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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple signs EMI, cloud-music deals nearly done — Apple is closing in on obtaining the necessary agreements with the top four record companies that will enable the company to launch a fully licensed cloud-music service, according to sources with knowledge of the talks.
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Reuters, Engadget, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Gizmodo, MacRumors, TUAW, MacStories, The Next Web and Electronista
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google And Amazon May Have Just Handed Apple The Keys To The Cloud Music Kingdom — With regard to their cloud music offering, it looks like Apple is now just about ready to rock and roll. It would seem that this is now coming together even faster than they anticipated.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Store 2.0 revealed: Startup Sessions, interactive iPad signage, new sound/display systems, new app? — A source has just dropped a load of unconfirmed information on us for what is being internally referred to as “Apple Store 2.0.” Apple Store 2.0 is a major makeover for the Apple retail store experience.
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ZDNet, 9 to 5 Mac, Fast Company, Neowin.net, Between the Lines Blog, NBC Bay Area, Softpedia News, I4U News, Shiny Objects, Apple Bitch, Pulse2, VentureBeat, TiPb, The Next Web, MacStories, App Advice, iClarified, iPodNN, everythingiCafe, GigaOM and Gizmodo, Thanks:kryptonlogic
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to overhaul retail operations with iPads running new RetailMe software
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CrunchGear, The Next Web, TUAW, PadGadget, iClarified, MacStories, MacRumors, Edible Apple, PhoneArena, iPodNN, Dice Blog Network and MacNN
Jodi Olson / Twitter Blog:
Mission: Permission — The Twitter ecosystem contains hundreds of thousands of interesting third-party applications designed to enhance your Twitter experience. Third-party apps let you do things like automatically share your Tweets on other networks, connect to other players on gaming platforms …
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Mashable!, TechCrunch, ITworld.com, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, NewsGrange, TG Daily, PC Magazine, Electronista, The Blog Herald, VatorNews, The Next Web and WebProNews
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Twitter's S**t Sandwich — Twitter today announced new finer-grained control over third-party API access to direct messages: … That's good news on the surface — it means you can use services and apps that require your Twitter credentials without granting those services/apps access to your private direct messages.
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ProgrammableWeb, TiPb, SAI and PC Magazine
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
LinkedIn Will Price at $45 a Share (Yes, That Would Be a $4.5B Valuation) — According to a press release about to post, LinkedIn will price its shares at $45 each in its IPO tomorrow. — The price, at the top of its range, will give the Silicon Valley business networking company a $4.5 billion valuation.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Crying wolf? Apple support forums confirm malware explosion — On May 5, John Gruber, the proprietor of the world's number-one Mac site, Daring Fireball, added my name to a long-running post titled Wolf! The quoted text was taken from my post, Coming Soon to a Mac Near You: Serious Malware.
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blog.chron.com and I4U News
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
An AppleCare support rep talks: Mac malware is “getting worse”
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The Next Web, Daring Fireball, Naked Security, Neowin.net, Examiner, PC World, SAI, eWeek, TUAW, ZDNet, BetaNews, Jonny Evans's blog, I4U News, Security Watch, WinExtra, The Mac Security Blog and thinq_, Thanks:edbott
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Says Intel Exec Was Wrong About Windows 8 — Yesterday, Intel senior vice president Renee James spilled some details about Microsoft's next version of Windows, claiming that the ARM version won't run legacy Windows apps (which were designed only to run on Intel's x86 family of processors).
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SlashGear, Ars Technica, Neowin.net, Digits, The Tech Report, eWeek and The Register
Ellis Hamburger / SAI:
Trade In All Your Old Gadgets For Cash At Amazon — Hot on the heels of T-Mobile's new trade-in program, Amazon just announced that it's expanding its trade-in business to include electronics like tablets, phones, cameras, MP3 players, and more. — All you need to do is head to Amazon's trade …
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Amazon.com, Examiner, Crave, BGR, @markmilian, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista and Tools
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
WordPress iOS App Updated with Stats, Quick Photo, Fixes — The official WordPress app for iOS, available for iPhone and iPad and often criticized by many (including me) for its proverbial instability and lack of poweruser-oriented features, has been updated earlier today to include a new button …
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Isaac Keyet / WordPress for iOS:
WordPress for iOS — Big Update: WordPress for iOS 2.8 Available Today!
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ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Lifehacker, Appletell and Technologizer
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Attn Entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg Isn't the Role Model. Reid Hoffman Is. — Forty-plus weeks traveling the emerging world has taught me many things. Chief among them is that most entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley learn the wrong lessons looking in.
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Associated Press and PE Hub Blog
Bill Keller / New York Times:
The Twitter Trap — Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if I had passed my child a pipe of crystal meth. — I don't mean to be a spoilsport, and I don't think I'm a Luddite.
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Gizmodo, GigaOM, SAI, @mathewi, @benbendc, virtualeconomics, TechCrunch, @sg, @kevinmarks, @antderosa, Technologizer, MediaFlect, @dannysullivan, AllTwitter, @karlbode, @mathewi, Boing Boing, Betabeat, FishbowlNY, Techdirt, CrunchGear and Mixed Media, more at Mediagazer »
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Matt Warman / Telegraph:
Google warns against facial recognition database — Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has warned Governments against ‘foolish’ legislation - and said facial recognition is too creepy even for Google — Eric Schmidt: 'I am incredibly optimistic about what is going to be possible in the next decade …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Google Points Out That PROTECT IP Would Be A ‘Disastrous Precedent’ For Free Speech
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Guardian, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Ars Technica, Media Maverick and Search Engine Watch
Omar El Akkad / Globe and Mail:
Google's big bet on Canada — KITCHENER, ONT. — Google Inc. GOOG-Q unveiled its new Kitchener-Waterloo offices to the public, completing the transformation of what was once a tiny corporate outpost into perhaps the search engine's most important hub outside the United States.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Apple Adding Data Center in Silicon Valley — Apple is expanding its Internet infrastructure with a new data center in Silicon Valley, as it prepares to bring additional server and storage capacity online later this year. The new server space, housed in a third-party facility …
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Shiny Objects, TUAW, The Register, Fortune, Edible Apple, AppleInsider, CNET News, Pulse2, MacNN, MacStories, Gizmodo, SAI and MacRumors
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Bill Gates: “The PC Is The Tablet” — Bill Gates took to the BBC last night to talk about his philanthropic efforts, but the conversation naturally turned to Microsoft and Gates was quick to defend the company's mobile efforts. — When the interviewer suggested that we're in a post-PC era …
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WinRumors, bbc.co.uk and The Microsoft Blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Video: Omniture Founder Josh James Talks About $10M Funding of Hot, New Start-Up-and Hotter Legal Cat Fight With Adobe — Earlier this week, I headed over to a fancy hotel dining room in San Francisco to meet with Josh James, the founder of the Web analytics powerhouse Omniture …
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Digits
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
How To Party Your Way Into a Multi-Million Dollar Facebook Job — If you want Facebook to spend millions of dollars hiring you, it helps to be a talented engineer, as the New York Times today suggests. But it also helps to carouse with Facebook honchos, invite them to your dad's Mediterranean party palace …
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Bits, VentureBeat, SAI, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, TechFlash and New York Times
Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
Update on PSN Password Reset Process — We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity password reset page. Contrary to some reports, there was no hack involved. In the process of resetting of passwords there was a URL exploit that we have subsequently fixed.
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CNET News, Official PlayStation® …, VG247, The Toybox Blog, Redmond Pie, Gadgetell, This is my next, @eric_andersen, Techdirt, WebProNews, PC Magazine, Electronista, The Next Web, BetaNews, DailyTech, Kotaku, CNNMoney.com, Eurogamer, TG Daily, The Firewall, Gizmodo, BGR, Joystiq, Nyleveia, MTV Multiplayer, Neowin.net and VentureBeat
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Angry Birds Tops 200 Million Downloads; More Than Double Its “Crazy” Forecast (TCTV) — BERLIN- Yesterday at the Next 11 conference, I interviewed Rovio's Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka on stage. You may know him as the man who brings us all different versions of Angry Birds, Angry Birds toys …
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BGR, PE Hub Blog, App Advice, Mobile Entertainment, paidContent and Joystiq
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Cool! Google Places Now Allows You To Import Foursquare Data ...Via RSS, So No One Will — When I first saw the ReadWriteWeb headline: Google Places Now Imports Your Foursquare Check-Ins, I was surprised. Wow, that's interesting, and could be huge, I thought.
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Understanding Google …, ReadWriteWeb, Google Places Blog and NewsGrange
Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
“Will Work for Bitcoin” Coder Says Most People Just Using It as an Investment Vehicle — Nick Carlson, Bitcoin-aire. — Colorado-based developer Nick Carlson came to our attention when he was mentioned in a splashy story about the Bitcoin project, an initiative in which savvy techies trade …
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