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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn IPO Shares Pop 84 Percent On First Trade, Opens With $7.8B Market Cap — This is a big day for professional social network LinkedIn, which was founded in 2003. After filing its S-1 with the SEC in January, the company has begin trading its shares, under the symbol LNKD, on the New York Stock Exchange this morning.
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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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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
The Case Against LinkedIn's $4 Billion Valuation
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GeekWire, Fast Company and The Business Insider
Nick Besbeas / The LinkedIn Blog:
LNKD: Changing the way professionals do business
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Gartner:
Gartner Says 428 Million Mobile Communication Devices Sold Worldwide in First Quarter 2011, a 19 Percent Increase Year-on-Year — Apple, Samsung and HTC Reported Strongest Results in an Increasingly Smartphone-Dominated Market — Worldwide mobile communication device sales …
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Gartner: Android hits 36%, just 1.6m Windows Phones sold — A breakdown of phone share in early 2011 by Gartner has given Android another large leap in share while providing a rare direct estimate of Microsoft's actual Windows Phone sales. About 36.27 million Android devices shipped …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's cloud streaming could rely on small, locally stored song segments — Apple's anticipated cloud-based music streaming service could could offer faster playback of Internet-stored content by syncing just small snippets of songs via iTunes. — The details were revealed this week …
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MacRumors, SAI and MacStories
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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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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Apple to support reps: “Do not attempt to remove malware” — Apple is actively conducting an internal investigation into the Mac Defender malware attack I wrote about yesterday (here and here). An internal document with a Last Modified date of Monday, May 16, 2011 notes that this is an “Issue/Investigation In Progress.”
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Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books — Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family — (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007 …
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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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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 …
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Chester Yung / MarketWatch:
China Mobile, Apple reach consensus on 4G iPhone — Front Page - News Viewer - Commentary - Markets - Investing - Personal Finance - Community - Games — Stocks - Mutual Funds - ETFs - Options - Bonds - Commodities - Currencies - Getting Started - MarketWatch Adviser - Premium Newsletters - Hulbert Interactive - Research Tools
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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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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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BBC, Bloomberg and dailywireless.org
Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends:
Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists — In a recently screened BBC documentary, UK neuroscientists suggested that the brains of Apple devotees are stimulated by Apple imagery in the same way that the brains of religious people are stimulated by religious imagery.
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@r, Crave, Fudzilla, Gizmodo and Cult of Mac
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Octopart, The Little Startup That Hung In There — Looking for a transistor or a relay? Or possibly an oscilloscope? More than likely you'll end up at Octopart, a vintage Y Combinator startup that launched in 2007. — The company is a search engine for electronic parts …
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.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Bezos: Attempts To Collect State Sales Tax On Amazon Sales Is Unconstitutional — For quite some time now, we've covered how various states have tried to avoid laws that say mail order companies don't need to collect sales tax in states where they have no staff (while individuals are supposed …
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 pre-orders start at $499.99 — Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Honeycomb tablet is now available for pre-order from J&R. The 16GB tablet is priced at $499.99 while the 32GB version will set you back an additional $100. Here's a quick rundown of its specs …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Khosla Ventures Is Raising, Like, A Billion Dollars — Venture capital firm Khosla Ventures is raising $1 billion for its new fund, Khosla Ventures IV, an SEC filing reveals. From the looks of it, the new fund will be roughly the same size as the previous one (raised in September 2009).
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Yahoo! Messenger brings cross-platform video calling to iPad 2 — Fans of the Yahoo! Messenger messaging platform can now enjoy video calling on iPad 2. The version 2.1 update, now available free from the App Store, is a universal binary that supports both the iPhone's smaller screen and iPad's larger canvas.
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Verizon's HTC Trophy Windows Phone landing May 26th for $150 — Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced its first Windows Phone, the HTC Trophy. The device will be available online on May 26th and will land in stores on June 6th for $149.99. The HTC Trophy offers a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen display …
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Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Android grabs 53% of global smartphone market share; iOS 50% of application revenues — A new report published by Millennial Media paints a picture of the global smartphone landscape in April of 2011. The company found that Android continued its domination in pure market share, holding a 53% of impressions on the company's network.
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ReadWriteWeb and Millennial Media
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
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Dell Streak Pro Honeycomb slate dropping June with Tegra 2 T20? — Worth Reading? — The Dell Streak Pro 10-inch Android tablet is apparently set to launch in June, and will run Android 3.x Honeycomb on NVIDIA's 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 T20, not the faster, 3D-capable T25.
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SoftSailor, netbooknews.com, I4U News, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Gadgetell, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Tools and Liliputing
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
SCADA hack talk canceled after U.S., Siemens request — Two researchers say they canceled a talk at a security conference today on how to attack critical infrastructure systems, after U.S. cybersecurity and Siemens representatives asked them not to discuss their work publicly.
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The Register, TakeDownCon, Threat Level, Network World and Help Net Security
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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