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Will Yahoo Try to Get Its “Cool Again” by Doing a Deal for Tumblr? — Earlier this week, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman spoke at JP Morgan's Global Technology conference and underscored the need for the aging Silicon Valley Internet giant to attract more users from the coveted 18-to-24-years-old age bracket.
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Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr Deal could reach as high as $1 billion — Is Marissa Mayer about to make a game-changing acquisition? It appears so. — Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
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Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. Will Facebook swoop in at the last minute? — Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer thinks that what Blogger did for Google, Tumblr could do for her aging Internet company — make it relevant and a major player on the modern web. And for that she is willing … | Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass — Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.| Robert Hof / Forbes: |
Google Reveals How To Hack Google Glass Device (And Void Your Warranty) — No sooner was Google 's wearable Google Glass device released to early developers than those developers began to try hacking it. — Now, Google is encouraging developers-slowly-to hack the controversial device, which won't go on sale publicly until next year.
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Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression — The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is nearly done with its VP9 video technology, and it wants the world to use it.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Intel May Have Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Still Win the Mobile War — As CEO Paul Otellini steps down from his post, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips. — Forty-five years after Intel was founded …
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White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 coming June 10th — Rumors suggested that a white Nexus 4 might appear at Google IO, and they were right. We obtained the elusive white Nexus 4 and we can confirm it's a carbon copy of the previous Nexus 4, just with a different color casing.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
CW Strikes Deal with Apple to Bring Content to Apple TV — The CW has struck a deal that will bring the network's content to the Apple TV, reports Deadline. At the company's annual Upfront Presentation in New York today, CW president Mark Pedowitz announced that the CW's TV Now applications …
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Laurene Powell Jobs Goes Public to Promote Dream Act — Steve Jobs's widow has taken on a public role, backing one of the most controversial causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform. And she is doing it using some of the tactics that her late husband, the Apple Inc. co-founder, employed to great effect at the technology giant.
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Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share — Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday's initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we've got a concrete number. — The company will price its shares at $31 for Friday's IPO … | Bloomberg: |
Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim — Bill Gates became the world's richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007. His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Tim Cook says US-made Mac will be new model in an existing family — When Apple's Tim Cook revealed that his company would once more assemble a Mac line in the US, there was a flood of questions almost immediately: which model? Where would it be made? While the CEO isn't revealing …
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Politico, The Verge, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo and MacRumors
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Google On Glass Privacy Issues & Congress: “Social Cues” Will Help, Plus It Takes Trust Seriously — Google Glass isn't even available for consumers and some in US Congress are already formally raising privacy questions. Google's reaction? Privacy has been “top of mind” as it has developed Glass, and it takes trust seriously.
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How Many Turns in a Screw? Big Data Knows — Companies' pursuit of “big data”—collecting and crunching ever larger amounts of information—is often thought of as another way to figure out exactly what customers want. But big data is also a means of measuring millions of little things in factories … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Billions: How exactly do Apple and Google count app downloads? — Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the same keynote, the counter on Apple's site ticked over to 50B App Store downloads.
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Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year — Bell Labs shut down in 2006. Today, Alcatel-Lucent uses patents that originated at the labs to file lawsuits. — Lawrence Aberle / Wikipedia — In 2011, Alcatel-Lucent had American e-commerce on the ropes.| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Which Journalists Accepted Free Laptops from Google? — Yesterday's Google I/O keynote—a tech Nuremberg of fanboyism, developer jargon, and fancy new features for Gmail—dragged on for hours. Those thousands who sat patiently in their chairs were rewarded with a brand new, $1,300 laptop … | Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech — Facebook's “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.
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The Facebook IPO, One Year Later — The Company Is Getting Serious About Making Money; But the Stock Is Stuck — Two weeks ago, new posters began appearing at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. The posters proclaimed: “Advertisers are users too*.” At the bottom of the page, in smaller font … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator Adds Four Part-Time Partners, Including Groupon's Andrew Mason (Who's Also Starting A New Company) — Y Combinator's Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in a just-published blog post. — Let's see if I've got everything: The incubator has added one full-time partner …
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