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Wall Street Journal:
Google to Unveil Mobile Payments Platform — Google Inc. on Thursday is expected to disclose details about how consumers will be able to make store purchases, redeem coupons, and get loyalty points by waving Android-powered smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter, said people familiar with the matter.
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Bloomberg:
Google to Unveil Mobile-Payment Service
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO — Zynga is poised to file for its initial public offering, according to sources close to the situation. — The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as this week, or next week at the latest.
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Apple:
How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware — A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender “anti-virus” software to solve the issue.
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Steven Sande / TUAW:
Apple: Mac OS X update coming to block MacDefender malware
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Microsoft:
A First Look at the Next Release of Windows Phone — Windows Phone “Mango” connects smartphone users to people, apps and the Internet faster and easier. — Microsoft today provided the first official look at the next release of Windows Phone, code named “Mango.”
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Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ search offers location-specific results, app integration (video)
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Exclusive: Microsoft loses last Xbox founder, mobile PC visionary — It's the end of an era at Microsoft today. — Otto Berkes, the last of the original Xbox founders still at the company, submitted his resignation this afternoon. — Berkes went on to lead development of a new category …
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott — When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976, they couldn't be trusted to run the company. — So, Mike Markkula, Apple's first backer, and the man that guided the company early on, brought in a CEO to do the adult things needed to keep a company running.
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Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Sarkozy riles Internet CEOs at e-G8 — The opening address at the e-G8 conference in Paris from the French president certainly woke up the assembled digerati. — John Perry Barlow, co-founder of open-internet campaigner Electronic Frontier Foundation, set the tone when he tweeted …
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Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
Sarkozy Says Internet Needs Government Role
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Latest Data Center Is Cooled Entirely With Ocean Water — Google has opened the kimono a little bit on its data center design since Facebook launched its open-source data center project a couple months ago. — First, there was an unprecedented video showing how Google handles security at its data centers.
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Robert X. Cringely / InfoWorld:
Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 comments — One analyst, betting on late 2012, early 2013 release, says Microsoft has “one chance” to get next version of Windows right — Microsoft backed away from comments made yesterday by CEO Steve Ballmer, who had told Japanese software developers …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Sony Goes Silent As Its Hacking Spree Snowballs … Sony seems to have run out of apologies. — When the company's unprecedented string of security breaches began last month, a spokesperson for Sony's PlayStation network was tasked with repeatedly thanking users for their patience during the tech giant's network outage.
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Wall Street Journal:
Lady Gaga Becomes Weapon in Amazon's Music War With Apple — Amazon's 99-cent promotion of Lady Gaga's album resulted in downloading delays on the retailer's website due to high volume. Peter Kafka tells digits why this was a missed opportunity for Google, who is showcasing her music in their Chrome TV ads.
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
EXPOSED: The Sleazy Tactics Brokerage Firms Are Using To Make Silicon Valley Employees Rich — Employees at hot Silicon Valley companies are once again getting rich selling stock. — This time, they're doing it even without their companies - Facebook, Groupon, Twitter and others - going public.
Rich Trenholm / Crave:
Apple forces Samsung to hand over Galaxy prototypes in legal spat … Apple's legal battle with Samsung has taken a new twist. The California outfit is suing the Korean corporation over alleged copying of Apple products in Samsung's Android range, and a federal court is forcing Samsung …
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
If You Don't Mind the Ads, Amazon Offers 3G Kindle for $164 — Trying hard to stand out from all the e-reader news from the past two days, Amazon says it is cutting the price of its 3G Kindle to $164. — The $25 price difference is being made possible through the introduction of advertising on the platform.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Getaround, The AirBnb For Cars, Finally Launches — In the collaborative consumption space with startups like AirBnb and TaskRabbit, Getaround is a car rental market place where you can rent a car by the day, hour or week through a smartphone app. Getaround's all inclusive package …
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Sean P. Aune / TechnoBuffalo:
Verizon Droid 3 Details Leak — Rumors of the Motorola Droid 3 has been floating around for a while now, and while pictures have been nice, what's been lacking confirmation on the spec details. Now, thanks to a reliable tipster with a history of providing us with confirmed information …
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Why The New York Times replaced its Twitter ‘cyborg’ with people this week — The New York Times is turning off the automatic feed for its main Twitter account this week in an experiment to determine if a human-run, interactive approach will be more effective.
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Little divides Apple, music publishers on cloud deal — Hopes are high in the music sector that Apple will have all the licenses it needs to launch a cloud-music service in time for the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts on June 6. — Negotiations between Apple …
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble announces new touch-enabled Nook for $139 (video) — Not to be outdone by Kobo which just unleashed it's latest E Ink reader yesterday the folks at Barnes & Noble are back with the latest update to their line of Nook devices. The “all new” Nook is boast the same Zeforce infrared touch layer …
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