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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear on Google — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — The social network secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about the search giant, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reveals—a caper that is blowing up in their face, and escalating their war.
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Beth Krietsch / PRWeek US:
Burson-Marsteller and Facebook part ways — NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller has confirmed it is no longer working with Facebook to promote the company's position against Google's social media venture Social Circle. — The separation follows a day where both companies fell under intense media scrutiny …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
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Associated Press:
How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US — WASHINGTON - Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Near DOJ Settlement Over Online Drug Ads — Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:
Report: Google's $500M DOJ Mystery Revealed — Earlier this week, Google filed a mysterious report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying it was setting aside $500 million related to a “potential resolution” of an advertising-related probe being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Netflix releases Android app for select HTC phones, Samsung Nexus S — Well, it looks like the LG Revolution won't be the first Android phone to get Netflix after all. The app has just hit the Android Market and is apparently available for HTC Incredible, Nexus One, Evo 4G, and G2 …
Antony Bruno / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Record Labels and Google Music Couldn't Agree on the Cloud … Google's decision to launch a music locker service was a big topic of discussion on the sidelines of the NARM conference in Los Angeles this week. The reaction from the more veteran music industry attendees is simply anger.
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Is Google's Chromebook The Death Knell For Antivirus? — Updated and corrected below. — The antivirus industry likely let out a collective groan when Google first made a familiar-sounding boast Wednesday: that the just-launched laptops it's calling Chromebooks have “security built …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Microsoft could lose billions in sales to Google's Chromebook
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Reuters:
AT&T, T-Mobile USA break-up is $6 billion: sources — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) has promised to give Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) $6 billion in assets, services and cash as a break-up fee if U.S. regulators reject its proposed $39 billion purchase of the German company's T-Mobile USA, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Andrew Song / Facebook:
Introducing Login Approvals — Facebook has always been committed to both protecting our users' account and information, as well as giving them more control over their Facebook experience. From our User Operations team, who work to re-secure compromised accounts, to the Engineering team …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Facebook adds new user security features
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Updates Mac Client With Multiple Timelines, Cleaner Design, Auto-Complete And More — Twitter for Mac, which launched earlier this year with the rollout of Apple's Mac App Store, is getting its first major update today. — Besides a design update, you can now see multiple timelines …
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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
How Google controls Android: digging deep into the Skyhook filings — You might remember that a company called Skyhook Wireless sued Google back in September for business interference and patent infringement — the Skyhook XPS WiFi and cell tower positioning system was all set to ship …
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Nielsen Wire:
Cue the Music: Driven by Digital, Music Sales up in 2011 — Music sales in the U.S. are up 1.6 percent in 2011, according to The Nielsen Company, as digital album and track sales saw dramatic growth through May 8. While physical albums saw a decline in year-over-year sales from the same period in 2010 …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Introduces us to a Live Chameleon-Like Screen Saver Designed Specifically for iOS Devices & Fashion Accessories — Apple filed for the “Apple” trademark in China this week which we noted as carrying a twist. We noticed that Apple had, for the first time, emphasized fashion accessories …
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
RON CONWAY: The Scariest Man In Silicon Valley — Legendary Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway is raising a new fund for his investment firm SV Angel, according to an SEC filing. — So far, he's raised $12 million out of $40 million planned. He should have no problem raising the remaining $28 million.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Remember that iPad Wi-Fi Bug? It's Back...And Affecting iPhones, Too — A little over a year ago, some new iPad owners found they were having issues with the device's Wi-Fi connection. Signals were weak, or worse, dropped altogether. The only solution at the time, before Apple released a fix …
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Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Cloud computing pioneer Martin Odersky takes wraps off his new company Typesafe — Eight years ago, German programmer Martin Odersky developed a new computer language he hoped would be an alternative to the venerable Java — one that would let applications scale easily to handle huge workloads.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Typesafe raises $3M for cloud and multi-core software development tools
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel working on new Atom chip architecture — Intel is working on a new Atom chip architecture that goes beyond the 3D transistors announced last week as the chip giant accelerates development of its most power-efficient chip design. — The new Atom-based “micro-architecture,” codenamed …
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Jillian York / Aljazeera:
Africa's cascade of Internet censorship — As governments fear popular protest movements, filtering has been initiated in Ethiopia, Uganda, Ivory Coast and beyond. — Despite much attention paid to Egypt and Libya's Internet shutdowns, Tunisia's pervasive Internet filtering …
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg — Mark Zuckerberg's No. 2 provides “adult supervision” at the company, trying to keep growth at an optimum level — On a Tuesday afternoon in late April, 30 managers of Facebook's various business units come together to discuss a matter that preoccupies …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Offers Help to The Pirate Bay, Problems Fixed — Starting 24 hours ago, nearly all Comcast subscribers were unable to access The Pirate Bay. Although Comcast is not the only ISP affected by the connectivity issue, the problems appear to be most widespread in their network.
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Blogger Goes Down, Taking 30 Hours of Posts and Comments With It — Google's Blogger service has been offline or unreliable for much of the day, with Blogger-hosted blogs changed to read-only mode, and posts and comments made after 7:37 a.m. PDT on May 11, 2011, removed.
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Diane Bartz / Reuters:
ITC judge rules for Kodak in Apple lawsuit — (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co did not infringe Apple Inc's patented technology for digital cameras, a judge at the International Trade Commission ruled in the most recent round of the companies' patent war. — The full ITC will either uphold …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to accelerate its CRM release schedule — Microsoft is going to be accelerating its CRM release schedule, and is planning to deliver two minor updates and two more major ones to its online and on-premises CRM offerings in the next 12 months. — Microsoft officials shared the updated …
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