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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data — The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Situation Room Meme: The Shortest Route From Bin Laden to Lulz — The photo of the White House Situation Room during the operation that killed Osama bin Laden stunned the world when it was released. The photo is powerful, and the response to it has been strong.
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TechCrunch and Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
What's on Osama bin Laden's Hard Drive? Hopefully a Lot.
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MediaPost, MarketBeat, PC World, Boing Boing and textually.org
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Apple iMac hands-on, with dual 30-inch displays! (video) — One Thunderbolt port on your new MacBook Pro? Pah. The new 27-inch iMac has twice that many — two. When we got ours out of the box we just had to do the natural thing: fire up as many pixels as possible.
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TUAW, MacHackPC, Technologizer, Geohot, Macworld, MacStories, MacRumors, GigaOM, 1001 Noisy Cameras, MacNN, iClarified and BGR
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify takes on iTunes with new music downloads store and iPod syncing — Is streaming music service Spotify a direct rival to Apple's iTunes? If it wasn't before, it certainly is now. Today, Spotify is launching its own music downloads store, adding iPod syncing to its desktop client …
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Spotify, BBC, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, Guardian, PalmAddicts, Mobile Entertainment, SlashGear, Tech Europe, @spotify, The Next Web and Softpedia News, Thanks:stuartdredge
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Dissolves Search Group Internally, Now Called “Knowledge” — Google has seven major product groups. Advertising, Commerce & Local, Mobile (Android), Social, Chrome, YouTube and Search. Search is, of course, Google's first and most important product. But that group actually no longer exists internally.
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Softpedia News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI and Search Engine Land
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google Takes to TV to Promote Browser — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is once again taking up arms in the browser wars, in the belief that people who use its Chrome Web browser will be more likely to keep using Google search. — The company is taking the battle to mainstream America …
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Technically Incorrect, Gawker, The Next Web, thechromesource and Computerworld, more at Mediagazer »
Jack Kent / iSuppli:
Revenue for Major Mobile App Stores to Rise 77.7 Percent in 2011 — Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. will leap 77.7 percent in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with the Apple App Store projected to eat …
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CNET News, MacRumors, Shiny Objects, Electronista, GeekWire, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Bloomberg and textually.org
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Windows generates less than a third the profit of iOS + OS X — While a lot of the credit for Apple's success is rightfully assigned to the iOS franchises, the OS X business has more than quadrupled in five years. This has happened without drastic price fluctuations.
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The Next Web and parislemon
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook's Infrastructure Czar Jonathan Heiliger Leaves — Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's vice president of Technical Operations, has been the Palo Alto-based web giant's public face when it comes to all things infrastructure. And today (May 3rd), he announced that he would leave the company at the end of the summer.
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SAI, Inside Facebook, All Facebook and NetworkEffect
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
IP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says — In the last year various copyright holders have sued well over 100,000 alleged file-sharers in the United States alone. The purpose of these lawsuits is to obtain the personal details of the alleged infringers …
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Digital Trends, I4U News, @kevinmarks, PlagiarismToday, TechEye, Ars Technica and Slashdot
Aftab Ahmed / Reuters:
Wireless carriers scale down scope of mobile payment system — (Reuters) - The biggest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, are not setting up a separate network for payments on transactions done by phones, the Wall Street Journal said.
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Wall Street Journal
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: OpenTable CEO Jordan Likely to Head to Silicon Valley VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz — Jeff Jordan, the president and CEO of OpenTable who unexpectedly stepped down from his job today at the online restaurant reservation leader, is set to take a job at a major venture firm in Silicon Valley.
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eMoney and The Tech Trade
Gloria Sin / ZDNet:
American Airlines to offer in-flight streaming to personal devices — Flying on American Airlines just got a little more comfortable for passengers like me, who have a hard time sleeping thanks to those flickering LCD screens embedded into the back of seats on most aircrafts.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Amazon Announces Its Gilt And Vente Privée Killer, MyHabit.com — The private sales market is really heating up. Amazon has just announced MyHabit.com, a private sales site that's going to compete directly with the likes of Gilt Groupe and RueLaLa, which is soon to be owned by eBay.
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BGR, Business Wire, Digits, Bits, Techland, GeekWire and TechCrunch
Henry Blodget / Yahoo! Finance:
Apple Will Become A Trillion-Dollar Company, Says Altucher — $1,000 A Share — Apple recently blew past Microsoft, Cisco, and other companies to become the most valuable tech company in the world. — But that's just the beginning, says investor James Altucher of Formula Capital.
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VentureBeat, MacNN, I4U News, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and BGR
Erik Sherman / BNET:
Facebook's Giant Marketing Mistake: It Works Backwards — Facebook's daily deals are up and running, through from a marketing perspective, “limping” might be a better word. The company has already made a number of mistakes that are likely to numb its users to the very deals it's trying so hard to promote.
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@joshconstine and Bloomberg
Cade Metz / The Register:
HP engineering veep spills cloud plans onto LinkedIn — Ruby, Java, open source, [Microsoft Azure] — HP is building a wide range of public cloud services, including Amazon-like “infrastructure clouds” offering instant access to readily scalable processing power, storage …
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SAI and virtualization.info
Chadwick Matlin / Fortune:
The Ayn Rand-loving, feet-baring, efficiency-obsessed savant behind SCVNGR — Who is Seth Priebatsch? How did his tiny company, based on turning life into a video gaming experience, wind up with a $100 million valuation? — Seth Priebatsch, left — FORTUNE — As I walked through …
Thanks:smalera
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Sponsored Stories Ads Have 46% Higher CTR, 18% Lower Cost Per Fan Says TBG Digital Test — Facebook Ads API service provider TBG Digital has revealed that in a 10-day, 3-client, 2 billion impression test, Facebook's new Sponsored Stories ad units received a 46% higher click through rate …
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All Facebook, Thanks:joshconstine
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: In Ten Years, “We Will All Have A Gigabit To The Home” — Netflix is blowing the doors off its business, with $3 billion in annualized revenue and a $12 billion market cap driven by the transition to streaming online video. In terms of hours watched …
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SAI, GigaOM, Hacking NetFlix, paidContent and Technology Review
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
PC rental store accused of using webcams, keyloggers on customers — Built-in webcams are becoming more and more common in computers these days, and in turn, they are becoming more and more of a liability. A Wyoming couple is now accusing national rent-to-own chain Aaron's Inc. of spying …
John Cook / GeekWire:
The Woz to Paul Allen: Stop patent trolling, start innovating — In the annals of tech history, Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak will likely be remembered as the forgotten co-founders. Each has done a bit to reinvent themselves recently. Allen wrote a memoir called “Idea Man.”
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TechEye, The Register, Technically Incorrect and 9 to 5 Mac
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
US DVD sales plummet 20% — Hollywood studios feel impact of rapid shift to online film and TV viewing — DVD sales plunged 20% in the US in the first quarter of 2011, with Hollywood studios blaming the timing of Easter and a glut of blockbuster releases in the same period last year for the $500m …
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Feedly taps HTML5 to bring cross-platform news reading to iOS, Android — News reading service Feedly is showing off just how useful HTML5 can be for creating powerful cross-platform applications today with the launch of Feedly Mobile 2.0 for the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets.
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Scobleizer, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM
Nick Clayton / Wall Street Journal:
Social Media Gets Professional — SOCIAL MEDIA: Online networking is transforming the way businesses operate but few understand its true implications — If you want an example of the power of social media, consider this. Starbucks gets 1.8 million visitors to its website every month, Coca Cola some 270,000.
Thanks:joefahrner
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist — If you have even the slightest hint of a creative streak, you may be interested in COLOURlovers, a startup whose products let you easily express yourself using shapes and colors, even if you aren't particularly good at it.
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Novell Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft Over WordPerfect Revived by Court — Novell Inc. (NOVL)'s antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., accusing the world's largest software maker of undermining Novell's WordPerfect program, was revived by a U.S. appeals court in Virginia.
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