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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup — From Steve Jobs down to the janitor: How America's most successful — and most secretive — big company really operates. — Apple doesn't often fail, and when it does, it isn't a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop.
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PC Magazine, DailyTech, USA Today, Softpedia News, PC World, RazorianFly, everythingiCafe and MacStories
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Why Fortune's Apple Story is AWOL From The Web - And Why You Can Buy It On Amazon — Last week Fortune published a deep dive into Apple, then made sure that many people who would care about it couldn't read it: The story was available in the magazine's print and iPad editions, but not on the Web.
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Guardian and Redmond Pie
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google to build its own office space — With the Googleplex already straining at the seams and the company preparing its biggest hiring surge ever, the Mountain View Internet giant is about to do something it's never done before — build its own office space.
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Search Engine Land, SAI, Venture Capital Dispatch, Geek.com, Techland and Softpedia News
Mike Elgan / Cult of Mac:
Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad — My wife and I sat down at a nice restaurant last week. Our table was right next to a larger party of four adults and two young children — both girls under the age of 7 years old or so. — Each of the girls had her own iPad …
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blog.chron.com, Howard Lindzon, Brij Singh's Blog and DisplayBlog
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Skyhook Wireless v. Google Case Yields E-Mail Insight — A stack of internal e-mail messages from Google, which a Massachusetts state court made public last week, provide a glimpse into the competitive tactics and decision-making inside a business that is crucial to the company's growth — its Android software for smartphones.
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BGR, Search Engine Land and Softpedia News
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Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:
Sony's PlayStation, Qriocity Services Remain Shut, ‘Uncertain’ on Restart — Sony Corp. (6758)'s PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services remain shut as of today, Shigenori Yoshida, a Tokyo-based spokesman said. Sony is uncertain when it can resume the services, Yoshida said by phone today.
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Ars Technica, Digital Trends, PC World, TechSpot, SlashGear, Fast Company, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, ITProPortal, IndustryGamers, gameinformer.com, USA Today, CrunchGear, Neowin.net, Massively, Joystiq, Electronista, Gamasutra, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Eurogamer, LaptopMemo and Pocket-lint
Journalism.org:
Navigating News Online — Whatever the future of journalism much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer. — Despite the unprecedented level of data about what news people consume online …
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Online NewsHour, Inquirer, Fast Company, memeburn, MediaMemo, AllTwitter, @zseward, Marketing Pilgrim, VatorNews, Poynter and Slashdot, more at Mediagazer »
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Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Facebook's role in news is growing, Pew study says
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Agence France Presse
Richard Gray / Telegraph:
Mobile phones could be charged by the power of speech — Mobile phones could soon be charged by simply speaking into the handset. — Engineers have developed a new technique for turning sound into electricity, allowing a mobile to be powered up while its user holds a conversation
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BaltTech, Yahoo! News, PC World, Fast Company, Neowin.net, PhoneArena, Recombu, IntoMobile, I4U News, Inquirer, Gizmodo and Mobile Entertainment
Reuters:
LinkedIn IPO price range values company at over $3 bln — LinkedIn Corp said it would offer 7.8 million shares in its initial public offering at between $32-$35 apiece. — At the high end of the price range, the company, which owns LinkedIn — the online social network for professionals and job seekers …
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Digital Trends, silicontap.com, TechCrunch, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, Socialnomics, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Apple Brand Value at $153 Billion Overtakes Google for Top Spot — Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPhone, iPad and iMac, overtook search-engine giant Google Inc. (GOOG) to become the world's most valuable brand, WPP Plc said in a report today. — Apple's brand value climbed 84 percent …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, PC World, blogs.forbes.com, CNET News, GigaOM, BGR, millwardbrown.com, Mashable!, AppleInsider, millwardbrown.com, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Reuters, SlashGear, Gamasutra, Profectio, The Register, Fortune, Engadget, TiPb, Pocket-lint, TUAW, RazorianFly, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, Shiny Objects, iPhone in Canada Blog, @jowyang, I4U News, Inquirer, MacStories, Kotaku, TG Daily, MacHackPC, Mobile Entertainment, Neowin.net, Eurogamer, Fudzilla, PhoneArena and AdAge
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the New Yorker — Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple's new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher's New Yorker title.
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SAI, Macworld, mocoNews, New York Times, digiday:DAILY, GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, Poynter, Electronista, Apple Bitch, I4U News, everythingiCafe, PC World and VentureBeat, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Where Are They Now? Products Announced During Past Google I/O Keynotes — The keynotes at Google I/O — Google's developer conference — are always filled with such promise. Google TV, Google Wave, music in the cloud! But the products themselves haven't always gone on to meet expectations.
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Ars Technica, Between the Lines Blog, SAI, Android Phone Fans, Recombu, louisgray.com and mocoNews
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What I learned by interviewing 23 startups in past few weeks — I've been slowing down my blogging lately. This has happened for a few reasons: — 1. I was speaking at the Next Web a week ago in Amsterdam and wifi there was crappy. — 2. Right before that I took a few days off to be in Yosemite with my family.
Thanks:scobleizer
Electronista:
Samsung Galaxy S II hits 3 million pre-orders — Samsung claimed unprecedented genuine demand for the Galaxy S II on Sunday night. The electronics giant said it had picked up three million pre-orders worldwide for its dual-core Android phone by the end of April, when it went on sale in Korea.
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VentureBeat, MobileCrunch, Samsung Hub, DialToSave, MobileWhack, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web, Mashable!, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, Startup Meme, DroidMatters.com and CrunchGear, Thanks:avigonn
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Turn-by-Turn directions, Voice to text, Bing Audio/Vision all coming to WP7 Mango — We kept emphasizing at MIX11 that the information revealed there was geared for developers, not so much consumers and that we expected more details to come forward over time.
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ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Inquirer, IntoMobile, BGR, WMPoweruser.com, Smartphones …, Windows Phone Dev Podcast, Windows Phone Secrets, WPCentral.com, DialToSave, Thoughts from the Sidelines, LiveSide.net, Recombu, LaptopMemo, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, WinRumors, Electronista, Neowin.net, MobileBurn.com, pocketnow.com, Pocket-lint, Engadget, LiveSide.net and Windows Phone Thoughts.com
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
HP unleashes new ProBook, EliteBook business laptops; starts at $799 — Hewlett-Packard has been on a mission to revamp its business computers this year. Today the computer maker is introducing two new EliteBook models (including one that doubles as a tablet) and the ProBook 5330m.
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ZDNet, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Engadget and GottaBeMobile
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
GrouponLive: An Online Ticketing Deals Marketplace From Groupon, Live Nation — Local deals juggernaut Groupon and Live Nation have a formed a joint venture to develop a new online ticketing deals channel dubbed GrouponLive. The site will serve as a local resource for Live Nation events …
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VatorNews, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Screenwerk and PR Newswire
Adam Hartung / Growth:
Why Not All Earnings Are Equal; Microsoft Has the Wal-Mart Disease — For the first time in 20 years, Apple's quarterly profit exceeded Microsoft. Thus, on the face of things, the companies should be roughly equally valued. But they aren't. This week Microsoft's market capitalization is about $215B …
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Guardian and @offsiteguy
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
NVIDIA Buys Baseband And RF Technology Company Icera For $367M In Cash — NVIDIA this morning announced its acquisition of Icera, which provides baseband processors for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets. — The acquisition, for $367 million in cash, has been approved by both companies' boards …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share — As we wrote last week, Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, filed for a public offering on NASDAQ under the symbol “YNDX”. Today, the company is announcing price range of the offering, which will be $20.00 to $22.00 per share.
