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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ning's Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff — One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal, the company is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks …
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Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. — “Google performed very well in the first quarter, with 23% year over year revenue growth driven by strength across all major verticals …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Again Posts Big Jumps In Sales And Profits — Google's streak of strong quarters continues: The company just posted big increases in quarterly profits and revenue. Net revenue at the search giant was up 19 percent to $5.06 billion, compared to $4.1 billion a year ago.
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BBC:
Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net — A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal. — The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on computers using …
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Viacom:
VIACOM RELEASES ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS — Today, nine additional exhibits filed with our opening brief are being released to the public for the first time after Google dropped its objections. Newly public are excerpts from the deposition of Google CEO Eric Schmidt as well as documents …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Viacom Releases More Unsealed Documents In Google Case
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Droid Incredible officially official for Verizon, April 29 for $200 (updated with a live shot!) — Though some information leaked out of Verizon's pipes yesterday, HTC just got really real with the Droid Incredible at the 99% Conference in New York today.
Erica Ho / Lifehacker:
Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachment Uploads, Deeper Calendar Integration — Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload. Gmail has also increased their support …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Opera Mini iPhone App Downloaded 1 Million Times On First Day In App Store — On its first day of availability on the App Store since it was - surprisingly, to many - approved by Apple, Opera Mini for iPhone (iTunes link) was downloaded one million times. — Opera this morning announced …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Opera off to nice iPhone start; Will it have staying power?
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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police — This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Fiore took home the editorial cartooning prize …
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Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Toshiba U.S. PC sales surge, slates coming — (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp's personal computer sales in the United States jumped 50 percent in the first quarter, and the company said it was preparing to roll out tablet-style computing devices later this year to compete with Apple Inc's iPad.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Sorry Bit.ly, Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener — Another hole is about to be filled in Twitter's product features. CEO Evan Williams just confirmed plans to launch its own link shortener on stage during the final Q&A session at Chirp.
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Steve Jobs Replies To Email: “Are You Nuts?” — Once again, Steve Jobs replied to another email, and this time in quite a different mood. Paul Shadwell emailed el Jobso expressing his frustration about Apple's delays for the international iPad shipping and lack of pricing information, and he got a nice “Are you nuts?” as response.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress outlaws all Caller ID spoofing (VoIP too) — The House has passed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010” (PDF), which does exactly what its name would lead you to believe. — Under the bill, it becomes illegal “to cause any caller ID service to transmit misleading …
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Yahoo! News, Engadget, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Boy Genius Report, Gearlog, DSLreports and Gizmodo, Thanks:atul
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Adding Offers to Payment Options for Credits — Facebook has been expanding payment options for Facebook Credits, its universal virtual currency used in Platform applications, in recent months. Today, it is partnering for the first time with two offer providers so users can earn Credits without having to pay directly.
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
Intel Says Its Light Peak Optical Cables May Succeed USB — Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as potentially succeeding USB 3.0, a change that in several years could mean the disappearance of a port used almost universally in gadgets today.
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Ilya Vedrashko / Hill Holliday:
Apple iAd Team Visits Hill Holliday, Shares Details — Back in January, we greeted the announcement of Apple's upcoming ad network with cautious optimism and a lot of questions. Today, Apple's iAd team headed by the now former CEO of Quattro Wireless Andy Miller visited Hill Holliday to fuel the former and answer the latter.
Gregg Keizer / New York Times:
iPad Online Use Approaches Android, BlackBerry — In its first 10 days, Apple 's iPad has captured almost as much online usage share as the BlackBerry or Google 's Android operating system, a Web metrics firm said today. — According to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based NetApplications.com …
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Hands-on with the WebStation Android Tablet — Expectations are a very dangerous thing indeed. As a user, if you expect a new device to do something — however unrealistic that expectation may be — you are bound to be disappointed when you find that it doesn't.
Subrahmanyam KVJ / VentureBeat:
Why platforms like iPhone and Twitter are becoming control freaks — Small app developer shops have had a great couple of years. Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and a host of other platforms opened up and let these third-party developers build games and other apps to entertain their users …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Rest Of The Details On That Monster Groupon Financing — On Tuesday we reported on a massive new financing round for Groupon. We've been gathering more details on the yet-to-be-announced round and other financial details about the company, and the picture is now nearly complete.
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Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz:
MySpace Unveils Ticketing And Events Platform — MySpace finally unveiled its long-promised ticketing and events platform. The move expands the social networking site from a tool for artists to sell more concert tickets to a far broader events platform designed to organize all aspects of users' social lives.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft releases the final Silverlight 4 bits — The release-to-the-web (RTW) version of Silverlight 4 is available for free download, as of April 15, as Microsoft officials said it would be earlier this week. — One important caveat for developers, as acknowledged on the Silverlight download site:
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
RIAA/MPAA Want Government-Mandated Spyware That Deletes ‘Infringing’ Content Automatically — The RIAA and MPAA have submitted a plan to the Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement. It's basically a plan that they want the government to enact, and it's terrifying.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable Strike Wi-Fi Pact — Customers of any three can now roam all three's Wi-Fi hotspots, free Cablevision, Time Warner Cable and Comcast later on today will be making a joint announcement that the three cable operators have joined forces in their New York City metro area Wi-Fi ambitions.
