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May 29, 2012, 11:35 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple CEO Tim Cook 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, is taking the stage at D …

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 …

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Next Web, AllThingsD, The Verge and 9to5Mac

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.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Insider, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, Engadget and The Next Web

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Tim Cook says Apple is ‘very serious’ about doubling down on secrecy — Already known as one of the most secretive companies in the world, Apple plans to become even more protective going forward, the company's chief executive said in an interview on Tuesday.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget and The Verge

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

The Most Important Lesson Tim Cook Learned From Steve Jobs: “Focus Is Key” — In his first major public interview since replacing Steve Jobs as CEO, Tim Cook took the stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the tenth annual All Things D conference to talk about the state of a post-Jobs Apple.

More: CNET, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, VentureBeat and AllThingsD. Tweets: @cdixon

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Patent Wars Are “Pain in the Ass,” Says Tim Cook

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Tim Cook on Ping: “Apple needs to be social, but it doesn't have to own a social network”

More: AllThingsD

Scott Lowe / The Verge:

Tim Cook says Apple is ‘doubling down’ on Siri, promises new features in ‘coming months’

More: CNET, The Next Web, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac and TechnoBuffalo

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: GigaOM, Social Markets, TechCrunch, CNET, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Business Insider, Mashable! and Social Media. Tweets: @marshallk

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.

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, News on ZDNet Australia, The Official Google Blog, Ars Technica, CNET, Business Insider, PC World, ZDNet, Bits, AllThingsD, InfoWorld, ReadWriteWeb, Google Enterprise Blog, BGR, parislemon and BetaNews

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: Engadget, Liliputing, VentureBeat, PC World, Gotta Be Mobile, blog.laptopmag.com and Gizmodo

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, www.pocketgamer.biz, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo UK, PhoneArena, wmpoweruser.com, SlashGear and iDownloadBlog.com

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options

More: PC World, The Verge, GigaOM, ZDNet, CNET and ZDNet

Tweets: @pkedrosky and @alex_ari

Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal:

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

More: Market Wire, Business Insider, Reuters, ReadWriteWeb, 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: TechCrunch, BetaNews, Pulse2 Technology …, GeekWire, Techland, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, 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, wmpoweruser.com, SuperSite for Windows, Everything Microsoft, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile and The Next Web

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: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, The New Persuaders, Forbes, The Atlantic Wire, GeekWire, broadstuff, BetaNews and AllThingsD

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

The Case for Facebook — Let's not let 10 days of share price …

More: TechCrunch

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: API Evangelist, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge and The Next Web

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, Internet Evolution and Mashable!

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

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

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: Mashable!, 9to5Google, Stuff.co.nz, CNET and The Next Web. Thanks:@strngwys

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: News on ZDNet Australia, CNET, msnbc.com, ZDNet, The Next Web and Forbes

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: PC World, DailyFinance.com, SlashGear, LAPTOP Magazine, digitaltrends.com, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo and Business Insider

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: Gizmodo

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, DailyTech, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo and Gotta Be Mobile

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 …

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 and PC World

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

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