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| Amazon Appstore Developer Blog: |
Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire — Announcing Amazon GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire. — GameCircle will make achievements …
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, AllThingsD, Inside Mobile Apps, GeekWire, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, 9to5Mac, USA Today, 9to5Google, Liliputing, The TechBlock, Droid Life, Wired.co.uk, Pulse2 Technology …, TechSpot, Kotaku, Gotta Be Mobile, Android News, Rumours …, Games.com News. CityVille …, Ubergizmo, WebProNews and VG247
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Pumps Up Kindle Fire Gaming With GameCircle, Opens APIs To Developers — Amazon has just announced a bit of good news for avid Kindle Fire gamers and developers — the company has been working to revamp the gaming experience on their wallet-conscious tablet and have decided to share the fruits of their labor.| Mark Jardine / Tapbots: |
Tweetbot for Mac — It's finally here! (sort of) — Tweetbot for Mac is finally available! However it may not be quite as you had hoped. Developing for the Mac is no easy task, especially a full-featured Twitter client. However, we've gotten to a point where while not complete, it is useable.
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TechCrunch, BGR, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, admin.imore.com, Current Editorials, TUAW and Lifehacker. Tweets: @parislemon
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Tweetbot for Mac: Public Alpha Review — Today, Tapbots released the first public alpha of Tweetbot for Mac. This is not a final review of the app: being in the development stage — albeit ready to be tested by the public — Tweetbot for Mac is still lacking several features that will be available …
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Computerworld, Engadget, PandoDaily, App Advice, The Mac Observer and everythingiCafe
| Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
Confirmed: Mountain Lion sends some 64-bit Macs gently into that good night — Mountain Lion won't support all 64-bit Macs when it ships in late July. — Apple, Inc. — Apple has now confirmed via its Mountain Lion upgrade page that previously published limitations on some 64-bit Macs will extend to the final release.
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Inquirer, BGR, Macworld, Engadget, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, The TechBlock, Pocketables, Ubergizmo, TUAW, dailywireless.org, MacRumors and SlashGear
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter's Pitch Deck for Big Advertisers (Slides) — Twitter's ad business is looking less like an experiment and more like a real business, one that could generate $1 billion a year in the not-too-distant future. — If Twitter ads really take off, it will be because CEO Dick Costolo …
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GigaOM and Business Insider
| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Twitter CEO says company has ‘a truckload of money’ — Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo told the Los Angeles Times his company has a “truckload” of money and will hold off going public for as long as it wants. He's pictured here at event in Cannes, France, three weeks ago.
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Fortune, The TechBlock, AllTwitter, Pulse2 Technology …, SocialTimes, Marketing Pilgrim, The Tech Trade and Betabeat. Tweets: @lexnfx
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Google's Nexus 7 Costs $152 To Make, IHS iSuppli Teardown Finds — Google's Nexus 7 tablet may be all about an attempt to compete with Apple's incredibly popular iPad, but when you crack it open it sure looks an awful lot like Amazon's Kindle Fire inside. — That's the impression that analysts … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple corporate recruiting video tours you through Apple HQ, tells interesting stories — Earlier this year, Apple uploaded an interesting corporate employee recruiting video. It might just be the most in-depth tour of Apple's Cupertino headquarters that we have ever seen on a public forum, especially Apple's own website.
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena and The Next Web
| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon, With Suppliers, Is Testing a Smartphone — TAIPEI—Amazon.com Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a smartphone, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting that the Internet retail giant, which sells the Kindle Fire tablet computers, is considering broadening its mobile-device offerings.
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Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, Mobile, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, The TechBlock, ZDNet, Know Your Cell, ITProPortal, FierceWireless, PhoneArena, BGR, CNET, Android News, Rumours …, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechWeekEurope UK, The Verge, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, iPhone, Boing Boing, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology … and Gizmodo
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Ballmer: “Surface Is Just a Design Point” — By designing and building the Surface tablet itself, Microsoft is not blowing off its longtime PC manufacturing partners. And PC makers shouldn't take it that way. Surface is a reference design meant to show them what's possible.| Lauren Barack / Fortune: |
Facebook wants to be your online bank — The social media giant is quietly supporting new services for banks that want to engage socially with their customers: The decidedly unsocial business of online banking. — FORTUNE — Someday soon, Facebook users may pay their utility bills …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Viacom, DirecTV talks fail; 26 channels go dark — Summary: Negotiations between Viacom and DirecTV have failed, forcing 26 channels off DirecTV's airwaves and leaving its customers to pay a 30 percent price hike if they want reconnected service. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Starbucks launches mobile payments on Android in Canada and UK — Starbucks today announced a redesigned Android app that will enable users in Canada and the UK to pay for drinks straight from their phones by showing cashiers an onscreen barcode. The feature has thus far only existed …
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BetaNews, MobileSyrup.com, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat and Engadget
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft urges death of Windows gadgets as researchers plan disclosures — Reacts to upcoming revelations of gadget vulnerabilities at Black Hat by offering tool that kills feature in Vista, Windows 7 — Just two weeks before researchers are to disclose bugs in Windows “gadgets” …
| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots — Payphones, those relics of the pre-cellphone era, may just get a new lease on life in New York. The city is testing a pilot program in which it installs free Wi-Fi on select payphone kiosks. — The hotspots are initially coming …
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The Next Web and NYC GOV
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to reach 44 retail store total by mid-2013 — Summary: Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told Worldwide Partner Conference attendees more retail stores are coming, including two outside the U.S., in fiscal 2013. — Follow @maryjofoley
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The Next Web, CNET, The Verge and The Verge
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Ventures Leads $5M Investment In Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change — Pocket Change, a startup offering a virtual currency platform for Android games, has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding. — Creating a currency platform that works across Android games … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Judge Rejects Key Universal Music Argument In Legal Fight With Grooveshark — Two and a half years ago, Universal Music (UMG) sued Grooveshark (or, really, its parent company Escape Media). The case has had a few twists and turns since then, but the judge has issued a ruling (embedded below) …
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TorrentFreak and TECHGEEK.com.au
| AppleInsider: |
Rumor: Next-gen iPhone, ‘iPad mini’ engineering samples pictured — A pair of reports on Tuesday allege to show an “engineering samples” of Apple's rumored next-generation iPhone and smaller 7-inch iPad, the latter being one of the first mock-ups to hit the web.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
AdRoll nabs $15M from Foundation, Accel, & Merus to get you clicking more ads — Online ad retargeting startup AdRoll has raised $15 million in its second-round of funding with an aim of expanding the company and improving its tech that allows companies to serve more relevant display ads, the company announced today.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
More malware found hosted in Google's official Android market — Security researchers have found more malware hosted in Google's Android marketplace, the Google Play Store, a discovery that once again demonstrates the limitations of a recently deployed scanning service designed to flag malicious apps … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
EU proposes changes to music licensing rules: iTunes, others to benefit — Summary: If you've ever found that iTunes or another premium content service is missing your favourite music album, that could change with the easing of EU licensing rules. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker
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Inquirer, Bloomberg, Fast Company, The Verge, EU Press Room, The Next Web, Softpedia News, SlashGear and New York Times
| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Ouya games console blasts past $2.3m — The challenge now is to deliver on the expectations of its 19,000 early backers — US startup Ouya has attracted $2.3m (£1.47m) of pledges for its Android-based games console, less than 24 hours after launching its campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter.
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VentureBeat, Wired, The Verge, VG247, Kickstarter Blog and Wired.co.uk
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Microsoft and Google agree to stay three U.S. patent lawsuits until FRAND issues are resolved — Microsoft and Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility have reached an agreement on a procedural course of action: as far as their three lawsuits pending in the Western District of Washington are concerned …
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Computerworld, ITworld.com, ZDNet, The Verge and Neowin
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck — Before he angered customers by raising prices, before he became the butt of Saturday Night Live satire for his Qwikster schemes, Netflix CEO Red Hastings alienated some of his key executives.
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| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Confessions of an Internet Addict — Newsweek's cover story this week posits that “new research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed—and may even create more extreme forms of mental illness.” We found an Internet addict to tell us all about his affliction.
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| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
NBC and Facebook to Announce Olympics Partnership — Users of Facebook, later this summer, will be reminded about NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in London. And viewers of NBC's coverage, at the same time, will be nudged to talk about the Games on Facebook.| Agence France Presse: |
Russian parliament approves ‘web censorship’ bill — MOSCOW — The Russian parliament on Wednesday voted to approve a contentious bill that activists fear will introduce Internet censorship by blacklisting sites deemed as undesirable. In a further controversial move, deputies also passed …
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RIA Novosti, CNET, The Moscow Times, en.ria.ru, Bloomberg, dailywireless.org, TECHGEEK.com.au, The Raw Story and en.ria.ru. Thanks:@ross
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Cloud Storage Wars! LogMeIn's Cubby Bumps Referrals To 1 GB, Double That Of Dropbox — The online storage wars continue! Yesterday, Dropbox announced new pricing plans which doubled the storage space for users at no additional cost, and today, new player Cubby is also making a change …
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