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AllThingsD:
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.
May 17, 2013, 8:00 PMIn context
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.
May 17, 2013, 2:10 PMIn context
AllThingsD:
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.
May 16, 2013, 8:25 PMIn context
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 …
May 16, 2013, 2:10 PMIn context
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.
May 16, 2013, 4:20 AMIn context
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Here's That Steve Jobs E-Book Email to James Murdoch   —  “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.”  —  That's an excerpt from an email sent by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to James Murdoch of News Corporation …
May 15, 2013, 9:35 PMIn context
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple's E-Book Argument: Deals With Publishers Improved Competition   —  The United States Department of Justice has described Apple's defense against allegations that it conspired to illegally fix e-book prices “unconvincing” and “untethered from both precedent and logic.”
May 15, 2013, 9:15 PMIn context
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Google Chrome: 750 Million Active Users, Synchronized Web and Mobile Browsing   —  Chrome, Google's homegrown Web browser, has seen a pretty big uptick in users in recent months.  And, increasingly, those users are coming from mobile.  —  That was the gist of the Chrome-focused presentation given …
May 15, 2013, 3:25 PMIn context
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting   —  Google introduced yet another design revamp for its Google+ social product at its I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the second visual overhaul for the service in about two years.  —  And guess what?  Like many other startup visual layouts today …
May 15, 2013, 1:45 PMIn context
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Coming Soon From Google: A $649 Samsung Galaxy S4 Running Stock Android   —  While not a new Nexus phone, Google said on Wednesday that it plans to start selling an unlocked version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 through its Google Play store.  —  Like Nexus devices, the unlocked Galaxy S4 will be able …
May 15, 2013, 1:01 PMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek  —  You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).