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Ilya Grigorik / PostRank Blog:
PostRank has been acquired by Google! — From the seed of an idea in late 2006, to the launch of PostRank in mid 2007, and an incredible four years of continuous learning, iteration, and developing and launching new products—what an amazing experience it has been. And yet, the best is still yet to come.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web — In another move that makes it clear that Google is putting a much greater focus on ‘social’, the search giant has just acquired PostRank. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. — PostRank is a service that helps measure …
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Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, PostRank, 9to5 Google, Mobile Marketing Watch, AllThingsD and @igrigorik
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Apple pays music bigs $100M+ — Apple will fork over between $100 million and $150 million in advanced payments to the four major music labels in order to get its iCloud off the ground, three separate sources told The Post. — The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple iCloud: Nice incremental revenue boost, but halo effect more notable — Apple has inked its licensing pact with Universal Music Group and will reportedly charge $25 a year for an iCloud subscription. That revenue stream—once you factor in splits with the music industry …
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Shiny Objects, CNET News, Patently Apple, Light Reading, Tech Trader Daily and AppleInsider
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Syrian Internet Shutdown — Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet. Over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 of 59 networks were withdrawn from the global routing table.
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The Atlantic Online, ArabCrunch, The Next Web, Computerworld, USA Today, The Register, ONI, NPR, VentureBeat, PanARMENIAN.Net, RIA Novosti, 901am, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, Security Watch and Fast Company
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
Syria internet services shut down as protesters fill streets
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Neowin.net, ZDNet, Global Voices and Electronista
David Heinemeier Hansson / Short Logic:
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal — Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they're currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they'll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
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Daring Fireball, @rsarver, @jasonfried, kottke.org and Joel Housman, more at Mediagazer »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Groupon: Doomed to Fail or Worth a Leap? A Twitter Debate
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DealBook, Screenwerk, Tech Trader Daily, gigaom.com, MarketingVox News & Trends, Bloomberg and alarm:clock
Matthew Fraser / This Much I Know:
YOU DON'T SAY: WORDS “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” ARE BANNED FROM FRENCH AIRWAVES — The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations. — Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a society universally admired …
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All Facebook, VentureBeat, Yahoo! News, The Next Web, TechCrunch, @loic, TG Daily, @sg, WebProNews and Digital Life
Susan Panico / PlayStation Blog:
Welcome Back Program Available Now - Details Inside — We're so excited to welcome you back to PlayStation Network. With the PlayStation Store back online, we've been getting all caught up this week, having launched an abundance of amazing content for download on PlayStation 3 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Forms New Venture Fund, The Social+Capital Partnership — Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya will leave the company as he launches a large new venture fund called The Social+Capital Partnership, with backing from some of the worlds leading business and technology leaders.
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AllThingsD, SAI and Everything Ventured
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Xbox LIVE Diamond subscription TV service to debut at E3 — Microsoft is planning to reveal its Xbox LIVE subscription TV service at E3, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is close to finishing a key number of components for its full Xbox LIVE subscription TV service.
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Digital Trends, CNET News, VentureBeat, DSLreports, Pocket-lint, Eurogamer, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, SlashGear, The Next Web, Geek.com, Zunited and Electronista
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed — New data from comScore on the U.S. smartphone market shows Android share is still surging, while Apple is just barely growing share. — Research in Motion and Microsoft, on the other hand are being destroyed.
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PC World, AppleInsider, PR Newswire, WinRumors, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Shiny Objects, CNET News, AndroidGuys, Android Phones …, Electronista and MacStories
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Hires The Guy Who Hacked Together A Better iOS Notifications System — Back in February, I wrote that MobileNotifier (a replacement notifications system for jailbroken iOS devices) would be the one thing that would make anyone want to jailbreak — and I stand by it.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Tools, Redmond Pie, TUAW, everythingiCafe, App Advice, iClarified and parislemon
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
MI6 Hacked Al Qaeda Website, Swapping Bomb Recipes With Cupcake Recipes — Just imagine the look of surprise on an al Qaeda member's face when they thought they were loading a tutorial on how to “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” but actually got...a recipe for mojito cupcakes.
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Telegraph, Mashable!, Associated Press, Boing Boing, Robot Overlords, bit-tech.net, TG Daily, New York Magazine, SlashGear, London Baking and ZDNet
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Adobe CEO: Android Will Overtake iPad Just Like it Did the iPhone (Video) — Adobe's Shantanu Narayen debunked a myth today at D that there's an ongoing feud between it and Apple over running Flash on iOS. — Still, he didn't hesitate downplaying Apple's early lead in the tablet market …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Retail 10th Anniversary Poster: “We've learned a lot.” — Click for larger. — The most public celebration of Apple Retail's tenth anniversary was the rollout of iPad interactive shopping guides, something Apple calls the “Smart Sign”. But behind the scenes, in the retail back-of-house area …
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The Next Web, ifoAppleStore, CNET News, TUAW, Global Nerdy, SlashGear, MacStories and Apple Headlines
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry Bold 9900 won't launch until September — BlackBerry fans will just have to keep waiting for the company's latest and greatest handset. We have confirmed with multiple sources that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 won't be launching until September globally.
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Engadget, GigaOM, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Gadgetsteria, PhoneArena and Electronista
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google's CEO steps into spotlight — In his most extensive public comments since becoming Google's (GOOG) CEO, Larry Page on Thursday delivered a carefully crafted response to critics who say the company is too free-spending, too unfocused and too aloof to investors and Wall Street.
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NBC Bay Area, WebProNews, Reuters, Search Engine Land, Beyond Search, CNET News, Agence France Presse and Sacramento Bee
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Going Digital: Editor Josh Quittner Leaves Time Inc For Flipboard — This should be interesting. Flipboard is getting an editorial director from the world of print magazines: Josh Quittner, my former boss at Business 2.0 magazine and most recently the editor at Time Inc. behind many of its digital magazine initiatives.
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Om.Is.Me, New York Post, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent and Adotas, more at Mediagazer »
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Start-up Offers New Hires $10,000, and All the Accoutrements of Hipsterdom — Earlier this year, my colleague Claire Cain Miller and I reported on the fierce recruiting wars among tech companies as they competed to hire and retain talented software developers and engineers.
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Digital Trends, MediaPost, @dondodge and SAI
Josh Phillips / The Windows Blog:
A tour of the new Music +Video Hub — From the beginning, the chief design principle for the Music+Videos Hub in Windows Phone was simple: make it easy to discover and consume the content you love. — In Mango, it only gets better. — The next release of Windows Phone introduces on-phone podcasts …
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Gizmodo and WMPoweruser.com
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Zynga Said to Be Close to Hiring Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO, Extend Credit — Zynga Inc. is in talks to have Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) lead its initial public offering and provide a credit line of more than $1 billion to help make acquisitions, said a person with knowledge of the matter.
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SAI, Inside Social Games and GigaOM
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Windows 8: The Beginning of the End of Windows — I have a longstanding rule for evaluating new tech products: Don't judge anything by the demo. I've seen far too many product previews that hid fundamental flaws in usability. Until you can touch and play with the product on your own …
Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Microsoft sells 55 million Xbox 360 consoles, claims that's console history — If you work for Sony you might want go watch TV right now — there's something on Discovery about ostriches and sand. Meanwhile, Microsoft just let us know that it's sold 55 million Xbox 360s globally …
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PC Magazine, Insert Coin, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Neowin.net, Electronista, BetaNews, The Next Web, CrunchGear and WinRumors
