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Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr — According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for New York-based blogging site Tumblr.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
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Yahoo to hold Monday press event as Tumblr buyout rumors swirl — CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a “product-related” news event this Monday in New York City. None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event. Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn't yet been disclosed … | Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling — The Tumblr sweepstakes have begun. — According to multiple reports (the first coming from All Things D). the social blogging site is in serious talks with Yahoo , which is looking to secure a strategic investment … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
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How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service — Sources say iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC — Google's long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door, while Apple's iRadio is still bogged down in licensing talks.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78% — One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.| Bloomberg: |
Apple Mobile Devices Cleared for Use on U.S. Military Networks — The Pentagon cleared Apple Inc. (AAPL) devices for use on its networks, setting the stage for the maker of iPhones and iPads to compete with Samsung Electronics Co. and BlackBerry for military sales.| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Galaxy S4 sales to top 10 million — Mobile chief hints that sales may hit 100 million mark — Samsung Electronics said Thursday it expects its latest flagship handset, the Galaxy S4, to surpass the 10 million mark in sales next week. — “We are confident that we will pass more than 10 million sales of the S4 next week.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next-gen console — Microsoft is preparing to update its Xbox 360 with another dashboard update. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans have revealed to The Verge that the dashboard update will enter into a public beta … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories — Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Justin Timberlake are just a few of the artists over the past year to offer full-length, high quality streams of their newest albums on iTunes in the days before release.| Jeffrey Wu / Focus Taiwan: |
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US Air Force expects to save $50M with use of 18K Apple iPads — The purchase of 18,000 iPads for use as electronic flight bags has set the stage for the U.S. Air Force to save more than $50 million over the next 10 years. — Using lightweight iPads instead of heavy paper flight manuals … | Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: |
Apple removes Bang With Friends from App Store — The eyebrow-raising app won't be initiating Facebook-friend hookups for iPhone owners for the time being. — No more knocking boots with your Facebook friends, iPhone users. Apple has removed the salaciously titled Bang With Friends iPhone application from its App Store.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3 — Google I/O didn't give us the Android update we were expecting—or did it?? — Google covered a lot of ground in its three-and-a-half-hour opening keynote at Google I/O yesterday, but one thing it didn't announce was the oft-rumored next version of Android.| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
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A stretched Samsung chases rival Apple's suppliers — (Reuters) - Overtaking Apple Inc as the world's leading maker of smartphones has stretched Samsung Electronics Co's in-house supply lines, and the South Korean firm is now courting some of its rival's main parts suppliers.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers — $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it's made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
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T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own — Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the FCC's then-newly adopted Open Internet rules.| International Design Times: |
Firefox 22 Won't Block Third-Party Tracking Cookies: Why Mozilla Delayed Default Blocker And How Your Privacy Is Affected — Privacy and Security — Mozilla announced it will be delaying the default block on third-party cookie tracking in the upcoming Firefox 22 citing additional testing as the reason for the hold.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Bloomberg Names Former IBM CEO Palmisano to Advise on Data Privacy — Here's an interesting development in the ongoing data-privacy imbroglio over at Bloomberg LP. The company just named former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as an independent adviser with the task of reviewing and recommending changes on privacy and data policies.
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