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Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome And Chrome OS — Google just announced that it is forking WebKit and launching this fork as Blink. As Google describes it, Blink is “an inclusive open source community” and “a new rendering engine based on WebKit” … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink — Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues. But it's not just about technology: social issues also factored into the schism. — A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google … | Evleaks / 9to5Google: |
Facebook Home offers a fresh take on Android UI (Photos) — It should come as little surprise to industry observers that Facebook plans to unveil both a rich, skinned version of its Android app at a press event tomorrow, along with the first hardware to run that experience out of the box.| Brendan Eich / The Mozilla Blog: |
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Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down ‘indefinitely’ — Updated at 12:57 p.m. with more detail about current Bitcoin prices. — Bitcoins are a hot commodity now, but are your Bitcoins actually safe? Bitcoin wallet company Instawallet has suspended its service “indefinitely” after being hacked.| Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable: |
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New mobile updates for Android, iPhone and mobile web — We just released a new version of Twitter for Android. Its new design reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Flurry Five-Year Report: It's an App World. The Web Just Lives in It — Five years ago, the iPhone ushered in the era of mobile computing. Today, more than a billion consumers are “glued” to these devices and their applications, impacting nearly every aspect of their lives.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Decides to Build Its Own Stores — Inside Best Buy — Samsung is battling Apple on many fronts, and retail stores are no exception. — However, this time the company has opted not to follow the same path as its rival. Whereas Apple opened its own chain of stores … | eMarketer: |
Facebook to See Three in 10 Mobile Display Dollars This Year — Mobile advertising will reach $7.29 billion in 2013, and Google will take home more than half of it — Following explosive entrances by Facebook and Twitter to the marketplace, as well as a strong performance from Google … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
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Arthur Frommer gets Frommer brand back from Google — NEW YORK (AP) — Travel guru Arthur Frommer said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks. — Google acquired the Frommer brand … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It — Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. — Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the classic video game development company.| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google Upgrades Its Google Places Dashboard With Google+ Local Integration — Google has begun a staged upgrade of its Google Places Dashboard — the backend tool that allows local businesses to manage their business information that appears in Google's search results.| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Prices of Windows RT tablets drop, point to failure of OS — Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling, signaling an attempt by PC makers to quickly clear out stock after poor adoption of tablets and convertibles with the operating system. — Microsoft released Windows RT … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Rdio launches Vdio social movie and TV service with an iPad app coming later today and $25 credit for Rdio subscribers — After being rumored for over a year, the movie and TV rental and purchase service Vdio soft-launched last night for premium Rdio subscribers in the US and UK.| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system — CNET looks at newly surfaced contracts, design specs, and page after page of schematics and code, revealing how Apple created its first disk OS, a chapter of Silicon Valley history critical to its later success.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Owen Thomas Joins ReadWrite As Editor-in-Chief, Says He Will Take The Site ‘Back To Our Roots’ — Say Media just announced that Owen Thomas, previously the West Coast Editor at Business Insider, has joined ReadWrite (a tech blog that Say acquired in 2011) as editor-in-chief.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Full-size photos arrive for real on Google+ — Trying to keep its photo fans happy, Google now lets people upload full-resolution images to Google+. But big photos count against Google's 5GB free limit. — Google now lets Google+ users override a setting that limited photos they uploaded … | Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead — Say you need a latté. You might pull out your phone, open the Yelp app and search for a nearby cafe. If instead you want to buy an espresso machine, you will most likely tap Amazon.com. — Either way, Google lost a customer.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Huh? EA builds an app for sharing music and photos (exclusive) — Electronic Arts has stretched beyond its roots as a game publisher by creating a social networking app for sharing music and photos. — That's right. It has nothing to do with games. Vue is a free mobile app that EA … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple no longer blocking Microsoft's SkyDrive iOS update, version 3.0 released — Microsoft and Apple have been locked in a battle over Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-storage app for iOS. The two companies were originally sparring over a 30 percent cut of revenue from SkyDrive storage purchases …
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