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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, BetaNews, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, GigaOM, TechHive, AllThingsD, The Next Web and The Verge
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| 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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CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Pocketnow and Mashable
| Mike Shields / Adweek: |
Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr Deal could reach as high as $1 billion — Is Marissa Mayer about to make a game-changing acquisition? It appears so. — Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
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CNET and The Verge. Tweets: @semil, @bhern, @nichcarlson, @howardlindzon, @rafat, @nichcarlson and @digitalshields
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Will Yahoo Try to Get Its “Cool Again” by Doing a Deal for Tumblr? — Earlier this week, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman spoke at JP Morgan's Global Technology conference and underscored the need for the aging Silicon Valley Internet giant to attract more users from the coveted 18-to-24-years-old age bracket.
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| 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.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
CW Strikes Deal with Apple to Bring Content to Apple TV — The CW has struck a deal that will bring the network's content to the Apple TV, reports Deadline. At the company's annual Upfront Presentation in New York today, CW president Mark Pedowitz announced that the CW's TV Now applications …
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Deadline.com, CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TUAW, Engadget, Gizmodo, Electronista and iDownloadBlog.com
| 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.| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
Lawmakers fear privacy risks from Google Glass — Eight members of Congress raised privacy fears about Google's wearable computer, Google Glass, expressing concern the device could allow users to identify people on the street and look up personal information about them.
| 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, Macworld, AppleInsider and MacRumors
| 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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Google Research Blog, dwavesys.com, Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNET, TechSpot, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Inquirer, The Register, Engadget and BBC
| Kellex / Droid Life: |
SMS is Indeed Coming to Google Hangouts, According to Google+ Community Manager — To say that readers were disappointed at the lack of SMS support in Google's new Hangouts application is probably somewhat of an understatement. People are 100% ready to make Hangouts their number … | 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, Reuters, VentureBeat, CNET, GigaOM, Business Insider and Dalton Caldwell
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share — Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday's initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we've got a concrete number. — The company will price its shares at $31 for Friday's IPO … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
The Facebook IPO, One Year Later — The Company Is Getting Serious About Making Money; But the Stock Is Stuck — Two weeks ago, new posters began appearing at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. The posters proclaimed: “Advertisers are users too*.” At the bottom of the page, in smaller font …
Tweets: @ritholtz, @pkafka and @geoffreyfowler
| 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, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, SlashGear, CNET, TUAW, Y Combinator Posthaven, Engadget, The Verge and Electronista. Thanks:@drizzled
| 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).| 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, PC Magazine, Macgasm, Pocket-lint, CNET, TUAW, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and SiliconBeat
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
After inking a deal to power Facebook Card, Marqeta lands $14m to expand its prepaid payments platform — Marqeta, a payments platform that rewards users with additional in-store credit for prepaying online, announced today that it has raised a $14 million Series B round of funding.| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Foxconn Audit Reveals Workweek Still Too Long — Foxconn Technology, the company that manufactures Apple's popular iPads and iPhones, has made substantial progress toward improving safety and other working conditions at three of its Chinese plants dedicated to making Apple products.
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| 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, Digital Trends and Electronista
| 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, Computerworld, Electronista and AllThingsD
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