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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi — Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning. — Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement.
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone … HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi. — A rough estimate of the number of HTC Android devices shipped is 30 million. If HTC paid $5 per unit to Microsoft, that adds up to $150 million Android revenues for Microsoft.
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VentureBeat, mocoNews, BGR, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile and SlashGear
Business Week:
Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music — The company's plan for “digital lockers” is winning over the major music labels — Compared with buying e-books, building a digital music collection is a hassle. E-books zip directly to reading devices like the Kindle and Nook and are backed up …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's iCloud music service will automatically mirror your iTunes library using ‘high-quality’ tracks? — There's been so much chatter about Apple iCloud that you'd think the streaming music service had already been announced and the deals inked. But it's still just a rumor until …
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PhoneDog.com, Computerworld and MacStories
Bloomberg:
PayPal Sues Google, Saying It Misappropriated Trade Mobile-Payment Secrets — PayPal Inc., the fastest-growing unit at online marketplace EBay Inc. (EBAY), sued Google Inc. claiming it misappropriated trade secrets from PayPal's mobile-payment business. — Osama Bedier, a former PayPal executive …
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GigaOM:
Et Tu Bedier? Why PayPal is Suing Google, Execs — PayPal, the e-payments subsidiary of eBay has sued two of its former executives — Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier — who defected to Google and have helped the search giant ramp up its mobile payments offering including its newly announced Google Wallet NFC platform.
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parislemon, SAI and PhoneArena
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs
Amanda Pires / The PayPal Blog:
PayPal files lawsuit to protect trade secrets: A reason worth fighting for
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Android and Me, Electronista, The Loop, TechCrunch, @fredericl and Daring Fireball
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS — Out of 72,000 paid apps in Google's Android Market, only two have sold more than 50,000 copies — 80% of Android paid apps have sold fewer than 100 copies. Source: Distimo — The Utrecht-based analytics company Distimo generated …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, Distimo, gigaom.com, The Loop, FierceMobileContent, Inquirer, Geeky-Gadgets and Electronista
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Starts Adding Flight Schedules And Airline Routes In Search — We know that Google has big ambitions for flight search, as the search giant dropped $700 million on travel search software developer ITA Software. Today, the company just announced a few new flight search features …
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ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, SAI, Inside Search, 9to5 Google, Lifehacker and Tnooz
New York Times:
Facebook Is Developing Ways to Share Media — Facebook is developing features that will make the sharing of users' favorite music, television shows and other media as much a part of its site as playing games or posting vacation photos. — The company is in discussions with several online music services …
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Music Ally, Softpedia News, WebProNews and Disruptors
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Tech Boom Hits New York Start-Ups — Two years ago, the founders of eyewear company Warby Parker entered their idea in a business-plan contest—and lost. — This spring, the 15-month-old New York venture had to fight off would-be investors jockeying to write it a check.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:beet_tv
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Lodsys Also Targeting Android Developers with Patent Infringement Claims — Patent holding firm Lodsys made news two weeks ago when they sent patent infringement notices to several small iOS developers over the use of In-App purchases and upgrade links in their apps.
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ReadWriteWeb, Electronista, Edible Apple, SlashGear, Android Community, The Next Web, Appletell, 9to5 Google and everythingiCafe
Richard Lai / Engadget:
ASUS to unveil a phone-docking tablet at Computex? — We love teasers, but the wait can be unbearable sometimes. Luckily, all it takes is a tweak in the URL to uncover ASUS' upcoming Computex teaser pics ahead of time, as discovered by our eagle-eyed reader Anas.
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PC World, VentureBeat, BGR, Inquirer, CrunchGear, Liliputing, I4U News, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, The Tech Report and Techinstyle.tv
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
How Yelp Crushed Citysearch & Yahoo Local ... & Why Google Is Stealing Yelp's Playbook — A fascinating study published last year compares the reviews and reviewers at three local business websites: Yelp, Citysearch and Yahoo Local. And, in explaining how Yelp overtook the other two …
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SAI and Screenwerk
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Senior Defense Official Caught Hedging on U.S. Involvement in Stuxnet — If you want to see a top Pentagon official squirm, tune into CNBC's cyberwar documentary Thursday night, and watch Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn face an uncomfortably direct question about the Stuxnet worm.
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Naked Security
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
AppleCare under fire by Italian regulators — AppleCare, a paid support service from Apple, has found itself under fire in Italy where government regulators are probing the company over a possible noncompliance with the European Union's consumer laws. Setteb.it explains that EU consumers …
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MacRumors, CNET News, The Next Web, MacStories, RazorianFly, MacNN, everythingiCafe and MacNN
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Facebook Admits It Doesn't Know Whether The Emails From The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of The Company Are Fake — Facebook has filed its response to the lawsuit from an upstate New York wood-pellet salesman named Paul Ceglia who says he owns half the company.
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Mary Ann Azevedo / bizjournals:
Microsoft confirms move to Moffett — It's official. After weeks of speculation, Microsoft has signed a lease for 237,000 square feet at Moffett Towers in Sunnyvale. — The tech giant will be taking space at 1020 Enterprise Way, which is part of phase one of the development, in January 2012 …
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WinRumors
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Rumor: Apple testing new MacBook Air powered by same A5 processor as iPad 2 — A new report claims that Apple has built a test MacBook Air powered by the same low-power A5 processor found in the iPad, and the company was impressed by the results. — The claims came on Friday from Japanese site Macotakara.
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Fast Company, MacRumors, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, TG Daily, iClarified, TUAW, RazorianFly, TiPb, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News, Geeky-Gadgets, O'Grady's PowerPage, Apple Bitch, MacStories, thinq_, SocialSteak and MacDailyNews
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome — Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google's browser which is likely to be released today, removes a useful feature: the built-in Gears plugin. While most Google services dropped support for Gears and removed offline access, Gears is still being used in Gmail.
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PC World, The Register and Macworld
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Flickr now stores your photos for 90 days after you've deleted your account — Flickr today announced that it has implemented a change to its policy on deleted accounts, saying it will keep photos and associated content for 90 days before erasing them for good.
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Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Photography Bay
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft board backs Ballmer over Einhorn — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's board stood behind Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday, defending its longtime leader after influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn touched off a debate by calling for his dismissal.
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TechFlash, Mashable!, WinRumors, DailyTech, ITworld.com, MediaFile, SlashGear, TechEye, thinq_, Electronista, The Microsoft Blog and Guardian
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Ryan Block / gdgt:
It's time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft.
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SAI, SAI and The Microsoft Blog, Thanks:rockbandit
Bloomberg:
Sony Chief Stringer Blindsided by Hackers — Sony Corp. (6758), besieged by hackers since April, considered its PlayStation Network an unlikely target even after threats by the online collective Anonymous and three separate security incidents in 2008. — The hacker group declared in April …
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New York Times, VG247, Kotaku, TechEye and Eurogamer
Marketwatch:
Obama to name Twitter CEO to advisory committee — LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The chief executive at social media site Twitter is among the technology sector executives U.S. President Barack Obama plans to appoint to an advisory committee, according to a statement from the White House late Thursday.
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Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Washington Post, Internet Evolution and Pocket-lint
Paul Boutin / Gadgetwise:
If Twitpic's New Deal Troubles You, Here Are Some Options — Word got out this week that Twitpic, the most popular service used by Twitter users to upload and post photos, had struck an exclusive partnership with World Entertainment News Network, a news and photo agency that specializes in celebrity stories and pictures.
