Techmeme: Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21 (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

1:00 PM ET, April 18, 2011

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day — Dropbox will announce a number of milestones on Monday morning, we've learned. The file backup and sharing service was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. It was in one of the early Y Combinator classes …

Discussion: SFGate, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, Digital Trends, TUAW, Softpedia News, App Advice and Techie Buzz

Larry Fitzgibbon / Demand Media:

Another Statement About Search Engine Algorithm Changes — It's hard to imagine a company more focused on the connection between consumers and content than Demand Media. That point of connection gives us the opportunity to inform, engage and serve the consumer. And it's where trusted relationships start.

Discussion: GigaOM, Digits, Digital Trends, Investor Relations, PC Magazine, Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News, Adotas, @jason, Mixed Media, BoomTown, Search Engine Land, SAI, SISTRIX Toolbox and Search Engine Land

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Demand Media Downplays Impact Of Latest Google Changes

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, Betabeat, Search Engine Roundtable and Poynter

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

What on Earth Happened to BlackBerry? — Research in Motion's new tablet is a misguided mess. — First, a confession: I haven't used the BlackBerry PlayBook yet. The seven-inch tablet computer is scheduled to go on sale next week, and I hope to get my hands on one soon. This, then, is not a product review.

Discussion: Internet2Go, @carnage4life and Appolicious Advisor

Omar El Akkad / Globe and Mail:
RIM makes a play for its future

Discussion: Michael Geist Blog and Voice on the Web

Elsa Wenzel / PC World:

Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside — Now anyone can try Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity package for businesses. The service opened Sunday night for beta testing, coming a step closer to its final launch, which will occur sometime later this year.

Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:

Apple May Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Making Downloads Matter Less — It looks like Apple made a number of changes to the app store's ranking system last week, adding in new weights on top of download numbers to determine top apps, according to conversations we've …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, Gizmodo and MacStories

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:

Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous — For years, there's been a persistent, as-yet-unrealized rumor that Apple will start making HDTVs. Received wisdom, however, has generally argued that it's not going to happen. TVs are too commoditized; TVs would have to come in too many sizes …

Discussion: GigaOM, Fast Company, PC World, Stowe Boyd, Neven Mrgan's tumbl, SAI, parislemon and Marco.org

Seth Schiesel / New York Times:

Busy Job of Judging Video-Game Content to Be Ceded to Machines — The little E's, T's and M's that appear on the covers of video games get there the old-fashioned way: People working for the Entertainment Software Rating Board look at the games, decide how gory, sexy or potty-mouthed they are …

Discussion: Yahoo! News and Blue's News

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Dropbox 1.4 Brings Tabs Back, Direct Uploads from Other Apps — A major update to the official Dropbox app for iOS was released night in the App Store, and it adds important new functionalities to the uploading aspect of the app. Originally released last May on the iPad …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac

Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:

Veer launch party scheduled for May 2; Update: AT&T confirmed? — We've been hearing “spring,” “soon,” and most recently “very soon” with regards to when the minuscule HP Veer smartphone is supposed to launch. Of course, all this vagueness means little without a concrete date …

Discussion: LAPTOP Magazine, MobileCrunch, FierceWireless, BGR, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, Electronista, Engadget and WebOS Arena

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21 — We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announcing that it will not longer support Yahoo Buzz, its a Digg-like product where users can rank stories from publishers. — According to a message on the Buzz website: Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011.

Discussion: Mashable!, The Register, VentureBeat, Light Reading, Softpedia News, PC Magazine and Marketing Pilgrim

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

What Happens To Your Email Address If It Is Stolen? — Over the past few months, many high-profile companies have had their customer details compromised by attackers, targeting the third-party marketing firms that hold email addresses and many other personal details.

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Samsung promises a dual-core 2GHz smartphone ‘by next year’ — Are you ready for a scorching-fast future? Samsung sure is, as today the Maeli Business Newspaper reports “a high-ranking” company official has disclosed Samsung's intention to deliver a dual-core smartphone that runs at 2GHz.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

White iPhone 4 Now available for order on 3 UK, delivers on April 20th — The mythical white iPhone 4 is now available for order on the 3 UK store. The phone is available for the standard subsidized price of £159 for the 32GB version. — The white iPhone 4 has been a topic …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and SlashGear

Arn / MacRumors:
White iPhone 4 to Launch on April 26th?

Discussion: Ars Technica, Phones Review, Redmond Pie, Startup Meme, Fonehome, Gadgetell, TiPb, everythingiCafe, PalmAddicts and TUAW

Electronista:

HP's TouchPad cloud music, video plans leak in presentation — HP's intention to build a webOS cloud media locker, and possibly beat Apple and Google to the feature, was given more definitive support late Friday after a leaked presentation. A pair of slides describing the TouchPad reportedly showed …

Discussion: PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, PreCentral.net, SAI, GigaOM, 9 to 5 Mac, Music Ally, SlashGear, CrackBerry.com blogs, Engadget, mobiputing and Yahoo! News

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

iPhone 4 About To Be Flickr's Top Camera. Point & Shoots? Pretty Much The Opposite. — What's the most popular camera used in terms of pictures taken that are uploaded to Flickr? Right now, it's the Nikon D90. But in about a month or so, it will be Apple's iPhone 4.

Discussion: GigaOM, App Advice, PC World, Bits, Digital Trends, Hardware 2.0 Blog, DailyTech, IntoMobile, Electronista, dailywireless.org, T3.com News, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe and Ubergizmo

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Analysis: Google's Page and Wall Street: Who needs who? — (Reuters) - It took fewer than 400 words for freshman Google Inc CEO Larry Page to set the tone for a strained relationship with Wall Street that could haunt him for years. — The 38-year-old tech visionary …

Discussion: Digital Daily, TechCrunch, Fortune, Guardian and Between the Lines Blog

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