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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Making Control Simple — When we started Facebook, we built it around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. When you have control over what you share, you want to share more. When you share more, the world becomes more open and connected.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
10 Things You Need To Know About Today's Facebook Privacy Changes — This morning Facebook announced a new set of privacy settings that they hope will be sufficient enough to make them essentially permanent, as Mark Zuckerberg described during his presentation. For many users, the new settings means greater control over privacy.
Kevin Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook's New Privacy Improvements Are a Positive Step …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Zuckerberg says the public misunderstands his and Facebook's motivations
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Options
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New York Times:
New King of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, overtook Microsoft, the computer software giant, on Wednesday to become the world's most valuable technology company. — In intraday trading in the afternoon session …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Boom, Indeed: Apple Passes Microsoft In Market Cap — Back in March, Microsoft was over $50 billion ahead of Apple in market cap. That gap was still huge, but it was the closest the two had been in that measurement of value in decades. The trend was clear: I predicted that Apple would pass Microsoft, it was only a matter of when.
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Boy Genius Report:
AT&T confirms to employees new iPhone launching in June — Title says it all, but you didn't really need a confirmation, did you? The phone will be available for purchase in June, not July, and from what we've heard, it won't even be late June.
Ragavan / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox Home Coming Soon to the iPhone — We have been working on an application for the iPhone based on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. The app is called Firefox Home, and it gives iPhone users instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session.
Willie Teng / DigiTimes:
Breaking down the rumors of iPhone 4G: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — A fan of Apple or not, one cannot deny that over the past few decades, the company has introduced products that have changed the way we go about our everyday lives.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is... Soluto! — It's that time. After seeing 20 startups plus two audience choices present at TechCrunch Disrupt, last night, that list was whittled down to five finalists: Betterment, MOVIECLIPS, Publish2, Soluto And UJAM. And now it's time to announce a winner.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Will Steve Ballmer Show Up At The WWDC Keynote? — So, maybe there could be a surprise or two at the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference, after all. Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Piper: Apple has ‘little room for surprise’ at WWDC 2010
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Chris Anderson / Wired:
Wired Magazine's iPad Edition Goes Live — The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let's just say the medium is not always the message. — Except that now it is.
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Google Mobile Blog:
Where Have I Been? Get Your Answer with the Google Location History Dashboard — Labels: google latitude, google location history — When I was young, I used to imagine that there was a string attached to me, and that one day I'd be able to see my whole life's travels laid out on a globe.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Fox Mobile Releases Hulu-Like Mobile App With 25 Content Partners To Start — It's not called Hulu mobile, but it probably should be. Fox's Mobile Group has launched a mobile beta application that provides free access to full-length TV shows on your phone.
Tom Ivan / Edge Online:
Natal To Cost $149 - Source — Casual-focused motion sensing camera will launch this October as a standalone unit and as part of a new Xbox 360 bundle offering. — Market research firm expects the sector to continue to experience a downturn over the next few years before online begins to drive growth again.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Zynga Continues To Expand Beyond Facebook, Forges Major Partnership With Yahoo — If you thought Zynga's recent peace treaty with Facebook meant the end of its efforts to expand its reach beyond the social network, think again. Today, Zynga has announced that it has forged a deal with Yahoo …
Daimaou / Akihabara News:
Sony Develops a “Rollable” OTFT-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil — Sony Corporation ('Sony') announced today that it developed a super-flexible 80 μm-thick 4.1-in 121 ppi OTFT*1-driven full color OLED display which can be wrapped around a thin cylinder.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo's Bartz Downplays Engagement Worries — Kicking off her company's investor's day, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz tried to quell analyst concerns about the company's engagement numbers by talking up the company's aspirations to personalize its sites.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook acquires DEMO startup ShareGrove — Facebook has acquired ShareGrove, a small startup focused on creating private spaces for close friends and family to share content. — The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which debuted at the DEMO conference last fall, offered a private real …
Mfyall / AdMob Metrics:
April 2010 Mobile Metrics Report — The iPhone and Android ecosystems are growing rapidly, with Gartner estimating the two platforms combined to sell 25% of smartphones worldwide in Q1. At their developer conference last week, Google stated they are activating 100,000 Android devices a day.
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