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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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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 …
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?
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PhoneDog.com, Computerworld and MacStories
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs — Yesterday, PayPal filed a lawsuit against Google and two of its executives for stealing trade secrets. The lawsuit came on the same day that Google announced its mobile wallet plans involving Android phones with NFC chips.
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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
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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 and @fredericl
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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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple to announce back to school special at WWDC? $200 off an iPad or free iPod touch? — One of our Apple sources has informed us that they've been hearing Apple's yearly back-to-school special will be announced at WWDC next month. We have been told Apple will continue to offer educational discounts …
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App Advice, MacHackPC, Gizmodo, MacStories, MacRumors and iPodNN
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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Reuters:
Microsoft not too late for tablet party: Citigroup — (Reuters) - Microsoft is still not too late for the tablet party. And with its Next operating system closer than most expect, the software maker could corner meaningful market share in 2013 and beyond, Citigroup said.
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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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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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Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:
Sony to Partially Restart PlayStation Network Operations in Asia Tomorrow — Sony Corp. (6758) will resume some of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity entertainment services in Asia tomorrow, more than a month after the biggest online data breach in U.S. history led to the suspension of operations.
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Bloomberg:
Sony Chief Stringer Blindsided by Hackers
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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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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, Inquirer, BGR, CrunchGear, Electronista, Liliputing, PhoneArena, SlashGear, I4U News, Android Phone Fans, The Tech Report and Techinstyle.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, SlashGear, Android Community, Edible Apple, The Next Web, Appletell, 9to5 Google and everythingiCafe
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, TUAW, CNET News, MacStories, everythingiCafe, RazorianFly, The Next Web and MacNN
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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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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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Teen Who Sold White iPhone Kits Reveals How Apple Hunted Him Down — One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager buyers tired of waiting on Apple's release, was Fei Lam.
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MacRumors, IntoMobile, TUAW and AppleInsider
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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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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