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Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Lenovo emerges as leading candidate for Palm -sources — Lenovo (0992.HK), the world's No.4 PC brand, has emerged as the leading candidate to buy struggling smartphone maker Palm (PALM.O), after the U.S. firm was rebuffed by other potential Asian buyers, sources said.
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Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
Palm pledges to survive as an independent — The head of Palm has insisted that the troubled smartphone maker can survive as an independent company in spite of disappointing sales of its flagship handsets. — Jon Rubinstein, chief executive, said that Palm would look at letting …
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol — I attended Facebook's F8 conference yesterday (missed the keynote IRL, but you can catch it online) and came away pondering the Open Graph Protocol. — In they keynote Zuck said (as Luke Shepard calls him):
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Fred / A VC:
One Graph To Rule Them All? — My partner Albert posted this on his blog yesterday: … He's talking about Facebook and the new services they announced this week at f8. Clearly Facebook is executing fast and well at a scale that few Internet companies have ever reached. It is very impressive to watch.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Blippy users' credit card numbers found on Google — Yesterday was a big day for social-oversharing site Blippy, which lets members automatically post their purchases to the Internet. The company announced $11.6 million in funding and was profiled in The New York Times.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
What Danger Do Blippy and Swipely Pose to Amazon? — The social buying site Blippy is part of what one might call the Internet's “Too Much Information Movement,” which I write about in Friday's paper. — The startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., allows people to link their credit cards …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
August Capital And CRV Spend $11.2 Million At Blippy. Valuation Now $46.2 Million.
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Bloomberg:
Apple IPhone Captures 72% of Japan Smartphone Market — Apple Inc.'s iPhone shipments to Japan more than doubled in the past year, capturing 72 percent of the country's smartphone market, a research firm said. — Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July 2008 …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
A Peek at the Next Kindle and Nook Display — Assuming the next generation Kindle and Nook stick with E Ink as their display provider, this video highlights what'll be new: Animation and nearly double the contrast ratio. — Shipping to OEMs in the second half of this year, it's definitely nice.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook And Microsoft Check-In With Foursquare. Will Crowley Sell? — There is a lot of action surrounding Foursquare right now. And CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley has a tough decision to make. — It's already been widely reported that Yahoo is seriously pursuing a Foursquare acquisition …
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David Carnoy / CNET News:
B&N delivers meaty Nook update, teases iPad app — Barnes & Noble's new Read in Store feature is part of the Nook's firmware 1.3 update. — When Barnes & Noble launched the Nook e-book reader late last year, the company said that it would offer unique features such as e-book lending …
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Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Google Dashes Hopes of Free iPhone Turn-by-Turn GPS — Google has denied the latest rumors that the search giant will bring free turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the Apple iPhone, although the features could come in the future to other (unspecified) mobile platforms.
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Google To Bring Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation To The iPhone
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Electronista:
Cisco reading a 7-inch tablet of its own? — Cisco may be developing its own tablet device for the near future, a supposed leak may have given away late yesterday. During the most recent episode of CNET's Buzz Out Loud, an Irish listener's e-mail response about 37 minutes into the podcast claimed …
Sethgoldstein / @seth:
Here We Go Again... I remember that Monday morning, January 10, 2000. The day that AOL announced it was buying Time Warner. The word starting seeping out the night before, Sunday night. I went to sleep like it was Christmas eve, and couldn't wait for what market madness the morning would bring.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Velocity Micro's Cruz Tablet has Android 2.1 with full Flash support — Some alleged spy shots of a brand-new Android tablet materialized in our inbox this afternoon, and after sending a few e-mails and making a quick phone call, we can confirm they're 100 percent legit …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Oh My God, Apple Just Passed Microsoft In Market Cap!!!! Wait. Nope. — News is quickly spreading around the Internet today that Apple has passed Microsoft in market cap. The only problem? It's not true. — We've been following this trend closely in recent weeks.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue
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Brian Prince / eWeek:
1.5 Million Facebook Accounts for Sale in Web Forum, VeriSign Reports — Security researchers at VeriSign iDefense can put a price on your Facebook account. As a recent attempt to sell 1.5 million accounts shows, social networking credentials are gaining value in the cyber-underworld.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway's SVAngel Closes $20 Million Venture Fund. He Tells Us How He'll Invest It [Video] — In February we reported that legendary angel investor Ron Conway was raising a small seed fund for SV Angel from outside investors - which is notable because for the last decade or so he has only invested his own money in startups.
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Barry McPherson / McAfee Security Insights Blog:
An Update on False Positive Remediation — As you know, McAfee on Wednesday released a faulty signature update file (DAT file) that caused problems for a number of our customers. — First off, I want to apologize on behalf of McAfee and say that we're extremely sorry for any impact …
