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| Matt Wyndowe / Facebook Newsroom: |
App Center: A New Place to Find Social Apps — Today we're launching the App Center to make it easier to find apps you can enjoy with friends. — The App Center features mobile and web apps, such as Draw Something, Pinterest, and Nike+ GPS, and new apps including Jetpack Joyride, Ghosts of Mistwood, and Ghost Recon Commander.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Facebook launches App Center on iOS, Android and the web, for socially driven app discovery — We've known it was coming since early May, and Facebook has finally started rolling out its App Center to users. — At an event in San Francisco which was advertised to us with the theme of …
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Thanks:@brett| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Dilemma With Native iOS Apps: Relevance or Revenues — Facebook revealed some healthy new stats about how it drives traffic to Apple's iOS ecosystem at an event today in San Francisco. — The platform drove people to Apple's App Store 83 million times last month.Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Matt Macari / The Verge: |
Ultrabooks beware: Apple receives broad patent on MacBook Air wedge design — It's been pretty easy to look at recent Apple design patents and see that they haven't carried with them the broad patent coverage many might think, but that isn't the case with Apple's new US patent — D661,296 — that issued on Tuesday.
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CNET, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Tech Report and Business Insider
| Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
App Developers Signal Apple Allegiance Ahead of WWDC and Google I/O — This month, the world's two largest mobile app platform providers, Apple and Google, enter what is arguably the most critical month of the year for each company, when each hosts their annual developer conference … | John Brownlee / Cult of Mac: |
Why Your Next iPhone Should Be Prepaid — Earlier this week, we did the math and declaredprepaid carrier Cricket Mobile to be the best iPhone deal around, but today's announcement that Sprint's Virgin Mobile will also be offering the iPhone 4S starting on June 24th changes the math substantially …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
The New iPad's Closest Competitor? The Old iPad. — During Apple's last earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said the iPad 2′s new lower price point was unlocking demand among price-sensitive customers. So how is it selling? — Very well, turns out. — According to new data …
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everythingiCafe, PhoneArena, Forbes and AppleInsider
| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said To Add Baidu As Iphone Search-Engine In China — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to add Baidu Inc. (BIDU)'s search engine on iPhones in China, part of a push to broaden its services and user base in the world's most-populous nation, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.| Andrew Harris / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Motorola Mobility Patent Trial Scrapped By U.S. Judge — Apple Inc.'s patent-infringement jury trial against Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit scheduled for June 11 was canceled by a U.S. judge after he rejected each side's damages arguments.
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Speedier Shortening — We mean it when we say we've been reading all your tweets and emails. And we're listening! In the week since our release, we're already making adjustments, so that saving and shortening links in the new bitly is a whole lot easier.
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| Franco Salvetti / Bing: |
Bing introduces New Britannica Online Encyclopedia Answers — A core focus for us here at Bing has been about delivering relevant information in a more organized way to help you find what you need more quickly and get stuff done. An example of this approach has been seen in our answers feature …
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BetaNews, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, LiveSide.net and TechCrunch
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile confirms it will offer WWDC attendees iPhone-compatible ‘4G’ at Moscone West — A T-Mobile spokesperson told us in a response to our story earlier that yes the carrier is going to have an iOS device-compatible “4G” HSPA+ Mobile network available to attendees in Moscone.
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The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com and Daring Fireball
| Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: |
Twitter Shuts Down Thunderclap, New Tweet-Boosting Service — Twitter appears to be building a very nice business on the basis of its ability to promote tweets. The last thing it needs is anyone else coming in and using its platform to offer a competing service.
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CNET, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Betabeat and AllThingsD
| Dalton Caldwell: |
“RIP Good Times”: Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis — Not too long ago, I found myself sitting in the second row of a conference room, anxiously scribbling notes, at what is now known as the “RIP Good Times” presentation. The presentation has become a cultural touchstone of modern-era silicon valley.
Tweets: @hunterwalk
| Evan Rodgers / The Verge: |
Nest Learning Thermostat now on sale at Amazon for $249 — Just last week we reported that the Nest Learning Thermostat was coming to Apple stores, and now the energy-saving gadget has made its way onto Amazon. Introduced by ex-Apple executive Tony Fadell, the Nest has proven enormously popular since …
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Engadget and TechCrunch
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Change your Last.fm password now, there may have been another security breach — 24-hours after LinkedIn confirmed a massive password leak, online music streaming service Last.fm has issued a statement saying that it's currently investigating whether it too has leaked some of its users' passwords.| Kristin Jones / Wall Street Journal: |
Best Buy Founder Resigns, Explores Options for Stake — Best Buy Co. founder and largest individual shareholder Richard Schulze resigned as chairman and a director and said he intends to explore options for his 20.1% stake, a move that could make the electronics retailer a takeover candidate.
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Wall Street Journal, MacDailyNews and PandoDaily
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
In Battle With Oracle, HP Outs Customer Cell Numbers — As part of its court battle with Oracle, HP has released names, email addresses, and cell phone numbers from over 150 customers. But why? Image: Peter McCollough/Wired — When Oracle announced plans to dump support …
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News on ZDNet Australia and CNET
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Camera+ sells 8M copies in 2 years, declines Adobe, Google, Zynga and Twitter acquisition offers — The super popular camera replacement app Camera+ has sold its 8 millionth copy on the two-year anniversary of its announcement, reports developer Taptaptap. Camera+ has held a unique success …
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tap tap tap, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile and App Advice
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Facebook beefs up security of logins on new devices in face of industry breaches — According to Facebook, it would like to make your mobile experience a tad more secure. In a blog post from the security team today, it outlined some of the initiatives that the company is using to make that happen.
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CNET, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Verge, msnbc.com, Facebook, PC Magazine, MobileBurn.com and WebProNews
| Home Media Magazine: |
Disney Implements 28-Day Embargo on All Physical Rentals — Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has begun delaying select new disc releases 28-days to kiosks, video stores and Netflix — a policy the studio started with the May 22 release of The Secret World of Arrietty, a studio representative confirmed.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Recruiting the Draft Picks: Twitter's Internal Shuffle, Spurred by a Year-Long Talent Raid on the Valley — Twitter is looking more and more different by the day — and it's not just the company's fancy new little blue bird logo. — The company is in the midst of a significant ongoing …
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Business Insider, Reuters, TechCrunch, PandoDaily and Business Insider
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Hark Strikes A Deal With Universal To Bring Your Favorite Movie Sound Bites Online — Hark, the online repository for audio clips, is getting more studio content Thursday, with a deal that will bring sound bites from Universal's film library online. Hark will get access to about 100 Universal films …
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Business Wire and GeekWire
| Lauren Landry / BostInno: |
Dell Announces a New $100M Credit Fund for Entrepreneurs to Spark Startup Growth & Innovation … Entrepreneurs are constantly grappling with money — how to raise it, how to make it and how to, potentially, survive without it. Yet, Dell has taken one big step toward solving every startup's qualms today.
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content.dell.com, Small Business News …, ZDNet and PC World
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Sierra Wireless outs thinnest-ever 4G LTE module, teases skinny AT&T-ready laptops and tablets — One of the bigger challenges of spreading LTE has been size; going 4G has tended to put on a little weight. A new Sierra Wireless embedded modem, the AirPrime EM7700, could be just the ticket to shedding those pounds.
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CNET, Android News, Rumours …, Sierra Wireless, PhoneArena and GigaOM
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Chrome For Metro Set To Arrive In Next Dev Channel Release — As the release of Windows 8 draws closer, all of the major browser vendors are also preparing to launching their applications for the touch-centric Metro UI that will prominently feature in next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system.
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Chromium Blog, eWeek and GeekWire
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Vodafone and Telefonica form joint-venture to share 18,500 network sites, boost UK 4G mobile coverage — UK operators Vodafone and Telefonica (O2 in the UK) have announced they are to combine resources to build 18,500 mobile sites to increase their network coverage for their customers …
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