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May 30, 2012, 7:10 AM

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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Gears Up for New Products  —  RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. - Apple Inc. chief executive Tim Cook teed up big expectations for the world's largest technology company, saying in an interview that the company is preparing to release some “incredible” new products.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Tim Cook On Apple's (Tumultuous) Relationship With Facebook, “Stay Tuned”  —  When asked onstage at D10 about what could be done about the lack of Facebook integration on iOS despite Facebook's formidable 900 million users and Apple's partnership with the much smaller social network Twitter …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple TV Sales Have Doubled, but It's Still an Experiment, Says Tim Cook  —  Tim Cook won't say a word about his Apple TV plans.  But he is willing to explain what he thinks about his current Apple TV product: It's a little different from his other products, because it's not a big hit.  And that's okay.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Patent Wars Are “Pain in the Ass,” Says Tim Cook (Video)  —  Asked that question during the opening session of D10 Tuesday night, Apple's CEO had a simple reply: “Well, they are a pain in the ass.”  —  Indeed, Apple is involved in a mess of patent infringement lawsuits with a number …
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.
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 …
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.
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Google Nexus tablet appears in benchmarks, appears to run on quad-core Tegra 3  —  ASUS's seven-inch MeMo tablet has just ducked under the FCC's gates, but some benchmark results for a purported Google and ASUS team-up could tally with the same device.  According to the listing …
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.
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 …
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
How Twitter Beat Facebook At Its Own Story  —  On the day Facebook went public, all eyes were on its biggest competitor.  Those hazy months when the IPO was just a rumor, the giddy days and hours before the market opened, the hilariously chaotic trading period, the ensuing backlash …
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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp  —  Google said it has seen a noticeable increase in activity on its vaunted Web-search in the two weeks since the company began one of the biggest search transformations in its history.  —  People doing Web searches now see a big box …
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Netflix agrees to delete data on ex-customers  —  Turns out that nobody has to know about that copy of Bad Girls of Red Light District 6: The Extended Cut you rented from Netflix just over a year ago.  —  U.S. District Court papers filed Friday revealed greater detail as to how Netflix settled …
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 …
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