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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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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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| 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.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| 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, The Verge, CNET, 9to5Mac, TUAW, Engadget, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and Electronista
| 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 … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google On Glass Privacy Issues & Congress: “Social Cues” Will Help, Plus It Takes Trust Seriously — Google Glass isn't even available for consumers and some in US Congress are already formally raising privacy questions. Google's reaction? Privacy has been “top of mind” as it has developed Glass, and it takes trust seriously.
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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me: |
White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 coming June 10th — Rumors suggested that a white Nexus 4 might appear at Google IO, and they were right. We obtained the elusive white Nexus 4 and we can confirm it's a carbon copy of the previous Nexus 4, just with a different color casing.
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| 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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| 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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| 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, CNET, TUAW, Y Combinator Posthaven, SlashGear, Electronista and Engadget. Thanks:@drizzled
| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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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