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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: @ericpwilson, @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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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO — Yahoo just announced that chairman Fred Amoroso will step down in June. — We've communicated with three Yahoo sources since the news broke. — Given what they told us, we think this why Amoroso is out:| Debbie Cai / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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| 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.| 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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Tweets: @ryanlawler, @evelynrusli and @stevestreza
Thanks:@ryanlawler. See also Mediagazer| 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 … | 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.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AT&T finally brings its Digital Life home automation service to 15 markets — AT&T has been showing off and talking about its Digital Life home automation service for the better part of a year now, but after missing its March launch target, it's finally making the service available in 15 markets this week.| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Its New And Improved File Viewer For MS Office Documents To Chrome Beta — If you regularly need to open Microsoft Office documents in the browser, Google now offers you a new Chrome extension that renders Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly in the browser.
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| 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, Yahoo! News, WinBeta, Android Community, PandoDaily, ZDNet and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@anthonytosie
| 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 … | Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Lumia 521 for T-Mobile arrives early at HSN on April 27th for $149.95, general availability on May 22nd — Wanting to get first dibs on the Lumia 521 for T-Mobile? If so, it looks that you may need to tune into HSN on April 27th, because — strange as it sounds — the television network … | 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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| 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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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Engadget, AllThingsD and Polygon
| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T: Antitrust Regulators Playing Favorites With Airwaves — WASHINGTON—AT&T Inc. accused antitrust regulators Thursday of playing favorites as they seek to steer some of the country's most valuable airwaves toward smaller wireless carriers. — The government plans in coming years … | 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, Wired, CNET and DSLreports
| 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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| Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Mailbox fans, rejoice: iPad build in the works, Mac app under consideration — Unlike Sparrow, the popular iPhone email client whose chances of seeing a native iPad version went down the drain after Google acquired the team back in July 2012, Orchestra's Mailbox will make the leap to the iPad, developers confirmed Thursday on Twitter.Sponsor Posts
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