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Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Amazon Beats Apple, Google With Launch Of Unlicensed Cloud Music Locker & Player — (UPDATED) Overnight Amazon beat both Google and Apple to market with the launch of a freemium cloud based digital media locker and robust integrated music player that accesses stored tracks across multiple computers and Android devices.
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Phil Wahba / Reuters:
Amazon faces backlash over “music locker” service — (Reuters) - A new Amazon.com Inc service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry that could ignite a legal battle. — Amazon's Cloud Drive …
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AppleInsider, Tools, Search Engine Land and MacDailyNews
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Amazon's Cloud Locker Really an Innovation? — Amazon has just launched a suite of music products that allow users to store their tracks online and them stream them over the Web or to any Android device courtesy of the Amazon MP3 mobile application. The launch has the tech world abuzz …
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VentureBeat, NewsGrange, Bloomberg, Forrester Blogs, Business Wire, A VC, GigaOM, MediaPost, SmoothSpan Blog, TidBITS, MediaMemo, Mashable!, ZDNet, Podcasting News, Changing Way, dailywireless.org, Download Squad and Disruption
Tianyu Wen / The Official Google Blog:
Google Commerce Search 3.0: You won't believe it's online shopping — When we first introduced Google Commerce Search—our search solution for e-commerce websites—our focus was on improving search quality and speed to help online shoppers find what they're looking for.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Commerce Gets Updated With Instant Search, In-Store Availability, Recommendations And More
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Fortune, PC World and The Register
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Twitter Founder Wants to Make Service More Mainstream — Making Twitter more useful for the average person — that's Jack Dorsey's first challenge as he returns to the company he founded, he said Tuesday. … “We have a lot of mainstream awareness, but mainstream relevancy is still a challenge …
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ReadWriteWeb, Marketing Pilgrim, Fortune, SAI, AllTwitter, ClickZ and Andrew Hillman dot com
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Q&A: Twitter's Jack Dorsey on Priorities, Products and Getting Punched in the Stomach — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey made news yesterday when he officially came back to his old company as a product boss. — So it would be unfair to expect him to make more news today …
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WebProNews and Andrew Hillman dot com
The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android, Allowing Users to Take the Power and Customization of Firefox Everywhere — Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intuitive interface …
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GigaOM, Brad's blog, The Register, BlogsDNA, TechSpot, Mashable!, Know Your Cell, Android Phone Fans, DroidMatters.com, Droid Life, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, Erictric, The Download Blog, GottaBeMobile, mobiputing, NewsGrange and SlashGear, Thanks:arpitnext
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobile Firefox Skips Flash In Favor Of HTML5
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Technologizer, The Register, BetaNews, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, Softpedia News and Daring Fireball
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Square Investor Deletes Tweet: “To Do Two Things At Once Is To Do Neither” — Yesterday, Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was also going to take a job at Twitter and become executive chairman in charge of product. — Last night, one of Square's top investors …
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WebProNews and FierceMobileContent
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Meg Whitman to join Kleiner Perkins — Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who got trounced in the race for California governor last November, has a new career plan: Venture capital with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Meg Whitman, who is in Hawaii until Wednesday with her neurosurgeon husband Griff Harsh …
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VentureBeat, eMoney, SAI, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, @pkedrosky and @danprimack
Nokia:
Nokia files second ITC complaint against Apple — Alleges Apple infringes additional Nokia patents in virtually all products — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has filed a further complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes additional Nokia patents …
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AppleInsider, Reuters, ITworld.com, Gearlog, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News, BGR, Fast Company, FOSS Patents, 9 to 5 Mac, ZDNet, TiPb, eWeek, TUAW, iClarified, iPhone Download Blog, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Internet2Go, Digital Trends, TechEye, ConceivablyTech, BetaNews, Engadget, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Fortune, Phones Review and The Register
IDC:
IDC Forecasts Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow by Nearly 50% in 2011 — The worldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 49.2% in 2011 as more consumers and enterprise users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with more advanced features. According to the International Data Corporation …
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MediaFile, Digital Trends, MediaPost, TechFlash, Bits, AppleInsider, The Seattle Times, GeekWire, Mobilized, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, SlashGear, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Digital Media Wire, IGN Gear, LiveSide.net, Smartphones …, Search Engine Land, PR Newswire, Tech Trader Daily, DisplayBlog, Between the Lines Blog, The Business Insider, 901am, Electronista, mocoNews, Network World, All about Microsoft Blog, Internet2Go, Reuters, LAPTOP Magazine, WMPoweruser.com, Mashable!, Cult of Mac, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile, TechSpot and MacRumors
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Don Reisinger / CNET News:
IDC: Android, Windows Phone to rule mobile
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Technologizer, PC World, Engadget, CNNMoney.com, TUAW, WinRumors, BGR, TechEye, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, dailywireless.org, Inquirer and WebProNews
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
REVEALED: Daring Fireball's Impressive Traffic Stats — A year and a half ago, we profiled John Gruber, whose Daring Fireball blog had become the “homepage for Mac nerds.” — Back then, the site was attracting about 2 million monthly pageviews on about 250,000 monthly unique visitors.
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@gruber
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's Samsung LTE Mobile Hotspot goes on sale: $100 on contract — We'd heard March 31st for this thing, but hey — are we about to complain when it goes on sale early? That would be a definitive “no,” and we're happy to report that Samsung's SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotspot with 1x, EV-DO Rev. A …
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BGR, Electronista, SlashPhone, Technologizer, GottaBeMobile, Sidecut Reports, Softpedia News and LAPTOP Magazine
Philg / Philip Greenspun's Weblog:
How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall? — Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code …
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Techdirt, Poynter and GottaBeMobile, more at Mediagazer »
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The New York Times Paywall Meters All Google Visits, Not Just Search Visits
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PC World, paidContent, Digital Trends and Mashable!, more at Mediagazer »
Dave Beckett / Digg Blog:
How Digg is Built — Digg has substantially rebuilt our infrastructure over the last year in what we call “Digg V4”. This blog post gives a high-level view of the systems and technologies involved and how we use them. Read on to find out the secrets of the Digg engineers!
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Plan Mobile Payments in Next Windows Phone — Microsoft Corp. plans to include mobile-payment features in the next version of its Windows Phone operating system, part of an effort to narrow Google Inc.'s lead in smartphone software, two people familiar with the plans said.
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Microsoft Wants to Make Emails More Interactive: Partners with LivingSocial, Netflix, Posterous and Others — Microsoft wants to make emails more interactive and turn them into something akin to small web apps. Today's emails mostly consist of static text or HTML and, for the most part …
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Digits, The Windows Blog, The LinkedIn Blog, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Republic, WinRumors, LiveSide.net, GeekWire and TechCrunch
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst Warns of Global iPademic — With iPad 2 hopefuls still queuing outside Apple stores each morning, more than two weeks after the device's U.S. launch, and international demand causing widespread stock-outs abroad, analysts who follow Apple are scrambling to adjust their iPad sales and earnings-per-share estimates.
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AppleInsider, PE Hub Blog and MacDailyNews
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer slaps $1,200 price tag on dual-screen Iconia-6120 touchbook, lets US and Canada pre-order — Acer's had its fair share of Iconia's land in the past few months, but none are as breathtaking (and potentially world-changing) as the Iconia-6120. Said machine was priced at €1,499 earlier in the year …
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PC World, CrunchGear, Laptops and Desktops Blog, Electronista, LaptopMag.com and The Toybox Blog
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Benchmark Capital's Stand: We Will Never Do a Seed or Late Stage Fund — Editor's Note: This is part two in an in-depth series exploring the ramifications of the explosion of late stage capital being raised by the Valley's elite venture firms. For part one, go here.
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PE Hub Blog, Thanks:marklavine
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Checking In Off the Couch: GetGlue Adds Sports Check-Ins, Foursquare Integration — The social network GetGlue is rolling out its largest release of the year today, with a redesigned website and iPhone app. That redesign, particularly in the case of the website, will help make it easier …
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GetGlue Blog, WebProNews, mocoNews, Search Engine Land, Mobile Entertainment, IntoMobile, Mashable!, About Foursquare and Widgets Lab
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft releases Windows ‘Vail’ server to manufacturing — Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Windows Home Server 2011 product, codenamed “Vail,” company officials said on March 29. — TechNet and MSDN subscribers will be able to download the final WHS 2011 bits in early April …
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The Windows Blog, WinRumors, TechNet Blogs, The Next Web and Electronista
Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli:
Nintendo 3DS Carries $100.71 Bill of Materials, IHS iSuppli Physical Teardown Reveals — Nintendo's groundbreaking 3DS handheld gaming system carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $100.71, according to a preliminary physical dissection of the product conducted by the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service.
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Gear Live, CrunchGear, SlashGear and Techland
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Special Delivery for All: Message Bus Launches Email Service — The co-founders of Webshots and Twitter's early infrastructure and operations lead have started a new email services company called Message Bus that's already backed with more than $3 million from True Ventures and Polaris Ventures.
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Message Bus and TechCrunch
