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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Facebook Launches “Social Deals” To Challenge Groupon & LivingSocial — After several months of anticipation Facebook is launching its second deals program: Social Deals. The new effort more closely resembles Groupon-style daily deals, with several twists.
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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Marketing Pilgrim, Screenwerk and The Blog Herald
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Emily C White / Facebook Blog:
Deals: Better with Friends — A few months ago we launched Check-In Deals, to help you get special offers when you check in at local businesses from your mobile. Today we're going a step further and testing a new feature to help you find fun experiences to share with your favorite people: Deals on Facebook.
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Between the Lines Blog, VatorNews, PC Magazine, Hillicon Valley, Disruptors and Pocket-lint
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook Is Latest Rival to Groupon and LivingSocial — Facebook said late Monday that it would introduce Deals, an effort by the social networking giant to tap into the consumer frenzy over online discounts. With Deals, which had long been expected, Facebook is entering a crowded market led …
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Ars Technica, Search Engine Watch, All Facebook, The Register, PC World, Fast Company, Mashable!, SAI, Digits, ITProPortal, GottaBeMobile, SFGate, Softpedia News, MediaPost, SlashGear, Techland, digiday:DAILY, Adotas, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, Poynter and CNET News
Nielsen Wire:
U.S. Smartphone Market: Who's the Most Wanted? — Things change quickly in the U.S. smartphone market. — According to The Nielsen Company's monthly surveys of U.S. mobile consumers from July-September 2010, consumers planning on getting a new smartphone had a very clear preference: A third (33%) wanted an Apple iPhone.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Android Passes iPhone as Most Desired Smartphone. Barely
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PC World and 9 to 5 Mac
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Finally Goes Hollywood With New Movies on Demand Service — YouTube will imminently launch a movie-on-demand service charging users to stream movies off the world's largest video sharing site, TheWrap has learned. — The new service means a full-bore challenge …
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BaltTech, Search Engine Land, Engadget, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Guardian, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, AppleInsider, paidContent, ReelSEO Online Video …, Geek.com, RazorianFly, ITProPortal, TechCrunch, Bloggasm, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, CNET News and Pocket-lint, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Movies You've Heard Of Coming To YouTube. Will You Rent Them?
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GigaOM, SocialTimes.com, Black Web 2.0 and Softpedia News
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony S1 and S2 dual-screen Honeycomb tablets get official — Sony's hosting a press event in Tokyo today where it just made it's first announcement: a pair of Android 3.0 tablets. The first is the S1 media tablet with a curved top much like a folded magazine and both front- and rear-facing cameras.
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PC World, Sony Global, App Advice, Ars Technica, CNNMoney.com, Computerworld, Japan Real Time, Reuters, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, CrunchGear, SONY make.believe, BGR, The Tech Report, CNET News, PlayStation LifeStyle, Fast Company, Reuters, Mobilized, The Register, Android Tapp, Inquirer, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, Edge Online, Softpedia News, Recombu, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Mike Cane's xBlog, Hardware 2.0 Blog, GottaBeMobile, Agence France Presse, TechEye, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, Electronista, Technologizer, Android Phone Fans, Boing Boing, This is my next, Reuters and MacHackPC
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Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Sony's Android Tablets Are Game, Music, Video and Ebook-Downloading Titans
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Computerworld, PC Magazine, Touch Arcade, Android Police and VG247
Peter Pachal / PC Magazine:
Microsoft: Windows Phones Do Not Store Location History — Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phones don't store location history in a manner similar to the iPhone, which records the location data in an unencrypted file. The news that some iOS devices keep location data came to light last week …
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WPCentral.com, Neowin.net, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, MobileBurn.com and Network World
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Microsoft collects locations of Windows phone users
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BGR, Al Franken, TechEye and InfoWorld
Ian Sherr / Digits:
Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely — Internet gamers were frustrated last week when Sony shut down its PlayStation Network. Now, they might have reason to be worried. … On Monday, the Japanese electronics giant said it is keeping its PlayStation Network videogame service …
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Technologizer, PC World, ReadWriteWeb, TorrentFreak, BetaNews, PlayStation Blog, Daring Fireball, The Buzz Bin, IGN PS3, Zatz Not Funny! and Pulse2
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Social Network Pioneer Friendster To Erase All User Photos, Blogs And More On May 31 — Before MySpace and Facebook, there was Friendster, a pioneering social networking website for consumers. First launched in 2002, Friendster attracted tens of millions of users over the years …
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Digital Trends, Venture Capital Dispatch, @dondodge and Tj's Daily!
Arn / MacRumors:
Next MacBook Pro to Get New Case Design — MacRumors has heard reliable confirmation that the next revision of Apple's MacBook Pro line will utilize a new case design for the first time in several years. — The possibility of a new case design was first revealed by iLounge in February …
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PC Magazine, Softpedia News, SlashGear, RazorianFly, O'Grady's PowerPage, Apple Bitch and ITProPortal
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Twitter Looks to Rebuild its Mobile Experience, Hints at New Developer Opportunities — After spending much of the last year working to improve overall reliability, Twitter's vice president of engineering says the company intends to put a lot of effort in the coming months into improving its mobile experience.
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SAI and AllTwitter
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's ‘iPhone 6’ to employ Sharp's next-gen p-Si LCDs in spring 2012 — Apple has reportedly selected Sharp to create next-generation low-temperature poly-silicon LCD displays, which will allow a thinner and lighter design for the anticipated sixth-generation iPhone in 2012.
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MacRumors, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Edible Apple, MacHackPC, Apple Bitch, Electronista, MacStories, CrunchGear and Phones Review
Richard Barley / The TweetDeck Blog:
The Dark App Rises: New iPhone TweetDeck Is Here — You all enjoyed the trailer, but now the year's biggest blockbuster has arrived at last. iPhone TweetDeck v2.0 is here! — In Hollywood they would call it a “re-imagining” - keep the essence of the original, but bring it bang up to date with a new team …
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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch Europe, mobiputing, Disruptors, Mashable!, Appletell, The Next Web, MacStories, The Cell Phone Junkie, MacHackPC, SlashGear and Recombu
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon.com tries to toss Apple ‘app store’ trademark suit, cites Steve Jobs in its own defense — Amazon.com today responded in court to Apple's lawsuit over the name of its Android Appstore — calling the iPhone maker's claim to the “App Store” trademark baseless, and pointing to a statement …
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Techland, Evolver.fm, SlashGear, Appolicious Advisor, The Register, TechEye, MediaPost and Softpedia News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Analyst: 25,000 to 120,000 Xooms sold. Motorola Mobility's survival at risk — Rather than try to out-innovate Apple, he says, it should sue its Android competitors — There's some pretty blunt language in the latest note to clients from Global Equities' Trip Chowdry …
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Techdirt, BGR, Digital Daily, SAI, SlashGear, paidContent:UK, Hardware 2.0 Blog and FierceWireless
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Yelp Plans to Go Public, Despite Booming Private Market — Yelp Inc., the consumer-reviews website, is declining to seek another round of financing and instead has its sights set on going public, the start-up's chief executive officer, Jeremy Stoppelman, said in an interview.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King's Speech Uploader — The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member the bureau believes was first to upload the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech as well as Black Swan, and other in-theater-only films to the Pirate Bay in January …
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TechSpot, 9 to 5 Mac and @jason
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Android Momentum Plateaus, Says New Developer Report — Momentum surrounding the Android mobile platform has reached a plateau, with developers now refocusing their efforts on building apps for Apple devices. This somewhat surprising conclusion is just one of many new trends spotted …
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BetaNews, SAI, Internet2Go, Seattle Times, mocoNews, ZDNet, PC World, InfoWorld, GigaOM, Appcelerator, CNET News, The Loop, Guardian, WinRumors, The Register, WMPoweruser.com, Android Phone Fans and WPCentral.com
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
How Google Killed GDrive and Spiked Its Skype Acquisition — This weekend I spent some time reading Steven Levy's “In the Plex,” an account of the history of Google based on Levy's deep embedding within the company (see Kara's video interview with Levy from last week).
Dan DeFelippi / Razor Fast:
Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project — Yesterday morning I woke up much earlier than I wanted. Instead of lying in bed, wishing I was asleep, I decided to get up and check out Hacker News. Better to waste my time reading industry news than lying around.
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PC World, Techdirt and Boing Boing
Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes — If E.T. phones Earth, he'll get a “disconnect” signal. — Lacking the money to pay its operating expenses, Mountain View's SETI Institute has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes …
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GeekWire, @laura_june, Wired.co.uk, PhysOrg.com and ReadWriteWeb
John Markoff / New York Times:
Joichi Ito to Be Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab — For centuries diplomas have been synonymous with the nation's universities. — That makes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's decision to name a 44-year old Japanese venture capitalist who attended, but did not graduate …
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@dondodge, SAI, Joi Ito's Web, Xconomy, Snarkmarket and Technology Review, Thanks:ilamont
Bloomberg:
Golden Gate Capital to Buy Lawson Software for $2 Billion — Lawson Software Inc., a maker of programs that help run businesses, agreed to sell itself to private-equity firm Golden Gate Capital Corp. and Infor for about $2 billion. — Stockholders of Lawson will receive $11.25 a share in cash, according to a statement today.
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The Register, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunchIT, Reuters, DealBook, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
