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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …
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BGR, Telegraph, ZDNet, Guardian, Business Insider, InfoWorld, TUAW, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, BBC, Mashable!, Global Nerdy, Naked Security, Hillicon Valley, iPhone, Lifehacker, Gawker and Slashdot
Tweets: @securityninja, @linkedin, @adrianchen, @codinghorror, @jgamet and @qthrul
| Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog: |
More about our mobile calendar feature — You may have seen a few press stories highlighting concerns about how your data is used in the opt-in calendar feature of our mobile phone apps. We deeply care about our members trust so I want to provide clarity around what we do, don't do …
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VatorNews, Computerworld, CNET, The Verge, WebProNews, The Next Web and Mashable!. Tweets: @gartenberg
| 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.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Has a Lot to Say (Interview) — Today I had my first in-person sit-down interview with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Over the course of 30 minutes we talked about a lot of things, and quite frankly she had a lot to say. — For one thing … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
| Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld: |
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| IDC: |
Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow, According IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions.
| 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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AppleInsider, Los Angeles Times, Wired, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Apple Bitch, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, AllThingsD, MacGazette, MacNN, Engadget, I4U News, Ars Technica, eWeek, Softpedia News, The Verge, CNET, MacRumors, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, Bits and Washington Post. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 — Microsoft announced today that the company has now sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7 since its introduction in October 2009. Speaking at Computex 2012, Microsoft's Steve Guggenheimer revealed the number while demonstrating some of the latest Windows 7 devices.
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| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
| Matt Peckham / Techland: |
IPv6 Day: Only the Biggest Change to the Internet Since Its Inception — It's only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? — I'm betting not, and that you probably …
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| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Ebook Community Wattpad Raises $17.3M, Claims Higher Engagement Than Pinterest — Toronto-based Wattpad, an online community revolving around the creation and sharing of free ebooks,today announced a new Series B round of funding that weighs in at $17.3 million.| Bob Lord / Twitter Blog: |
Twitter recognized by Online Trust Alliance — Early on, the Internet was built on people trusting people. When it was first deployed as the ARPANET, the operating environment was such that the users could just trust the network. Obviously, much has changed, but not our need to trust the Internet …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
After Selling A Startup To Google For $81 Million, 26-Year-Old Nat Turner Now Wants To Solve Healthcare — 26-year-old Nat Turner and his business partner, Zach Weinberg, sold ad tech company Invite Media to Google in 2010 for $81 million. — This Friday, the pair are quitting Google to begin a new startup in health care.| 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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LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Windows 8 Beta, CNET, WinBeta, Windows 8 Beta, VR-Zone, Liliputing, MSDN Blogs and Seattle Times
| 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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Seattle Times, Engadget, eWeek, Mashable!, Softpedia News and Neowin
| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Google TV box gets movie streams from Android 4.0 smartphones, tablets — An upcoming Google TV box based on Android 4.0 OS and an ARM processor will come closer to smartphones and tablets with the capability to play direct movie streams from Android 4.0 mobile devices …
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The Verge, InfoWorld, PC Advisor and Inquirer
| 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 …
| Betabeat: |
RebelMouse, Former HuffPo CTO Paul Berry's New Startup, Debuts Today — RebelMouse. — Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry has been working on a new startup since January, when Betabeat broke the news that he was leaving HuffPo. We knew it would be called RebelMouse and that it was a “social platform.”
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
GetTaxi hails $20m in funding as the Israeli startup eyes the NYC cab market — GetTaxi has announced a whopping $20m funding round as the Israeli startup ramps up its international efforts and sets its sights on the lucrative NYC taxi market. — We've seen a surge in taxi apps in recent times … | 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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Social Markets, GigaOM, Betabeat, Quora, CNET, Business Insider and PE Hub Blog
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Stuxnet expert calls US the “good guys” in cyber-warfare — Ralph Langner also says there's little novel in the new “Flame” malware. — Ralph Langner is one of the world's foremost experts on Stuxnet — Ralph Langner — TALLINN, ESTONIA—Sitting in the front row for the first full …
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New York Times and Wall Street Journal
| 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.
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Big data + cloud computing = $25M from Silicon Valley's biggest VCs — Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a- total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights …
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The Next Web, Delphix and silicontap.com
| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Asus releasing world's first 802.11ac laptop, says Broadcom — In the past few weeks we've seen announcements for 802.11ac chips and routers, but computers that can actually take advantage of the new networking standard have been eluding us. Today at Computex, though …
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Softpedia News
| Cory Doctorow / Technology Review: |
The Curious Case of Internet Privacy — Free services in exchange for personal information. That's the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever. — Here's a story you've heard about the Internet: we trade our privacy for services.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Mozilla shows off web apps accessing phone sensors with WebAPI — We've been pretty impressed by Mozilla's powerful HTML5-based phone OS, Boot to Gecko, which can do anything from send messages to play Cut the Rope with the equivalent of web apps and bookmarks.
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