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Mark Gurman / 9to5 Mac:
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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Fast Company, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, Neowin.net, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, Between the Lines Blog, Pulse2, Softpedia News, It's All Tech, MacStories, I4U News, TiPb, Apple Bitch, App Advice, Shiny Objects, iPodNN and everythingiCafe, Thanks:kryptonlogic
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to overhaul retail operations with iPads running new RetailMe software — Apple stores have been receiving stockpiles of iPad 2 units with magnetic Smart Covers, as Apple is prepared to equip its retail specialists with tablets for on-the-job use, AppleInsider has learned.
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The Next Web, CrunchGear, PadGadget, TUAW, MacStories, MacRumors and Edible Apple
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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VentureBeat, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, VatorNews, TG Daily, The Next Web, Mashable!, NewsGrange and PC Magazine
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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 and SAI
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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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, GigaOM, SAI, @mathewi, virtualeconomics, @kevinmarks, @antderosa, @dannysullivan, AllTwitter, @sg, @karlbode, @mathewi and MediaFlect, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Facebook Will Pay $500,000 To $1,000,000 To “Buy” An Engineer
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VentureBeat, Bits, USA Today and TechFlash
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, The Register, TUAW, Gizmodo, Edible Apple, Fortune, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET News, MacStories, Pulse2 and MacNN
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® …, PC Magazine, The Toybox Blog, It's All Tech, BetaNews, VG247, The Next Web, DailyTech, CNNMoney.com, Gadgetell, TG Daily, Techdirt and WebProNews
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Ross Miller / This is my next:
Sony pulls PlayStation Network login pages after password recovery exploit found
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Guardian, The Next Web, PC World, Nyleveia, Kotaku, Eurogamer, Joystiq, @eric_andersen, NewEnterprise, GameLife, Pocket-lint, Electronista, Engadget, Edge Online, The Firewall, mcvuk.com, BGR, Technologizer and TechEye
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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Gary Rivlin / The Daily Beast:
Is LinkedIn's Initial Public Offering a Rip-Off?
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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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BGR, CNET News, Amazon.com, @markmilian, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily and Tools
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
An AppleCare support rep talks: Mac malware is “getting worse” — Over the weekend, I got an e-mail from an AppleCare support rep, who was responding to my recent reports of Mac malware being found in the wild. At least one prominent voice in the Mac community dismisses these reports as “crying wolf.”
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Daring Fireball, PC World, eWeek, The Next Web, Naked Security, SAI, Neowin.net, Examiner, blog.chron.com, BetaNews, I4U News, TUAW, ZDNet, Jonny Evans's blog, thinq_ and WinExtra, Thanks:edbott
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, PC Magazine and bbc.co.uk
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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PE Hub Blog
Zach Epstein / BGR:
250,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets sold to date, RBC says — RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mike Abramsky believes RIM has sold approximately 250,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to date. In a note to investors on Wednesday, the analyst points to channel checks in stating PlayBook sales …
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VentureBeat, Digital Daily, Computerworld, PC World, SAI, Pulse2, I4U News, BlackBerry Cool, The Loop and Electronista
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
PayPal Android App To Get Photo-Based Check Depositing Today — Back in October of last year, PayPal tucked a fancy new trick into their iPhone app: Photo-based Check Depositing (or, as they call it, “Mobile Check Capture”.) You know the idea: snap a picture of a check's front and back …
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GigaOM, Android Phone Fans, Gadgetell, PhoneArena, AppScout and The Toybox Blog
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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Digits and Neowin.net
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Yahoo Buys Advertising Platform 5to1 For $28 Million — Yahoo has just announced that it will be acquiring advertising platform 5to1 for $28 million. — 5to1 first launched at TechCrunch50 in September 2009, and raised around $13 million in various rounds of funding.
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Business Wire, The Tech Trade, PC World, GeekWire, paidContent and Yodel Anecdotal
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 …
DigiTimes:
Apple to launch new MacBook Air in June-July — The Taiwan-based supply chain for Apple products will begin shipments of new 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch MacBook Air models featuring Sandy Bridge platform and Thunderbolt interface in late May for launch in June or July, according to makers in the supply chain.
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eWeek, Examiner, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, Computerworld, CNET News, CrunchGear, VR-Zone, ZDNet, Gadgetell, Pulse2, PC World, GigaOM, World of Apple, Softpedia News, Techland, PC Magazine, The Toybox Blog, VentureBeat, BGR, Yahoo! News and Geek.com
Reuters:
Intel eyes Apple as it plans future chips — (Reuters) - Trend-setting products launched by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) are a key factor in Intel Corp's (INTC.O) plans for new processors, a senior executive of the world's top chipmaker said. — Tom Kilroy, a senior vice president at Intel …
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CNET News, MediaFile, GigaOM, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and Edible Apple
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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App Advice and Mobile Entertainment
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google Works to Make Android Less Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Snooping — Google said on Wednesday that it is changing the way its Android services work to ensure that calendar and contact information isn't vulnerable to snooping when a user connects to an open Wi-Fi network.
James Temple / SFGate:
Microsoft bests Google, IBM to land S.F. email deal — Microsoft Corp. struck a deal with San Francisco officials to provide an online email system for the city's workforce, beating out competing products from Google Inc. and IBM Corp. — Company and the city representatives said the new tool …
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CNET News, Microsoft, PC World, NewEnterprise, Mashable!, Venture Capital Dispatch, GeekWire, eWeek, SAI, The Microsoft Blog and WinRumors, Thanks:techchronicle
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Eventbrite Raises $50 Million to Tackle Ticketmaster — Eventbrite, a ticketing start-up based in San Francisco, got its start by offering to help any event organizer peddle tickets — whether it be for a yoga class or an indie comedy show. — Now the company is looking to tackle ticketing …
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VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Mashable!, Pulse2, Digital Daily, The Next Web and paidContent
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Baidu, China sued in U.S. for Internet censorship — (Reuters) - Baidu Inc was sued on Wednesday by eight New York residents who accused China's biggest search engine of conspiring with the country's government to censor pro-democracy speech. — The lawsuit claims violations …
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The Next Web and Penn Olson
Walt Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
For a Song, Online Giants Offer Music In a Cloud — Once again, the way to buy music is changing. — For years, the legal digital music world has seemed relatively simple to grasp. There were two basic models: the online stores, where you bought singles or albums and stored …
