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Biz Stone:
The Trouble Bubble — We founded Twitter, Inc. in March of 2007 and while we have long said it's about the users, not the service, we have nevertheless enjoyed favorable media coverage. What took so long for somebody to write the article that says we are falling apart?
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
These People Sold Twitter For Just $5 Million Back In 2006 — How would you feel if a company you sold for $5 million less than five years ago was now reportedly fetching offers as high as $10 billion? — That's almost exactly what's happening to the dozen or so original owners of Twitter.
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BaltTech and The Business Insider
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
The Truth About Twitter's Troubles — This week, Fortune highlights “trouble” at Twitter. — The story touches on Twitter's lack of revenues, its management discord, its relatively small user-base, and its refusal to accept huge multi-billion dollar offers from the likes of Google and Facebook.
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ITProPortal, Techie Buzz and VentureBeat
Justin Case / Android Police:
[Updated] Exclusive: Vulnerability In Skype For Android Is Exposing Your Name, Phone Number, Chat Logs, And A Lot More — Update #1: Skype is investigating the issue, we've been told. — Update #2: Skype's official first response can be found here. — The safety of our personal information …
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PC World, I4U News, Engadget, www.thehostingnews.com, SiliconANGLE, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, PhoneArena, Phones Review, PalmAddicts, Business Wire, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Droid Life, Android Community, msnbc.com, Inquirer, Electricpig.co.uk, MarketingVOX, Electronista, Android and Me, MobileWhack, Techie Buzz, The Huffington Post, TG Daily and IntoMobile
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Adrian Asher / Skype Security:
Privacy vulnerability in Skype for Android
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DSLreports, PC Magazine, Techland, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and Electronista
Joe Light / Wall Street Journal:
Mobile App Talent Pool Is Shallow — Companies Scramble for Engineers Who Can Write Software for Smartphones — This year, magazine publisher Hearst Corp. intends to add five software engineers to its mobile development staff. Social-networking company Ning Inc. plans to nearly double its mobile development team.
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Mobile Marketing Watch, Digits, MSDN Blogs, PhoneArena, Inc.com and FierceMobileContent, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Farago / Flurry:
Apple and Google Capture U.S. Video Game Market Share in 2010 — Last year, Flurry reported that iPhone and iPod touch game sales surged from 2008 to 2009. From a standing start, and in just one year, iPhone games captured 5% of the mature U.S. video game market.
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Business Wire, Ars Technica, BGR, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TUAW, GigaOM, CNET News, Appolicious Advisor, WebProNews, Gamasutra, VentureBeat, Electronista, Guardian, The Next Web, FierceMobileContent and Fortune
Paul McIntyre / AdNews:
Google: we want iPhone to grow — Google's Android platform might be in a fierce battle with Apple to dominate smartphone handsets and apps, but the search giant's APAC boss says iPhone is delivering so much mobile search traffic they want their rival competitor to keep growing.
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Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista
Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Poker Websites Targeted in Federal Crackdown — NEW YORK—Eleven people, including the founders of three of the largest online poker companies doing business in the U.S., have been charged in the latest crack down on Internet gambling by U.S. authorities. — Federal prosecutors …
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NewsGrange, Tech Trader Daily, @cnbc, Associated Press and Reuters
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Music Label Talks “Going Backwards” — Google has spent a year trying to build a music service that could compete with Apple's iTunes. But those efforts seem to have stalled again. — Google's negotiations with the big music labels are “broken,” says a source familiar …
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Mary Pilon / Wall Street Journal:
T. Rowe Price Invests in Facebook — Mutual-fund company T. Rowe Price has invested in Facebook Inc., according to recently released filings, underscoring traditional investment vehicles' growing interest in hot technology companies. — T. Rowe said it invested a total of $55.4 million …
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VentureBeat, GeekWire, DealBook, Tech Trader Daily and silicontap.com
Ashlee Vance / Business Week:
This Tech Bubble Is Different — Tech bubbles happen, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. This one—driven by social networking—could leave us empty-handed — Phillip Toledano — As a 23-year-old math genius one year out of Harvard, Jeff Hammerbacher arrived at Facebook …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Wired's Newest iPad Issue Boasts Its Best Feature Yet: Free — Remember when iPad magazine apps-and Wired's app in particular-were big news? That was a year ago. — Now Wired would like to remind you that it's still publishing on the iPad, and the Conde Nast title is offering a pretty …
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AdAge, App Advice, The Next Web, Gizmodo, SAI, Boing Boing, MacStories and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Google Faces Antitrust Complaints in South Korea on Popularity of Android — Google Inc. (GOOG), the largest Internet- search company, is facing antitrust complaints in South Korea as mobile phones using its Android software gain dominance, adding to global scrutiny of the company's businesses.
Electronista:
Android 3.0 tablets allegedly delayed due to low hopes — Companies building Android 3.0 tablets are supposedly holding back on launches based on concerns of low sales and support from Google. Results for the Motorola Xoom were “lower than expected,” according to rumors.
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Computerworld, AppleInsider, DigiTimes, BGR, TiPb, MarketingVOX, Softpedia News, Techland, Computerworld, MacDailyNews and DisplayBlog
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple partner Cirrus Logic reports production problem with mystery audio device — Cirrus Logic has experienced manufacturing problems with an audio device that entered high-volume production in March, prompting speculation that the device is an Apple product.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and Dow Jones Newswires
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Chiefs Defend PlayBook Tablet Against Critics as Debut Approaches — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) co-Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie said criticism of the company's PlayBook tablet computer, which goes on sale next week, are misguided because they ignore RIM's base of BlackBerry faithful.
Zak Stambor / Internet Retailer:
Facebook wants to make daily deals more social — The social network hopes to leverage its news feed to help consumers discover their friends' interactions with Facebook Deals. The move is designed to distinguish Facebook's offering from competitors such as Groupon and LivingSocial.
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Screenwerk and internetretailer.com
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
mSpot offers Netflix-like movie club for new streaming movies — Netflix has made a big splash with its library of movies for low, fixed monthly subscription fees. Now mSpot, which provides streaming movie services for a bunch of big carriers, is offering similar monthly deals …
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CNET News, IntoMobile, MediaMemo, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, mocoNews, Technologizer, GottaBeMobile and WebProNews
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook for iPhone Now Pulls the News Feed From m.facebook.com — Earlier this month, Facebook released an update for the Facebook for iPhone mobile app that included an “Improved news feed”, but no one seemed to understand what had actually changed. We've determined that the native app …
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TUAW and App Advice
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Microsoft's latest WP7 chassis spec includes second-gen Snapdragon, optional gyroscope — The minimum specs for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS have taken a nice bump upwards, it has been revealed at this year's MIX. Current WP7 handsets are all running the Qualcomm MSM8x50 Snapdragon …
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Techland, Gadget Lab, MobileTechWorld, SlashGear, WPCentral.com, IntoMobile, www.pocketgamer.biz, Phones Review, BGR and Windows Phone Thoughts.com
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
T-Mobile G2x now available online for $200, hitting stores April 20th — T-Mobile's Android roster is growing in number and sheer benchmarking virility today with the launch of the LG-produced G2X. This handset runs bone stock Android (Froyo today, Gingerbread in the future) …
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Electronista, GigaOM, IntoMobile, BGR, Softpedia News, wirelessgoodness.com, Mashable!, FierceWireless, Gizmodo and Phones Review
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Secret Tasty Labs Prototype Unleashed To A Select Few — Delicious founder Joshua Schachter always had a funny answer when we asked him what his new startup, Tasty Labs, would focus on. … But a few months have gone by, the company raised a nice store of cash and they're about to release …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
The Business Market Plays Cloud Computing Catch-Up — The big spenders on technology are businesses and government agencies. They buy about 75 percent of the computing goods and services sold worldwide. Yet it is increasingly evident they are not driving the new ideas …
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Mike Blumenthal / Understanding Google Maps …:
Google Discontinues Tags — Google Local is shedding products & names almost as fast they are making them these days...they just announced the end of Tags on the Lat Long Blog. I guess I didn't realize that it was still a trial and was under the impression that it was a real product. Silly me.
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Google LatLong
Steven Levy / Fortune:
Inside Google's China misfortune — The problems that Google faced while establishing its foothold in China would shake the very foundations of the company and its “Don't be evil” operating ethos. A look at Google's past five years in China — and where it went wrong along the way.
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