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Microsoft to Acquire Skype — Combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT") and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion; creates new business division — The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications maker, for $8.5 billion. — Instead of trying to mash Skype into an existing Microsoft business division …
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eWeek, PC World, CNET News, PE Hub Blog, Tech Broiler Blog, ZDNet Australia, Digits and Between the Lines Blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Irony Alert: Marc Andreessen Talks About Microsoft Forking Over $8.5B for Skype — I guess it's finally time to declare that Marc Andreessen's bruising and life-altering battle with Microsoft is officially over. — That would be $8.5 billion over. — From the software giant anti-trusting …
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TechCrunch, The Register, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Microsoft Blog, Guardian, PE Hub Blog, Bits, MediaPost, Mobilized, Venture Capital Dispatch and @mathewi
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Confirmed: Qik will become part of Microsoft, too — Hey, for $8.5 billion, you'd expect a little extra as part of a deal, and it turns out that Microsoft's Skype acquisition will include a bonus in the form of Qik, the streaming mobile video company acquired by Skype for $121 million this year.
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iPhone in Canada Blog
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft CEO Ballmer's email about Skype acquisition: ‘Exciting times!’
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BoomTown and Hardware 2.0 Blog
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ballmer And Bates Sell The Skype Deal: We Think We “Can Reach Everyone On The Planet”
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Digital Daily, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bits and Softpedia News
Hugo Barra / The Official Google Blog:
Android: momentum, mobile and more at Google I/O — (Cross-posted on the Google Code Blog) — This morning at Google I/O, the Android team shared some updates. It's hard to believe a little more than two and a half years ago, we were just one device, launching in one country, on one carrier.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Google announces Android @ Home
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
What Google's Andy Rubin Means When He Says Android Is Open
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NetworkEffect, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Gadget Lab and Engadget
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android Chief Rubin Hints At A New Nexus Device In Time For The Holidays
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TmoNews
Matt Burns / MobileCrunch:
Ice Cream Sandwich To Bring New UI, Framework To Android
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Gizmodo, T3.com News, BGR, SAI, Mobilized and TechCrunch
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Google Releases The Android Open Accessory Toolkit For Adding Devices To Tablets And Phones
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, developer.android.com, Geek.com, IntoMobile, BGR, The Next Web, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo, SlashGear, BetaNews and SAI
Ross Miller / This is my next:
Google TV getting Android 3.1 Honeycomb, Android Market
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Gizmodo, CNET News, Engadget, BGR, GottaBeMobile, SAI, BetaNews, IntoMobile, AppScout, Mashable!, Softpedia News, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat and Electronista
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Google's Music Beta first look: it's miserable — Google's Music Beta is supposed to provide users with a way to access the music anywhere, anytime as easily as physically possible. — But it's just not that easy. — I've spent the past few hours trying to navigate my way through Music Beta …
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New York Times, TheNextWeb and eWeek, more at Mediagazer »
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
DOJ wants wireless providers to store user info — The U.S. Department of Justice today called for new laws requiring mobile providers to collect and store information about their customers, a proposal that pits it against privacy advocates and even other federal agencies.
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Pulse2, dailywireless.org, The Next Web and NBC Bay Area
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Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Apple, Google Privacy Hearing Marked By Confusion, Distractions
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eWeek and Between the Lines Blog
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple, Google detail mobile privacy policies before US Senate subcommittee
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, PC World, Electronista, Pulse2, MacStories and ITworld.com
Nishant Doshi / Symantec Blog:
Facebook Applications Accidentally Leaking Access to Third Parties — Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users' accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information.
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Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, PC World, The Next Web, The Register, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Facebook Developers, Pulse2, Gizmodo Australia and This is my next
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Google takes surprise $500M charge over DOJ ad investigation — Google's Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, made public this afternoon, contains an unexpected $500 million charge for the first quarter that wasn't reported in the company's quarterly results.
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Search Engine Land, SAI, paidContent, The Tech Trade, Bits, TheStreet.com and CNET News
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Google To Announce Chrome Laptops-$20/Month — Google tomorrow will announce sales of the new Chrome laptop in a $20 a month “student package” that combines both hardware and online services, according to a senior Google executive. — The product is almost certainly a precursor to an enterprise offering.
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Engadget, CNET News, The Next Web, @marshallk and thechromesource
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Patents for the iOS Virtual Keyboard, Cover Flow and a Never Released iPad Design and More — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 16 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The notables within this group include patents for iLife's iDVD application …
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CNET News, MacStories, MacDailyNews, App Advice, TUAW, RazorianFly and Electronista
K. T. Bradford / LAPTOP Magazine:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Limited Edition Unboxing — As announced at the keynote, all of the attendees at this year's Google I/O get to take home a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1-inch tablet, which won't be available to the general public until June 8th. We just got ours and thought you'd enjoy a preview in the form of a short unboxing.
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@b1g1nj4p4n, Engadget and This is my next
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Photo shows alleged 7th-gen Apple iPod nano with 1.3MP camera, no clip — Yet another piece of evidence shows that the next iPod nano will retain its same small form factor and multi-touch screen, but add a camera to the rear side of the diminutive device and strangely ditch the built-in clip.
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tw.apple.pro, MacRumors, PC World, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Electronista, TUAW, SlashGear, Crave, Distorted-Loop.com, MacStories, Neowin.net, iClarified, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, MobileWhack, MacDailyNews and Apple Bitch
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
URGENT: Intellectual Property Consortium wants .net domains to be subject to copyright seizures and to abolish privacy-shielded .NETs — The Intellectual Property Constituency has asked that, as a condition of Verisign's ongoing management of the .NET top-level domain, that they should be required to act as private copyright cops.
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Domain Name Wire and Techdirt
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Opens Places API to the Public — Today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google announced the opening up and general availability of the Google Places API. — The API, which has been in a closed beta testing and only available for a select number of companies …
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Between the Lines Blog and Neowin.net, Thanks:rwwmike
