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| Aaron Brady / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Introducing the App Center — Today, we're announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. — In the coming weeks …
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Computerworld, Mashable!, Business Insider, Dustin Curtis, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, BuzzFeed, CNET, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, ZDNet, Inside Mobile Apps, msnbc.com, Engadget, Reuters, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, Geekosystem, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, T3 News, Current Editorials, Gotta Be Mobile, WebProNews, MacStories, Android Community, SlashGear and Adotas. Tweets: @degusta. Thanks:@malliegator
| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
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| Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog: |
Google+: a mobile app with sense and soul — Sharing is deeply sensory. From cooking a favorite meal to getting together with friends, it's the smells and the stories and the smiles that make human connections so essential. With Google+ we want to extend these moments online …
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Digital Trends, Daring Fireball, BuzzFeed, BetaNews, USA Today, GigaOM, ABCNEWS, Vic Gundotra, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com, AllThingsD, SlashGear, PadGadget, Fast Company, Engadget and parislemon. Tweets: @kfury
| Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps: |
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| TechCrunch: |
Status Update — So first thing's first: We're not being sold! Instead, we've just hired a bunch of brilliant writers and a new COO. Also, we've seen a resurgence of community support (with over a thousand people attending our NYC meetup last night, for example), are back around 12% … | Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Tim Armstrong Says AOL Plans to Invest in TechCrunch and Engadget, Not Sell Them — Domestic Display Advertising Falls as Activist Investor Seeks Shakeup — AOL reported a 4% drop in average monthly visitors to AOL owned-and-operated properties, when it reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
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Bloomberg, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Reuters and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer
| Bloomberg: |
Deutsche Telekom Said to Discuss MetroPCS Deal for T-Mobile — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is discussing a merger of its T-Mobile USA unit with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) as it reviews options for the customer-losing business, according to people familiar with the matter.
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BGR, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Seattle Times, TmoNews, CNET, GigaOM, MobileBurn.com and The Tech Trade
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HP on laptop design similarities with Apple's: it's a struggle as we drive to simplicity — HP's spent the afternoon here in Shanghai to share some details about its latest products and strategy, and to our delight, there was one session dedicated to “Style Meets Function,” …
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AllThingsD, Business Insider, DailyTech, eWeek, MacRumors, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, The Verge, Baseline and 9to5Mac
| Jenna Wortham / Bits: |
Etsy Raises $40 Million for International Expansion — Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods, is getting a very non-D.I.Y. present. — On Wednesday, the company announced it was raising a $40 million Series F round in venture financing, from Index Ventures … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Amends IPO S-1 To Admit Advertising Biz Hurt By Increasing Shift To Mobile, Note RSUS Grant — Facebook has just filed a sixth amendment to its S-1 filing to IPO in order to provide more transparency about how the shift of its user base from the web to mobile is causing …
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Los Angeles Times, Internet2Go, CNET, Betabeat, Bits, The Tech Trade and AllThingsD. Thanks:@eldon
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Oracle's request for fair use ruling denied, Google down to one count of infringement — Following the jury's inability to decide on the issue of fair use in the Oracle vs. Google trial, Oracle asked the judge to rule on the issue as a matter of law (JMOL).| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Tech Nation's Gunn Says She and Yahoo CEO Discussed Their CS Degrees Before 2009 Show (Video and Audio) — Last week, I posted an audio recording of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, from a radio interview he did in early 2009, in which he did not deny he had a computer science degree when the host …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
What's Behind the Drop in Kindle Fire Shipments? — Once hailed as the first true rival to the iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire no longer seems to be much of a threat to Apple's tablet. The Fire had no impact on Apple's March-quarter iPad sales. Indeed, during the company's second-quarter earnings call …
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings — The old FBI copyright warning gets an upgrade. — You know those FBI warning messages that appear at the beginning of DVDs and Blu-ray discs? They're getting an upgrade—and they're multiplying.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Klout In The Airport: A High Score Gets You Into Cathay Pacific's SFO Lounge — Last month, Klout launched its iPhone app. Today, it's announcing its first big mobile partnership, one that should make app pretty appealing to any air travelers in San Francisco.| Andy Ihnatko / Chicago Sun Times: |
Results make up for awkwardness of iPhoto for iPad — Any review of iPhoto for iPad (released back in March, priced at just five tiny dollars) has to deal with an awkward truth: It isn't a terribly intuitive app. During your first go, you'll find yourself feeling mystified about what certain buttons do … | Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Search engines have same speech rights as the New York Times, says Google report — Just as the New York Times can decide “All the News That's Fit to Print,” search engines have a free speech right to choose who or what to put in their search rankings. — That's the conclusion of a prominent …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Acquires Mobile Entertainment And Music Streaming Startup mSpot — Samsung Electronics has acquired mobile entertainment startup mSpot, according to a release issued today. Financial terms were not disclosed, but previous reports point to an acquisition price of $8.8 million.| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
CloudOn brings Microsoft Office to Android tablets, gets Google Drive support — After releasing a major update to its iPad app last month, CloudOn is today bringing its Microsoft Office virtualization technology to Android tablets. — And, going alongside support for cloud storage services Dropbox …
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InfoWorld, Engadget, The Next Web, Computerworld, PandoDaily, Gotta Be Mobile and BetaKit
| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Google adds more semantic smarts to its search engine — Google seems to be eking out a major new tweak to its search results. — Reportedly spotted by several users, the search pages are now displaying semantic data nestled to the right of the regular results.
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State of Search, Engadget, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch
| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Apple releases OS X 10.7.4, FileVault bug gets addressed — Hey, Mac users: are you ready for an update? Because Apple is dropping its latest OS version on your heads. 10.7.4 just hit, and it brings with it a number of small fixes to help improve things like security, stability and compatibility for your system.
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VentureBeat, Apple, ZDNet, Naked Security, Ars Technica, BGR, TUAW, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacStories and Gizmodo
| Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal: |
Venture-Capital Firm NEA Raises $2.1 Billion — In the venture-capital industry's most significant fundraising this year, New Enterprise Associates has closed on $2.08 billion for a fund that could grow in size to become one of the largest ever raised. — In a securities filing on Wednesday …
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TechCrunch, Fortune and bizjournals
| M. Alex Johnson / msnbc.com: |
Viewing child porn on the Web ‘legal’ in New York, state appeals court finds — Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache.
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| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Ustream is pissed about DDOS attack, may launch Russian site tomorrow — Ustream is undergoing what chief executive Brad Hunstable says is the “largest and most coordinated DDOS attack Ustream has ever seen” today, and the team is pissed. The attack is rumored to be an attempt to censor … | Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast: |
Evernote for Mac Update: Card View, Word Count, New Save Features, and More — Today, Evernote for Mac gets a pretty great update (v 3.1) full of new features, redesigned screens and stability improvements. We've added a completely new Card View, word and character counts for notes, easier attachment export, and much more.
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MacStories, Pulse2 Technology …, Apple Bitch, Lifehacker, GadgeTell, Engadget and Macgasm
| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Safari update automatically disables old versions of Flash — Apple on Wednesday released Safari 5.1.7, an update to its Web browser. One of the new security features is that Safari will automatically disable old versions of Adobe's Flash Player. — “Out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player …
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Computerworld, Xverse10, Ars Technica and The Verge
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
SoundCloud announces “Next” version of its site, hits 15M users — Social audio sharing service SoundCloud is announcing its “next” version of the service during a press event in San Francisco. We last told you about the company when it hit 10M users in January of this year.
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ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Wired, Softpedia News, SocialTimes, Audio Silver Lining, VentureBeat, The Verge and TechCrunch. Thanks:@jamaaludeen
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