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| Andy Baio / Wired: |
Instagram's Buyout: No Bubble to See Here — Instagram's billion-dollar sale to Facebook raised eyebrows Monday, renewing fears of a new tech bubble. But compared to other major acquisitions since the dot-com bust, turns out it's a pretty sane deal. — To put the acquisition in perspective …
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Business Insider, Inside Facebook, Pulse2 Technology … and Gawker
| Paul Ford / New York Magazine: |
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out — Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram, a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails.
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New York Times, Backupify, Jack Shafer, TechCrunch, Appolicious Advisor and The Awl
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble? — Facebook has bought the photo-sharing service for $1bn. What does history tell us about the wisdom of such mega-deals? — A company with no revenues and barely any staff gets acquired for a billion dollars? It has to be a bubble, doesn't it?| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
It's Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!) — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new organization for the company. — “It's time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really, with nice comma deployment).| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
The 4 inch iPhone 5 — In the past year of so the smartphone landscape has seen a trend of screen size increasing from around 3.2/3.5 inches to 4.3, 4.65 and as high as 5.3 inches in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Note. The iPhone screen however, has remained at 3.5 inches since its debut in 2007.
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IntoMobile, The Next Web, MacRumors, The TechBlock, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @reckless
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Availability of Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pros constrained ahead of redesigned models — Multiple authorized resellers this week are reflecting stock outs of 15-inch MacBook Pros, suggesting that Apple is ramping down production of existing models before introducing redesigned offerings …
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TUAW, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Macworld, Apple Bitch, TechnoBuffalo, Pulse2 Technology …, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Tecca and Ars Technica
| Jason Snell / Macworld: |
iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship — When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet, Tries To Cut Off Its Server Monitoring Infections — Dr. Web's chief executive Boris Sharov, who says Apple never responded when the firm shared its findings on the Flashback botnet. — Until it was revealed last week that more than half … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Please Welcome Peter Ha, Frederic Lardinois And New Co-Editor Alexia Tsotsis — Sure, legends like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle don't play for the Yankees now, but the team hasn't just survived the ups and downs over the years. Hate it or love it, the franchise attracts many of the best players …
Tweets: @alexia, @mg and @digiphile
| Don Clark / Digits: |
Intel Develops Small, Sturdy Tablet for Education — Companies have been trying to transform education with computers for decades, with mixed results. But there is new enthusiasm for the possibilities represented by tablets, and Intel has a new entry.| MJ Lee / POLITICO: |
Hillary Clinton likes ‘Texts from Hillary’ Tumblr — “Texts From Hillary” has just added one VIP to its fan base: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself. — Adam Smith, who created the Tumblr account that has quickly gone viral with his friend Stacy Lambe - both communications professionals based …
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The Atlantic, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, Mashable, Washington Post, CBS News, Daily News, Gawker and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @kashhill
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Takes In-App Purchases Out Of Beta: Here's How They Compromised On Revenue Share — Amazon is taking the wraps off a new in-app purchasing service today in an effort to make its app store competitive with what Apple and Google offer developers. That should let developers …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
A million Instagram Android app downloads in a day isn't cool. You know what's cool? 5 million in 6 days. — Instagram is enjoying the biggest week in its existence. The company, already riding high on its iOS success, launched its Android app and captured 1 million downloads … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference — Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference. — It will be Cook's first appearance at D …
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iPhone, PC Magazine, Pulse2 Technology …, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, The TechBlock, TUAW, The Verge, CNET, Edible Apple and Engadget. Thanks:@ahess247
| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
500px aims to take out Flickr with $20/year plan, unlimited storage, market function and Mac uploader — In a move that should be a surprise to nobody, technology darling 500px is moving to take out Flickr with a new Plus plan. The company had previously held a high-level plan that was priced … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Market Cap Hits $600 Billion — Another market cap milestone for Apple. — With the broader market in decline, shares in the company rose to a new 52-week high this morning: $644. And that jump was enough to carry Apple's market cap across the $600 billion threshold.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Free Adobe Reader app for iPad and Android can now sign and annotate PDFs — Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe's making it a little easier — the free Adobe reader app for iOS and Android is being updated to support electronic signatures and basic annotations.| Reuters: |
Court narrows reach of computer fraud law — (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court rejected the government's broad reading of a computer fraud law to prosecute workers who steal from company computers, saying it could expose millions of Americans to prosecution for harmless activities at work.
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Mercury News, Courthouse News Service, Law Blog and CNET
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser — It's hard to say how popular Chrome OS, Google's browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite serious about this initiative. Today, Google launched … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's latest Facebook project: Meet ‘A Year In The Like’ — Microsoft and Facebook are quite the buddies, with strong product integration, and Redmond owning a piece of the social giant. That friendship was recently on display with the launch of a new little Microsoft project called …
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AllFacebook, Friending Facebook Blog, The Verge, Redmond Pie and Ubergizmo
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
YouTube adds pay-per-view to live streaming — YouTube is adding monetization options to its live streaming platform, including the ability for publishers to charge for live events. The new feature was announced on YouTube's publisher blog Tuesday:
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VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google and YouTube Creator Blog
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Gnip Adds Data From Sina Weibo's 300M Users — Social-data provider Gnip will provide access to updates on Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging service with more than 300 million registered users. — The intent is for Gnip's social-media monitoring customers to help their own clients keep track …
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GigaOM, Tech in Asia and The Next Web
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
SAP Acquires Enterprise Mobile App Platform And Development Partner Syclo — SAP is furthering its mobile presence today by acquiring Syclo, a company that provides an enterprise mobile app platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Syclo helps companies build …
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VentureBeat, BetaNews, SAP Newsroom and Between the Lines Blog
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Unlocking In-Contract iPhones for Deployed Service Members — This weekend, AT&T began unlocking iPhones for off-contract customers. This allows the iPhone be used with a SIM-card from overseas carriers, or T-Mobile in the U.S. In addition to unlocking phones for off-contract customers …
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TechnoBuffalo, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Redmond Pie, The Verge and iPhone. Thanks:@jlgolson
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Latest Chrome beta release adds tab syncing across computers and Android — The introduction of Chrome for Android brought a baked-in solution for syncing your tabs from computer to your phone, and now Google's rolling that out more broadly. The latest beta version of Chrome for Mac … Sponsor Posts
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