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Betaworks to Pay $500,000 for Fallen Social Media Star Digg — New York technology development firm Betaworks has agreed to buy news-sharing website Digg, in an attempt to revive a company that was early to social media but outmaneuvered by rivals like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc.
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Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks — Sun Valley and self-driving cars aside, the story of the day today is that social news site Digg has sold its remaining assets for $500K to the NYC-based tech firm Betaworks. While that number is indeed in the ballpark …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker — Today we received some disturbing tips that a Russian developer has published a method of obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. First noticed by Russian blog i-ekb.ru, the “in-app proxy"method does not require a jailbreak … | Nielsen Blog: |
Two Thirds of New Mobile Buyers Now Opting For Smartphones — During Q2 2012 smartphone penetration continued to grow, with 54.9 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers owning smartphones as of June 2012. This growth is driven by increasing smartphone purchases: 2 out of 3 Americans who acquired …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, The TechBlock, Mashable!, WebProNews, fiercemobilecontent.com, PhoneArena, Android News, Rumours …, IntoMobile, My Nokia Blog, I4U News, Beet.TV, digitaltrends.com, The Loop, msnbc.com, Pulse2 Technology …, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9.blog, GeekWire, WMPoweruser, Engadget, MobileBurn.com and The Next Web
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Diller Says Aereo Will Expand To Most Large U.S. Cities — Aereo Inc., the online television service backed by Barry Diller, will expand from New York to other large U.S. cities following a favorable court ruling, the 70-year-old billionaire said. — “We're going to really start marketing … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
RIM Is Bleeding Developers — Research In Motion's sad decline is having all manner of ill effects on the company's long-suffering developer community. — Disillusioned with repeated delays to RIM's next generation BlackBerry 10 operating system and the company's ebbing smartphone market share … | Business Week: |
The Education of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason — There's an excellent Japanese restaurant in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. The place has been around for years and still draws a crowd, a trendy mix of tattooed hipsters and business-casual professionals. Black-clad waiters …
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
U.S. Pursues Richard O'Dwyer as Intermediary in Online Piracy — Richard O'Dwyer, an enterprising 24-year-old college student from northern England, has found himself in the middle of a fierce battle between two of America's great exports: Hollywood and the Internet.
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Hillicon Valley and Dave Winer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft may scrap full retail edition of Windows 8, offer OEM and upgrade only — Microsoft is reportedly planning to kill its retail full edition of Windows 8, offering simplified upgrade and System Builder options for home users. The software maker has typically sold upgrade, full … | The Official Google Blog: |
Street View goes on a road trip through California's national parks — One hot summer day in Yosemite National Park in Northern California, I sat under a tree along a lazy river in awe of the natural beauty around me. I looked out at the majestic granite mountains, the chirping birds …
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PC Magazine, Betabeat, Pulse2 Technology …, msnbc.com and Softpedia News
| Rob Walker / New York Times: |
Can Tumblr's David Karp Embrace Ads Without Selling Out? — It's been said (by Steve Jobs, no less) that good design is not just about how a thing looks but rather about how a thing works. But maybe design is also about how a thing feels. — The design of Tumblr, the blogging tool and social network, is guided by feeling.
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Social networks scan for sexual predators, with uneven results — (Reuters) - On March 9 of this year, a piece of Facebook software spotted something suspicious. — A man in his early thirties was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Retina MacBook Pro Shipping Estimates Improving for the First Time — For the first time since its launch just over one month ago, Apple's Retina MacBook Pro has begun to see improvements in shipping estimates for new orders placed through the company's online store.
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Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, Apple Bitch, AppleInsider, MacNN and Macgasm
| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
Android Forums hacked: 1 million user credentials stolen — Summary: Phandroid's AndroidForums.com has been hacked. The database that powers the site was compromised and more than 1 million user account details were stolen. If you use the forum, make sure to change your password asap.| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
FBI probes China's ZTE over Iran tech deals: report — (Reuters) - The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into ZTE Corp over the Chinese company's sale of banned U.S. computer equipment to Iran and its alleged subsequent attempts to cover it up and obstruct a Department of Commerce probe, the Smoking Gun website reported.
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The Smoking Gun, SlashGear, ZDNet, TechEye, The Verge, The Register and Wired
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Verizon serves up GameTanium, giving customers 150 on-demand Android games for $5.99 a month — Wanting to take the hassle out of Android downloads and limiting the possible spend on the Google Play marketplace, Verizon has teamed up with Exent to offer its Android customers access …
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GigaOM, Engadget, multivu.com, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, The Verge, Ubergizmo and fiercemobilecontent.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Jetpac's Social Travel iPad App Grabs $2.4 Million From Khosla Ventures, Jerry Yang And Others — Jetpac, a gorgeous social travel application for iPad, has just scored $2.4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and [redacted] …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Docomo Closes $22.5M, 20% Investment In Baidu Mobile Content JV: DeNA Games Coming First — It's been a long time coming — plans for a mobile content partnership between NTT Docomo and China's search giant Baidu were announced a year ago — but today it's finally happened … | John Furrier / SiliconANGLE: |
Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners calls NASDAQ & Morgan Stanley Criminals in Facebook IPO Debacle — Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners, appeared on Bloomberg TV's “Money Moves” with Deirdre Bolton today and said that NASDAQ and Morgan Stanley conduct in Facebook IPO is “criminal” and exposed “extreme corruption.”
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Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, ZDNet and Silicon Valley Watcher
| Connie Guglielmo / Forbes: |
Apple, Challenged By Greenpeace, Says It Has A Plan To Run Greener Data Centers — Greenpeace International gave Apple a mixed review over its clean energy plans for its data centers, the huge servers farms that power its iCloud and its other online services like iTunes …
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Data Center Knowledge and ZDNet
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