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Wall Street Journal:
In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team to Design Chips — Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple's work from rivals.
Tony Peric / prethinking.com:
Become a Palm Reviewer and get a Palm Pre for Free! (confirmed) — Palm is is now taking applications for their new “Real Palm Phone Reviewer” promotional campaign. Well, you get to become a “Real Reviewer” and in return you will get a new phone courtesy of Palm and data-plan service for 6 months.
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Palm May Cap Pre Stockpile to Boost Cachet With Brand-Conscious Consumers — Palm Inc. may stockpile fewer than 400,000 Pre models when the touch-screen device goes on sale this year, making the phone scarce to enhance its allure to consumers, analysts said.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Time Warner to Spin Off AOL Division — Time Warner Inc. announced this morning in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it intends to spin off its ailing AOL division. — “Although the Company's Board of Directors has not made any decision,” the company wrote …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:10-Q Watch: Time Warner Tells Google Will Buy Back Its 5 Percent …
Adam Smith / Google Public Policy Blog:
Google Book Search settlement will expand access — Over the last few weeks we've heard a number of questions about the Google Book Search settlement and what it means for readers. Over the coming days, we'll attempt to answer some of those questions on this blog, but first …
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Scott Cleland / The Precursor Blog:The Broader Implications of DOJ's Book Settlement Investigation
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
An Early Peek Under The Palm Pre's Hood — Preliminary analysis by iSuppli suggests Palm will spend about $138 to build the new smartphone, almost half what it's expected to charge Sprint — To say Palm has a lot riding on the Pre smartphone is an understatement.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Phishing Attack Underway At Facebook. Don't Sign In To Fbaction.net — We've received multiple tips of a new phishing attack that has broken out on Facebook. If you get an email message that looks to be from Facebook with the subject, “Hello,” and featuring the text below, don't bother clicking on the link included.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Five Things You Can Do With This New Facebook RSS App — Sometimes the low hanging fruit holds the most potential - but it's hidden in plain site. Facebook opened up the activity streams of users' friends this week to outside developers to put into new interfaces.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Is It Time To Send Google Maps Back To The Drawing Board? — Google Maps and its Local Business Center continue to be the ugly warts on Google's otherwise smooth surface. But rather than the long-running problems with mapspam and hijacked listings, the latest sore spot appears …
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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
A whole new FriendFeed — You might have noticed that FriendFeed looks pretty different today. We've just launched a whole new design, and a host of features and improvements that comes along with it. — We unveiled this look three weeks ago in beta and have been busy gathering feedback and making improvements.
Fred / A VC:
The Venture Capital Math Problem — Yesterday Albert and I visited one of the investors in our fund. The good news is they are happy with the job we are doing. The bad news is they are frustrated with the venture capital asset class. — We got to talking about the venture capital asset class …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Obama's Flickr Photos Aren't in the Public Domain — The White House is making unprecedented use of consumer web technologies but those technologies aren't always well suited to fit the government's needs. They aren't always well suited to fit anyone's needs - but maybe if Obama leans on them a little bit things will change.
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Former DoubleClick Chief to Leave Google — David Rosenblatt, Google's president of global display advertising, will leave the company on May 15, the latest in a string of top sales execs who have left Google or moved on to new roles in recent weeks. — Analysts said that the departure …
Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:
Vodafone: Android could appear without Google — Plus more Android handsets from Voda in the future — Vodafone has confirmed that it has been looking at other Android phones in order to complement the new HTC Magic, which will be launching in stores from 1 May, and also hinted that Android might appear without Google in the future.
The Official Google Blog:
Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico — In November 2008, we launched Google Flu Trends after finding a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Google Flu Trends may be able to detect influenza outbreaks earlier …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Calgary to be Motorola's first Android phone, more news on Moto — It looks like our ninja took it personally yesterday when we mentioned how eager we were for more info on Motorola's Verizon-bound handsets. That said, consider us shut up. He swooped in with a few big updates …
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Forbes, CNET News, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Google Android News …, MobileCrunch, Engadget, GadgetLab, PMP Today, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, Unwired View, Android Community and Electronista
Yahoo! Developer Network Blog:
With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database — The Yahoo! Query Language lets you query, filter, and join data across any web data source or service on the web. Using our YQL web service, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Spock And Intelius? Uh Oh. — People search engine Spock is about to be sold, say multiple sources. Spock was a hot startup back when it launched in 2007, but after an initial spike in traffic, the company has gone sideways and faded into obscurity. People search, it seems …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Motorola's “IRONMAN” Android handset says hello — Wait, what? Motorola possibly doing a cross-marketing campaign with a blockbuster movie? We kid, we kid, but hey, we wouldn't put it past them... We just got hit with some really interesting information — it's about this Motorola smartphone either called or code-named “IRONMAN”.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SplashCast Figures Out That To Make Online TV Social, It Is All About The Chatter — One of the most social video experiences I've ever had on the Web was watching the Obama Inauguration speech on CNN.com alongside a live chat stream of commentary from all of my Facebook friends.
Arlene Lee / Inside AdSense:
Analytics integration for all — Over the past few months, we've been gradually inviting publishers to integrate their AdSense accounts with Google Analytics, and today we're happy to announce that this feature is now available to all publishers. Integrating your account with Analytics …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Twitter Aggregator Sawhorse Media Raises Seed Round, Launches Pets, Celeb Sites — Sawhorse Media, the company behind the Shorty Awards, has raised an undisclosed seed round to support its growing list of Twitter aggregation sites, paidContent has learned. Backers include Fred Seibert and Marta Wohrle.
Sean Percival / lalawag:
Yahoo! Layoffs Begin — Our sources reveal that the anticipated 700 layoffs have already started at Yahoo. After posting falling results for Q1 a week ago, shiny new CEO Carol Bartz indicated this round of layoffs was on the way. Expected to be around 700 employees, we are told the actual number is around 600.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Slingbox 3G Fine Print Returns... - New TOS language takes aim at place shifting... Earlier this month, AT&T modified their 3G terms of service to seemingly ban Slingbox functionality to “any mobile device” across their HSDPA wireless broadband network.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Workday Raises $75 Million Round Led by NEA: Total Funding Now Exceeds Whopping $150 Million — Last summer, legendary entrepreneur Dave Duffield predicted that his newest startup, Workday, could become the second coming of PeopleSoft — a company Duffield founded and grudgingly sold to Oracle in January 2005 for $10.3 billion.
Daulerio / Deadspin:
ESPN.com's Lead Tech Guru Explains How They Were Attacked By Dancing Unicorns And Glittery Ponies — Keith Lam is the programming guy for ESPN.com and spent most of his final hour yesterday fighting off unicorns from ESPN.com's site. How did this awesomeness happen? He explains. Kind of.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations — UrbanSpoon, a restaurant recommendation service, started out with a simple plan. It was three former Jobster employees, Ethan Lowry, Adam Doppelt and Patrick O'Donnell who set out to see if they could build a company in today's world without needing …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Venture capitalists: “Roll over, Goldman, and tell Morgan Stanley the news” — The National Venture Capital Association , the lobby group for venture capitalists, declared a state of emergency for venture-backed startups today and announced a four-pronged plan to revive their chances of going public .
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
NVIDIA prepping GeForce GTX 285 for Mac Pro — Owners of Apple's Mac Pro workstations will have a second, high-end home video card option within weeks, as NVIDIA is planning to release a version of its GeForce GTX 285 chipset specifically for Macs. — The GPU company told AppleInsider …
