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April 25, 2013, 11:35 PM
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The next generation of Instapaper — When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app. It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving.
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Tweets: @themagazineapp, @marcoarment, @siracusa, @tfaz and @paulbz
See also Mediagazer| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery — Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor / incubator / holding company thing Betaworks acquired social news site Digg and relaunched it soon after, hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the process.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes — After going on sale at 10:00 AM Pacific Time today, tickets for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco have already sold out in two minutes. — WWDC has sold out increasingly quickly in recent years …
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| Daniel Jalkut / Bitsplitting.org: |
End WWDC — Not long ago, when Apple's WWDC conference dates were announced, a slow trickle of registrations would occur as developers consulted with spouses, bosses, and co-workers to determine, in their own sweet time, whether or not they would attend. There was never any rush, because the conference never sold out.
| Ben Sandofsky / Twitter Blog: |
New improvements to Twitter for Mac — Today we're announcing a few improvements to Twitter for Mac: Photos: It's easier than ever to share photos. Simply click the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the Tweet compose box, and choose a photo to share. If you prefer, you can still drag and drop photos from the desktop.
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| TechCrunch: |
Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service — Facebook has just acquired Parse, marking its entry into a whole new business category: paid tools and services for developing mobile apps. — The company is buying the mobile-backend-as-a-service startup …
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Thanks:@ryanlawler| Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features — And It's About Time — Twitter may be the best way to figure out what's happening around the world right now. But it sure ain't great at telling me what's going on in my world — that is, what's happening down the block from me. — That may change.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Amazon beats Wall Street estimates with $0.18 EPS, sales at $16.07B in Q1 2013, a 22% growth YoY — Amazon announced its first quarter financial performance and it has $16.07 billion in net income and earnings per share of $0.18. Its sales were up 22 percent from last year.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Officially Joins Jawbone Board — As I had reported last fall that she might, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has officially joined the board of Jawbone, the high-profile wireless gadget maker whose nifty products include Jawbone wireless headsets … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain — It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay's IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain. — Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD.
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| Debbie Cai / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo Chairman Resigns — Yahoo Inc. said Chairman Fred Amoroso has resigned but will serve on the Web portal's board until its June annual meeting. — Mr. Amoroso, who was named chairman last May, will be succeeded in the interim by Maynard Webb Jr., the company said.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Margin Call 2 — I expected Apple's margins to improve last quarter. They didn't and so the question I needed to answer is why. Here is a history of Apple's gross margin and operating margin as reported since late 2005: — For a company selling hardware these are extraordinarily high margins.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Attorney General calls T-Mobile's no-contract plans ‘deceptive’, carrier agrees to offer refunds and change advertising — Following the launch of T-Mobile's new “Uncarrier” strategy alongside the $99 iPhone 5 and new no subsidy pricing plans last month, today the Washington State Attorney General … | Anthony Tosie / Neowin: |
Microsoft to release ‘Switch to Windows Phone’ Android app [Update] — Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, manager of the Windows Phone team, touts the platform's apps at an October event. — Microsoft is hoping to take a bite out of Google's Android platform by releasing a “Switch to Windows Phone” …
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CITEworld, WinBeta, Yahoo! News, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Android Community and PandoDaily. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@anthonytosie
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Tao of Vine: the creators of Twitter's video platform speak out — and promise an Android app ‘soon’ — Vine's founders wax philosophical on their viral video app — Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann has always been a film nerd. He spent summers as a kid making movies, but had more fun shooting than editing.
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BGR, Neowin, MobileSyrup.com, Android and Me, UnleashThePhones and PhoneArena
| AllThingsD: |
Court Denies Motorola the Billions It Wanted From Microsoft for Standards-Essential Patents — A federal court in Seattle issued a ruling Thursday that could help settle the question of just how much a company can expect to reap from standards-essential patents. — Source: Microsoft
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
3D Leap Motion Controller device shipping date delayed 2 months until July 22nd — Leap Motion CEO Michael Buckwald today announced on a conference call that the shipping of the company's 3D Motion Controller would be delayed until July 22nd. The reasons behind it, Buckwald says, were about ‘living up to expectations’.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Group Led By Google Wants More Speed On The Web, Releases Nginx PageSpeed Module In Beta — Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group has released a version for Nginx …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain — Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant late last year.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Time Warner Cable sees the Google Fiber threat and offers Austin free Wi-Fi — Competition is grand. With Google planning to build out a fiber-to-the-home network in Austin, Texas next year, the local incumbent broadband providers are tweaking their models.
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Time Warner Cable Untangled, Ars Technica, CNET, Wired, DSLreports and PC Magazine
| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
Wi-Fi, Voice Calling Come to More New York City Subway Stations — Busy New Yorkers are about to get even more distracted. — Today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the body for New York City's arteries of public transit, had completed the first phase …
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GigaOM, DSLreports, IntoMobile, Metropolis, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget and The Verge
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
CISPA ‘dead’ in Senate, privacy concerns cited — Summary: The chairman of a key Senate committee cited “insufficient” privacy protections in the cybersecurity bill, recently passed by the House. — Zack Whittaker — The Senate will almost certainly kill a controversial cybersecurity bill … | Kevin Kwang / ZDNet: |
Samsung hits $7.9B in Q1 profits on strong mobile sales — Summary: Samsung is reporting an operating profit of 8.78 trillion won and revenues of 52.87 trillion won for its first quarter, which was boosted by strong sales in its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 mobile devices. — Kevin Kwang
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon Price Gap: $30 Billion — Verizon Communications Inc. is eager to buy Vodafone Group PLC out of their massive mobile-phone joint venture—but it will have to get over a $30 billion hurdle. — That amount is roughly the difference between what people on either side of the potential deal … Sponsor Posts
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