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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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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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GigaOM, Fast Company, AllThingsD, SAI, The eMarketer Blog, 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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The Tech Trade, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, RAIN, CNET News, The Register, Deal Journal, Music Ally, RAIN, Press, PE Hub Blog, @ethank, PE Hub Blog, SAI, paidContent, SFGate, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Hillicon Valley, TechCrunch and Tech Trader Daily, more at Mediagazer »
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
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Scott Huffman / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing new features to mobile search
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Search Engine Watch, Internet2Go, Inquirer, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, Pocket-lint, GigaOM, TechUnwrapped, MarketingVox News & Trends, Mobile Entertainment, Fast Company, Search Engine Land, Redmond Pie, Mashable!, SocialTimes.com, iClarified, App Advice, CNN, SAI, AndroidGuys and BetaNews
Johanna Wright / Inside Search:
Search by text, voice, or image
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Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, Google Operating System, Bits, Marketing Pilgrim, gHacks Technology News, Google Watch, TG Daily, Gizmag Emerging …, Computerworld, Google Operating System, Technologizer, Search Engine Land, thechromesource, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, The Tech Trade, Droid Life, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Computerworld, Digital Inspiration …, Techie Buzz, Digital Trends, bit-tech.net, SiliconFilter, VentureBeat, Engadget, Android and Me, TechCrunch and Neowin.net
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Shifting Tides: Google Borrows From Mobile for Latest Desktop Innovations
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Dice Blog Network and FT Tech Hub
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, Reuters and @arrington
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Michael Kan / Computerworld:
U.S. questioned China about Change.org attack
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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, Softpedia News, MacRumors, CrunchGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacStories, TUAW, iClarified, I4U News, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, TechUnwrapped, SlashGear and Gizmodo, Thanks:salemsayed
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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AllThingsD, Engadget, Dow Jones Newswires, DailyTech, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, DigiTimes, Electronista, Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans, The Register, Fudzilla and TechEye
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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mocoNews, AllThingsD, Washington Post, PhoneArena, @peterpham, SocialTimes.com, SAI, Facebook and Fast Company
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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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
iPad 3 rumors in 2011 persist
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App Advice, SlashGear and everythingiCafe
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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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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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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Digits, broadstuff and ben's blog
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, Fortune, Millennial Media, BGR, Electronista and WMPU
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, Neowin.net and CSO's blog
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, I4U News, Kotaku, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, BGR, parislemon, That VideoGame Blog, CrunchGear, Redmond Pie, msnbc.com, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Microsoft News, Eurogamer, IGN Gear, Neowin.net, Electronista, Destructoid, IndustryGamers, Computerworld, Ubergizmo and VG247
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 »
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
US, NZ, Sweden, others condemn “three strikes” Internet laws — Earlier this month we covered a UN report that argued that “three strikes” laws that deprive alleged copyright infringers of Internet access violate human rights. The report was delivered by an independent UN investigator …
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GamePolitics News
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
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Clears Google Bid on Nortel Patents — WASHINGTON—U.S. antitrust enforcers have given Google Inc. the go-ahead to pursue its $900 million opening bid for a trove of high-tech patents being sold next week by Canadian telecommunications-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp., people familiar with the matter said.
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eWeek, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, The Next Web, CNET News, MobileBurn.com, paidContent, Electronista and Between the Lines Blog
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
Jonathan A. Knee / The Atlantic Online:
Why Content Isn't King — How Netflix became America's biggest video service—much to the astonishment of media executives and investors — NETFLIX FAMOUSLY ENGENDERS fierce loyalty from its ever-growing customer base. This year, it even beat out reigning champion Apple, among 528 other brands …
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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Digits, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Hillicon Valley, Wall Street Journal and The Business Insider
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Shazam adds LyricPlay, lets you act like you knew the words to that song all along — Remember the song that was playing at the bar last night that you just had to know the name of? You busted out the iPhone and fired up Shazam to tag that sucker, and now that you've got it in your collection …
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paidContent, AllThingsD, GigaOM, App Advice, Electronista and iPhone
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 …
