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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Zynga game changers: new games, friend network, API — SAN FRANCISCO — As Facebook has been colonizing the planet, approaching a billion users for its social network, Zynga has been drafting in its wake. The social-gaming company, which launched July 1, 2007, with a poker game …
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ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Zynga to Launch Cross-Platform Gaming Network, “Zynga With Friends” — Zynga's game playing network is massive — more than 290 million people play the company's games each month. The problem is, Zynga says, those players are scattered across multiple devices and platforms, and can't always sync up to play the same games.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Zynga says that 1M actions happen on its platform per second — Today at an “Unleashed” event in its San Francisco headquarters, Zynga is preparing to announce some updates for its platform. — The company says that it releases 1,000 new features per week, which is mindbogging considering … | Mike Thompson / Inside Social Games: |
Zynga reveals Zynga API for third-party developers — Zynga's chief engineer Kostadis Roussos announced the new Zynga API at today's Zynga Unleashed event available to third party developers. — The API is designed to cut out backend servers by integrating Zynga's standard game services.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM, Reuters, VG247 and The Next Web
| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Kindle Fire 2 may hit as soon as July — Last year, Amazon launched the Kindle Fire in September. The next-generation Kindles are expected to launch a little earlier this year. — (Credit: CNET) — What's next for Kindle hardware? — Well, a credible source has told CNET that Amazon … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
As the battle for the living room heats up, Brightcove bets big on Apple TV — “The mythical Apple television set that everyone talks about is already here,” said Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove, sipping an iced cappuccino with The Verge on a particularly hot New York morning.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Offers New Dedicated Podcast App for iOS — Earlier this month, it was rumored that Apple would be launching a standalone podcast app in iOS 6. Instead of waiting for the next version of iOS, Apple posted the Podcast app on the App Store today. [App Store]| Brian Duggan / Reno Memo: |
Apple looking to open facility in downtown Reno, east of Sparks as part of $1B, 10-year investment — Apple is planning on opening a data center east of Sparks and a business and purchasing center in downtown Reno, part of a $1 billion investment the company plans to spend in Northern Nevada over the next 10 years.
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The Next Web, Engadget, GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Reno Gazette-Journal, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews and iClarified
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| Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade: |
Why RIM Won't Be Bought: There's Not Much There There — There's been rampant speculation that the rescue strategy for Research In Motion would be for someone to buy the company. There has been, at various times, idle speculation about a wide-range of intriguing but highly unlikely potential suitors.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Spotify, Yahoo Link Up in Distribution, Revenue Sharing Deal — Earlier this year Spotify rolled out a plan to get its “play” button on a host of Web sites, which let the streaming music service broaden its reach beyond Facebook. — Now it's making the same move, but with one very …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web and The Seattle Times
| Basil Katz / Reuters: |
U.S. charges 24 people in massive hacking sting — (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement officials on Tuesday said 24 suspected hackers had been arrested on four continents in a sting operation targeting online financial fraud involving stolen credit card and bank information.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
McAfee discovers $78 million worth of sophisticated cyber attacks against banking systems — Security firms McAfee and Guardian Analytics have published a joint fraud report, dubbed Operation High Roller, on new methods of siphoning money from banking systems.
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Computerworld, McAfee Blog Central, CNET, TechEye, Reuters and Pulse2 Technology …
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns — On Saturday we covered Boxopus, a new startup that allows people to download torrents directly to their dropbox folders. — The news was quickly picked up by many other technology sites and as a result the service's member count surged to more than 50,000.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
For Samsung, Galaxy halo effect comes with supply crunch — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics' struggle to keep pace with rampant demand for its new Galaxy S III smartphone may have cost the South Korean firm some 2 million units of sales in just a month. — For a company that has never stirred …
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The Verge, PhoneArena, WebProNews, Android Phone Fans and TechEye
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Wallaby Combines All Your Credit Cards Into One, Makes Sure You Earn The Most Rewards — Wallaby, which is launching its beta today, reminds me a bit of banking startup Simple. Just like Simple automatically manages your finances for you and automatically shuffles your money between …
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Examiner, PandoDaily and BetaKit
| Lucas Atkins / N4BB: |
EXCLUSIVE: BBM for BlackBerry 10 First Look — Have you been wondering what BlackBerry Messenger on BlackBerry 10 could possibly look like? Now you get the very first glimpse ever! BBM in BlackBerry 10 will be taking full advantage of the OLED screen. How will it be doing that you ask?
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Engadget, Pocketnow, IntoMobile, newlaunches.com, Geek.com, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and BGR
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hail A Fellow Human, Not A Taxi With “SideCar” - The New P2P Uber — You need a ride, someone else has a car and could use the cash, SideCar is the app that will bring you together. New instant peer-to-peer rideshare-finding app SideCar turns anyone into a taxi / Uber driver … | Wall Street Journal: |
Best Buy Founder Weighs Buyout — Best Buy Co. founder Richard Schulze is working with a Wall Street bank to explore taking the electronics retailer private, according to people familiar with his thinking. — Mr. Schulze, the company's largest shareholder with a slightly more than 20% stake …
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Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, The Tech Trade, AllThingsD and bizjournals
| Scott Lowe / The Verge: |
Dell introduces new XPS 14 and XPS 15 laptops — Naturally, with the added processing power and the inclusion of a disc drive, the XPS 15 gains a little heft over the XPS 14, carrying a thickness of 0.91-inches and a starting weight at 5.79 pounds. It also shaves three hours off …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, Direct2Dell, eWeek, ZDNet, Inquirer, Liliputing, PC Magazine, Engadget, Engadget, VentureBeat and Datamation.com
| Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com: |
Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest Of The Three — While “Social-Mobile-Local” is certainly an overused buzz phrase, most of the attention has been placed on the “social” and “mobile” parts of the phrase. In social, the spectacular rise of Facebook and Twitter is clearly a disruptive and critical trend.
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| Ben Rudolph / Windows Phone Blog: |
VIDEO: Hands on with Windows Phone 7.8's amazing new Start Screen — Yesterday I snuck over to the engineering building and “borrowed” a Nokia Lumia 900 running a VERY early build of Windows Phone 7.8, so I could shoot a video of the amazing new Start Screen.
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eWeek, Engadget, GadgeTell, digitaltrends.com, SymbianTweet, Global Nerdy, WMPoweruser and Phones Review
| Glyn Moody / Techdirt: |
EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament Next Week — The day before the EU's International Trade committee (INTA) recommended that the European Parliament should reject ACTA, the EU commissioner with responsibility for the treaty, Karel De Gucht …
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WebProNews and GamePolitics blogs
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Cisco announces the EA6500, its first 802.11ac router, and launches Connect Cloud platform — For those looking for 801.11ac gigabit wireless when they buy their next router, Cisco will soon have a suitable option. The company today announced its forthcoming Linksys EA6500 router …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Vizio Announces The Co-Star, A $99 Google TV Box With OnLive Gaming Built In — Watch out, Sony, Vizio is chasing your tail. Just yesterday Sony revealed its latest Google TV hardware, a $199 remake of the company's first GTV products. And now today, Vizio took to the wires and announced … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Former Facebooker Scoops Up $1.4 Million for Freshplum, Sales Analytics for the Little Guy — Pricing physical goods can be relatively straightforward: Fixed costs like labor and materials are calculable, while watching competitors and market demand can aid you in finding a solid target price.
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The Next Web, ZDNet, Pulse2 Technology … and VentureBeat
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Sprint iPhone Sales Stronger at Big-Box Retailers Than at Apple Stores — The iPhone is a big seller at Apple's retail stores, but not necessarily Sprint's version of the device. A new study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has found that Sprint iPhones sell far better …
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Fortune, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, CNET, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Scientists crack RSA SecurID 800 tokens, steal cryptographic keys — Scientists crack RSA SecurID 800 tokens, steal cryptographic keys — Scientists penetrate hardened security devices in under 15 minutes. — RSA's SecurID 800 is one of at least five commercially available security devices susceptible … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google heralds next Android with Jelly Bean sculpture — Google has put up a Jelly Bean sculpture to mark the next version of its Android operating system. — (Credit: Google) — Squashing any lingering doubts about the arrival of the next version of Android, Google has put up a Jelly Bean sculpture on its campus.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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