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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions — Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Steve Jobs Blinks! Apple Backs Down On App Subscription Rules — Apple appears to have backed down on a major component of its new in-app subscription rules, which should provide a big boost to content companies: It has scrapped a rule requiring apps that play content like music, movies …
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Stephen Elop: Android's Success Is Apple's Fault, And Beware The Boxes — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be on the ropes, but CEO Stephen Elop is still slugging away in the handset maker's comeback strategy. Today, he laid out some of Nokia's biggest challenges and opportunities …
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Matthew Saltmarsh / New York Times:
Nokia's Chief Technology Officer Departs — PARIS — The struggling Finnish cellphone maker Nokia said Thursday that its chief technology officer had taken a leave of absence and would be temporarily replaced by head of the company's research center. — News of the departure of Richard Green …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft aids developers in porting Android apps to Windows Phones
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Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Sprint Motorola Photon 4G hands-on: 4.3-inch qHD display, Gingerbread, WiMAX, and Tegra 2 — Don't you just love when things come together just as planned? That's right, just as we had heard, Motorola's Sanjay Jha and Sprint's Dan Hesse took the stage this morning in NYC to announce a brand …
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Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Sprint unveils Motorola Photon 4G global smartphone, Triumph for Virgin Mobile
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Reuters:
Citi says hackers access bank card data — (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed data on hundreds of thousands of bank card holders in the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies. — Citigroup said about 1 percent …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Cupertino To Jobs: There's No Chance We're Saying No To The Apple Spaceship Campus — While he's no Steve Jobs, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has his unique charm. In a press conference today responding to yesterday's amazing Steve Jobs pitch, Wong said emphatically, “Cupertino is ready for this” …
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AppleInsider:
Apple shows off its networking savvy at WWDC — After building a temporary network of WiFi hotspots to provide coverage for the 5,200 attendees at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has set up a graphic visualization of the network itself. — Depicted within the Moscone West …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Possibly Including Activision's Kotick — And then there was one. — According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket — Most of the commentary on Facebook's new face-recognition strategy has been negative, with many folks posting instructions on how to opt out. I, on the other hand, think that Facebook may have come up with a great strategy …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Visa Acquires Mobile Financial Services Company Fundamo For $110M In Cash — Visa this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Fundamo, a specialist mobile financial services provider to network operators and financial institutions in developing economies, for $110 million in cash.
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Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Visa Still Weighing Its Mobile Payments Options
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Coupons.com Raises $200 Million At A Whopping $1 Billion Valuation — It looks like Coupons.com may have just become the Airbnb of mega-million dollar raises at billion dollar valuations. Today, Coupons.com, the largest provider of digital coupons, announced that it has received …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
HP TouchPad launches July 1st, starts at $499.99 — HP on Thursday announced that its HP TouchPad tablet will become available on July 1st. The TouchPad, which was first unveiled at a media event this past February, is the first webOS-powered tablet offering from HP.
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
How Apple Feeds Its Army of App Makers — Let them make money, ensure the coding tools are easy to use, and keep out the riffraff — As he has for each of the past 14 years, Andrew Stone woke at 3:45 on the morning of Apple's (AAPL) annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6 in San Francisco …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Fusion-io Opens At $25 Per Share With A $1.9 Billion Market Cap — As we heard yesterday, Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, upped the opening price of its IPO to $19 per share, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Earlier in the week …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Foxconn chief: iPads would be more profitable if they weren't so hard to make — Foxconn, a subsidiary of the Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, is being forced to find more efficient means of manufacturing Apple devices if it is to increase profit and increase its annual sales growth forecast, says company chairman Terry Gou.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Jeff Bezos-backed Doxo puts a digital filing cabinet in your iPhone — Doxo is a service designed to act as a ‘digital file cabinet’ for your household bills and important documents. You can even sign up to get bills from participating companies sent paper-free to your Doxo locker.
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Thomas Lowenthal / Ars Technica:
Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency — Bitcoin—a pseudonymous cryptographic currency designed by an enigmatic, freedom-loving hacker, and currently used by the geek underground to buy and sell everything from servers to cellphone jammers.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Is The Federal Government Running Ads Secretly Created & Owned By NBC Universal? — We certainly suspected this when New York City first announced that it was running a series of silly and misleading videos as part of a media campaign to “Stop Piracy in NYC,” but now it's been confirmed …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell's prototype 7-inch tablet touts slide-out split QWERTY keyboard (update: just a concept) — Whoa. Every so often, a giant in Round Rock pokes it head up above water long enough to put forth a truly mesmerizing design, and while it's no Adamo, this is most definitely the freshest …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“It Just Works.” — Amid all the big announcements at this year's WWDC keynote, there was an undercurrent that was subtle, but important. — “It just works.” Steve Jobs kept saying this over and over again on stage. When Jobs does this, it's never an accident. It's a message.
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Maria Kiselyova / Reuters:
Intel invests in two Russian internet firms — (Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Intel announced “multi-million” investments in two Russian online firms on Thursday, in a fresh sign of investor confidence in growth prospects of internet businesses. — Intel Capital, charged with backing business models …
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
A Launchpad for Watching TV, Movies on the iPad — Watching movies and TV shows on an iPad is a pleasure. Deciding what to watch, and then figuring out which iPad app offers which film or show at that moment, isn't. — [ See post to watch video ] — There is a growing crop …
