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May 17, 2012, 4:11 AM

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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:

Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings — Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I'm really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph …

Christopher Dawson / ZDNet:

Google Knowledge Graph: This is why they changed their privacy policy — Summary: Who needs a social graph when you have a knowledge graph? — Google announced today that it was making drastic enhancements to search results using what it calls a “Knowledge Graph.” Sound like Facebook's “Social Graph”?

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links

More: VentureBeat, WebProNews, GSMArena Blog, internetretailer.com, CNET, Digital Trends, Laughing Squid, Lifehacker, Engadget and ReadWriteWeb

AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation — Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan, is expected to be the lead investor in the much-contested next round of funding for Silicon Valley's hottest start-up, Pinterest.

More: CNET, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Mashable! and Tech in Asia

Tweets: @karaswisher, @benparr, @pkafka and @gmc

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Pinterest set to announce new funding at $1 billion valuation, with an eye on ecommerce

More: paidContent. Thanks:@sunnioceangirl

Sue Marek / FierceWireless:

Verizon will kill ‘grandfathered’ unlimited data plans, push users to data share — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) plans to eliminate the $30 per month unlimited data plan that it still provides to 3G customers who were “grandfathered” into the plan because they were data customers prior …

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward — Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook. — “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.

More: The Next Web, Talking Points Memo, CNET, PC Magazine, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player — Netflix just rolled out a completely revamped video player for browser-based viewing, and I gotta say, it's pretty slick: Not only does it come with lightbox-like text overlays while a video is paused, users can also preview entire seasons …

More: The Official Netflix Blog, CNET, PC Magazine, The Verge, The Next Web, SlashGear, Engadget, GadgeTell, BuzzFeed and VentureBeat. Thanks:@cordcutters. See also Mediagazer

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Retina MacBook screens: Already here — and pricey — A pixelated MacBook screen. — (Credit: CNET) — Apple is said to be on the verge of rolling out new high-resolution displays for its computers that, up until now, have only been available on its iPhones and iPads.

More: MacRumors, The Tech Report, TechnoBuffalo, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, iClarified and MacNN

Neal Gompa / ExtremeTech:

Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies — Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new wireless transmission system that works above all currently regulated spectrum frequencies. The new system works at the range of 300GHz to 3THz (terahertz) …

More: BBC, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Ars Technica and Engadget. Thanks:@kfitchard

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Facebook rolling out new “Pages Manager” app for iPhone — Facebook has just broken out another feature of their main app and released Pages Manager for the iPhone. The app appears to function just like the main Facebook app, but with all of the features dedicated to fan pages.

More: The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Inside Facebook, ZDNet, App Advice, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and The Next Web

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy — Although Pirate Bay downtime happens a handful of times each month, it rarely persists for more than a few hours. When it goes beyond that the steady flow of reader emails to TorrentFreak quickly transforms itself into a torrent.

More: BBC, PC Magazine, The Verge, Digital Trends, Renesys Blog, Plagiarism Today, TechSpot, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Register, Geekosystem, about.piratereverse.info, WebProNews, CNET and ZDNet

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone — Google's social team has had a lot of love for iOS lately: Just days after rolling out a revamped iPhone app for Google+, the company now released an iOS app for its social activity service Schemer. The app mimics Schemer's Android app in form …

More: iClarified, WebProNews, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Current Editorials, MacNN and 9to5Mac

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Sleepover Time! All-Night Hackathon Precedes Facebook IPO At Headquarters — Carrying on in the esteemed tradition of Facebook hackathons, there will be an all-nighter on Thursday at the company's Menlo Park headquarters that culminates with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing in the NASDAQ bell ahead …

More: ZDNet, AllThingsD and Inside Facebook

Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:

Toyota Just Turned the Nintendo DS into a Navigational System — If Japan uses the Nintendo DS in schools, then why not in cars? Toyota's newest Smart Navi car navigational system enables drivers to turn the Nintendo DS into a navi remote control. — No, no, no not drivers. Passengers.

More: CNET, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, TechCrunch and The Verge

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Palantir Technologies Nabs $56M In New Funding, SEC Filing Shows — Palantir Technologies, the big data analysis company founded in 2004 by a team of ex-PayPal employees including Peter Thiel, has raised $56 million in new funding, according to a document filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More: bizjournals and VentureBeat

Reuters:

Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple order report — (Reuters) - Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent on Wednesday, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant's market value, on a report that Apple placed huge chip orders with troubled Japanese chip rival Elpida.

More: CNET, Techie Buzz, Macgasm, IntoMobile, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, WebProNews, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena and TechEye

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Facebook's latest filing: Insiders are cashing in — Facebook today revealed that it will have more shares than expected available to investors when it goes public on Friday. But the social network won't be the one cashing in on it. — Facebook will now offer up to 484.4 million shares …

More: Guardian and SocialTimes

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Fotolia scores $300m in equity, debt financing from PE firm KKR in exchange for 50% stake — First stock imagery site Shutterstock files for a $115 million IPO, and now rival Fotolia is selling 50 percent (note: link goes to a paywalled Financial Times article) of the company to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).

More: Financial Times and paidContent

Rebecca Mackinnon / Foreign Policy:

The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police — Activists are fighting to rein them in. — In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St. Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website. For the past seven years, he and a handful of local volunteers have been publishing regular updates …

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Rocket caught copying Fab code in Nigerian push — In recent days, Berlin clone factory Rocket Internet has had a register-your-interest page up for its new Nigerian site, Sabunta. It's a clothing store and, once launched, it will probably look like Rocket's many other Zappos clones.

More: Portfolio

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

In the Race to Win Social Video, Is One App Gaming the System Too Much? — There's a popular maxim in Silicon Valley: Find your user base and the revenues will come later. — For a while, it seemed to be the easiest way for a founder to explain his or her way out of a proper business model.

More: BetaKit. Thanks:@mikeisaac

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Path CEO Dave Morin Joins Eventbrite Board — Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin is joining the board of the event ticketing startup Eventbrite, the company is announcing today. The news of the appointment follows what has been, so far, quite a busy year for the startup …

More: Eventbrite Blog

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

Bloglovin, a prettier take on RSS and Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment — When Mattias Swenson, Patrik Ring and their three co-founders first decided to launch a startup out of high school, the plan was to work on it for a year and then move on with their lives.

More: ReadWriteWeb and Betabeat

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and other apps updated for Release Preview — Microsoft has started to update a range of its core Windows 8 communications applications ahead of the Release Preview debut next month. The updates, available in the latest internal builds of Windows 8 …

More: Everything Microsoft, Liliputing, CNET, Softpedia News, WinBeta and LiveSide.net

Larry Dignan / CNET:

Netflix: Disgruntled customers rejoining service — A third of Netflix's new customers are people who quit the service and signed up again in less than a year, says the company's CFO at an investor conference. A Netflix executive said today the company has taken its brand hit for pricing changes last year …

More: paidContent

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Mobile Payments Startup Jumio Takes On Card.io With Credit Card Scanning Toolkit For App Developers — Mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio is introducing its Netswipe Mobile SDK today, which allows developers to add credit card scanning functionality to their mobile applications.

More: MarketWatch and The Next Web

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Viacom Gives Up Fight Against Time Warner Cable, Adds Channels to TWC iPad App — Customers of Time Warner Cable have some reason to rejoice today, as the cable company has gotten the go-ahead to add channels like MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to its live streaming iPad app.

More: Media Decoder, Reuters, The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

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