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Iain Dodsworth / The TweetDeck Blog:
Official: TweetDeck Has Been Acquired By Twitter — I am extremely happy and proud to let you know that TweetDeck has been acquired by Twitter. We completed the deal on Tuesday and are now in the process of “joining the flock”. — The past three years have been an epic journey …
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Digits, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, Guardian, paidContent, Network World, Neowin.net, @richardbarley and NBC Bay Area, Thanks:steverubel
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Dick Costolo / Twitter Blog:
All Decked Out — In early 2008, a London-based programmer named Iain Dodsworth began thinking about how to organize everything happening on Twitter. His answer was TweetDeck, a groundbreaking dashboard for monitoring what people are saying in real-time. Today, we're pleased to announce that the TweetDeck team has joined Twitter.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Q&A With TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth on His Sale to Twitter — Now it's a done deal. Twitter has indeed purchased TweetDeck. — The deal closed last night, and Twitter has paid between $40 and $50 million in cash and stock for the startup. — But we knew all that …
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International Business Times
Parmy Olson / Disruptors:
Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify — . — Facebook has partnered with Spotify on a music-streaming service that could be launched in as little as two weeks, sources close to the deal have told Forbes. — The integrated service is currently going through testing …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Chill Out! Spotify on Facebook Is Cool, Not a Game Changer. — Are Facebook and Spotify linking up? Entirely possible. — But before we get too excited about the prospect, here's what a Facebook/Spotify pact would likely look like: Instead of using Spotify's software to play music …
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Techie Buzz
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Nokia's Smartphone Chief On Microsoft Alliance, Future Windows Devices — Ask Jo Harlow how it feels to have one of the most difficult jobs in the mobile industry and you're likely to get a good-natured laugh in return. As Nokia's recently-appointed head of Smart Devices …
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Guardian, pocketnow.com, Reuters, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Nokia Blog, mocoNews, GottaBeMobile, I4U News, MobileTechWorld, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and Fudzilla
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Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:
Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web for Mango — Yesterday at events all around the world, Microsoft unveiled the key features of the next version of Windows Phone, code named Mango. The demonstrations focused on Mango's ability to make it easier to connect and share with friends and family …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
HTC CEO says Windows Mango phones in development
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PC World, The Next Web, PC Magazine, Digital Trends and WMPoweruser.com
Om Malik / GigaOm:
Reed Elsevier Leads $6M Investment in GigaOM — Reed Elsevier Ventures — the London-based venture arm of Reed Elsevier, one of the largest publishing companies — is leading a $6 million investment in the parent company behind GigaOM, GigaOM.tv, GigaOM Events and GigaOM Pro.
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VentureBeat, SAI and @jason, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:sameerpatel
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GigaOm Raises Another $6 Million At $40 Million+ Valuation
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SAI and paidContent
Matt Mohebbi / The Official Google Blog:
Mining patterns in search data with Google Correlate — It all started with the flu. In 2008, we found that the activity of certain search terms are good indicators of actual flu activity. Based on this finding, we launched Google Flu Trends to provide timely estimates of flu activity in 28 countries.
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Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, Wired Campus, information aesthetics, FlowingData, @mattcutts, @pkedrosky and WebProNews
Marie Mawad / Reuters:
Twitter says to protect users' right to self-defence — * Twitter says will seek to notify its users — Twitter will seek to notify its users so they can defend themselves before it hands over user information to the authorities, a senior manager said on Wednesday when asked about a privacy dispute in Britain.
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@amac
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BBC:
Twitter's European boss warns users may face court
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paidContent, @aleksk, @sg, thinq_ and The Next Web
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Mac malware authors release a new, more dangerous version — Yesterday, 25 days after the Mac Defender malware began to appear in the wild, Apple finally responded. In a technical support note, “How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware,” the company posted instructions for users to follow …
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AppleInsider, CNET News, Ars Technica, Computerworld, MacRumors, The Mac Security Blog, Security Watch, The Next Web, Techland and PR Newswire
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Apple:
How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware
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InfoWorld, Computerworld, Shiny Objects, PR Newswire, Network World, Macworld, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, Mashable!, BGR, PC Magazine, ESET ThreatBlog, WebProNews, Gadget Lab, Digits, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, GMSV, TechSpot, Geek.com, TechnoBuffalo, O'Grady's PowerPage, Inquirer, Tools, Dennis Fisher, Softpedia News, thinq_, Naked Security, RazorianFly, USA Today and The Register
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Top 10 VC Firms, According To InvestorRank — Any seasoned investor knows that past performance is not indicative of future returns. That is as true with public stocks as it is with venture capital firms. But if someone were to ask you to rank the top VC firms today based on their probability of success, how would you do it?
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Venture Capital Dispatch
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Store Customers Satisfied Even If They Don't Buy Anything … -A 2001 prediction by David Goldstein, president of Channel Marketing, about Apple's then newly launched retail stores — In Apple's history, there are many come-from-behind, or out of nowhere, success stories-the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.
Royal Pingdom:
Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. These three companies rule webmail with Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, the three largest email services on the Internet. — What might escape a lot of people, though, is just how important email services …
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ZDNet, WebProNews and Digital Trends, Thanks:pingdom
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Sean Parker, scourge of record labels, calls the bottom of the music industry — Sean Parker - co-founder of Napster, backer of Spotify - is suddenly very bullish on the old-school record label business. — He believes the distribution system which he helped to break is “on the verge of being fixed” …
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AllThingsD, Gawker and Filthy Rich
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Is Six Years Old and Huge: Three Billion Views a Day — Last year YouTube made a big deal of its fifth birthday, with a special Web site, special messages from the likes of Conan O'Brien, etc. — This year's commemoration is more muted. Basically, just a blog post that notes that the site is really, really big.
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YouTube Blog, CNET News, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Network World, VentureBeat, Mashable!, SocialTimes.com, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, WebProNews, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint and 9to5 Google
Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company:
Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses — It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 24 people, picked to live among mentors and innovation experts …
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VentureBeat, VatorNews, Shiny Objects, Business Wire, SFGate, Bits, Business Week, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:noahr
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Senator Franken asks Apple, Google to require privacy policies for apps — U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked both Apple and Google to require “clear and understandable privacy policies for all of their apps.” — The Senator made the statements in a letter sent to both companies.
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AppleInsider, AllThingsD, MacRumors, gigaom.com and The Next Web, Thanks:eastd
Gady Epstein / Beijing Dispatch:
Sources: Yahoo Spurned New Offer By Jack Ma For Part of Alibaba Stake — Yahoo early this year turned down a $3.5 billion offer led by Jack Ma for a 15% stake in Alibaba Group, according to two sources familiar with the matter, one of whom said Yahoo solicited the offer in the first place.
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Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:niubi
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
How Tech Legend Bill Gross Blew The TweetDeck Deal — With today's news that Twitter has acquired TweetDeck for ~$40 million, it has become clear: UberMedia's Bill Gross - the Bill Gross who's famous for inventing search advertising as we know it - seems to have blown it this time around.
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PE Hub Blog and The Equity Kicker
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
HuffPo Lawyers Can't Get ‘Idea Stealing’ Lawsuit Thrown Out — The class-action lawsuit filed by Jonathan Tasini isn't the only questionable legal claim that The Huffington Post is fighting off right now. Last year—that is, six years after The Huffington Post was founded …
Rachel Chitra / Reuters:
BofA, JPMorgan, Wells form JV for online banking services — REUTERS - Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co have teamed up to create a joint venture for online banking services. — The move comes as eBay Inc unit PayPal and the world's largest search engine Google Inc …
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Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
Shea Bennett / AllTwitter:
Twitter About To Hit 500 Employees (And 5% Of Them Still Have The Default Avatar) — Back in February I wrote about Twitter's escalating employee count, which back then was closing in on 400 members of staff. Way back in May 2009 - when Twitter was black and white and made out of wood - that number was just 69 (dude).
