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Introducing Poke for Mobile — Today we're announcing Poke, an iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to say hello to friends wherever you are. The poke feature has been a part of Facebook since 2004. Now we're excited to share a new poke experience for mobile.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is The Voice Behind The “Poke” Notification Sound And Wrote Code For The App — Mark Zuckerberg invented Poking, one of Facebook's earliest features, so it's fitting he was part of the small team that built the new Poke app over the last 12 days.
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Facebook Launches Snapchat Competitor “Poke”, An iOS App For Sending Expiring Text, Photos, And Videos — Facebook has just announced its newest standalone app called “Poke” which lets people send photos, videos, pokes, or text Facebook messages to their friends that expire after a few seconds.
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Apple lifts block on combo 30-pin+Lightning charging accessories — The POP station from Kickstarter aimed to combine Lightning and 30-pin connectors into a single charging device. — The Kickstarter campaign that was “shut down” by Apple for creating a charging station that had both Lightning … | Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Designing ‘X Phone’ to Rival Apple, Samsung — Engineers at Motorola are hard at work on a sophisticated handset, to be released next year, that parent Google Inc. hopes will provide more potent competition for devices like Apple Inc.'s iPhone, said people familiar with the matter.
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Instagram Reversal Doesn't Appease Everyone — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook may have quelled a full-scale rebellion by quickly dumping the contentious new terms of use for Instagram, its photo-sharing service. But even as the social network furiously backpedaled, some users said Friday they were carrying through on plans to leave.
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Why the Instagram debacle just taught every tech company to be shadier than ever — Last night Instagram announced that it was retracting a controversial terms of service change that was widely and inaccurately interpreted to mean that the company would be selling user photos.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google finds its design voice on iOS — From the beginning, Google's design sensibilities on the web and Android have been unique. Whether you were a fan of the spare, utilitarian feel of products like Search or not, you knew when you were looking at something built by Google.
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The Wall Street Journal Signs Up for Apple's Subscription Service — It took a while, but they're in: The Wall Street Journal is now selling digital subscriptions via Apple's “Newsstand” service. — That means Dow Jones' business newspaper has joined thousands of other magazines and newspapers …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple Airs New iPad mini Commercial: I'll Be Home — Just in time for Christmas, Apple has aired a new TV commercial for the iPad mini. Focused on FaceTime, the commercial shows a girl and her grandfather sharing a moment of holiday cheer with the girl playing and singing the classic hit “I'll Be Home for Christmas”.
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MacNN, MacRumors, The Next Web, The Loop, 9to5Mac and App Advice
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Police Dept. to Use Internet to Try to Stop Mass Shootings — Top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department met on Thursday to examine ways to search the Internet to identify potential “deranged” gunmen before they strike, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google Poaches a Partner's Top Marketer: Samsung Exec Brian Wallace Goes to Motorola — Samsung has done a very good job selling its brand of Google's Android phones. And apparently Google has paid attention: It is bringing over the guy who headed up Samsung's marketing to do the same job at its Motorola unit.
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Engadget, FOSS Patents, Electronista, The Verge, Business Insider and bizjournals. Tweets: @pkafka
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
YouTube launches its native Player API for Android, enabling in-app video plays, ad support, more — At Google I/O 2012, YouTube announced that it was releasing a native Player API for Android. Six months later, it has finally arrived, although it's still being treated as an experiment.
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YouTube API Blog, PhoneArena and TechCrunch
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Groupon Buys CommerceInterface To Improve How Vendors Sell On Groupon Goods — Groupon wants to be the king of local commerce, but with Groupon Goods it has a platform for online sales that compete with the likes of Amazon to sell goods from everyone everywhere.
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Business Wire, The Next Web and AllThingsD
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Amazon Instant Video app finally available for LG Google TV, more devices ‘soon’ — Google TV users have today been given another option for streaming movies and TV shows in the form of an official Amazon Instant Video app. Amazon's video service joins Netflix, HBO Go …
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BetaNews, Engadget, Android Police and PandoDaily
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Facebook was the top search term in 2012 for fourth straight year — Experian Marketing Services analyzed the top 1,000 search terms from Hitwise data for 2012 , and Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US. This is the fourth year that the social networking Website …
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WebProNews and Los Angeles Times
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Zynga Confirms It Will Close Its Japan Operation At The End Of January As Consolidation Continues To Bite The Social Gaming Company — Social gaming giant Zynga has now confirmed that it will be closing down its Japan operation, as it continues to consolidate its operations and cut less profitable parts of its business.| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Extradition trial for Kim Dotcom? Not until August 2013 — On Thursday, a New Zealand court decided to reschedule the extradition hearing sought by the US for Kim Dotcom. The hearing is now set to take place in August 2013, after being postponed once already.
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CMU, Sydney Morning Herald and TechEye
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Apple Reaches Highest-Ever U.S. Smartphone Sales Share At 53.3%; Android Consolidates In Europe — Apple's shares, as you may have seen, have been sliding in the market on the back of strong competition from Android device makers. Today, some new figures on recent smartphone sales … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Acquired Portfolio Service Behance For More Than $150 Million In Cash And Stock — Adobe announced yesterday that it had acquired New York-based company Behance. With 1 million members, the startup developed a LinkedIn for artists, allowing users to showcase their visual work.
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Photography Blog, Betabeat, The Industry and Business Insider
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Steve Jobs superyacht impounded over unpaid Starck designer bill — (Reuters) - A superyacht built for Apple Inc's late co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute over an unpaid bill to designer Philippe Starck, a lawyer said on Friday.
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