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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Still need an iPad 2? Head to Best Buy on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday — Well now, this is interesting. We've been hearing a lot of chatter about Best Buy and the iPad 2, rumors that the company was sitting on a giant pile of tablets ahead of some great event.
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The Toybox Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Edible Apple, AppleInsider, wirelessgoodness.com, PadGadget, IntoMobile, TUAW, TiPb, Electronista and CrunchGear
Glyn Moody / open:
Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry — Rumours about Google's music service have been swirling for a while now, but they certainly seem to be reaching a new stage with stories like this: … When there are rumours that you're about to give up on a project, you know it must be real.
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Beyond Search and Slashdot
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Music Label Talks “Going Backwards”
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Digital Trends, Softpedia News, BGR, MacRumors, Technologizer, TechSpot, WebProNews, Android Phone Fans, Electronista and MacDailyNews
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS — Adobe previewed some new streaming video capabilities of its Flash Media Server at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show, including new compatibility with iOS devices like the iPad.
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TiPb, Appletell and AppleInsider
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Photo tour of Facebook's new datacenter — Today I was very fortunate to have gotten a tour of Facebook's new datacenter up in Prineville, Oregon (map). This datacenter is the most energy efficient in the world and only a handful of press got a look. We'll have a video up after editing it …
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Associated Press and Silicon Forest, Thanks:scobleizer
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhone 4 shows up in Verizon's inventory — It's real this time. After several false hopes along the way, Apple will finally release the white iPhone 4 very soon. We've been expecting an AT&T version since summer 2010 and reports of a Verizon version of the white model being in the works emerged earlier this week.
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Gizmodo, Apple Bitch, Edible Apple, MobileCrunch, TUAW and Electronista
Henry Blodget / SAI:
GOOGLE'S LARRY PAGE DOES EXACTLY THE RIGHT THING: Says “Whatever” To Wall Street — In some people's minds, Google's Larry Page just committed the cardinal sin: He offended Wall Street. — Wall Street has reacted to the first quarter in the Page regime by tossing the stock overboard.
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SAI, eWeek and The Business Insider
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Phantom Punch — Yesterday, the story on everyone's mind in the tech world was the turmoil at Twitter. Led by the Fortune cover story written by Jessi Hempel, if you read it, you might think the sky is falling on Chicken Little. Not surprisingly, Twitter responded — sort of.
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Mark Evans Tech and Biz Stone
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The White House:
Administration Releases Strategy to Protect Online Consumers and Support Innovation and Fact Sheet on National Strategy for Trusted Indentities in Cyberspace — WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Obama Administration released the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) …
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SC Magazine US, Internet Evolution, GigaOM, Digital Trends, DSLreports, epic.org, Ars Technica and Open Gardens
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Grant Gross / PC World:
White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan
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techPresident, White House.gov Blog, Security Watch, @eric_andersen, Threat Level, PC Magazine, Digits, Fast Company, eWeek, Engadget and CNET News
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Kills Tags In Favor Of Boost — Google is killing Tags, an advertising product for local businesses which allowed them to enhance their Google Maps or Places listings. For a flat $25 monthly fee, local merchants could make their their natural listings stand out a bit with a yellow tag …
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Google Small Business, Search Engine Watch, WebProNews, Screenwerk and Understanding Google …
Fred Vogelstein / Wired:
The Android Explosion: How Google's Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone — ndy Rubin needed a hit. It was January 2009, three years since Google had bought the company he cofounded, a little startup called Android. — Rubin had created a slick operating system for mobile phones …
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9 to 5 Mac, @johnacook and @bill_gross
Reuters:
UAE to curb BlackBerry usage for individuals: report — (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates will stop individuals and small businesses accessing the most private data services offered by BlackBerry, a newspaper said, but email and web access will not be disrupted, said the government.
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Associated Press, emirates247.com and IntoMobile
Steve Green / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
After Righthaven defies judge, observers question company's motives — Some Righthaven LLC watchers are wondering if the Las Vegas company is plotting to have the judge handling all of its Colorado copyright lawsuits disqualified from presiding over those cases.
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paidContent, Ars Technica, paidContent and Techdirt
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Betrayal of Bnter — We filmed this week's Ask a VC on Tuesday, and I started out by asking Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital about the danger of venture capitalists investing in competitors. There was no ulterior motive on my part. It's just a question I've seen coming up increasingly …
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Pulse2 and Learn to Duck
Nick Bilton / Bits:
iPad Resellers Now Camp Overnight at Apple Stores — On Wednesday morning I stopped by the SoHo Apple store in New York City to purchase an iPad for a family member. As I had anticipated, a store clerk said they were out of stock and recommended that I check back the following morning.
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MacNN and Electricpig.co.uk
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Financials Exposed: $2.9 Billion Valuation, $50 Million In Revenue Per Month — There's nothing like full disclosure during the negotiating process in an acquisition deal. LivingSocial acquired SocialMedia for just $3 million in stock, we reported earlier today.
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Screenwerk, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Pulse2, Fortune and SAI
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows 8: Portable Workspace allows you to run Windows from a USB device … An early copy of Windows 8 leaked to the Internet this week and enthusiasts have been digging their way through the various new bits in Microsoft's next-generation operating system.
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Pocket-lint, PC World, Redmond Pie, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, TechSpot, Electronista, Geek.com, Liliputing, The Tech Report and Gizmodo
A. Ananthalakshmi / Reuters:
Chinese Facebook, Renren, shoots for U.S. IPO — (Reuters) - China's largest social network, Renren, filed for a U.S. initial public offering to raise up to $573.1 million, the first of a clutch of Facebook clones hoping to boost their profile with an American listing.
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Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires and Pulse2
Jason Subler / Reuters:
China to give “strategic” support to microchip sector: Xinhua — (Reuters) - China plans to support its integrated circuit sector as a strategically important industry over the next five years, aiming for over a fourth of microchips used in the country by 2015 to be made in China, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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Xinhua News Agency
