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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes] — For a couple of days now, we've been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me — Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying “Congratulations!
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Following Layoffs, Yahoo Cuts Products: MyBlogLog, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz — At an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team following a round of layoffs yesterday that significantly impacted that group, EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn and Chief Product Officer Blake Irving announced plans to …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Can't Dent iTunes — On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still isn't available on iTunes—for just $3.99.
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Jon Ying / The Dropbox Blog:
Dropbox hits 1.0! — Hey everyone! — We're super excited to announce the new hotness that we've been cooking up for the past few months: Dropbox 1.0! In addition to hundreds (yep, hundreds) of bug fixes, vastly reduced resource usage (think of it as the Prius model of Dropbox) …
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Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Facebook Briefly Shuts Down After Code Leak — Facebook, one of the largest websites in the world, voluntarily shut itself down Thursday after the code for several new products was made public before the products were ready for launch, the company confirmed to Wired.com.
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Zack Whittaker / iGeneration Blog:
Facebook adds ‘Memories’: Internal prototype exposed by mistake — Facebook has added ‘Memories’ to the long list of new features rolling out on the site over the last few weeks. This will be particularly useful for college students who struggle to remember the drunken times they have had …
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
The new Facebook Fan pages are live. No tabs, cleaner interface and more features.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really. — Ever been confused at a restaurant in a foreign country and wish you could just scan your menu with your iPhone and get an instant translation? Well as of today you are one step closer thanks to Word Lens from QuestVisual.
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Emmanuel Orssaud / PlayStation Blog:
The Official PlayStation App, Coming Soon To iPhone And Android Handsets — I'm very happy to finally be able to announce on the PlayStation.Blog that we will launch the Official PlayStation App very soon. — The app will be available to download for iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 4 and above …
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Michael Siliski / The Official Google Blog:
The next generation of mobile maps — I'm excited to announce Google Maps 5.0 for Android, with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. We launched Google Maps for mobile a little more than five years ago. Since then, we've added dozens of features …
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google Maps 5.0 for Android now available with 3D buildings, offline support
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture — With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities.
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Jon Orwant / The Official Google Blog:
Find out what's in a word, or five, with the Google Books Ngram Viewer
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Feds charge five in Silicon Valley with insider trading of tech stocks — Federal prosecutors charged five Silicon Valley people with illegal insider trading today. The people charged traded on information they obtained about technology companies such as Dell, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices and Flextronics International.
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines Blog:
RIM: “Playbook redefines what a tablet should do” — On Research in Motion's conference call with analysts to discuss third quarter earnings result, there was the obligatory comments about the quarter that just passed - but clearly, one of the biggest topics of interest centered around the upcoming launch of the Playbook tablet.
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ifixit:
Nexus S Teardown — Nearly one year after the release of the Nexus One, Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy gimmicks features that separate it from other Android phones on the market, such as a curved display and the newest 2.3 Gingerbread update.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!
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Wall Street Journal:
Phone-Wielding Shoppers Strike Fear Into Retailers — Tri Tang, a 25-year-old marketer, walked into a Best Buy Co. store in Sunnyvale, Calif., this past weekend and spotted the perfect gift for his girlfriend. — Last year, he might have just dropped the $184.85 Garmin global positioning system into his cart.
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James Kanter / New York Times:
E.U. Deepens Investigation Into Google — BRUSSELS — European Union authorities have broadened their investigation of Google by accepting two complaints from Germany, one involving a powerful group of newspaper and magazine publishers and the other, a mapping company, officials said on Friday.
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Facebook Developer Blog:
Making registration simple and social in just a few steps — Today we're launching a new registration tool that gives website owners the ability to offer quick, easy and social options for sign-up. — It is an excellent alternative to using Facebook Login (formerly Facebook Connect) when:
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's New User Registration Tool for Websites: Implementation …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism — Flipboard, the social magazine app for the iPad, seems to be having a flipping good run. — Last week, the famously design-conscious Apple Inc. named Flipboard its App of the Year.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Web Data Shows Windows Phone 7 Barely a Blip on the Radar — Microsoft's smartphone strategy isn't yet paying off in terms of sales, market share or user adoption, at least not from any measurable statistics, which are far and few between. The company hasn't offered even the slightest hint …
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IntoMobile, SAI, Chitika, Inc., Electronista, WMPoweruser.com, WinRumors, Examiner, WPCentral.com, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Computerworld and PhoneDog.com, Thanks:bytebot
