face(.com) Recognition Could Fit Into Facebook Mobile

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole — The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. — Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and the end is still not in sight.

More: Gizmodo UK and Softpedia News

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Prototype Original iPad with Dual Dock Connectors Surfaces — Ever since its initial introduction in early 2010, the iPad has offered a single dock connector oriented in portrait mode. But a rumor just prior to that introduction had indicated that the device would include …

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Siim Teller / Flattr Blog:

Apple rejected Flattr... and it's not the end — Those following us on Twitter already know that last week Apple rejected Instacast, a well-love podcatcher, over its Flattr integration. What does this mean for the future of Flattr inside applications for iPhone and iPad?

More: Wired.co.uk, AppleInsider, ITProPortal, CNET, the Econsultancy blog, ArcticStartup, TechCrunch, Macgasm, MacNN, VentureBeat and The Next Web. Tweets: @skddc

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S III launches in 28 countries, to be available in 145 by July — Although some retailers are saying they don't expect to have inventory right away, Samsung is officially claiming that it has launched the Galaxy S III in 28 countries today. That's a massive launch …

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Tarleton Gillespie / limn:

Can an Algorithm be Wrong? — How do we know if we are where it's at? Tarleton Gillespie explores the controversy over Twitter Trends and the algorithmic ‘censorship’ of #occupywallstreet. Throughout the Occupy Wall Street protests, participants and supporters used Twitter (among other tools) …

Eran Feigenbaum / Google Enterprise Blog:

Google Apps receives ISO 27001 certification — In the early days of the cloud, security concerns were often at the top of business minds as they considered moving to Google Apps. More recently, though, security has become a major reason businesses are moving to the cloud.

More: Help Net Security, Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, The Register, Softpedia News and The H Security

Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters:

Huawei denies getting illegal Chinese subsidies — (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd denied on Tuesday that it benefited from illegal Chinese government subsidies after a media report said the European Union planned to take action against Chinese telecom equipment makers in an anti-dumping case.

More: SlashGear, Techworld.com, Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Sweet irony: EU imposes cookie law, ignores own rules — On all European Union institution websites, you will be lucky to find a single page that asks the visitor for permission to set cookies. But they're using them all the same. — The ‘cookie law’ requires any company …

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