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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
500 Million Stories — As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. — This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard — You've seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you've never seen one like this. — You've seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like Pulse, but you've never seen one like this.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet Flipboard: Mike McCue Talks About Stealth “Social Magazine” Start-Up That Just Nabbed $10.5 Million in Funding — Today, BoomTown gassed up the MINI and headed down to see one of the more innovative new start-ups I have encountered of late. — That would be a new social magazine …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Verizon confirms Droid X screen issues, but says they're not widespread — We just got word back from Verizon regarding those flickering Droid X screens, and sure enough, the ghastly images are not a side effect of your assimilation into the Droid collective.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon switching to AT&T-style limited data plans later this month? — Hang on to your megabytes, folks, because it looks like the Brave New World of limited data is truly upon us. AT&T and Verizon tend to follow each others' moves pretty closely — the two carriers regard each …
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
The Web Means the End of Forgetting — Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.”
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google takes the FTC to school — Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission's staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention [read: preservation] of journalism [read: newspapers]. (here was my reaction).
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business — After Apple's iPhone 4 press conference last week, Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers from Brooklyn, decided they would have a little fun with the iPhone 4's antenna problem. — They designed tiny bandages that fit perfectly around …
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:
What Is Google Editions? — Someday soon—later this summer perhaps—there will be a major new development in the evolution of e-books: the launch of Google Editions. The initial success of Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iPad, and the e-book runners-up like Barnes & Noble's Nook and the Sony Reader …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple: The iPad Isn't Cannibalizing the Mac, But We Sure Hope It's Cannibalizing the PC — If the iPad is a cannibal, it is not the Mac's flesh that it dines upon. In the device's first full quarter at market, Apple sold more Macs than ever before-3.47 million of them.
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing — Google's AdWords may be one of the most successful products in Internet history, but it's fair to say that most small and medium-sized business owners aren't exactly experts when it comes to writing their ad copy …
Erez Zukerman / Download Squad:
Months after deleting your account, Facebook still publishes your name and picture — UPDATE: It appears now as though this may be a Google cache issue, and not a Facebook issue. I stand corrected, and I do apologize. I love Facebook, and would gladly give Mark Zuckerberg a hug.
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James McQuivey / Consumer Product Strategy:
Amazon Makes It Clear It Will Survive iPadmania — This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah.
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Vikram / Inside BlackBerry:
Inside BlackBerry 6: Multimedia Experience — Our team has been working hard to enhance the overall multimedia experience in BlackBerry® 6, and we've packed a lot of changes into the upcoming release. I'm very excited to be able to provide some more details about this aspect of BlackBerry 6 today.
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Agam Shah / PC World:
HP Lists HP Slate 500, Requests PalmPad Trademark — Hewlett-Packard has listed the Windows-based HP Slate 500 on its website, and also applied to trademark the term Palmpad, fueling speculation surrounding the company's tablet plans. — HP, the world's largest PC maker …
Lacey Rose / The Biz Blog:
Inside Yahoo!'s Attempt To Reinvent The Portal — With sites like Twitter and Facebook increasingly vying with portals for people's time online, Yahoo! Media Vice President Jimmy Pitaro knows the role of aggregator is not enough. — That's why his 600 million-plus monthly users visit a site that is 10% original content today.
PC World:
TSMC, Arm Join to Develop Next-generation Mobile Chips — Arm and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced a partnership to enable the design of smaller chips for devices like smartphones and tablets, the companies said on Tuesday. — The partnership calls for mutual customers …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Lokast Brings Proximity Based Mobile Social Network To Android Phones — Startup NearVerse, the developers of proximity based mobile social network LoKast is rolling out an Android app today. — Originally launched on the iPhone at SXSW in March, LoKast, which is actually short for …
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Scott Webster / Crave: The gadget blog:
Droid 2 could be first phone to launch with Froyo — The team over at Droid Life got their hands on a photo of what appears to be a pre-release version of the Droid 2 running OS 2.2. If the the device arrives on schedule next month with Froyo, it would be the first Android handset to launch with the latest version of the platform.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Readying For An IPO, Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia — Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has just raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers with existing investor Sequoia Capital participating in the round.
