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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
T-Mobile to carry the iPhone 5 on April 12th for $99 up front — At long last, T-Mobile will carrying the Apple iPhone starting on April 12th. The fourth place carrier announced the news during a press event in New York on Tuesday. T-Mobile, the fourth largest carrier in the US …
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TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, BGR, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Next Web, T-Mobile, AllThingsD, Business Insider and IntoMobile
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile Aims to Remake Itself With New Network, New Plans and New Devices — After spending months getting its network and business ready, T-Mobile USA is ready to show its new look to the world. — The revamped No. 4 carrier is still the underdog, of course, but now the company has some of the pieces it has long been missing.
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Wall Street Journal, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, VentureBeat, Engadget, T-Mobile, CNET, BGR, Softpedia News, The Verge and BGR
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
T-Mobile announces first LTE markets — T-Mobile's LTE rollout has been a long time coming, but as of today that network is finally live. At an event in New York City, the carrier made its initial batch of LTE cities official — seven markets in total. Now, subscribers in Baltimore, MD …
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TechCrunch and The Verge
| Times of India: |
Apple plans to scale up presence in India, to triple exclusive stores to 200 by 2015 — KOLKATA/ NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the success of the iPhone in India, Apple Inc has decided to scale up its presence in the country and plans to triple its exclusive stores to around 200 by 2015, said three of its dedicated franchisees.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNET, MacNN, ValueWalk, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, TUAW, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Quartz and PhoneArena
| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
Facebook Expands Targeted Advertising Through Outside Data Sources — SAN FRANCISCO — Debra Aho Williamson, an advertising industry analyst and devoted coffee drinker, was intrigued by a promotion that popped up on her Facebook page recently. Sign up for a Starbucks loyalty card, it said, and get $5 off.| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Just do it, says Yahoo's teen app millionaire — (Reuters) - Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you're out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of the London schoolboy who's just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30 million.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple's first quarter of negative income growth since 2003 — It ends this week. Investors might as well get ready for the negative headlines. — FORTUNE — The bad news is that every analyst we've surveyed — even the most bullish — believes that for the first time in a decade Apple …
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iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, iPhone, GSMArena Blog, BGR, Cult of Mac and 9to5Mac
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
OS X app launcher Quicksilver ends its decade-long beta — After ten years, Quicksilver finally leaves beta with its version 1.0.0 release. — Quicksilver blog — After years of development, a shift from closed source to open source, and the advent of popular competitors like Alfred …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
What, exactly, WiFiSLAM is, and why Apple acquired it — A couple of days ago the news broke that Apple had acquired indoor location startup WiFiSLAM. Since the company immediately pulled its website and Apple isn't exactly forthcoming about its plans for its acquisitions, much of the chatter since then has been speculation.| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Spotify tries to go mainstream, launches splashy ad campaign — The music service will launch its first ever ad-campaign tonight as it tries to speed up growth in the U.S. — From Spotify's first TV ad campaign — Spotify today is rolling out a major advertising blitz …
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Music Ally, Reuters, Evolver.fm, The Next Web and CNET
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Mail update now available, Google Calendar support removed for existing users — Microsoft has started pushing out its latest Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, and People app updates to users today. A little ahead of the schedule, the application updates are now available in the Windows Store … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
| Russ Martin / Marketing Magazine: |
Sprouter and BetaKit folded into Financial Post — BetaKit and Sprouter, two of Canada's leading startup resources, are now part of the Financial Post. As of March 22, both Sprouter.com and BetaKit.com redirected to FP Startups, a long-standing section of the Financial Post dedicated to reporting on young technology businesses.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Stocksy aims to bring the soul back into stock photography — iStockphoto founder Bruce Livingstone is trying again with the stock-art business — this time with a startup focusing on photographers, not profits. — Bruce Livingstone, founder of the iStockphoto site that grew … | Jason Palmer / BBC: |
Mobile location data ‘present anonymity risk’ — Location data may not seem personal in a crowded place - but a mobile user's path can give identity away — Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information.
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DSLreports and GigaOM
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Announces A New ‘Revenue Estimator’ For Small Businesses — Yelp is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses. — A company spokesperson told me the feature is important for two reasons.
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Yelp Official Blog, VatorNews, The Next Web and Forbes
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Samsung updates high-end Series 9 ultrabook, catching up as 1080p screens become the norm — Nine months ago, the 1600 x 900 display on Samsung's Series 9 laptop was relatively impressive for its time, but it has since been bested by a number of 1080p (and occasionally even higher) ultrabook displays.
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Business Wire, The Droid Guy, HEXUS.net Latest Content, ZDNet, Neowin, Ubergizmo, CNET, GigaOM and Liliputing
| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Pocket for Publishers brings analytics, branding & paywall support to the view-later service — In the world of save-for-later services, Pocket has made a name for itself by encompassing more than just text. Whether it's a YouTube video, a discussion on Hacker News or an article …
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TechCrunch, Pocket Blog, Nieman Journalism Lab, paidContent, iMore, VentureBeat and Poynter
| Grant Gross / PC World: |
ICANN's trademark clearinghouse to launch Tuesday — As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers launches a new trademark clearinghouse on Tuesday, businesses that own trademarks should consider getting involved in the program, some ICANN watchers said.
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TechCrunch, BBC, ZDNet, Telegraph and Tech Europe
| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
Beijing Strikes Again at Apple — BEIJING—The Chinese Communist Party's main propaganda outlet assailed Apple Inc.'s customer-service practices, the latest indication that China might move to check foreign companies' domination of the country's smartphone market.
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VentureBeat, Forbes, Engadget, Mercury News, The Verge, Electronista, memeburn, Digits, GigaOM, CNET, ValueWalk and InvestorPlace
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Among Big Properties, Apple and Amazon Have Greatest Portions of Mobile-Only Users — Thirty-five percent of U.S. visitors to Apple properties in February were mobile-only, compared to 22 percent for Amazon and Wikipedia, 17 percent for Facebook, 14 percent for Google, 11 percent for Yahoo and 5 percent for Microsoft.
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comScore, Inc., ECPM BLOG, CNET, AdExchanger and GeekWire
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Microsoft, Spotify and The Echo Nest launch Mixshape, an engaging tool for ordering playlists — Microsoft, Spotify and music intelligence firm The Echo Nest have joined forces to create Mixshape, a visual tool that automatically sorts playlists based on the properties and moods of individual songs.
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The Verge, Pocket-lint and Neowin
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Europe Wants To Slash $77B Off Broadband Rollouts By Cutting Red Tape And Requiring High Speed Links In All New Builds — The European Commission wants half of the region's households to have Internet connections of 100Mbps or more by 2020, with minimum connections of 30Mbps for everyone …
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GigaOM, EU Press Room, Dow Jones Newswires and The Next Web
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Court Tosses Lawsuit That Said MMS Was An Illegal File Sharing Network — A few years ago, we wrote about a really ridiculous lawsuit filed by (then) regular Techdirt commenter Max Davis against all of the mobile operators: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile.
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Wired, Ars Technica and MediaPost
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
The Series A Bottleneck Grows Tighter, Fenwick Survey Shows — While the number of seed financing deals has ballooned over the last few years as the cost of starting a company has fallen, the pace of Series A venture deals hasn't kept up. — Now it looks like the bottleneck between …
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Fenwick & West LLP, SiliconANGLE and bizjournals
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