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Samuel W. Lessin / Facebook Blog:
Tell Your Story with Timeline — Since the beginning of Facebook, your profile has been the place where you tell your story. People use it to share everything from the small stuff, like their thoughts on an article, to the most important events of their lives, like the photos of their wedding or the birth of their child.
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Mike Isaac / Wired.com:
Facebook's Makeover: A New Vision of Sharing — Facebook announced a slew of new products at its f8 developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday, aiming to fully integrate users' lives through a series of major media and lifestyle-centric application integrations with its social network.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide.net:
Facebook's Timeline maps powered by Bing Maps — Today at Facebook's F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg is unveiling some major new changes to Facebook, including the introduction of Timeline, a new way to curate and share your life, via Facebook. — One of the filters available in Timeline is Maps …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo News Teams Up With Facebook To Curate Content From Your Friends — Yahoo News, one of the most popular news portals on the web, is deepening its integration with Facebook. Yahoo has formed integrations with the social network in the past with its products, but we're told this is one of the most in-depth implementations to date.
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John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
Deep Spotify Integration Brings Free Music to Facebook — On-demand music streaming service Spotify will be deeply integrated into Facebook, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 developer conference today. — The new integration will allow Facebook users to stream Spotify tracks directly …
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Guardian, Digital Trends, Music Ally, Spotify, Guardian and The Next Web
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Color Recasts Itself as a Facebook Photo and Video App — Back in March, a splashy start-up called Color Labs introduced a cellphone app that let people share pictures with friends and strangers nearby. The service seemed to have everything going for it: an accomplished serial entrepreneur …
Bret Taylor / Facebook Developers:
f8: A New Class of Apps — We are hosting our fourth f8 conference today in San Francisco, where we're introducing the the next evolution of Facebook Platform and the Open Graph. The Open Graph is the most significant update to Platform since it launched in 2007, expanding the capabilities …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announces integration with Facebook in 44 countries, but NOT the US — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today announced that Netflix would be integrating tightly with Facebook much in the way that it is working with music, but that due to laws in the US, it would not be available there yet.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zuckerberg: As Many As 500 Million People Have Been On Facebook In A Single Day — At Facebook's F8 conference today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the network passed an important milestone last week—500 million people used Facebook in a given day. — Facebook has publicly said that it has more than 750 million active users.
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Facebook Introduces Open Graph, Lets You Share Music, Movies, And More
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Megan / LAUNCH:
Andy Samberg Impersonates Zuckerberg at F8
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Facebook users protest changes to News Feed, new ‘ticker’
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
It's Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman — Done. Now what? — Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, is the new CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard. The move, which AllThingsD previously reported would happen today after the markets closed …
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HP:
HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer — Ray Lane appointed executive chairman; Léo Apotheker steps down as president, chief executive officer and director — HP today announced that its board of directors has appointed Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer.
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
‘iPhone 4S’ cases already arriving at AT&T stores [updated] — BGR has obtained images of refreshed iPhone 4 cases that have started to show up at AT&T corporate stores around the country, and there's one noticeable difference: the size of the opening for the rear camera.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon goes to bat for AT&T, defends T-Mobile merger — Verizon Communications chief executive Lowell McAdam has gone on record in suggesting that the company's biggest rival, AT&T, should be allowed to complete its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
New HTC users to get 5GB free Dropbox service — Microsoft has Skydrive, Apple has iCloud, and now HTC has Dropbox following a new partnership between the phone maker and popular cloud storage service. — HTC has confirmed to Pocket-lint that users of its latest Android handsets …
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
ZocDoc CEO, Upon Raising $25 M. from Goldman Sachs: 'We're Not Planning an IPO Soon-We Don't Need To' — ZocDoc just announced a surprise extra $25 million on top of the $50 million the startup recently raised from Yuri Milner and DST, and the money came from high places-Goldman Sachs is investing directly in ZocDoc.
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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Goldman Sachs Invests $25 Million in ZocDoc
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Phil Milford / Bloomberg:
Apple Sued by Via Technologies Over Microprocessor Patents — Apple Inc., the world's biggest technology company by value, was sued by Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. (2388) for allegedly infringing three U.S. patents for microprocessors used in mobile phones and tablet computers.
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Josh Williams / Gowalla:
A New Gowalla — Nearly three years ago I sat on a beach at Lake Tahoe and watched as a large low-flying cloud hung above the lake, creating the backdrop for a beautiful weekend of solitude. As much as I enjoyed the time alone to clear my thoughts, I was overwhelmed with the desire to share this experience with someone.
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Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash — For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Netflix split to set up Amazon streaming merger? — Summary: Netflix's move to separate its DVD-by-mail service may pave the way for Amazon to buy the company, argues an analyst. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may have a trick up his sleeve as he separates the streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses: A sale to Amazon.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple's iPad to have ‘free run’ in holiday shopping season — Summary: Garter says that until Android can get its hardware, software and services act together, the tablet market belongs to Apple's iPad. — Apple's iPad is likely to be unchallenged in the tablet market this holiday shopping season, according to Gartner projections.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla proposes not-so-rapid-release Firefox — Under the Mozilla proposal, a new Extended Support Release version of Firefox would arrive every 30 weeks. — Mozilla, faced with business users' stiff resistance to its new rapid update schedule for Firefox, has proposed a slower-moving version of the browser.
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