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Lower pricing and simplified limits with the Google Maps API — Since launching the Google Maps API seven years ago, we've been awed by the many ways developers have used the service to build great mapping apps. As you may know, last year we introduced limits on the number of free maps …
| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
First hints of a Facebook ad network: Sponsored Stories appear on Zynga.com — Zynga's off-Facebook games platform Zynga.com now displays Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, as part of what could be the beginnings of a Facebook ad network across the web. — According to the Facebook Help Center … | Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb: |
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Facebook's Instagram bid to be probed by OFT — Office of Fair Trading concerned social network might prevent picture uploads to other sites from the app — The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebook's $1bn bid for Instagram, because it is concerned the giant social network …
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| Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com: |
Hands on: Microsoft Surface tablet review — An in-depth look at the new player in the tablet race — 1.Overview and design — Update: We've spent some time updating our experience with the Microsoft Surface tablet's interface - including detailing that elusive portrait mode.| Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com: |
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apartment Search Engine PadMapper Gets A Cease-And-Desist From Craigslist, Removes Listings — It's been years since I've had to look for an apartment, but in that time multiple friends have sung the praises of PadMapper (TechCrunch alumnus Greg Kumparak is a fan too).| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates — A big win for Comcast and its subscribers in a federal court in Illinois.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
RIAA's New War: Shutting Down The Equivalent Of Internet VCRs — The entertainment industry just won't quit trying to kill perfectly legal technologies with substantial non-infringing uses. Back during the big legal fight over Grokster, the RIAA insisted that it had absolutely no interest …
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
YouTube Revenues Could Pass $3.6 Billion in 2012: Citi's Mark Mahaney — Is Google making money off of YouTube? You betcha, Google execs told shareholders today, without offering the slightest bit of detail. Par for the course. — So in lieu of real numbers from Google … | Wall Street Journal: |
What's Ailing Google Chief? — Google Inc. GOOG +1.11% says Chief Executive Larry Page has “lost his voice,” but it won't say much more about the matter. Some corporate governance experts think the Internet company should speak up. The billionaire co-founder missed Google's annual meeting Thursday …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
HTC reportedly halting all phone sales in Brazil — Reports indicate that HTC is canceling the planned launch of its One series in Brazil and ending all phone sales in the country. As it's exiting the Brazilian market, a number of HTC's employees will lose their jobs …
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| Deborah Netburn / Los Angeles Times: |
Online donations to bullied bus monitor Karen Klein top $540,000 — People of the Internet donated more than $500,000 in just 48 hours to send a bullied bus monitor on a vacation. — People of the Internet, you did it: In less than 48 hours you managed to raise more than half a million dollars … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands App Store to 32 new territories in Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific — As promised by Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC, Apple has expanded the App Store's reach to 155 total territories, by adding 32 new territories today. An email to registered iOS and Mac developers went out this evening detailing the change.
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MacRumors, The Verge, CNET, App Advice, Pulse2 Technology …, Mobile Marketing Watch, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, WebProNews, SlashGear, Engadget, BGR, AppNewser, TUAW, PadGadget and AppleInsider. Thanks:@markgurman
| Ryan Block / gdgt: |
Crunching the numbers on Retina: what to expect in iMacs, MacBook Airs, and Thunderbolt monitors with Retina displays — Ready to geek out on pixel densities? Great, me too. — So when Apple announced its first computer with a Retina display, the revamped 15.4 MacBook Pro … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
SSD prices plummeted by 48 percent over the past year — While traditional hard drive pricing remains inflated after last year's Thai floods, the cost of SSDs continues to drop. The Tech Report took a look at the average cost of a number of popular solid state drives over the past year … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge — Apple's iPad costs precious little for you to charge it each year, according to a new study. — The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducted a study recently to see how much the iPad costs in electricity if users fully charge it every other day.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
ThisLife Raises $2.75 Million From Madrona And Others To Organize Your Photos In The Cloud — ThisLife quietly launched in 2010 as a cloud-based platform for storing and organizing all of a family's photos in a single place. But after two years of working to refine the service …
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| Tomio Geron / Social Markets: |
Kosmix Founders Leave @WalmartLabs — Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, the cofounders of Kosmix, which was acquired in April 2011 by Walmart and became the Silicon Valley tech shop for Walmart, are leaving the company. — Harinarayan and Rajaraman headed the @WalmartLabs operation …
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Verizon turns on Razrs' GSM radios, pushes out Android 4.0 upgrade — We knew international roaming was coming to Verizon's LTE phones - the GSM radios shipped in many of its LTE handsets were just sitting there dormant - but on Friday, Verizon is finally turning them on in two of its devices … | Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Lawsuit over HP ex-CEO Hurd payout dismissed — (Reuters) - A shareholder lawsuit seeking to hold the board of Hewlett Packard Co responsible for approving Mark Hurd's $40 million severance after he abruptly quit as chief executive was dismissed by a Delaware court.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Nintendo announces $199 3DS XL with 4.88-inch top screen, available August 19th — Folks holding their breath for a “3DS Lite” might want to exhale — Nintendo has decided to go a different route. Company head honcho Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS LL these evening on Nintendo Direct … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Ousted Acer CEO Given $42.9 Million In Severance — Acer's leadership shake-up last year cost the company dearly — its status as the world's second-biggest PC company, a potentially strong position in tablet and smartphone markets, and a behemoth severance package paid to the guy who's arguably responsible for losing them both.Sponsor Posts
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