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2:00 AM ET, May 19, 2011

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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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Walt Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:   For a Song, Online Giants Offer Music In a Cloud
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   Google And Amazon May Have Just Handed Apple The Keys To The Cloud Music Kingdom
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
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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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.
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb, TiPb and SAI
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.
Discussion: 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”
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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Nick Bilton / New York Times:   This Is Your Brain on Twitter
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 …
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).
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?
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.
Discussion: PE Hub Blog
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Digits
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Isaac Keyet / WordPress for iOS:
WordPress for iOS  —  Big Update: WordPress for iOS 2.8 Available Today!  —  It's been in the works for about two months, and we hope you agree with us that it was worth the wait.  This is the first app version in a long time where we're actually adding features, previously we've …
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 …
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Shopkick Scores A Big Deal With The CW  —  Shopkick, the shopping app for smartphones, has always had impressive deals with retail partners, including Best Buy, Target, Crate and Barrel, etc.  —  Now, it's launching a new deal with a big media partner, the CW network.
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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Financial Times:
Apple and Android phones face tighter laws in Europe
Discussion: Reuters
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Lawsuit accuses Apple of violating patented Wi-Fi antenna designs
Discussion: Electronista
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Glam Media Buys UK Moms Site For Broader ‘Family’ Vertical
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple, not Intel, filed for Thunderbolt trademark
Discussion: Electronista, CrunchGear and Engadget
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Baidu, China sued in U.S. for Internet censorship
Discussion: FM Blog, The Next Web and Penn Olson
Brad Molen / Engadget:
The AT&T / T-Mobile senate hearing: deciphering the war of words
Discussion: Stop it, AT&T.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Music Beta invites now flying to Xoom owners, Google's server farms seen weeping in the distance
Discussion: MobileWhack
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Google Points Out That PROTECT IP Would Be A ‘Disastrous Precedent’ For Free Speech
 Earlier Items: 
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Oracle and Google file joint memorandum in reply to tentative case plan: agree to start trial …
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Gilt Groupe Launches High-End Grocery. Two Steaks for $180, Anyone?
Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb:
Has Twitter Eclipsed 300 Million Users?
Discussion: Gawker, SAI, AllTwitter and PC Magazine
Parmy Olson / Disruptors:
Google Grabs Huge Office Space In London
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google Works to Make Android Less Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Snooping