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| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass — Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today — Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the “Developing for Glass” session. Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which also included Evernote, Tumblr …
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Twitter Blog, Evernote Blog, The Verge, GigaOM, The Verge, TechHive, CNET, CITEworld, The Next Web, 9to5Google and AllThingsD
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Intel May Have Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Still Win the Mobile War — As CEO Paul Otellini steps down from his post, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips. — Forty-five years after Intel was founded …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO — Intel CEO Paul Otellini is stepping down today, and The Atlantic has published a lengthy profile of the outgoing CEO. While the article mostly argues that Intel thrived under Otellini's watch, it also reveals what could have been … | Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
| The Verge: |
Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess — How Google built its new messaging platform for Gmail, Android, iOS, and Chrome... and what took so long — Skydivers equipped with futuristic glasses live-broadcasted their descent into the Moscone Center …
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Forbes, CNET, ReadWrite, USA Today, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, TUAW, Android Beat, Business Insider and TechCrunch
| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
Google Buys a Quantum Computer — Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics. Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft's Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google — For the last few months, Microsoft has been running a pointed PR and ad campaign against Google, where it accuses the search giant of screwing over its customers. — You gotta hand it to Microsoft: Yesterday they got Google to help promote their message for them.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Nick Hide / Crave: |
Samsung changes mind, will look at storage on Galaxy S4 … Samsung has backed down on the Galaxy S4's limited storage after the phone appeared on the BBC's Watchdog, saying it will try to squeeze its myriad features into a smaller space, freeing up more memory for apps.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator Adds Four Part-Time Partners, Including Groupon's Andrew Mason (Who's Also Starting A New Company) — Y Combinator's Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in a just-published blog post. — Let's see if I've got everything: The incubator has added one full-time partner …
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Andrew Mason, Y Combinator Posthaven, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Digits
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development — Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
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Kickstarter, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, CNET, The Next Web, Y Combinator Posthaven, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Electronista. Thanks:@drizzled
| Bloomberg: |
Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim — Bill Gates became the world's richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007. His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.| Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider: |
Apple plans to move flagship San Francisco store to Union Square — Apple has submitted plans for a new retail location in San Francisco's Union Square that would replace the Apple Store currently at Stockton and Ellis. — Plans for the new store emerged on Thursday, according to SFGate.
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The Technology Chronicles, AllThingsD, SiliconBeat, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, Macgasm, CNET, TUAW, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac and MacNN
| Jason Wilson / VentureBeat: |
EA kills its controversial Online Pass program — EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response. — “Yes, we're discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications …
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Digital Media Wire, CNET, Wired, Forbes, Geek.com, PC Magazine, Gearburn and The Verge
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Android and iOS accounted for 92% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments, as Windows Phone passes BlackBerry — Android and iOS accounted for 92.3 percent of all smartphones shipped during the first quarter of 2013, according to new figures published today by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
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Business Wire, The Verge, SlashGear, AppleInsider, BGR, Computerworld, Fortune, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, MacRumors, Mashable, Ubergizmo, WMPoweruser, Phones Review, Business Insider, CNET, CITEworld, Neowin, TechHive, Pocketnow, MobileSyrup.com, TechEye and dailywireless.org
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Tim Cook says US-made Mac will be new model in an existing family — When Apple's Tim Cook revealed that his company would once more assemble a Mac line in the US, there was a flood of questions almost immediately: which model? Where would it be made? While the CEO isn't revealing …
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Politico, The Verge, AllThingsD and MacRumors
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Court reverses Yahoo ruling for $2.75 billion Mexican Yellow Pages breach of contract, reduces damages to $172,500 — Yahoo on Thursday announced some good news coming from its legal department. The Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District in Mexico granted the company's appeal …
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Yahoo! Inc., Reuters and AllThingsD
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
New High-Resolution Photos of iPhone 5S Parts Reveal Little — BGR shares several new relatively high-resolution photos of parts claimed to be from the iPhone 5S. These parts have been leaking to repair firms over the past several months, and a number of photos have already been seen …
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BGR, Electronista and 9to5Mac
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Biz Stone's New Startup Jelly Raises Series A From Spark Capital, SV Angel, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, Al Gore, Bono & Others — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's new and mysterious startup called Jelly still isn't saying what it's up to, but it has announced funding.
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Jelly HQ, AllThingsD, GigaOM, VatorNews, Betabeat, Bijan Sabet and The Next Web
| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
New Groupon CEO Unlikely Until Next Year — Groupon Inc. isn't likely to name a permanent new chief executive until next year, the daily-deal company's interim chiefs said Wednesday. — The company, which stumbled badly after going public in 2011, has been looking for someone to fill …
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ValueWalk and PandoDaily
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
That settles it: Opera drops its $3.4m lawsuit against ex-employee Trond Hansen — A little over two weeks ago, word got out about Opera filing a rather nasty lawsuit against a former longtime employee and contractor, designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google adopts Bluetooth Smart, hints of a new Android version within two months — According to a just-issued press release from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Google has committed to updating Android with support for Bluetooth Smart (also known as Bluetooth Low Energy) “in the coming months.”| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Microsoft building touch-screen feature into Chrome — To try to spread its flexible Pointer Events interface beyond Windows 8 and IE10, Microsoft programmers are trying to build support into Google's browser. — Through the peculiar dynamics of Web standard politics and the open-source …
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Digital Trends and SiliconANGLE
| Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: |
iOS, Android Games' Revenue Beat 3DS, Vita's at Best & Worst of Times — As if you needed any further reminding that phone and tablet games are where it's at, take a look at the new portable gaming report that IDC and App Annie are releasing today. — The report, obtained in advance by AllThingsD …
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CNET, App Annie Blog, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo and The Next Web
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