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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 …
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SFGate, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, Social Markets, Digital Trends, TUAW, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz and App Advice
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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.
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Technologizer, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, CNET News, All about Microsoft Blog, PC Magazine, MSDN Blogs, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, NewEnterprise, PC World, The Register, TechNet Blogs, WinRumors, Business Wire, Windows 8 Beta, TechNet Blogs, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, TechSpot, Neowin.net, Computerworld and Softpedia News
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Tries To Bury Google Apps With Office 365
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Digital Trends and Network World
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.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Demand Media Downplays Impact Of Latest Google Changes
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Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, Betabeat, Search Engine Roundtable and Poynter
CBS News:
A billionaire bachelor's playground — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives “60 Minutes” a tour of his estate, yacht, space rocket, and, yes — his very own submarine What would you do if you suddenly became a billionaire with the means to indulge your every whim, no matter how extreme?
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Bloomberg, Engadget, TechFlash, MacDailyNews, CNET News and dailywireless.org
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 …
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App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, GigaOM, TiPb, MarketingVOX and MacStories
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.
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Internet2Go, @carnage4life and Appolicious Advisor
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Omar El Akkad / Globe and Mail:
RIM makes a play for its future
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Michael Geist Blog and Voice on the Web
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Mass production of Apple's A5-, Qualcomm-powered iPhone 5 rumored for Sept. — Apple's iPhone 5 will feature “slight modifications” from its predecessor, including an 8 megapixel rear camera and a Qualcomm baseband for both GSM and CDMA models, and will go into production in September, a new report claims.
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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 …
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Technologizer, LAPTOP Magazine, MobileCrunch, Gadgetell, FierceWireless, BGR, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Electronista, Engadget and WebOS Arena
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 …
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GigaOM, Fast Company, PC World, Daring Fireball, Stowe Boyd, Neven Mrgan's tumbl, DisplayBlog, parislemon, SAI and Marco.org
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 …
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Recombu, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Electronista, MacHackPC, Pocket-lint and MacRumors
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 …
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Yahoo! News, Fast Company, GoNintendo 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 …
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9 to 5 Mac
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.
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PC Magazine, Inquirer, Mashable!, news.mk.co.kr, Samsung Hub, Business Wire, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, The Toybox Blog, Recombu, Android Phone Fans, TG Daily, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Gadgetell, Android News, Rumours …, BGR, Tools, DailyTech, The Next Web, Fudzilla, ITProPortal, PhoneArena, Geek.com, SlashGear, Electronista, Softpedia News, Android Community and Know Your Cell
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Wal-Mart Acquires Kosmix to Move Into Social and Mobile — Wal-Mart is buying Kosmix, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic. — The company did not disclose terms of the agreement, but said the acquisition would be instrumental …
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TechCrunch and Datawocky
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple Q2 2011 earnings preview — Fortune's final poll of Apple analysts — professional and amateur — Here are the final estimates — barring last-minute revisions — along with each analyst's rank, where available, in last quarter's earnings smackdown.
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.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Could Office 15's ‘Moorea’ bring back elements of Microsoft ‘Courier’? — New screen shots, allegedly from an internal milestone build of Office 15, show that Microsoft is making good on hints to add a new application to its next version of its Office suite, which is expected to ship around 2013.
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The Next Web, WinRumors and Neowin.net
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21 — We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announced 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.
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Mashable!, The Register, VentureBeat, Light Reading, Softpedia News, PC Magazine and Marketing Pilgrim
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Patent that took down Barnes and Noble's Nook revealed — Monday, California-based technology company Spring Design announced that it had been granted the patent for multiple-screen technology that resulted in a lawsuit with Barnes and Noble over the Nook e-reader last year.
