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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn's iOS app collects and transmits names, emails and notes from your calendar, in plain text — The LinkedIn mobile app for iOS devices collects full meeting notes and details from your device's calendar and sends them back to the company, The Next Web has been informed.
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| Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog: |
More about our mobile calendar feature — You may have seen a few press stories highlighting concerns about how your data is used in the opt-in calendar feature of our mobile phone apps. We deeply care about our members trust so I want to provide clarity around what we do, don't do …
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| Alan Warren / The Official Google Blog: |
Google + Quickoffice = get more done anytime, anywhere — We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions. — Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device.
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| Nick Wingfield / Bits: |
As Google Bets on Mobile Office, Microsoft Waits — If Microsoft couldn't find compelling enough reasons to release its Office applications for the iPad, Google just gave it one. — On Tuesday, Google acquired Quickoffice, a start-up that makes a set of applications for iPads and Android tablets …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Tennis Pals Ellison and Hurd Explored HP-Oracle Merger — Ellison and Hurd caught a little tennis in Indian Wells, California, just four days before Oracle dumped Itanium. Photo: EPA/Paul Buck — When Mark Hurd was still CEO of Hewlett-Packard, he and Oracle Larry CEO discussed a possible merger of the two companies.| Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld: |
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
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| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Are You Okay With Airtime Secretly Taking Photos Of You While You're Video Chatting? — Airtime: You watch it. It watches you. — Facebook is boring, according to a third of its users. Yikes! Luckily, tech entrepreneur Sean Parker plans to save the day, launching a new video chat service called Airtime.
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| Michael Hogan / The Huffington Post: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
After nearly two years without an update, Apple to finally revamp Mac Pro next week — Yesterday, we reported that Apple has an incredible WWDC surprise: major updates to four of its Mac lines. We were able to affirm that three of these updates would cover the redesigned MacBook Pro with a Retina Display …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Lenovo demos ThinkPad tablet running Windows 8, we go hands-on — Yes, another Windows 8 tablet. After getting hands-on with some new devices from Acer, ASUS and Samsung, you might already having trouble telling one device from the other. You might even say the same about Lenovo …
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| Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time: |
The Death of Social Proof — Social proof is dying as a startup differentiation heuristic during fundraising. Why? — A) Blame Angellist for an Advisor Bubble — Every company I see has some roster of advisors and/or soft-circled seed investors already committed.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS — Thirty-one. That's the number of months it took Palm, Inc. to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sprint's Virgin Mobile to Offer iPhone — Sprint Nextel Corp. is set to become the second U.S. mobile-phone carrier to offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone on a pay-as-you-go basis. — Sprint will announce this week it will offer the popular smartphone on its Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go brand as soon as July 1 …
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Ubergizmo, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, Engadget, digitaltrends.com, Examiner, Wired, IntoMobile, DailyFinance.com, PC Magazine, FierceWireless, TeleRead, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Mashable!, Business Insider, The Next Web, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM, everythingiCafe and iDownloadBlog.com
| Roi Carthy / TechCrunch: |
on{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of... Microsoft Israel? — Look at your Android phone! Now back at this post! — Imagine you could program your Android to text your wife when you left work. Now imagine your Android reminding you in the morning to grab … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao Breaks Her Silence: I'm Still At Kleiner Perkins, And I Don't Plan On Leaving — Ellen Pao, the partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who is suing the legendary venture capital firm for alleged gender discrimination and acts of retaliation she claims to have experienced during …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Another Big Money Bet on AdTech: PubMatic Raises $45 Million From August Capital — After a few years of infatuation, many investors have grown out of love with ad technology companies. But a handful of ad tech businesses continue to garner very big bets and are making noises about going public.| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Google Starts Showing Users Alerts For Accounts Hacked By “State-Sponsored Attackers” — Here's a message from Google some Gmail users can expect to see in the near future, and that the rest of us hope we never will: “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.”| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Kobo launches e-book self-publishing platform, “Writing Life” — Digital reading company Kobo is launching a competitor to Amazon's KDP and Barnes & Noble's PubIt: Kobo Writing Life, a free self-publishing platform for independent authors and publishers. — Writing Life is in beta tests … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Carriers' Next Move: One Choice for Voice — The largest U.S. wireless carriers are working on ways to keep their customers paying up for something they do less and less—making phone calls. — In a sea change for consumer behavior, the amount of time spent making old-fashioned voice calls … | Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Pandora is lobbying Congress to establish fair royalty rates — This post has been corrected. See note below. — Pandora has reportedly spent more than $50,000 this year lobbying Congress to establish a more equal system for how much different forms of radio pay in royalties.
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| Megan O'Neill / SocialTimes: |
New Deals With Publishers Will Allow YouTube To Monetize Nearly All UGC With Copyright Music — Attention is looking for a Director, Social Media. — Allfacebook Marketing Conference AllFacebook AllTwitter Send an anonymous tip — Hot: What Makes A Video “Viral”? …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
AMD shows off 11-inch Compal Windows 8 hybrid tablet — We've seen Intel's vision for Windows 8 already, but don't count out AMD. The company is showing off a Windows 8 tablet from Compal here at Computex Taipei, and it's in the hot form factor of the moment — the detachable keyboard dock.
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Facebook Just Opened Up Its Mobile-Only Ad Market — Facebook has added its mobile-only “Sponsored Stories” ads to the list of ad products buyers can purchase via the ads API and Power Editor, without going through its sales force, the company announced. — The move makes buying ads … | Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Solve Media Launches Brand-Research Tool Disguised as a Captcha — What Does This Brand Mean to You? — Solve Media sure loves its Captchas — those usually hard-to-read letters that web users have to type in to prove that they aren't a bot. The startup first came out with Captchas …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
No Resumes, Just Skills: Smarterer Grabs $1.75M From True, Google Ventures; Tony Conrad Joins Board — Resumes, they say, are ineffective but Boston-based startup Smarterer believes it has the solution. The company's platform provides job searchers with a simple way to show employers …
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