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Apple kills Chomp for Android — Apple acquired app discovery service Chomp earlier this year, betting that it would help make app discovery easier and better on its iTunes Appstore. The casualty of that acquisition is the Chomp for Android app which seems to have been discontinued.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
How CISPA would affect you (faq) — CISPA may have cleared the U.S. House of Representatives, but the fight isn't over. It's shifted to the U.S. Senate. Here's CNET's FAQ on what you need to know about this particularly controversial Internet bill. — Follow @declanm| Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: |
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| Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com: |
Intuit To Acquire Demandforce For $424MM — This morning, Intuit announced its agreement to acquire one of Benchmark's portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm. As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
All-Star Cast Invests 750K In Ben Huh And Matt Galligan's Mobile News Startup Circa — SimpleGeo's Matt Galligan and Icanhascheezburger's Ben Huh have teamed up to change the way people consume news via mobile. Their startup Circa, which boasts a newsworthy list of advisors … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Lead Android developer thinks a five-month wait for an update is ‘very reasonable’ — Jean-Baptiste Queru, technical lead on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), has revealed his opinion on the current state of the project and the lengthy waits users face for updates.| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Apple's Texas move ‘in peril’ after attorney calls contract ‘rigged’ — The company initially had plans to invest $304 million in Austin, Texas, but now the county isn't sure it wants to offer Apple incentives to come to the city. — Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
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Apple sued over iPad cover — A Colorado man says Apple's smart cover for the new iPad and the iPad 2 violate his 2005 patent for a “Portable Computer Case.” — Aspen resident Jerald Bovino filed a lawsuit in federal court asking Apple and retailer Target to pay royalties for using his technology.| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Says It's Being Investigated in Argentina, Korea — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s business practices are the subject of investigations by regulators in Argentina and South Korea, according to a regulatory filing. — Argentina's main antitrust agency and the Korea Fair Trade Commission …
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| Eric Randall / The Atlantic Wire: |
Are You a Klouchebag? — Klouchebag.com, a new parody of Klout, is the most entertaining expression we've seen of a growing backlash against the clout-measuring service's recent spate of media attention. Klout is a service that measures your influence across various social networks based …
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung Ends Nokia's 14-Year Run as World's Biggest Phone Maker — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) overtook Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) as the world's biggest vendor of mobile-phones last quarter, ending the Finnish company's 14-year run as the global industry leader, according to researcher Strategy Analytics.
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| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Yahoo hits Facebook with two more patent claims — Now it's Yahoo's turn. — Yahoo today replied in court to Facebook's countersuit, and it's now asserting that Facebook is infringing on two more patents — up from the 10 patents it initially claimed that Facebook is infringing on.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World's Most Misunderstood Cloud — Jeremy Howard sees Silicon Valley as an echo chamber. He recently moved to Northern California from Australia, looking to improve the fortunes of his startup, an ingenious operation known as Kaggle, and he soon found … | comScore, Inc.: |
Tablet Competition Heats Up: Kindle Fire Captures more than Half of Android Tablet Market — 10" Tablets Have 39 Percent Higher Content Consumption Rate than 7" Tablets — comScore Device Essentials™ Introduces Unique Device and Local Market Reporting to Cross-Device Digital Traffic Measurement
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| Tasneem Raja / MoJo Articles: |
“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley's Brogrammer Problem — For startups like Path, recasting geek identity with a frathouse swagger is a dangerous game. — Quora (left and right); Geeklist (center) — At the South by Southwest Interactive festival in March … | Keith Stuart / Guardian: |
Nintendo to begin simultaneous digital and retail releases — The veteran video game giant has just suffered its first ever annual loss, prompting a new focus on digital downloads — In an investor meeting following the news of Nintendo's £330m annual loss, president Satoru Iwata … | Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
Social Networking Ends Games 40 Month Mobile Reign — The app revolution has changed the way software is distributed and used among consumers. With a perfect storm of digital distribution, free content and powerful touch screen devices, the success of mobile apps has disrupted industries … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon settles $269M Texas tax bill with jobs, investment and ‘immaterial payment’ — Amazon.com has reached a settlement in one of its largest and longest-running state tax disputes, reaching a deal with the Texas comptroller to resolve the state's claims that the company owed some $269 million in back taxes in the state.Thanks:@johnhcook
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Viddy Is Raising $30M At A $370M Valuation — Someone wise once said “If Instagram for video were to happen it would look nothing like Instagram” but, because it was on Twitter, I briefly saw that tweet before it got lost in the ether and now I can't find it, dammit.
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| Lior Abraham / Facebook: |
Under the hood: Data diving with Scuba — At Facebook, we often find ourselves seeking very specific answers to complicated questions. Whether we're diagnosing a performance regression or measuring the impact of an infrastructure change, we want data, and we want it fast.
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| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
HP is working on x86 Windows 8 tablet, rough render exposed — Windows 8 news comes from a variety of sources. Sometimes it comes from the Windows 8 fountain and other times it comes from sources familiar with company's plans. — This time around we have some information from a trusted source …
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Business Insider, GeekWire, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Windows 8 Beta, Liliputing, SlashGear and MacNN
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Evernote approaching 30 million users, funding reports are ‘premature’: CEO Phil Libin — Evernote CEO Phil Libin took the stage at The Next Web Conference earlier today. — We took notes and will have a longer post for you later on, but here are some interesting tidbits about Evernote that Libin shared at the end of his talk.
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PC World, InfoWorld, Fortune and The Huffington Post
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Drive Arrives In ChromeOS Developer Channel — Ever since Google released its cloud storage service Google Drive earlier this week, there has been some speculation as to what its integration with ChromeOS, Google's cloud-centric operating system, would look like.
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Google Chrome Releases and Liliputing
| Paul Sloan / CNET: |
Facebook's next patent push: The top suspect — When Yahoo filed its sweeping patent lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that Facebook essentially built its social network on the back of Yahoo's intellectual property, Mark Zuckerberg took little time to take up arms.
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