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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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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.
SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Where LinkedIn's Revenue Comes From — LinkedIn is ready to hit the public markets tomorrow, raising $274 million. — So, what exactly is LinkedIn's business? — Last year it generated $243 million in revenue through the first nine months of the year from three categories …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
LinkedIn Will Price at $45 a Share (Yes, That Would Be a $4.5B 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
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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Engadget, The Register, Gizmodo, Fudzilla, SlashGear, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, WinRumors, Digits, Windows 8 News, Pocket-lint and The Tech Report
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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InfoWorld, Mashable!, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, NewsGrange, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Electronista, TG Daily, PC Magazine, The Blog Herald, VatorNews and The Next Web
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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
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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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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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to overhaul retail operations with iPads running new RetailMe software
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Softpedia News, CrunchGear, The Next Web, TUAW, iClarified, PadGadget, Edible Apple, MacStories and MacRumors
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple's retail stores turn 10: Crow for sale — Apple's retail stores turn 10 and what looked like a boondoggle—and potentially a disaster in the making—has turned out to be one of the company's most brilliant moves. — On May 19, 2001 Apple opened stores in Glendale, Calif. and McLean …
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eWeek, Softpedia News and I4U News
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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Ross Miller / This is my next:
Sony pulls PlayStation Network login pages after password recovery exploit found
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
‘Like’ Button Follows Web Users — Internet users tap Facebook Inc.'s “Like” and Twitter Inc.'s “Tweet” buttons to share content with friends. But these tools also let their makers collect data about the websites people are visiting. — These so-called social widgets …
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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TechEye, The Next Web, Daring Fireball, Neowin.net, blog.chron.com, PC World, SAI, Examiner, Naked Security, TUAW, BetaNews, Jonny Evans's blog, I4U News and Security Watch
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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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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Nia Williams / Reuters:
UK backs revamp of 300-year-old copyright laws — (Reuters) - Britain's 300-year-old copyright laws look set for a shake-up after the government welcomed proposals to put the country on a par with international competitors. — Key recommendations of the Digital Opportunity review included …
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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, SocialTimes.com, PC Magazine, The Next Web and Electronista
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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SocialTimes.com, paidContent, Edge Online, BGR, PE Hub Blog, Mobile Entertainment, App Advice and Joystiq
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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Engadget, VatorNews, Amazon.com, Crave, BGR, Lockergnome, Examiner, @markmilian, Tech Trader Daily and Electronista
Tyler Hall / Click On Tyler:
Experimenting with Piracy - An Indie Mac Developer's Perspective — For the last twelve months I've been keeping detailed records regarding the number of users pirating my Mac apps and toying with different ways of converting those users into paying customers.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Baidu, China sued in U.S. for Internet censorship — (Reuters) - Eight New York residents sued Baidu Inc and the People's Republic of China on Wednesday, accusing China's biggest search engine of conspiring with the country's government to censor pro-democracy speech.
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TechEye, Electronista, The Next Web and Penn Olson
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.
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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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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