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The Official Google Blog:
Add your local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for the United States — Before Google Map Maker—a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world—only 15 percent of the world's population had detailed online maps of their neighborhoods.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Map Maker Now Open To US Users
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
White iPhone 4 used to demo new multitasking, Spotlight search in ‘test version’ of iOS? (video) — We've just laid eyes on a video from the prolific leaksters over at Tinhte, who claim they not only have a white iPhone 4 from Apple, but it's one with a “test version” of iOS that nobody else has yet seen.
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MacStories, AppleInsider, App Advice, BGR, MacRumors, VentureBeat, BGR, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, Electronista, PhoneArena, Recombu, Apple Bitch, TiPb, The Next Web and IntoMobile
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
64 GB white iPhone caught in the wild... running prototype iOS 4 with Expose, new folder system, Facebook integration? — Remember the second people to bring the world legit photos of the iPhone 4? How about a mid-year MacBook refresh and an iPod touch camera prototype?
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SlashGear, Shoutpedia, TUAW, App Advice, mobiputing and Know Your Cell, Thanks:markgurman
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook now on sale in the US and Canada, starting at $500 with 16GB of storage — Today is the day in BlackBerry land. The wait for a dual-core device with an up-to-date operating system and that stylized BB logo is now over, and a vast array of stores in the US and Canada are now ready to sell you your PlayBook.
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Reuters, WebProNews, Gizmodo, DailyTech, CrunchGear, BGR, Newlaunches.com, PalmAddicts, Reuters, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
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Adam Zeis / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Bridge not available on AT&T... AT&T Blocking It Due to Free Tethering via BlackBerry Bridge?! — Much like many others I anxiously awoke this morning eager to try out BlackBerry Bridge on my PlayBook. I fired up BlackBerry App World, scanned the barcode on my device and was shocked …
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SlashGear, SAI, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, Techland, MobileBurn.com, MobileCrunch, Phone Scoop, mobiputing and Electronista
Agence France Presse:
Samsung vows counter-action over Apple patent suit — SEOUL (AFP) - Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would take counter-action against Apple after the US firm filed suit alleging that the South Korean giant copied its smartphones and tablet computers. — Apple's lawsuit claims Samsung's …
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This is my next, GigaOM, AppleInsider, english.yonhapnews.co.kr, Yahoo! News, TUAW, Digital Trends, Techland and Electronista
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Apple spent nearly $5.7b on Samsung parts in 2010, faces ‘strong’ response to its patent suit
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Android Phone Fans and everythingiCafe
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line of Phones and Tablets
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Mrinal Desai / TechCrunch:
Five Reasons Why Twitter Will Kill TweetDeck — Editor's note: The following guest post is written by Mrinal Desai, co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. — On reading today's report by the Wall Street Journal that Twitter is in talks to buy TweetDeck …
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Mashable!, GMSV, Softpedia News and @owenthomas
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Tries to Widen Appeal to More Users — Twitter Inc. is in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck Inc. for around $50 million, people familiar with the matter said. — TweetDeck is one of the add-on programs that help Twitter users view and manage short messages carried by the service, which are known as tweets.
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HBO Go app set to stream its way to iPhones, iPads and Android devices — Are you familiar with the HBO Go online streaming service that lets subscribers catch up on HBO's award-winning and ass-kicking TV content? Well, 'appy news for you, dear reader, for it's about to hit smartphones and tablets early next month.
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GigaOM, PC Magazine, App Advice, CNET News, The Toybox Blog, Insanely Great Mac, FierceMobileContent, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb and Unwired View
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix — According to sources close to the situation, Wal-Mart Stores paid just over $300 million for Kosmix. — The six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company-which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic …
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Between the Lines Blog, alarm:clock, Fast Company and SAI
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Anand Rajaraman / Datawocky:
Retail + Social + Mobile = @WalmartLabs
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Investor Relations, DealBook, Boris Mann's Blog, Search Engine Land and VentureBeat
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
In Silicon Valley, Investors Are Jockeying Like It's 1999 — MENLO PARK, Calif.—Travis Kalanick is the founder of a start-up that lets people order up a car service from a cellphone. Recently, the 34-year-old found himself in the driver's seat. — Several major venture-capital firms were vying to fund Uber, his fledgling company.
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broadstuff and Deal Journal
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
T-Mobile G-Slate review — The tablet wars are building, petty disputes that will soon lead to bloodshed. Products will be launched into battle only to be gunned down straight out of their boxes, crying for their fabricators as bigger, faster, better slates step over the stricken chassis …
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This is my next, Gizmodo, BGR, SAI, PC World, SlashGear, Android Community, DailyTech, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and LAPTOP Magazine
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Officially Announces G-Slate Release For April 20th
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GigaOM and SocialTimes.com
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Apple Reportedly Rejecting Apps with Pay-per-install Campaigns — Apple isn't just tweaking its App Store rankings to include more than download numbers and possibly lessening the impact of incentivized pay-per-install marketing campaigns. It's actually banning apps that use pay-per-install …
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ReadWriteWeb, Inside Mobile Apps, www.pocketgamer.biz, iLounge, Appolicious Advisor and mocoNews
Paul Geller / Digital Music News:
Get Ready: Grooveshark Promises a Fight to the Finish... The following is an open letter to the music industry from Grooveshark, shared exclusively with Digital Music News. The letter was prompted by the recent removal of the Grooveshark app from the Android Market, though it also addresses broader concerns and challenges.
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Epicenter, Android Community, Electronista, Softpedia News, TorrentFreak, MobileCrunch and Music Ally
Martin LaMonica / CNET News:
Google plants $100 million in giant wind farm — The Shepherds Flat wind farm is expected to be fully operational in 2012 and supply 235,000 average U.S. homes. — Google today said that it will invest about $100 million in the very large Shepherd's Flat wind project in Oregon …
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The Official Google Blog, Fast Company, SAI, eWeek, FT Tech Hub, Silicon Republic, Softpedia News, Shelly Palmer Digital Living and TechCrunch
Miguel de Icaza:
Dropbox Lack of Security — I am a fan of Dropbox. It is a great tool, a great product, and clearly they have a passionate team over at Dropbox building the product. — Dropbox recently announced an update to its security terms of service in which they announced that they would provide …
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Steve Kovach / Tools:
DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To
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PC World and Pocket-lint
Bloomberg:
Apple Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit Alleging ITunes Downloading Monopoly — A federal judge was asked by Apple Inc. (AAPL) to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit claiming the company limited choice by linking iPod music downloading to its iTunes music store.
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PC Magazine, Digital Trends, TechFlash, MacRumors, Music Ally, CNET News, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, Inquirer, iLounge, BGR and AppleInsider
Bloomberg:
Sprint Agrees to Pay Clearwire $1 Billion for Use of Network — Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. wireless provider, agreed to pay Clearwire Corp. at least $1 billion for the use of its so-called fourth-generation network over the next two years.
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BGR, mocoNews, GeekWire, corporate.clearwire.com, DSLreports, Wall Street Journal, MobileBurn.com, FierceWireless and IntoMobile
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nokia launches Ovi Maps 3D beta, challenges Google Earth as your virtual tour guide of choice — Still searching for today's internet time sink? Then look no further than Nokia's just launched beta version of Ovi Maps 3D. Thanks to a little help from Navteq's maps and some software wizardry …
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Nokia Conversations, Inquirer, TechCrunch, SlashGear and ArcticStartup Posts
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
A Myspace Founder Builds Again, Buying Game Companies — Just days after the online game company MindJolt moved into its Los Angeles headquarters in March 2010, rain started to pour through the ceiling. — Christopher T. DeWolfe, the chief executive, and his small team …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, eMoney, Inc.com, GeekWire, Pulse2, TechCrunch and AdExchanger.com
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook to Ad Agencies: Let's Be ‘in a Relationship’ — Social Network Rolls Out Community Site Aimed at Creatives — Facebook today launched a stand-alone community site (facebook-studio.com) where ad agency creatives can share ideas, comment on campaigns and learn what it takes to create a successful page for a brand.
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MarketingVOX, Pulse2 and Marketing Pilgrim
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Royal wedding 2.0: Palace gears up for big day — Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be screened on official YouTube channel with pics posted on Flickr — The marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be streamed live via YouTube, with royal household staff tweeting updates …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Tagged Buys Popular Social/Instant Messaging Client Digsby — Tagged, the San Francisco-based social network that is most notable because of its ability to grow profitably during the Facebook era, has closed its first acquisition. dotSyntax, the corporation that created …
