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| Alan Warren / The Official Google Blog: |
Google + Quickoffice = get more done anytime, anywhere — We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions. — Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device.
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| Nick Wingfield / Bits: |
As Google Bets on Mobile Office, Microsoft Waits — If Microsoft couldn't find compelling enough reasons to release its Office applications for the iPad, Google just gave it one. — On Tuesday, Google acquired Quickoffice, a start-up that makes a set of applications for iPads and Android tablets …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn's iOS app collects and transmits names, emails and notes from your calendar, in plain text — The LinkedIn mobile app for iOS devices collects full meeting notes and details from your device's calendar and sends them back to the company, The Next Web has been informed.
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| Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld: |
HP's Whitman works to assure customers as company cuts staff — As Meg Whitman, the CEO of HP, took the stage here today, the thousands sitting in this cavernous hall applauded politely and then stilled. This was Whitman's first appearance at HP Discover, and she faced an audience of people …
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| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Are You Okay With Airtime Secretly Taking Photos Of You While You're Video Chatting? — Airtime: You watch it. It watches you. — Facebook is boring, according to a third of its users. Yikes! Luckily, tech entrepreneur Sean Parker plans to save the day, launching a new video chat service called Airtime.
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| Michael Hogan / The Huffington Post: |
Sean Parker's Airtime Launch: Olivia Munn, Joel McHale, Jim Carrey & More Improvise As Event Unravels — Whatever Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning paid the celebrities who attended this morning's unveiling of their new video-chat application, it wasn't enough.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
After nearly two years without an update, Apple to finally revamp Mac Pro next week — Yesterday, we reported that Apple has an incredible WWDC surprise: major updates to four of its Mac lines. We were able to affirm that three of these updates would cover the redesigned MacBook Pro with a Retina Display …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS — Thirty-one. That's the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners.| Thomas Gryta / MarketWatch: |
Sprint's Virgin Mobile USA to offer iPhone … Sprint Nextel Corp. S 0.00% is set to become the second U.S. mobile phone service to offer the Apple Inc. AAPL -0.61% iPhone without a wireless contract. — The Overland Park, Kan., carrier will announce this week it will offer the popular smartphone …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao Breaks Her Silence: I'm Still At Kleiner Perkins, And I Don't Plan On Leaving — Ellen Pao, the partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who is suing the legendary venture capital firm for alleged gender discrimination and acts of retaliation she claims to have experienced during …
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| Roi Carthy / TechCrunch: |
on{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of... Microsoft Israel? — Look at your Android phone! Now back at this post! — Imagine you could program your Android to text your wife when you left work. Now imagine your Android reminding you in the morning to grab … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Lenovo demos ThinkPad tablet running Windows 8, we go hands-on — Yes, another Windows 8 tablet. After getting hands-on with some new devices from Acer, ASUS and Samsung, you might already having trouble telling one device from the other. You might even say the same about Lenovo …
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| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
The Death of Social Proof — Social proof is dying as a startup differentiation heuristic during fundraising. Why? — A) Blame Angellist for an Advisor Bubble — Every company I see has some roster of advisors and/or soft-circled seed investors already committed.| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Google Starts Showing Users Alerts For Accounts Hacked By “State-Sponsored Attackers” — Here's a message from Google some Gmail users can expect to see in the near future, and that the rest of us hope we never will: “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.”| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Carriers' Next Move: One Choice for Voice — The largest U.S. wireless carriers are working on ways to keep their customers paying up for something they do less and less—making phone calls. — In a sea change for consumer behavior, the amount of time spent making old-fashioned voice calls … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Another Big Money Bet on AdTech: PubMatic Raises $45 Million From August Capital — After a few years of infatuation, many investors have grown out of love with ad technology companies. But a handful of ad tech businesses continue to garner very big bets and are making noises about going public.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Kobo launches e-book self-publishing platform, “Writing Life” — Digital reading company Kobo is launching a competitor to Amazon's KDP and Barnes & Noble's PubIt: Kobo Writing Life, a free self-publishing platform for independent authors and publishers. — Writing Life is in beta tests … | Megan O'Neill / SocialTimes: |
New Deals With Publishers Will Allow YouTube To Monetize Nearly All UGC With Copyright Music — Attention is looking for a Director, Social Media. — Allfacebook Marketing Conference AllFacebook AllTwitter Send an anonymous tip — Hot: What Makes A Video “Viral”? …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
No Resumes, Just Skills: Smarterer Grabs $1.75M From True, Google Ventures; Tony Conrad Joins Board — Resumes, they say, are ineffective but Boston-based startup Smarterer believes it has the solution. The company's platform provides job searchers with a simple way to show employers …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Pandora is lobbying Congress to establish fair royalty rates — This post has been corrected. See note below. — Pandora has reportedly spent more than $50,000 this year lobbying Congress to establish a more equal system for how much different forms of radio pay in royalties.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
AMD shows off 11-inch Compal Windows 8 hybrid tablet — We've seen Intel's vision for Windows 8 already, but don't count out AMD. The company is showing off a Windows 8 tablet from Compal here at Computex Taipei, and it's in the hot form factor of the moment — the detachable keyboard dock.
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| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Last-minute travel app HotelTonight books $23M in funding — Last-minute hotel booking is proving to be big business for HotelTonight, a one year-old San Francisco-based startup that just closed $23 million in additional funding. — Launched in 2011, HotelTonight makes elegant …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Tactus Technology unveils touchscreen prototype with appearing and disappearing keys (hands-on) — Amidst the excitement for the original iPhone way back in 2007 was a big question: would users be able to adjust to typing on a touchscreen, with no visual or tactile cues for orienting your fingers?
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