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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.| 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.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. Will Facebook swoop in at the last minute? — Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer thinks that what Blogger did for Google, Tumblr could do for her aging Internet company — make it relevant and a major player on the modern web. And for that she is willing … | 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.| Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me: |
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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.| 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 … | 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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Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression — The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is nearly done with its VP9 video technology, and it wants the world to use it.| Wall Street Journal: |
Laurene Powell Jobs Goes Public to Promote Dream Act — Steve Jobs's widow has taken on a public role, backing one of the most controversial causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform. And she is doing it using some of the tactics that her late husband, the Apple Inc. co-founder, employed to great effect at the technology giant.| Stephen Totilo / Kotaku: |
EA Has No Games in Development For Nintendo's Wii U — Less than two years after vowing to deliver on an “unprecedented partnership” with Nintendo, gaming giant EA is quiet on the Wii U front. “We have no games in development for the Wii U currently,” company spokesperson Jeff Brown told Kotaku yesterday.| 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 … | 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.| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
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Nvidia Shield pre-orders start today, priced at $349 and ships in June — Three days earlier than expected — Nvidia is starting orders of its new Android-powered handheld console, Shield, today. After announcing a $349 price tag and June release date earlier this week … | Wall Street Journal: |
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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 … | 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 … | Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph: |
Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army — The Financial Times website and two Twitter accounts belonging to the news organisation appear to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army today. — The breach, which took place just before 1pm BST, is just the latest in a spate … | 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.
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