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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Color Looks To Reinvent Social Interaction With Its Mobile Photo App (And $41 Million In Funding) — $41 million. From Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch. — That's how much a brand new startup called Color has to work with.
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Kelly Clay / iPhone and iPad:
New Color App for iPhone is Kind of Creepy — If you've ever been at a ballgame and wandered away to get a beer only to return to your seats to hear your friends greet you with, “OMG! Did you SEE that?” you may finally have an app for that. Color, an app from a Silicon Valley start-up of the same name …
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PR Newswire, The Not-So Private Parts, Cody Brown 140 +, Switched, Geeky-Gadgets, The Awl, Digital Trends, Tom Foremski, USA Today, CNN, Electronista and The Huffington Post, Thanks:lockergnome
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Are social photo apps trapped in a Silicon Valley bubble? — Some social apps are really cool but it's unlikely your actual friends are using them — Another day, another innovative smartphone app based around photo-sharing. Color is the work of a team assembled by Bill Nguyen …
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jacquesmattheij.com, @stevenjayl, MediaFile, Geek.com, PhoneArena, BBC, ArcticStartup Posts and dailywireless.org, Thanks:graywolf
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is Color's Team Worth $41M, Even if Its Idea Isn't? — The launch of a new mobile app called Color on Wednesday has caused a lot of buzz — not so much because of the app itself, but because of the massive sum of money the company raised before it even launched.
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Fred / A VC:
The Implicit Social Graph — John Battelle wrote a gushing post about Color and what it means for mobile/social/local/realtime, augmented reality, and more. There are most certainly some big ideas in the Color app. I've never put a mobile photo app on my phone but I put Color on it last night.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Relaunches Questions: No Threat To Quora, More Emphasis On Friends — Last July, after months of rumors and leaked screenshots, Facebook launched a Q&A product called Questions. At the time, I said it had the potential to be “massive”: with 500 million (now 600 million) users …
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The Social, Inside Facebook, GigaOM and Internet Evolution
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Adrian Graham / Facebook Blog:
The Wisdom of Friends (and Others Too)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazingly, MySpace's Decline Is Accelerating — Between January and February 2011, says Comscore, worldwide unique visitors to MySpace declined by a staggering 14.4% from 73 million visitors to 63 million visitors. It's about half of the audience they had a year ago.
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Business Wire, hypebot and WebProNews
Eric Hautala / The Windows Blog:
“Copy and paste” update status — Hello again. As you might have heard, yesterday we kicked off our “copy and paste” update, which comes with a bunch of improvements for your phone. Today I want to briefly explain where we are in the process—and also tell you about a new update-related …
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Katie Hoffmann / Bloomberg:
Apple 50% Sales Growth May Continue Through 2012 on Mobile Boom — Apple Inc. (AAPL) can keep posting sales growth of more than 50 percent in the next two years as a mobile applications boom fuels demand for devices such as the iPad, said the chief executive officer of Forrester Research Inc. (FORR)
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Motorola Mobility Building Web-Based OS — Hedging its bet on Android, Motorola is looking for a way to have more control over its destiny. — Motorola Mobility has hired a number of experienced mobile and Web engineers from Apple and Adobe and is developing a Web-based mobile operating system …
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Paul Lamkin / Pocket-lint:
Boxee iPad app will stream to your PC or Mac — EXCLUSIVE: Boxee bod confirms details — On Tuesday, we posted a story about a new Boxee iPad app and how it could offer Apple AirPlay streaming to the Boxee Box. — Well, VP of Marketing for Boxee, Andrew Kippen, has got in touch with us …
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Yahoo! News, TiPb, SAI and The Next Web
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
What's a YouTube Pop Hit Worth? — In the age of YouTube, Pandora and Spotify, fans can watch millions of videos or listen to endless hours of music for free. But do those services make significant money for artists and record companies? Those questions became all the more interesting last week with …
Bloomberg:
Google Said to Face Possible Antitrust Probes by Ohio, Wisconsin Officials — Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's biggest search engine, faces possible antitrust probes by Ohio and Wisconsin over its business practices, according to a state official and a person familiar with the matters.
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Peter Yared / VentureBeat:
How friend clusters could make Facebook intimate again — For a so-called social utility, Facebook has been getting more and more useless. At first, Facebook friend overload was an early-adopter problem for overnetworked Silicon Valley insiders. But now, friend overload is hitting the mainstream consciousness.
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Angie's List Raises $53.6 Million From Investors in Private Share Offering — Angie's List Inc., a service that provides recommendations for plumbers, doctors and other local businesses, raised $53.6 million from investors in a private share offering. — Investors include mutual-fund …
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Just Put A Hardware Guy In Charge Of Its TV Business — Microsoft has put a hardware veteran in charge of its interactive TV business, suggesting that the company is working on an answer to Google TV and Apple TV. — Tom Gibbons headed Microsoft Hardware — keyboards and mice …
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WinRumors, The Seattle Times, PC World, 901am, blogs.chron.com, SlashGear, All about Microsoft Blog and Electronista
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Samsung sees a Retina Display in your tablet future, and perhaps glasses-free 3D — Samsung gazed into its crystal ball today, and what did it see? The pixel density of tablet screens drastically increasing. Yes, while Apple may not have managed to cram a screen into the iPad 2 worthy …
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IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Know Your Cell, Electronista, ITProPortal, The Tech Report, CrunchGear and Liliputing
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Only 9% (and falling) of US Internet users are P2P pirates — In its 2010 annual report (PDF), recorded music's global trade body said that the industry would “struggle to survive unless we address the fundamental problem of piracy.” Just how “fundamental” a problem is that piracy?
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PR Newswire, NPD Group, NPD Group, DailyTech, TechEye, The Tech Report, DSLreports, Slyck, Paul Kedrosky's …, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, p2pnet and ReadWriteWeb
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Netflix issues apology, service credit for Instant downtime — In the wake of Tuesday's Netflix Instant outage, the company has issued a mea culpa and service credit to affected users. “We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused,” reads an email from Netflix.
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Brad Molen / Unwired View:
AT&T Acknowledges Amazon Appstore Obstacle, Working on Clearing it — Are you an Android user on AT&T's network? Have you been upset or at least a little perturbed that you haven't been able to download Angry Birds Rio onto your phone because it's technically third-party software that cannot be downloaded or installed on your phone?
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The Next Web, PhoneArena and Electronista
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Boom! Walgreens Buys Online Retailer Drugstore.com For $409 Million — Drugstore juggernaut Walgreens this morning announced that it will acquire online retailer Drugstore.com in a transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $409 million. — As a result of the merger …
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DealBook, GeekWire, eMoney, Between the Lines Blog and The Tech Trade
Kevin May / Tnooz:
TripAdvisor issues warning after part of email database is stolen — User review giant TripAdvisor has been forced to notify members of a major security breach after a “portion” of its 20 million-strong email list was stolen. — The company has posted a message outlining some details of the incident …
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Digital Trends, Netcraft, SocialTimes.com, MarketingVOX, WebProNews, GeekWire and The Next Web, Thanks:sean_oliver
BBC:
US hacker denies fleeing justice — The hack of the PS3 lets owners play “homebrew” applications on the hardware — The American hacker who unlocked Sony's PS3 has denied fleeing the country to avoid legal action. — George Hotz, also known as Geohot, said his trip had been planned …
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
More on Facebook Deals: Will Include Only Social Experiences, May Use Credits — A test version of the new Facebook Deals product will launch shortly, as has been reported and assumed for some time. — NetworkEffect spoke to Facebook and people familiar with Facebook's plans about how the program …
Alex Williams / ReadWriteCloud:
Over Concerns About Openness, OpenStack Founder Leaves Rackspace — One of the founding members and the chief architect for OpenStack says he could not get the changes to the open-source cloud effort that he believes should be made and has left Rackspace as a result.
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Deprecation, Network World and The Register
BBC:
‘Serious’ cyber attack on EU bodies before summit — It was not immediately clear how widespread the attack was — The EU has reported a “serious” cyber attack on the Commission and External Action Service on the eve of a summit in Brussels, a spokesman told the BBC.
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The Register, Techland, Naked Security, Inquirer and Help Net Security
