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| César Puerta / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter rolls out photo tagging, ability to share up to four photos in a tweet — Photos just got more social — We're rolling out two new mobile features that make photos on Twitter more social. One is photo tagging, which lets you tag the people in your photo; the other is the ability to include up to four photos in a Tweet.
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
With acquisitions like Oculus and Nest, big tech companies race to find the next platform after mobile — The Search For The Next Platform — I found this part of Mark Zuckerberg's post on the Oculus acquisition most revealing: … Facebook was a bit slow to get aboard the mobile train.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Fund My Kickstarter Project-But Don't Get Angry If I Sell to Facebook — Only on Kickstarter could a $2 billion acquisition be considered an abject failure. — On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had purchased Oculus, the virtual reality headset maker and darling of Kickstarter.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
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| Palmer Luckey / Oculus VR: |
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies — It's official: the once-controversial social scoring startup has been scooped up. — FORTUNE — Social score startup Klout has been acquired by Lithium Technologies, a provider of social customer experience solutions for the enterprise …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
In Response to Google, Amazon Drops EC2 And RDS Prices by 40%, S3 Storage Costs By 36% To 65% — Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache …
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| William Alden / New York Times: |
Candy Crush maker King Digital ends first day of trading more than 15% below IPO price — Candy Crush Maker King Falls in Trading Debut — King Digital Entertainment, the game maker behind the addictive Candy Crush Saga, had a muted debut on Wednesday as it began life as a public company.| Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: |
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| iFixit: |
HTC One (M8) Teardown — Spring has sprung and HTC has hatched a new One. Join us as we take a closer look at this season's newest sprout, the HTC One (M8). After all, it's our job to weed out the irreparable, and the best way to do that is through destruction—er, precise analysis.
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| Vijaya Gadde / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter files petitions for lawsuits in Turkish courts to challenge ban — Challenging the access ban in Turkey — It's now been six days since the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter. Throughout this time, we've been engaged in discussion with Turkish authorities to hear their concerns …
| Derek Kessler / iMore: |
Apple hires BlackBerry's top software VP, BlackBerry wins court battle over departure — Sebastien Marineau-Mes, BlackBerry's SVP of Software, is leaving the ailing smartphone manufacturer for brighter and warmer pastures: Apple. Or at least that's what he's trying to do, if it weren't for those pesky contracts.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to unveil Enterprise Mobility Suite alongside Office for iPad — Summary: Microsoft is readying a new Enterprise Mobility Suite bundle to help enterprise users better manage Windows, Android and iOS devices, sources say. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to unveil …
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| TechCrunch: |
TubeMogul Files For $75M IPO, With $57M In Revenue And A $7M Net Loss For 2013 — Video ad platform TubeMogul has filed its S-1, declaring its plans to go public with an offering of up to $75 million. And it's doing so with what appears to be pretty healthy gross margins, though with an overall net loss.| Leigh Gallagher / Fortune: |
Airbnb partners with Portland on “Shared City” initiative to collect tax, support local causes, more — Airbnb cozies up to cities — The “sharing economy” pioneer launches an ambitious new partnership with Portland, Ore.—and a new model for enriching the cities in which it operates.| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
Dish's Ergen Said to Approach DirecTV CEO White About Merger — Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen recently contacted DirecTV Chief Executive Officer Mike White to discuss a merger of the two satellite television companies, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google I/O site goes live, new random registration system open from April 8-10 — Update: Registration is open April 8-10. Google's first draft of its blog post mistakenly said April 7-9. — After briefly announcing some details earlier this month, a website for the upcoming Google …
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Google Developers Blog, Business Insider, Android Central, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Next Web, SlashGear and Ausdroid. Thanks:@jordankahn
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Ahead of Samsung patent case, Apple engineer recalls the marathon to create the iPhone — Jobs gave the engineer an ultimatum: Lay out a vision for the iPhone fast or lose the job — In February 2005, Apple Inc. 's then chief executive, Steve Jobs, gave senior software engineer Greg Christie an ultimatum.
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Tweets: @scottthurm and @wsjd
| Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter rolling out new music strategy centered on music conversations and content this week — Twitter to Relaunch Music Strategy — Move Comes Shortly After It Pulled #Music App from iTunes — Twitter Inc. is trying out a new tune. The short-messaging service is preparing to roll … | Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Maker Studios was losing $2-3M per month leading up to Disney sale — With Maker Acquisition, Disney Takes on a Tough Challenge — Walt Disney Co.'s $500 million buyout of Maker Studios has been described as many things: An endorsement of the YouTube economy, an admission by a media giant …
Tweets: @cityofthetown
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Dell sign Android, Chrome OS patent agreement — Summary: Microsoft and Dell have renewed their patent cross-licensing agreement, with Dell agreeing to pay Microsoft royalties for Dell's products running Android and Chrome OS. — Microsoft has signed a patent-licensing agreement …
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Microsoft Corporation, The Register, GeekWire, The Verge, TechCrunch, Reuters and FOSS Patents
| Anil Dash / ThinkUp Blog: |
Social analytics app ThinkUp opens to the public, costs $60 a year — Welcome, everyone, to ThinkUp. — Today, for the first time, ThinkUp is open to the world. You can just sign up and become a member. We hope you'll do so! — In the months and years that we've been working on ThinkUp …
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