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Ilya Grigorik / PostRank Blog:
PostRank has been acquired by Google! — From the seed of an idea in late 2006, to the launch of PostRank in mid 2007, and an incredible four years of continuous learning, iteration, and developing and launching new products—what an amazing experience it has been. And yet, the best is still yet to come.
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GigaOM, VatorNews, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, @hornokplease, @miguelrios, @alexdc, StartupNorth, @pkedrosky and Pulse2
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web — In another move that makes it clear that Google is putting a much greater focus on ‘social’, the search giant has just acquired PostRank. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. — PostRank is a service that helps measure …
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PostRank, Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5 Google, @igrigorik and AllThingsD
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Apple pays music bigs $100M+ — Apple will fork over between $100 million and $150 million in advanced payments to the four major music labels in order to get its iCloud off the ground, three separate sources told The Post. — The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple iCloud: Nice incremental revenue boost, but halo effect more notable — Apple has inked its licensing pact with Universal Music Group and will reportedly charge $25 a year for an iCloud subscription. That revenue stream—once you factor in splits with the music industry …
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Shiny Objects, Patently Apple, CNET News, lalawag, AppleInsider, Light Reading and Sharing the truth …
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Syrian Internet Shutdown — Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet. Over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 of 59 networks were withdrawn from the global routing table.
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PC Magazine, ArabCrunch, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Information Warfare Monitor, NPR, Computerworld, USA Today, 901am, PanARMENIAN.Net, RIA Novosti, ONI, The Register and msnbc.com
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
Syria internet services shut down as protesters fill streets
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TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet, Global Voices and Neowin.net
Matthew Fraser / This Much I Know:
YOU DON'T SAY: WORDS “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” ARE BANNED FROM FRENCH AIRWAVES — The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations. — Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a society universally admired …
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All Facebook, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Yahoo! News, @loic, TG Daily, @sg, TechCrunch, WebProNews and Digital Life
David Heinemeier Hansson / Short Logic:
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal — Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they're currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they'll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
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knewton.com, Daring Fireball, @rsarver, @jasonfried, The Tech Trade and kottke.org, more at Mediagazer »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Groupon: Doomed to Fail or Worth a Leap? A Twitter Debate
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Wall Street Journal, Screenwerk, Tech Trader Daily, MarketingVox News & Trends, DealBook, gigaom.com, alarm:clock and Bloomberg
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Hires The Guy Who Hacked Together A Better iOS Notifications System — Back in February, I wrote that MobileNotifier (a replacement notifications system for jailbroken iOS devices) would be the one thing that would make anyone want to jailbreak — and I stand by it.
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VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Tools, iPhone in Canada Blog, BlackBerry Cool, MacRumors, App Advice, Gadgetsteria, everythingiCafe, TUAW, iClarified, Electronista, Redmond Pie and parislemon
Susan Panico / PlayStation Blog:
UPDATED: Welcome Back Program Available Now - Details Inside … We're so excited to welcome you back to PlayStation Network. With the PlayStation Store back online, we've been getting all caught up this week, having launched an abundance of amazing content for download on PlayStation 3 …
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Computerworld, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Redmond Pie, Crave, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Geek.com, PlayStation LifeStyle, VG247, PC Magazine, USA Today, GamePolitics News and Electronista
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Forms New Venture Fund, The Social+Capital Partnership — Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya will leave the company as he launches a large new venture fund called The Social+Capital Partnership, with backing from some of the worlds leading business and technology leaders.
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, SAI and Everything Ventured
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Xbox LIVE Diamond subscription TV service to debut at E3 — Microsoft is planning to reveal its Xbox LIVE subscription TV service at E3, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is close to finishing a key number of components for its full Xbox LIVE subscription TV service.
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SAI, Gameplay Today, CNET News, Business Wire, Pocket-lint, Electronista, Eurogamer, WinBeta, GeekWire, DSLreports, LiveSide.net, SlashGear, Geek.com, Zunited, VentureBeat and The Next Web
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed — New data from comScore on the U.S. smartphone market shows Android share is still surging, while Apple is just barely growing share. — Research in Motion and Microsoft, on the other hand are being destroyed.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, PR Newswire, AppleInsider, WinRumors, TUAW, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AndroidGuys, Android Phones …, VatorNews, CNET News, Electronista, MacStories and Shiny Objects
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
MI6 Hacked Al Qaeda Website, Swapping Bomb Recipes With Cupcake Recipes — Just imagine the look of surprise on an al Qaeda member's face when they thought they were loading a tutorial on how to “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” but actually got...a recipe for mojito cupcakes.
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Telegraph, Mashable!, Associated Press, Boing Boing, Robot Overlords, bit-tech.net, New York Magazine, TG Daily, ZDNet and SlashGear
Josh Phillips / The Windows Blog:
A tour of the new Music +Video Hub — From the beginning, the chief design principle for the Music+Videos Hub in Windows Phone was simple: make it easy to discover and consume the content you love. — In Mango, it only gets better. — The next release of Windows Phone introduces on-phone podcasts …
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WPCentral.com, Zunited, Gizmodo and WMPoweruser.com
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Anonymous steals 10,000 Iranian government emails, plans DDoS attack — Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — The Ministry's website is still down as of this writing, and the servers are under Anonymous control.
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Bits, Ars Technica, Epoch Times, TechSpot, International Business Times and Digital Trends, Thanks:francistan
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Woah! Apple Worth More Than Microsoft And Intel Combined — At the close of markets today, Apple has a bigger market cap than Microsoft and Intel combined (the so-called Wintel alliance). — Here's how much Apple, Microsoft and Intel are worth on Wall St.: — Apple (AAPL) — $317.60 billion
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry Bold 9900 won't launch until September — BlackBerry fans will just have to keep waiting for the company's latest and greatest handset. We have confirmed with multiple sources that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 won't be launching until September globally.
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Engadget, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Gadgetsteria, PhoneArena and Electronista
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Retail 10th Anniversary Poster: “We've learned a lot.” — Click for larger. — The most public celebration of Apple Retail's tenth anniversary was the rollout of iPad interactive shopping guides, something Apple calls the “Smart Sign”. But behind the scenes, in the retail back-of-house area …
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The Next Web, ifoAppleStore, TUAW, Global Nerdy, SlashGear, MacStories and Apple Headlines
David Kravets / Threat Level:
U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right — A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. — The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, which have passed laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the internet.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Going Digital: Editor Josh Quittner Leaves Time Inc For Flipboard — This should be interesting. Flipboard is getting an editorial director from the world of print magazines: Josh Quittner, my former boss at Business 2.0 magazine and most recently the editor at Time Inc. behind many of its digital magazine initiatives.
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Om.Is.Me, New York Post, ReadWriteWeb and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
C'est Magnifique: Google to Offer Paid Version of Translate API — In response to developer sadness and anger, Google has announced it plans to offer a paid version of its Google Translate API. Last week the company said it would pull the plug after the Translate API saw extensive abuse.
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AllThingsD and @googlecode
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
U.S. Antitrust Regulators Concerned Over Apple's Interest in Nortel Patents — Last December, it was revealed that Apple was among the parties interested in bidding on a huge trove of patents from Nortel Networks that had been placed up for auction. While group of over 6,000 patents covers …
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paidContent, PC World, TechCrunch, SAI, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal and MacNN
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to launch Office 365 on June 28 — Microsoft is holding its official launch of its cloud-hosted application suite, known as Office 365, on June 28. — CEO Steve Ballmer will be on hand at the New York launch event, according to an invitation I received.
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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Microsoft sells 55 million Xbox 360 consoles, claims that's console history — If you work for Sony you might want go watch TV right now — there's something on Discovery about ostriches and sand. Meanwhile, Microsoft just let us know that it's sold 55 million Xbox 360s globally …
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PC Magazine, Insert Coin, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Neowin.net, The Next Web, CrunchGear, Electronista, BetaNews and WinRumors
