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| Milo Medin / Google Fiber Blog: |
Google Fiber's Next Stop: Austin, Texas — We know that your time is valuable and so we've always focused on speed — from search to Gmail, Chrome to Android. Two years ago, we announced that we'd be bringing Google Fiber to Kansas City to show what's possible with super fast Internet access …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps? — Facebook invades Android with a new lockscreen and a new chat experience — On April 12th, the much-vaunted Facebook Phone will arrive — but it's not a phone at all. Facebook Home, as its called, is a couple of pieces …
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| Florence Ion / Ars Technica: |
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| Simon Dawlat / AppGratis: |
AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here's the full story. — I'm Simon Dawlat, CEO at AppGratis. — I founded AppGratis back in 2008, and have been running it ever since. — Today, for the first time, my company is dealing with an incredibly difficult moment.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
OS X 10.8.4 code confirms new Macs incoming with super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless support — Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple's latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers.
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program — T-Mobile USA, the struggling phone carrier, really wants you to switch to its network — so badly that it will give you a break on a brand-new iPhone in exchange for an old one. — The company said on Wednesday that when it begins selling …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
YAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's Startup For $30 Million — Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. — Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. — The deal got a lot of attention … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model — CBS CEO Les Moonves applauds News Corp. exec's comments, telling the New York Times that the network was considering cutting its over-the-air signal in the New York area. — Another television network has joined the broadcaster backlash following … | Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership — Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier. — The two companies have been discussing how more of Yahoo services can play a prominent role on Apple's iPhone and iPad, people briefed on the matter said. — Data from Yahoo Finance …
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| Stephen Hackett / 512 Pixels: |
Looking Back at the Future: A Preview of the Apple Pop-Up Museum — As I walked through the glass door to be the offices behind of what used to be an Atlanta-area CompUSA store, those six familiar colors filled my vision. — The store is being temporarily brought back to life …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Coinsetter Lands $500K From SecondMarket Founder & Others To Help Bring Leverage, Shorting To Bitcoin Trade — Today, Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Foursquare's iOS Update Brings Search to the Forefront — Continuing its push into the location discovery and recommendation space, Foursquare will update its iOS mobile app on Wednesday morning, moving the service's search capabilities to the front and center of the phone.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Promoted Trends Tracked for One Month - $5.4 Million — Twitter has been building up its ad business for three years, but early on it figured out that it had a hit with “Promoted Trends.” That's the ad unit that lets a brand occupy the top spot on Twitter's “Trends” list for a day … | Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Google sold Frommer's Travel — but kept all the social media data — People wondered why Google sold Frommer's Travel barely nine months after acquiring it in the first place. The answer is that it's keeping a huge number social media followers from sites like Facebook. — Mystery solved.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone. 62% plan to buy one. — 23% are looking to buy an Android phone, up from 22% last fall. — FORTUNE — The results of Piper Jaffray's 25th bi-annual teen survey came in Tuesday afternoon. Once again, it showed Apple (AAPL) to be the most desired brand …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google Play Music arrives in 7 more countries, including New Zealand, Australia, Austria, and Ireland — Google is expanding its service coverage of its music service. We initially heard reports of the nearly two-year old service being available in Australia and New Zealand.
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| Michael Siliski / Official Android Blog: |
A fresh new look for Google Play — Whether you're in the mood to listen to Justin Timberlake's new album, read Harlan Coben's latest bestseller or discover a new game to play, you want the experience of finding and making your purchase to be quick and easy.
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| Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: |
Microsoft escalates advertising assault on Google — Microsoft lobs another marketing missive at Google, punctuating shift in competitive landscape — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift …
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| James Kanter / New York Times: |
World's Tech Companies Look to Brussels to Resolve Antitrust Complaints — BRUSSELS — When the European competition commissioner needs to communicate with the chairman of Google, he doesn't have to send an emissary or even pick up the phone. — Joaquín Almunia sometimes sends Eric E. Schmidt a text.
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Can you find me now? How carriers sell your location and get away with it — Companies are selling ‘anonymized’ location data left and right — but do they know how to keep it private? — Check your cell phone contract, and you might come across the following turn of phrase: “We do not sell your personal information.”
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Boxee rebrands new device as Cloud DVR, tones down cord cutting rhetoric — Okay, I didn't see this coming: Boxee has rebranded its new consumer electronics device just five months after it first became available. The $100 device, which combines live TV and cloud DVR functionality with apps like Netflix … | Dan Moren / Macworld: |
Hands on: Chrome for iOS adds full-screen, save to PDF — Google recently reheated the browser wars with the announcement that it would be switching rendering engines for Chrome. But despite iOS's prohibition on non-WebKit-based browsers, the search giant isn't letting its version of Chrome for Apple's mobile platform languish.| Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat: |
Tumblr Kills Storyboard; Editorial Employees Will Be ‘Moving On’ — Tumblr's Mr. Karp (Photo: wikipedia.org) — We've seen some late-afternoon news dumps, but this takes the cake: Tumblr CEO David Karp just announced that the company is shutting down Storyboard, the editorial experiment meant …
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See also Mediagazer| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
With Firepad, Firebase Adds Real-Time Text Collaboration To Its App Platform — Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module — Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others.
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Wired, Tech Cocktail, Digital Media Wire and GigaOM
| Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
LG to Expand Retail Stores — SEOUL—LG Electronics Inc. is expanding the number of its retail stores in emerging markets as it seeks to increase smartphone market share and gain a stronger global presence in consumer electronics. — Executive Vice President Kim Ki-wan said the company plans …
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