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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million - $50 Million — Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the deal, and the transaction will be announced in the next few days. The $40 million - $50 million purchase price includes both cash and Twitter stock, says our source.
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The Blog Herald, Reuters, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Trends, SlashGear, TiPb, BGR, Neowin.net, Electronista, @fredericl, Droid Life, Pulse2 and Know Your Cell
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born — Shortly after I posted my piece on feeling curiously un-thrilled about Bin Laden's death, the following quote came across my twitter feed: … I admire the sentiment. But something about it just strikes me as off, like that great Marx quote …
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MediaMemo, NewsGrange, Cronaca, @lizgannes, @shervin and @gaberivera, more at Mediagazer »
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Hackers Hit Guy Who Live-Tweeted Bin Laden Raid — 33-year-old IT consultant Sohaib Athar was just hanging out on Sunday at home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when he heard an explosion and a helicopter hovering above. He started tweeting what was going on, and ended up unwittingly live-blogging the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
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India Real Time, memeburn and Security Labs, more at Mediagazer »
Sheldon Levine / Sysomos Blog:
How Fast the News Spreads Through Social Media — Unless you have been totally disconnected from any sort of news over the past 12 hours, you've no doubt heard that Osama Bin Laden has been found and killed. Barack Obama, President of the United States, made the announcement late last night …
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New York Times, Bits, CNNMoney.com, USA Today, @joshuatopolsky, Brian Solis, Black Web 2.0, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, GeekSugar and @dondodge, more at Mediagazer »
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second
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MediaPost, TechCrunch, Emily Bell, AdAge, eWeek, Epicenter, GigaOM, Mashable!, SAI, The Social, Poynter, SAI, Hollywood Reporter, GottaBeMobile, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, SocialTimes.com, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch Europe, GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, @twitterglobalpr, GigaOM and PC Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Kafka / All Things Digital:
Bin Laden Web Traffic Big But Not Historic
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memeburn, IBD Click, Softpedia News and ITworld.com, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Gilbert / Joystiq:
Sony Online loses 12,700 credit card account numbers, 24.6 million accounts compromised [update] — Following up on this morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment servers were offline across the board, SOE announced that it has lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers as the result of an attack …
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BGR, SOE, Bits, Wall Street Journal, GameLife, ZDNet, CrunchGear, Engadget, Massively, Technologizer, NewEnterprise, Hillicon Valley, The Escapist and Bloomberg
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Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Til death do us part: Sony and the credit card companies
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Computerworld and Gearlog
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
Intel vying for Apple foundry business — SAN JOSE, Calif. - At present, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is making the Apple-designed A4 and A5 processors on a foundry basis for Apple Inc. — That could soon change. As reported, Apple and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) …
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X-bit labs, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, The Tech Report, WinBeta and PadGadget
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Carriers crack down on Android tethering apps, rain on our mobile hotspot parade — Well everybody, it looks like the free ride is over: carriers in the US have started to seriously crack down on Android tethering apps. Head on over to the Android Market site and try to install an app …
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Operation Android, Gadget Lab, Gearlog, Technologizer and Gizmodo
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DigiTimes:
Quanta receives tablet PC orders from Amazon, say upstream sources — Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer has recently received OEM orders from Amazon for its reported tablet PC and the device will also receive full support from Taiwan-based electrophoretic display (EPD) …
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Engadget, The Next Web, Electronista and netbooknews.com
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented — Despite awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest. — Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange …
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Mashable!, I4U News, SAI, rt.com, PC World, Daily Patricia, Pulse2, Network World, All Facebook, Digital Trends, The Register, @mrinaldesai and DisplayBlog, Thanks:cbm
Electronista:
Samsung takes 200K Galaxy S II pre-orders, passes iPhone 4 — Samsung claimed an at least initial win for the Galaxy S II. The company took over 200,000 pre-orders across all three major Korean carriers between Monday of last week and the launch on Friday. About 160,000 of those were at the country's largest carrier, SK Telecom.
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DroidMatters.com, Android Phone Fans, MobileCrunch and Techie Buzz
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple to fix location tracking bug in iOS 4.3.3; due out soon — One of our Apple sources has just informed us that Apple isn't wasting anytime fixing the infamous location tracking issue in the iPhone and other iOS devices — it's going to be addressed in an update within the next two weeks, possibly sooner, in iOS version 4.3.3.
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PC Magazine, The Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, @dannysullivan, Neowin.net, Pulse2, AppleInsider, IGN Gear, iPhone Buzz, FreakGeeks, CNET News, IntoMobile, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Appletell, Softpedia News, PadGadget, Digital Trends, Consumer Reports News, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Redmond Pie, Mobile Marketing Watch, iPhone Download Blog, MacStories, TiPb, Apple Bitch, TUAW, Edible Apple, MacHackPC and The Toybox Blog
Mike Gikas / Consumer Reports News:
Apple's White iPhone is not thicker than black version — Wearing black is the time-honored technique for appearing thinner without shrinking an inch. Apparently it works for the iPhone 4, as well. Recently an avalanche of news and tech sites reported that the white iPhone 4 was thicker …
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Fast Company, PC Magazine, PC World, Edible Apple, PhoneArena, ITProPortal, The Toybox Blog, Gizmodo, Geek.com, App Advice, IntoMobile, CNN, Gadget Lab, techblog.dallasnews.com, Techland, eWeek, MacRumors, Hardware 2.0 Blog and USA Today
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, Google Just Pushed Chrome Canary For Mac Out Of The Nest — This morning, we noted that Google was getting ready to release an OS X version of the Chrome Canary build. Sure enough, just hours later, here it is. — Canary is the pre-Dev build of Chrome meant for users who enjoy testing …
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Chromium Blog, TechCrunch, Peter Beverloo and MacNN
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware — Last week I showed you how malware authors have begun using social engineering to target Google Chrome, with convincing replicas of Chrome's bright-red security screens to trick victims into installing a package of malware.
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CSIS Security Group, Krebs on Security, The Register, SC Magazine, Slashdot and Dennis Fisher, Thanks:edbott
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Dear Canada: Your Election Law Is No Match For Twitter — Updated. We know that TV networks black out sporting events, but can you black out an entire election? In Canada you can — or at least the government there is trying to do that, for the national election on Monday.
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Associated Press and Epicenter, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:mathewi
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Peel Raises $16.7M To Turn Your Smartphone Into Your Television's Best Friend — Peel, a startup that's looking to turn your iOS device into a super-powered universal remote (among other things), has some big news: it's just closed a $16.7 million Series B funding round led by Ravi Mhatre …
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PR Newswire, Electronista, VentureBeat, TUAW and VatorNews
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T to Take On Groupon With $10 Promotion for Daily Deal Site — AT&T Inc. (T), aiming to tap the billion- dollar market for online coupons dominated by Groupon Inc., will introduce its own discount site within the coming weeks in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth.
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MediaPost, Pulse2, Daily Patricia, NewsGrange and @jspepper
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo — The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and Tools Business reorg announced on May 2 inside Microsoft.
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I'm Just Being Manan, The Register, WMPoweruser.com, The Next Web, eWeek and The Microsoft Blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post's top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. — The move is a big one in the online editorial arena.
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TechCrunch, paidContent and Business Wire
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion to Bring iOS-Like Uninstall Process for Mac App Store Apps — As noted by Apple iGuide (via TUAW), the latest developer build of Mac OS X Lion seeded last Friday brings a new iOS-like mechanism for deleting applications installed via the Mac App Store.
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AppleInsider and MacNN
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
No Improved Displays This Year, Says E Ink — One of the main features of the latest version of the Kindle was its new “Pearl” E Ink screen. It offered better contrast, faster response, and so on. And since we've gotten so used to new stuff being given to us every year …
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Crave and Electronista
