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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Exposed: Facebook's Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing) — It's far too often that the term “killer” gets thrown around in tech blogs. And yes, we're just as bad as anybody. But what if I told you that a service that gets 6 billion photo uploads each month …
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Is Facebook about to have the last word in iPhone photo sharing? — Facebook is about to lunch a doozy of a photo sharing app for iOS, according to TechCrunch. The app will enter a space that's already crowded with startup offerings such as Color, Instagram, PicPlz and more …
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Richard Clarke / Wall Street Journal:
China's Cyberassault on America — If we discovered Chinese explosives laid throughout our national electrical system, we'd consider it an act of war. China's digital bombs pose as grave a threat. — In justifying U.S. involvement in Libya, the Obama administration cited the …
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CNET News, The Business Insider, @arrington and Reuters
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Michael Kan / Computerworld:
U.S. questioned China about Change.org attack
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Pandora Opens At $20 Per Share With A Market Cap Of $3.2 Billion — Yesterday, music streaming service Pandora priced its IPO at $16 per share (valuing the company at $2.6 billion). The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to $9 per share, at a market cap of $1.3 billion …
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The eMarketer Blog, Fast Company, AllThingsD, GigaOM, SAI, Evolver.fm, The Next Web and Mashable!
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Lynn Cowan / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Pandora IPO Prices At $16; Valued At $2.56 Billion
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Clare Jim / Reuters:
Acer cuts 2011 tablet shipment target by nearly 60 percent — (Reuters) - Acer Inc slashed its full-year shipment target for tablets by almost 60 percent and expects lower notebook shipments as the world No.2 PC maker works to clear accumulated inventory. — However, Acer …
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Digital Trends, Inquirer, AllThingsD, Dow Jones Newswires, DailyTech, Engadget, DigiTimes, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, Electronista, Fudzilla, The Register, Android Phone Fans and TechEye
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New AirPort Extremes and Time Capsules confirmed, software update caching references found — Following our reports that Apple is gearing up to release updated AirPort Extremes and Time Capsules with software update caching, we have discovered references to unreleased AirPort Extremes …
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BGR, SAI, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Softpedia News, MacStories, CrunchGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, TUAW, iClarified, I4U News, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, TechUnwrapped, SlashGear and Gizmodo, Thanks:salemsayed
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: Google Nexus 4G detailed - 720p display, 4G LTE, Android 4.0 — Google is two devices deep in a quest to deliver its vision of what a mobile device should be, while pushing the envelope forward as far as specifications and collaboration is concerned.
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SAI, 9to5 Google, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, MobileSyrup.com and Electronista
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's Retail Secrets Spilled: Don't Correct The Customers, Abide By The A.P.P.L.E. Code — It's no accident that Apple's retail empire has grown into a $12 billion+ business. — It's run as a strict operation, with specific guidelines on how employees can and can not talk to customers …
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Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Digits, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Hillicon Valley, iLounge and GMSV
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
How Larry Page Thinks About Search — Google's SVP of the search division, Alan Eustace, stuck around to answer a few questions after today's Google Inside Search event, and he gave some new insights into the way CEO Larry Page thinks about search. — Here are some long term goals:
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The Business Insider and TechCrunch
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Shifting Tides: Google Borrows From Mobile for Latest Desktop Innovations
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Dice Blog Network, FT Tech Hub, Inside Search and Google Mobile Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham — Peter Pham, the president and a cofounder of mobile social startup Color, is no longer with the company, we've heard from multiple sources. The company launched publicly less than three months ago. — Color has been controversial …
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AllThingsD, mocoNews, Washington Post, PhoneArena, SocialTimes.com, @peterpham, Stowe Boyd, SAI, Fast Company and Facebook
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Close to US$500k stolen in first major Bitcoin theft — In the first Bitcoin theft of its size, a user has lost 25,000 BTC — or nearly $487,749 at today's market rates — to an unknown thief. — While the Bitcoin community has always been quick to point out that it's harder to forge …
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
More Evidence for 2048x1536 iPad Retina Display — More evidence has emerged to suggest that a future version of the iPad will sport a “Retina” display with a resolution of 2048x1536, or double the horizontal and vertical pixels of the current iPad. — Back in January, a number of images …
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Ars Technica, CNET News, TechUnwrapped, Hardware 2.0 Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneDog.com, CrunchGear, Tech Trader Daily, AppleInsider, Electronista, netbooknews.com, App Advice, Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, IntoMobile, I4U News, MacHackPC, The Apple Core Blog, Gizmodo, iClarified and TiPb
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
iPad 3 rumors in 2011 persist
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App Advice, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, Shiny Objects, Techie Buzz and AllThingsD
Economist:
Tech bubble — This house believes that we are in a new tech bubble. — Overview — Rebuttal — Closing — Post-debate — Tuesday — Friday — Wednesday — Friday — June — Opening statements — The bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 saw the shares …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Digits, broadstuff, ben's blog, Tech Europe and BostInnovation.com
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Next-generation Xbox rumored to be unveiled at E3 2012 — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console will likely be shown at E3 2012, according to reports. — The software giant is preparing to announce the successor to the Xbox 360 at E3 2012 according to VideoGamer.com.
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VideoGamer.com, Techland, I4U News, Kotaku, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, parislemon, Pocket-lint, CrunchGear, Redmond Pie, That VideoGame Blog, msnbc.com, BGR, Digital Trends, Microsoft News, Eurogamer, IGN Gear, Neowin.net, Electronista, Destructoid, IndustryGamers, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, VG247 and The Seattle Times
Katherine Boehret / Wall Street Journal:
A Slender Tablet With Widescreen Ambitions — New Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Is Thinner and Lighter Than the iPad 2 but Lags Behind When It Comes to Battery Life — If you've ever experienced the anxiety of buying an Apple product while worrying that a new model will come out days later, Apple's competitors feel your pain.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Windows Phone 7 Ad Impressions Up 92%; iOS And Android Neck In Neck For App Revenue — Mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its monthly monthly mobile report for May, giving us a view into how each OS and manufacturer is performing on the mobile ad network.
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ReadWriteWeb, Millennial Media, Fortune, BGR, WMPU and Electronista
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows Phone update schedule: one major version a year — Previously expected, but never before confirmed, Microsoft's plans for Windows Phone updates have been spelled out explicitly in a job posting, of all things. First noticed by MobileTechWorld, the job spec outlines the update policy …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Now The Proud Owner Of Re-tweet.com — As of yesterday, Twitter is the new owner of the domain name re-tweet.com (placeholder webpage) although it doesn't yet own retweet.com (currently used for some shady video monetization platform). — Hat tip goes to Fusible …
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Fusible.com, AllTwitter and The Next Web
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Backed-Copious Launches A Social Marketplace For The Facebook Era — Social commerce has taken on many forms; from purchasing items on Facebook to product recommendations from your social graph to daily deal sites. There are plenty of startups that offer the functionality listed above …
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Fast Company, AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, MediaFile, Social Markets and Mashable!
BBC:
LulzSec opens hack request line — Lulz Security's request line features the voice of Pierre Dubois - possibly the name of its comic icon — The hacker group Lulz Security has opened a telephone request line so its fans can suggest potential targets. — It claims to have launched denial …
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BetaNews, CNET News, Neowin.net and CSO's blog
Will Richmond / VideoNuze.com:
New Research Shows Netflix Is A Catalyst for Cord-Cutting and Cord-Shaving — The Diffusion Group released interesting research yesterday which supports a view that I've had for a while: heavy Netflix streaming usage correlates with a propensity to cut back on pay-TV services.
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AllThingsD, GigaOM, AdAge, CNET News and Telecompetitor, more at Mediagazer »
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Imagination Technologies Starts Licensing Next Gen iPad/iPhone GPU — Imagination Technologies, the company behind the iPhone and iPad's PowerVR graphic processor unit (GPU), has announced that six “key partners” have already selected their next generation PowerVR Series 6 GPU (codename: Rogue) for licensing.
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AppleInsider, imgtec.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Neowin.net, 9 to 5 Mac, iLounge, MacDailyNews, Electronista, iClarified, iPhone, TiPb and Softpedia News
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
No more doubt: Oracle wants billion-dollar amount from Google — Yesterday's announcement of the Apple-Nokia settlement led to much speculation over how much money the Finnish handset maker receives. All analysts agreed that it must be a lot. But there are also other smartphone patent disputes of similar economic magnitude.
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The Next Web, Thanks:rusua
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Judge Rules That Righthaven Lawsuit Was A Sham; Threatens Sanctions — In a huge victory against copyright trolls, a judge has thrown out the lawsuit filed by Righthaven against Democratic Underground. This was the key case where (after lots of stalling), Righthaven eventually revealed …
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paidContent and Gametime IP, more at Mediagazer »
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Klout Expands Influence Scoring To Professional Social Network LinkedIn — Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter and Facebook, is expanding its product today with the addition of LinkedIn. With the launch of Klout scoring for LinkedIn, you'll be able to add your LinkedIn account …
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Klout, Mashable!, memeburn, VentureBeat and Adotas
