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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
StumbleUpon, A Case Study In The Efficient Allocation Of Resources — So StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking site that lets users browse and discover new websites by clicking a button, was a subsidiary of eBay for just less than two years. The acquisition made the startup's founders extremely wealthy …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
StumbleUpon Breaks Free from eBay - Founders Buy it Back — Want a geeky way to chill out after a long work day of focus, focus, focus? There are few better ways online to keep the synapses lubricated than through the semi-serendipity of social sharing service StumbleUpon.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:StumbleUpon Stumbles Out of eBay's Arms to Be Reborn as a Start-Up …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Twitter's Co-Founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone Speak! — BoomTown visited Twitter's San Francisco HQ yesterday for a pie-filled tour yesterday. — But I also got a chance to sit down to have a chat with two of its founders, CEO Evan Williams and Biz Stone (pictured here, right to left) …
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Andrea James / Amazon & the online retail blog:
AmazonFail: An inside look at what happened — I've spoken to an Amazon.com employee who works closely with the systems involved in the glitch. The employee asked me not to share his name because of company policies on talking with the media. — On Sunday afternoon at least 20 Amazon.com employees …
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Xavier Ducrohet / Android Developers Blog:
Getting ready for Android 1.5 — I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. This new version (which will be 1.5) is based on the cupcake branch from the Android Open Source Project.
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developer.android.com:
Download the Android 1.5 Early Look SDK — Welcome developers! The next release of the Android platform will be Android 1.5 and we are pleased to announce the availability of an early look SDK to give you a head-start on developing applications for it. — The Android 1.5 platform …
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BBC:
EC starts legal action on Phorm — The European Commission has started legal action against Britain over the online advertising technology Phorm. — It follows complaints to the EC over how the behavioural advertising service was tested on BT's broadband network without the consent of users.
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Randall C. Kennedy / Randall C. Kennedy's blog:
Will Windows 7 be panned by enterprise IT? — Randall C. Kennedy mulls over the most recent survey numbers, which show a tepid response from IT shops — Windows 7 will change the world! It will right the wrongs of Vista in the enterprise space while simultaneously winning over the hearts …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
HD Cloud: Video Transcoding Gets Hip — Been able to make out facial expressions on YouTube lately? Noticed yourself rubbing your eyes less? Though that show looked just about as good on your laptop as your TV? Given the rapid ascent of online video quality in the last year …
Nikon Press Center:
NIKON'S D5000 DIGITAL SLR CAMERA EXPANDS POSSIBILITIES FOR PHOTO AND HD VIDEO CREATIVITY WITH D-MOVIE MODE, VARI-ANGLE LCD MONITOR AND 19 AUTOMATIC SCENE MODES — Nikon Inc. today introduced the new D5000, a digital SLR camera with a host of features and capabilities that deliver superior performance …
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VentureBeat:
Forget the G1, the Android invasion is landing in Asia — Google's Android operating system has promised to help mobile manufacturers and carriers offer high-quality interfaces for smartphones — if not for netbooks and many other devices. But since its initial release last year …
Microsoft Help and Support:
Description of the E74 error message warranty extension — View products that this article applies to. — MORE INFORMATION — While the majority of Xbox 360 owners continue to have a great experience with their console, we are aware that a very small percentage of our customers …
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Tech jobs hammered by recession — Silicon Valley's tech workforce is shrinking at an alarming rate, with job losses in the region's dominant industry outpacing the overall employment decline across the valley. — Seemingly immune to recession for much of last year, the valley has been hit hard …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Job posting points to single-click Windows Mobile updates — A second job posting further hints at Microsoft wanting to revamp how updates work on Windows Mobile with the release of version 7 next year. — Last month there was a job posting on March 12 that quickly led to speculation around whether …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm Pre launching no earlier than May 16 according to leaked doc? — We've been made privy to some Sprint planning documentation that implies that the carrier is looking to get all its Pre ducks in a row by May 16, which would suggest that there's no way in hell it's launching any earlier than that.
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Jay Parkinson M.D. / Clusterstock:
Google Health Will Belly Flop — About two weeks ago, e-patient Dave sent me a link to his blog post about his Google (GOOG) Health information sucked out of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. It finally made the Boston Globe this morning. — Here's the problem.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
NBC Again Will Limit Live Olympic Broadband Coverage To Pay TV Subscribers — While Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has been talking up TV Everywhere, NBC quietly has been planning once again to limit live broadband viewing of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver to pay TV subscribers—but with tougher authentication.
Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData — Award-winning website from the Center for Responsive Politics now provides 20 years of downloadable money-in-politics data—for free — WASHINGTON — Politicians, prepare yourselves. Lobbyists, look out. Today the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics …
Claire Sung / DigiTimes:
TSMC and subsidiaries to benefit from launch of next-generation iPhone — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and two of its subsidiaries - packaging and testing house Xintec and color filer (CF) maker VisEra Technologies - are likely to benefit from their roles in the manufacturing …
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
How Technology Won the Presidency, Part I — Command of the issues, cool confidence and disarming smile aside, Barack Obama might just owe his campaign's success to his team's ability to harness the technology at their fingertips. Social networking, broadband and data management …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Blogger Critical of South Korea Faces 18 Months in Prison — South Korea's democracy seems to be deteriorating by the day — this time with the proposed 18-month incarceration of a blogger critical of the South's economic policy. — The 31-year-old blogger's crime: falsely reporting …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's search must begin in Redmond — Microsoft's challenge to grow its share of the search business isn't just a global issue. It's also a challenge within its own walls. — Despite investing five years and hundreds of millions of dollars on its search product …
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Kindle 2's Fuzzy Fonts Have Users Seeing Red — Amazon's Kindle 2 is slimmer, faster and has longer battery life than its predecessor. But the newly launched e-book reader falls short when it comes to how well it displays text, say some users. — “When you read a lot of text on the screen …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO — Current Media, the peer-to-peer news and information company famously co-founded by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, appears to be facing stormy weather lately. — After two of its reporters were detained by North Korea …
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