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Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets — Bringing its technology for processing raw photos to mobile devices, then linking them with cloud services could be a step toward Lightroom on mobile. — Adobe Systems plans to release high-end photo-editing software for tablets … | Dick Craddock / The Microsoft Office Blog: |
Outlook.com: 400 million active accounts, Hotmail upgrade complete and more features on the way — When we launched the preview of Outlook.com, our goal was to build the best email service in the world, capable of scaling to over a billion active customers.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Now Lets Anyone Tag You [Or Brands] In Photos, Adds Them To “Photos Of You” Profile Section — Today Instagram launches photo tagging, the feature that fueled Facebook's early growth. New Instagram iOS and Android updates rolling out now let you tag any person or brand in your own photos …
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GigaOM, Digital Trends, CNET, The Next Web, AllThingsD, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacStories, Mashable, Instagram for Business and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @stevestreza
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Facebook rolls out Trusted Contacts, a password recovery feature to protect accounts against hackers — On Thursday, Facebook announced the global launch of its Trusted Contacts password recovery feature. With this service, users can designate between three to five friends who can be contacted …
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| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
Intel names Brian Krzanich as CEO to succeed Paul Otellini — Less than six months after Paul Otellini announced he would step down from the position after 40 years at the company, Intel has named Brian Krzanich as its sixth CEO. Krzanich, who previously served as Intel's chief operating officer …
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| New York Times: |
Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way — When a teenage boy snatched the iPhone out of Rose Cha's hand at a bus stop in the Bronx in March, she reported the theft to her carrier and to the police — just as she had done two other times when she was the victim of cellphone theft.
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Facebook's Declining User Growth Rate, Pictured — Congrats, Facebook! — According to the stats you released during Wednesday's earnings call, your monthly and daily active user numbers are up higher than ever, topping 1.11 billion and 665 million, respectively. That's great, really.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google Glass app lets you sneak photos with a wink — A Google Glass developer has created an app that allows you to take a photo using just your eye. The Winky app, currently available through GitHub, lets you power up Glass from standby mode and snap a quick photo.
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| Bloomberg: |
China Cyberspies Outwit U.S. Stealing Military Secrets — Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America (QQ/) is known for spy-world connections and an eye- popping product line. Its contributions to national security include secret satellites, drones, and software used by U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Wired.co.uk, The Register, The H Security and Softpedia News. Tweets: @gadyepstein
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Adds New 256 GB and 512 GB Flash Storage Options to iMac — Apple has added new storage options to its iMac lineup, allowing users to choose either a 256 GB or 512 GB flash storage drive as part of the order customization process. The new options are available as $300 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft said to be planning next-gen Surface announcement for June — Microsoft has long been rumored to be working on a 7-inch version of its Surface tablet, but a new report suggests the company may be preparing to unveil it in June. DigiTimes claims that second-generation Surface devices … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: New York City's newest VC firm — Most of AOL Ventures team spins out. — FORTUNE — At just 29 years old, Mike Brown Jr. is already a venture capital veteran. He began by investing Richard Branson's money at Virgin Group, before leaving in early 2010 to co-found AOL Ventures.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Android metrics show Jelly Bean adoption overtaking Ice Cream Sandwich — Google's big shake-up of Android version metrics has already given us a better understanding of where the platform's active users truly stand. Now that we're a month into the new methodology, we have a good sense …
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| Roger Yu / USA Today: |
Sprint bids: Dish's Ergen swings back at Softbank's Son — The high-stakes bidding war for control of the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier is turning into a heated verbal joust. — In an interview with USA TODAY on Wednesday, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen swung back at Japan's SoftBank … | Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That's a Federal Hacking Case — two engineers from Nevada's Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge. The off-the-strip South Las Vegas casino is best known for its mermaid aquarium, but the GCB geek squad wasn't there to see swimmers in bikini tops and zip-on fish tails.| Steven Kurutz / New York Times: |
The Rise of the Hacker Space — Under different circumstances, or in some earlier America, Yair Silbermintz might have spent his weekday evenings tinkering with a soldering iron alone in the basement of a suburban ranch house. — But Mr. Silbermintz, 27, lives with his wife … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Intel details 4th-gen Core's HD 5000, Iris and Iris Pro graphics: up to 3X faster, 3-display collage mode — Many already believe that the real highlight of Intel's 4th-generation Core processor lineup would be a giant graphics update. Today, Intel is revealing that they're right — and …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine — If you've been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you've been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns. You've been mining Bitcoins for an unnamed staffer inside the company that runs the network.
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Gizmodo, Counter-Strike, The Verge, The Droid Guy and CoinDesk
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Readying For An IPO, Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Club Raises $125M From Google And Others — Peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club is announcing a huge new investor today: Google. Google and existing investor Foundation Capital have put $125 million in Lending Club, which was valued at $1.55 billion in the round.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Angel Investor, Spotify Fixer Shakil Khan Launches Coindesk, A Bitcoin Resource — Shakil Khan, an angel investor and advisor to Spotify, just launched Coindesk, a Bitcoin resource and news site, amid a boatload of hype and VC interest in the crypto-currency.| Sakthi Prasad / Reuters: |
Lehman Brothers sues Intel over $1 billion in seized collateral — (Reuters) - Bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers has sued Intel Corp, accusing the chip maker of seizing $1 billion in collateral in breach of a swap agreement, a court filing showed. — Under the swap agreement …
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