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Introducing Facebook Camera — Today, we're introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier. — See friends' photos all in one place — When you launch the app, you'll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
As Facebook Launches a Standalone Camera App, the Instagram Buy Comes Into Focus — We know that Facebook is serious about photos. Heck, it dropped a cool $1 billion on Instagram, the immensely popular mobile photo-sharing app. — What we didn't know, however, is that Facebook …
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| Ibrahim Elbouchikhi / Android Developers Blog: |
In-app Subscriptions in Google Play — We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a year ago to give developers more ways to sell and engage users over the lifetime of their apps. Since the launch, In-app Billing has been extremely successful in helping developers monetize their apps through try-and-buy …
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| Mark Cuban / blog maverick: |
Facebook IPO Post Mortem - Killer - but not for the reasons you think ! — 1. Say goodbye to the individual investor on Wall Street. Whatever positive impression they had of the IPO market and the stock market in general was just torched to the ground. When everyone you know associated …
| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
How Tim Cook is changing Apple — Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going. — FORTUNE — In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a “bus tour” led by a research analyst for Citibank.| IDC: |
Android- and iOS-Powered Smartphones Expand Their Share of the Market in the First Quarter, According to IDC — Smartphones powered by the Android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).
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| James McQuivey / Forrester Blogs: |
Apple's Coming Plan To Take Over The TV Business — Last week we released our newest report about the future of TV and argued in it and the accompanying blog post that the battle for the TV is not really about TV. It's about the future of the platform giants like Apple, Google …
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| Paul Kafasis / Under The Microscope: |
Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store — Since 2009, Airfoil Speakers Touch has made it possible to send audio from your Mac or Windows machine to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, using Airfoil and its audio streaming capability. Last month, we introduced Airfoil …
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL — 19-year-old entrepreneur Eric Simons spent two months secretly living at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif. campus, sleeping each night on a couch like this one. — (Credit: Eric Simons) — It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling.
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Goodbye Google+ People & Pages, Hello Knowledge Graph Box — Google's Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content that will show up differently depending on the search query.
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| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
Bump App Update: Transfer Photos From Your Phone to Computer With Just a Tap — Bump, an app for Android phones and the iPhone, has made it very easy for people to transfer photos or money from one phone to another. It's now set its sights on transfers from a phone to a computer.
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| Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter: |
Fox Sues Dish Network Over Auto Hop Ad-Skipper — Fox has sued Dish Network over its new Auto Hop service, which allows consumers to skip television ads. Fox issued the following statement on Thursday: … The suit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday on behalf of Fox Broadcasting … | Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft clarifies Ballmer's claims of massive Windows 8 adoption — Analysts point out how Microsoft inflates the pool of Windows 8-capable PCs — Reports earlier this week that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted unprecedented sales of Windows 8 were wrong on multiple counts, Microsoft and independent analysts agreed.
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Apple settles patent dispute, signs license deal with SimpleAir — Apple has settled an infringement suit with patent holder SimpleAir out of court for an undisclosed sum, the company announced on Thursday. — The terms of the license agreement between Apple and SimpleAir are confidential …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New Jersey mayor, son, arrested on charges they nuked recall website — The father and son used a low tech hack—password recovery—to take down the site. — FBI — The mayor of a small New Jersey hamlet has been arrested, along with his son, on federal charges that they shut … | Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Sheds More Light on their iPen & Graphics Program — On May 24, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that sheds more light on their future iPen and related graphics program. Apple continues to spend time and R&D funding on a future iPen device that's …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple's VP of Europe Pascal Cagni quits after 12 year tenure — Apple's vice president of Europe Pascal Cagni has reportedly resigned after twelve years at the company, having originally joined in 2000 as a direct appointment by Steve Jobs. — The news comes by way of French newspaper Le Figaro …
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| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Google takes down 1.2 million search links a month over piracy, copyright issues — Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Redfin slapped with patent suit over new Home Price Tool — Seattle online real estate company Redfin is being sued by CoreLogic for patent infringement over its Home Price Tool, a new service that it rolled out in March to help home owners get a better idea of the values of their home.| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Scoutmob Raises $3.25M, Partners with First Data for Local Deals — Atlanta-based local deals startup Scoutmob has raised $3.25 million in new funding from AOL Ventures, Capitol Broadcasting, Cox Enterprises, Inc., Ben Lerer and New Atlantic Ventures. The company says it will use the funding …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Microsoft legal win over Google may signal ceasefire — So much for the power of Motorola's patents. — Google, which spent $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola and its patents in a deal that closed Tuesday, has suffered a major legal defeat at the hands of Microsoft, which successfully argued …
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| Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
How Facebook Can Solve Its Mobile Problem: Build a Browser — When it recovers from the cataclysmic clusterf**k that was its IPO, Facebook will gather its team, round up its new friends from Instagram and Glancee, and ask the $100 billion question: What the hell is it going to do about mobile?| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Running New Celebrity iPhone 4S/Siri TV Ads Featuring John Malkovich — Apple has begun running a pair of new television ads for the iPhone 4S and Siri featuring actor John Malkovich. This comes after a pair of celebrity ads started running last month with Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel.
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| Maira / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Senator Wyden Demands Access to Text of Secret International Agreements Regulating the Internet — Senator Ron Wyden yesterday introduced a bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate demanding access to draft texts of international trade agreements under negotiation by the Office …
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