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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 … | 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.| 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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Engadget, PandoDaily, App Advice, The Mac Observer and everythingiCafe
| 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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| 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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GigaOM, Fortune, AllTwitter, Pulse2 Technology …, The Tech Trade, SocialTimes, Marketing Pilgrim, Betabeat and CNET. Tweets: @lexnfx
| 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, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, Pocketables, Ubergizmo, TUAW, MacRumors, SlashGear and iClarified
| 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 … | 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, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Know Your Cell, ITProPortal, FierceWireless, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, PhoneArena, BGR, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechWeekEurope UK, The Verge, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, Boing Boing, Forbes, iPhone 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.
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Forbes, The Verge, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, channelregister.co.uk, PadGadget, AppleInsider, BGR and CNET
| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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” …
| 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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MobileSyrup.com, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, Engadget and VentureBeat
| 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
| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Sprint's Galaxy S III update removes local search abilities — Yesterday we heard that the Sprint Galaxy S III was in the midst of getting a small “security” update over-the-air, but with little detail of what exactly was changed. The jury is still out about any security fixes …
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BuzzFeed, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, CNET and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple responds to EPEAT concerns — Apple on Tuesday responded to concerns that it asked to have its products removed from EPEAT, the U.S. government's list of environmentally friendly products. — “Apple takes a comprehensive approach to measuring our environmental impact …
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Mashable!, Computerworld, CNN, Ars Technica, Electricpig.co.uk, AppleInsider, Examiner, GigaOM, MacRumors, ReadWriteWeb, CNET and ITworld.com. Tweets: @counternotions
| 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, TECHGEEK.com.au and Softpedia News
| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Facebook connects users to free antivirus software — Here is a screenshot of the prompt Facebook users will get when they indicate that their computer may have an infection. — Facebook is now directing users who think their computer might be infected to sites where they can get free antivirus software.
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Facebook, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net and Los Angeles Times
| 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| 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 … | 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, dailywireless.org, Bloomberg, TECHGEEK.com.au, The Raw Story and en.ria.ru. Thanks:@ross
| Abraham Riesman / Motherboard: |
Crossdressing, Compression and a Collider: The First Photo on the Web — The first photographic image ever uploaded to the Web was a Photoshop disaster. It was created to sell something, and featured attractive women in a come-hither pose. — In short, photo-uploading was born …
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Laughing Squid, UPROXX, Network World, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Telegraph, Innovationnewsdaily.com, Geekologie and BuzzFeed
| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Symantec Gives Cloud Backup A Boost, Goes In On Backupify's $9 Million Series C — Backupify, the startup providing backup, search and restore solutions for online services like Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook and Twitter, is announcing today that it's secured $9 million in Series C funding …
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The Next Web, Xconomy and PR Newswire
| 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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InfoWorld and The Dropbox Blog
| 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.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G added to Android Open Source Project, ‘no plans’ to add Sprint Galaxy Nexus — After announcing that Android 4.1 had been submitted to the Android Open Source Project, Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru responded to the inevitable flood of questions that followed with a few more details.Sponsor Posts
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