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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Microsoft's next Xbox will take over your TV, interact with your cable box — The fight for the living room continues — Microsoft is investing in TV in a big way with its next Xbox console as part of a fight for the living room. Multiple sources familiar with the company's Xbox plans … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Really, Microsoft? Your vision for the future of TV is... an HDMI cable? — Microsoft is one of those companies that has a shot at changing TV. Instead, it's betting on preserving the status quo, in a bad way: Microsoft's next Xbox is supposed to have deep integration with live TV programming …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014? — Summary: An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's two-year wave of coming Office updates implies Office for iOS and Android may be further away than many industry watchers thought. — An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's coming ‘Gemini’ wave …
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GeekWire, Computerworld, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Register, iMore, Business Insider, TUAW, Pocketnow, App Advice, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, Neowin, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidOS.in, AppleInsider and The Verge. Tweets: @reneritchie
| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
A Theory about the Office on iPad Schedule — Could Office for iPad really be delayed until late 2014?? — Mary Jo Foley has published a fascinating peek at the timetable for Outlook RT, as well as coming versions of Office on iPad, Android, Mac OS X, and Windows RT. And while the dates …
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| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
Computer Sales in Free Fall — Worldwide shipments of personal computers fell 13.9% in the first quarter, according to market researcher IDC, in the biggest decline since the firm began issuing quarterly numbers in 1994. — The grim estimate of 76.3 million units shipped is the latest sign …
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IDC, GigaOM, ZDNet, CNET, CITEworld, Delimiter, Associated Press, ParisLemon, The CIO Report, The Next Web, BGR, The Verge, AppleInsider and AllThingsD. Tweets: @alex
| Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins And Andreessen Horowitz Team Up As “Glass Collective” To Invest In Google Glass Ecosystem — Today, Google Ventures announced a partnership with two of the biggest technology venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, on what they're calling the “Glass Collective.”
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pmarca, The Official Google Blog, AllThingsD, CNET, The Register, GigaOM, Android Authority, Reuters, Business Insider, Forbes, Engadget, Digits, Skift and Fortune
Tweets: @levie and @googleventures
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within The Next Month, Google Confirms — Today during Google Venture's “Glass Collective” event, Google told us that it hopes to get the Glass hardware into the hands of developers “within the next month.” The exact date for when Google plans to ship …
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9to5Google, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, The Next Web, Droid Life, CNET, The Verge, ProgrammableWeb and PhoneArena
| Matthew Boesler / Business Insider: |
Bitcoin Is Crashing — It's shaping up to be a pretty ugly day for Bitcoin. — After soaring past $250 earlier, it's tumbled all the way down to current levels around $156. — Bitcoin is now 41 percent off its intraday high of $266. — The chart below shows Bitcoin prices since April 7.
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| Chris Cumming / American Banker: |
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| Sue Marek / FierceWireless: |
Verizon CEO: 50% of our wireless traffic is video — LAS VEGAS—Video accounts for 50 percent of Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) network traffic today and by 2017 the carrier estimates video will make up two-thirds of all traffic over the network. Speaking at the National Association …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, PhoneArena, SlashGear and GigaOM
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Well, That Was Fast: Twitter Already Shut Down Ribbon's Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature — This morning, payments startup Ribbon announced support for “in-stream” payments on Twitter.com, allowing users to click a button directly within a tweet in order to make a purchase without having to leave the Twitter.com website.
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Ribbon Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable, The Next Web, Marketing Land and VentureBeat
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Google Babel News: Google Voice Support “Eventually” Coming, Synced Notifications, “First Class” iOS Experience — Whenever Google Babel does arrive for public consumption, we're starting to believe it will be everything we have ever asked for in a unified messenger service.
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BGR, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, SlashGear and AndroidGuys
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant — The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications. — The Internal Revenue Service doesn't seem to believe …
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ACLU, The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Techlicious Blog …, The Raw Story, WebProNews, The Register and SlashGear. Thanks:@bendreyfuss
| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Yahoo Dealmaker Reses Targets Mobile Talent in M&A Spree — Yahoo Dealmaker Targets Mobile Talent in M&A Spree — Marissa Mayer's strategy of using deals to reignite growth at Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) will hinge on the success of a private-equity veteran named Jacqueline Reses who was largely unknown in Silicon Valley six months ago.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Inside Operation Inversion, the Code Freeze That Saved LinkedIn — LinkedIn's May 2011 initial public offering was a blowout. Its share price more than doubled in the first day of trading, giving the networking site a near $9 billion valuation. Behind the scenes, though, the company's computing systems were a total mess.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown — Simon Dawlat, founder of AppGratis — the app-discovery application removed from the iTunes App Store this week for developer guideline violations — said he's “in total disbelief” at Apple's action. And it's hard to blame him.
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BGR, nbcnews.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and Forbes
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others — If it gets it, Google wants to turn .search into a “dotless domain,” the company told ICANN a few days ago. Last year, Google applied to manage the .app, .blog, .cloud … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches Partner Categories, 500+ Generic Profiles To Target Ads Better, With Data From Datalogix, Epsilon, Axciom — Facebook today is taking another step ahead in its ad targeting strategy, which serves users advertising based on their location and online purchasing and browsing histories.| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
In Midst of Mobile Pivot, Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Step Down Later This Year — Gary Kovacs, who has been CEO of Mozilla for just over two years, will be stepping down later this year, the company announced this morning to employees. The Mountain View, Calif.-based open source software nonprofit foundation … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
More Claims of Samsung Being Cut Out of Apple's A7 Chip Development — The Korea Times reports that Samsung has been excluded from Apple's plans for its next-generation A7 system-on-a-chip expected to be released next year to power upcoming iOS devices. According to the report …
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The Korea Times, CNET, App Advice, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, TUAW, BGR, Electronista, Engadget, iClarified, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
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