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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million — LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move: “Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture … | Deep Nishar / Linkedin Blog: |
SlideShare + LinkedIn = More Value for Professionals — Over the past few years, SlideShare and LinkedIn have been working closely together to help professionals be more effective and productive through the content they create and share on LinkedIn. I've personally been a huge fan of SlideShare …
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Marketing Land, GigaOM, bub.blicio.us, Paints The Future and WebProNews
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q1 Revenue Up 101 Percent To $188.5M; Net Income Up 140 Percent — Professional social network LinkedIn has just released Q1 earnings. Revenue for the first quarter was $188.5 million, an increase of 101% compared to $93.9 million in the first quarter of 2011.
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CNET, Yahoo! Finance, Betabeat and The Tech Trade
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video) — You remember that Galaxy S II? A phone so good they launched it, well, a whole load of times. But after seeing phablet cousins and LTE variants, the true handset sequel is finally here.
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The Verge, BetaNews, SlashGear, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld, Inquirer, PC World, Android Central, Android News, Rumours …, VentureBeat, The Verge, Samsung Mobile Press, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Mashable!, Gizmodo, Appolicious Advisor, CNET, Fudzilla, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, 9to5Google and IntoMobile. Tweets: @blumsday
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, eye tracking, available later this month — Capping months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has announced its Galaxy S III smartphone at an event in London today. Major specs include a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution …
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BGR, Engadget, Associated Press, The Next Web, Engadget, Pocketables, Know Your Cell, Reuters, Android and Me, The Huffington Post, Ars Technica, Android and Me, iMore, Sammy Hub, Bits and GadgeTell. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Ben Kersey / SlashGear: |
Flipboard for Android is a Galaxy S III exclusive — Samsung has fully unveiled the Galaxy S III here at the London event today, and one of the inclusions to its modified version of Ice Cream Sandwich is an exclusive version of Flipboard. It marks the first time that Flipboard will be making …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range — Facebook Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 a share, in a landmark deal that would raise as much as $13.6 billion for the social network and insiders. The preliminary price range would value the company at $77 billion to $96 billion.
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| Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg Will Personally Sell ~$1 Billion Worth Of Facebook Shares At IPO — The latest iteration of Facebook's S-1 filing is out. — The hot details: the company is selling 337.4 million shares at a price range of $28-$35. — And part of the share sale is insiders selling, and that includes CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: |
The New iPhone: Size, Screen + New Connector (Plus iPod touch) — Whether you call it the “iPhone 5,” the “iPhone 6,” or the “iPhone 4G”—well, maybe not the last one thanks to international regulators—the new iPhone is coming this fall, and we have some details to share.
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PC Magazine, Know Your Cell, Know Your Mobile, iPhone, Pocket-lint, App Advice, WebProNews, Edible Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, Macgasm, Phones Review, TechSpot, Los Angeles Times, iDownloadBlog.com, Fast Company, Apple Bitch, everythingiCafe, BGR, I4U News, Softpedia News, Business Insider and DVICE
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Kindle Fire Shipments Fizzle — Amazon likes to tout the Kindle Fire as “the #1 bestselling, most gifted, and most wished for product” it peddles (without ever disclosing actual sales numbers). But evidently that doesn't mean quite as much as you'd think.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million — Web video is supposed to disrupt cable TV. And maybe it will, one day. In the meantime, the cable guys are doing just fine. — Here's a proof point: Discovery Communications, parent of The Discovery Channel, has purchased Revision3 … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Startup steroids: Pinterest feels the burn of Facebook's Open Graph — A packed room of more than 200 founders, VCs and internet bankers took a moment to look up from their iPhones and listen in hushed reverence as one of Silicon Valley's top investors explained what he looks for when choosing the next hot startup.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
The Midas List? Yeah, sure, & I'm Brad Pitt — Forbes came out with its annual Midas List, which ranks venture capitalists. Lists on the web are essentially page view machines, but at Forbes, they are a religion. I worked for Forbes.com and know how much work used to go into putting together … | Forbes: |
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft to Use Dolby Sound Tech in Windows 8 — Dolby Laboratories said on Thursday that Microsoft plans to incorporate its sound technology into Windows 8. — Under the deal, computer makers will be required to license directly from Dolby and pay a royalty to use the technologies.
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Digits, CNET, Business Wire, eWeek, SlashGear and The Tech Trade
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Judge: An IP-Address Doesn't Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) — Mass-BitTorrent lawsuits have been dragging on for more than two years in the US, involving more than a quarter million alleged downloaders. — The copyright holders who start these cases generally provide nothing more than an IP-address as evidence.
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CNET, ZDNet, Fight Copyright Trolls, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Techie Buzz, Betabeat and Boing Boing
| Kunur Patel / AdAge: |
Zynga's New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: ‘Draw This Brand’ — NHL Among First to Buy Paid Terms in Hugely Popular Social game — Zynga's latest big-ticket acquisition has already figured out how to draw in users, but now Draw Something has an ad model that brings brands into the picture.
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PC Magazine, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, Simply Zesty, memeburn, WebProNews, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Tecca and Pulse2 Technology …. Thanks:@kunur
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Response on CEO's Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error” — A Yahoo spokesperson just confirmed as accurate allegations from an activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point that its CEO Scott Thompson did not have a computer science degree from Stone Hill College as claimed on his bio and also in regulatory filings.
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ReadWriteWeb, The Verge, AllThingsD, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Uncrunched, NBC Bay Area and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @cdixon
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Oracle vs. Google jury possibly deadlocked? — Developing... THERE ARE 6 COMMENTS. LOAD EM UP!
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Phil Libin and the Refusal to Pivot: Evernote Now Valued at $1 Billion — Today, 30-million-user strong Evernote announced it had received $70 million in Series D funding from Meritech Capital, CBC Capital, T. Rowe Price Associates, Harbor Pacific Capital and Allen & Company at a valuation of Dr. Evil proportions: One billion dollars.
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Market Wire, CNET, News on ZDNet Australia, TechCrunch, Evernote Blogcast and VentureBeat
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
It's TechStars' Demo Day in Boston: Meet the 13 new startups — Today, 13 startups will present to a room filled with investors, industry analysts and media at TechStars Demo Day in Boston. In case you haven't heard of TechStars, it is an elite mentorship-driven start-up accelerator … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Klout Releases New, Speedier API; Now Serves 1 Billion API Calls Per Day — Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, has just released a new version of its API and released a number of new stats about its API usage.
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The Official Klout Blog, The Next Web and Mashable!
| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
WePay Lands $10M Round to Help it Take On PayPal — WePay co-founders Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico — Originally launched as a group payments platform to help friends and family pool their resources, Palo Alto-based WePay has since expanded to offer online payment tools for merchants …
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Reveals Wildly Intelligent Multi-Tiered Haptics System — I love days like this when we get to see a new and exciting invention from the Crazy Ones in Cupertino. In March there was a rumor that the new iPad would include new advanced haptics that didn't' pan out.
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BGR, Engadget, MacDailyNews, CNET and iDownloadBlog.com
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Boku Signs Up Final U.S. Wireless Operator for Carrier Billing — It has taken three-and-a-half years, but Boku has finally signed up all four major U.S. carriers for its mobile payments service. — Today, the San Francisco company says that Sprint is coming on board to join the three …
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