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| Larry Page / The Official Google Blog: |
Update from the CEO — Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating system would drive innovation across the mobile industry. Most people thought he was nuts.
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| Urs Holzle / The Official Google Blog: |
A second spring of cleaning — We're living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn't happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google To Close Google Reader On July 1 — Google Reader user? Say goodbye. Google has announced the service is closing on July 1. — The news came today in a “Spring Cleaning” blog post from Google, where the company said: … I'm pretty amazed to read this.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The Google Reader Shutdown Is Yet Another Nail In FeedBurner's Coffin — How long until Google shuts down FeedBurner? The company just announced that it is shutting down Google Reader on July 1. That will be a sad day for all of us who still regularly use it, but its demise was probably inevitable.| Wall Street Journal: |
In Rare Move, Apple Goes on the Defensive Against Samsung — Apple Inc. is on the defensive. — In a rare interview a day before Samsung Electronics Co. announces a new flagship smartphone in New York, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller on Wednesday played down the expected competition …
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung Targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's Core IPhone Market — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.
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| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Twitter acquires We Are Hunted, readies standalone music app — SCOOP: Twitter is preparing a music discovery app built on technology from a recent acquisition. It could be released by the end of the month. [Read more]| Jeff Huang / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Making Apps a Bigger Part of Timeline — Today, we're announcing an update to timeline to help people express what's important to them. We're introducing better ways for apps to appear on timeline, improved controls for users, and streamlined tools for setting up Open Graph. — A more organized timeline
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| Cameron Johnson / The Official Netflix Blog: |
Introducing Netflix Social — Movies and TV shows are better with friends. — We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show. — Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the U.S. government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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| Mike Kruzeniski / Twitter Blog: |
Welcome Twitter for Windows 8 — Today, we are releasing Twitter for Windows 8, a new app that makes it easier than ever to share and discover content on Windows 8 devices. In addition to familiar Twitter features, including the Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs, this app introduces …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too — It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker. — When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. A mention of Verizon was noticeably absent.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Outbox: Yahoo Mail Head Sharma Leaves Company — According to numerous sources, Vivek Sharma, who is GM of the powerful Mail and Messenger products at Yahoo, has left the company. — It's not clear where Sharma — who has been at the Silicon Valley Internet giant since 2009 and has worked …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Google Admits Street View Project Violated Privacy — SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords, e-mail and other personal information from unsuspecting computer users.
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| iFixit: |
Pebble Teardown — Welcome to the future of watch evolution. The Pebble E-Paper Watch is the “first watch built for the 21st century.” It can track your bikerides, display your text messages, and even tell the time! We had no choice but to bust the Pebble open and see what made it tick.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself? — The team sitting around the table at Groupon's Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business. Marc Andreessen, the man who created the modern web browser and Silicon Valley's hottest venture capitalist.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Is Samsung Stringing Microsoft Along on Windows Phone 8? — Is Samsung's interest in Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 on the level, or is it a ploy intended to slow the platform's market penetration? Boutique research house Detwiler Fenton believes it may be the latter, a concerted effort …
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