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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Color to Get Major Update, Fix ‘Loneliness’ Problem — Color, the dynamic photo-sharing app that made a splash with its launch yesterday, is already hard at work on the next version of its app. The update will directly address user criticism about the app's apparent lack of utility when a user's friends aren't nearby.
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NewsGrange, ThinkMobile, The Business Insider, Android News, Rumours … and MediaPost
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Color CEO: The Tech Justifies the $41 Million — Last night, an app called Color hit the app stores for both iOS and Android. It made a big splash for a number of reasons, not the least of which being its $41 million prelaunch funding. It has all-star founders who have an impressive track record.
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Mashable!, Technologizer, Marketing Nirvana, Screenwerk and Disruptors
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L011: Color.com Stuns Valley with Implied Social Network — and a $41M Raise
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GigaOM, Quora, @bgurley, Technosailor.com, Mixed Media and Imaging Insider
Joseph Cohen / @josephcohen:
Find it amusing that people really think the guys at Sequoia don't know what they're doing.
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@djsiry, @cdixon, @valleypundit, @mathewi and @cdixon
Fred / A VC:
The Implicit Social Graph
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Scott Wheeler's Blog, iPhone and iPad, MediaFile, Guardian and The Next Web
Business Week:
Google Holds Honeycomb Tight — It will delay distribution of new Android tablet source code to outside programmers — In the great mobile-device wars, Google (GOOG) has portrayed itself as the open-source crusader doing battle against the leaders in proprietary software—Apple (AAPL) …
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Here's Why Google Is Holding Honeycomb Back — Google's Honeycomb version of Android may have left the hive for a few tablets, but don't expect to see any new ones announced in the near future: the company has decided not to release the platform's source code to the community just yet.
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Mashable! and ThinkMobile
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Google begins testing Google Music internally — Google has begun testing Google Music internally, a sign that the much anticipated service is nearly ready to launch. — Google employees have begun a process commonly referred to in Silicon Valley as dog fooding, when employees try …
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Music Ally, Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, Electronista, Know Your Cell, 9 to 5 Mac, SAI, PE Hub Blog, Edible Apple and ringtonia.com, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
RIM opens up BlackBerry PlayBook to support Android apps — The news we reported exclusively many months ago has just been officially confirmed by RIM — the company will indeed support Google Android apps on its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and on new QNX-based BlackBerry smartphones moving forward.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
RIM CEO Basically Admits That Android Support Is There To Check The “Lots Of Apps” Box — Research In Motion officially announced today that its forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would support Android apps. — (No, not apps for the new Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” apps designed for tablets …
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asymco, abovethecrowd.com, Bloomberg, FierceWireless and netgarden's posterous
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPad 2′s thinner glass is remarkably stronger than iPad 1 — Remember when we discovered that the iPad 2 glass was about 27% thinner than iPad 1? The natural assumption was that the iPad 2 would be weaker than iPad 1 when it came to its glass front end. The iPhone repair experts at iFixyouri wanted to test that theory...
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TiPb, CrunchGear, MacHackPC, PadGadget and Phones Review
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Testing Web Search Box At Top Of Site — In a test which could have significant implications to the world of online search, Facebook is testing the placement of separate web search field at the top of the site. — While it's not known whether or not Facebook will make this a permanent shift …
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TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch, GeekWire, @mattmcgee, NBC Bay Area and MarketingVOX
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Official: Facebook Not Testing Web Search Box, Says Malware Might Be To Blame
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Adrian Graham / Facebook Blog:
The Wisdom of Friends (and Others Too) — Friends are often the best source of advice when you're trying new things: Where should I go to dinner? How do I go buy a car? What new music should I check out? Friends know your tastes, and you have confidence in their opinions.
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eWeek, Mashable!, Betabeat, Digital Trends, MediaPost, Search Engine Watch, SFGate, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook, VatorNews and GeekSugar, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Relaunches Questions: No Threat To Quora, More Emphasis On Friends
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The Social, SAI, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, NetworkEffect, Shelly Palmer Digital Living and Internet Evolution
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Nobody Needs a Tablet. So Why Are We Gobbling Them Up? — Apple's new iPad 2 comes in black or white. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com — Apple's iPad is just one year old, and more than 15 million customers have voted with their wallets. The tablet is officially mainstream.
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MediaVidea, MediaFile, PC World, @gartenberg, DisplayBlog and VentureBeat
Eric Chu / Android Developers Blog:
In-App Billing on Android Market: Ready for Testing — Back in January we announced our plan to introduce Android Market In-app Billing this quarter. We're pleased to let you know that we will be launching In-app Billing next week. In preparation for the launch, we are opening up Android Market …
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Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:
The Art of Riding the Bubble — People are increasingly asking whether there is a Bubble underway in the tech business. The answer is that by the time you know there is a Bubble it's probably too late to do anything about it. But if all you're doing is asking whether there is a Bubble, the Bubble is probably not here, yet.
Kindle Post US:
The Latest Kindle Offers Wireless Delivery of Audible Audiobooks via Wi-Fi — Now hear this! We're thrilled to announce that more than 50,000 Audible Audiobooks are available for download on the latest Kindle via Wi-Fi delivery. Of course, owners of any Kindle device can continue …
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Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, ThinkMobile, Electronista, Kindle Review, SlashGear, Engadget and CrunchGear
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DST's Yuri Milner Buys $70 Million Home In Silicon Valley — Yuri Milner, founder of Moscow-based venture firm DST, has purchased quite a home in Silicon Valley, say multiple sources. The 25,000 square foot home, built just a few years ago, sits on a tidy 11 acres. The price? $70 million.
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The Tech Trade, PE Hub Blog and Deal Journal
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Are Crappy Startups Wall Street's Fault? — Is Wall Street blocking the next Google from even getting off the ground? Yes, according to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation, which says that high-paying jobs in the financial sector have bled the prospective pool of startup founders and employees until it's pretty shallow.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Considers New iOS and iTunes Store UI Elements — Tampering with a winning user interface is a tricky thing. People don't generally like drastic user interface changes and yet, there are times early on in a new device cycle, where reinvention from within is necessary to keep the competition on the run and in a panic.
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TUAW, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, MacStories, The Next Web and Gizmodo
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
New Cable Fight at Hand — TV Networks Cry Foul as Time Warner Cable Offers Channels via iPads at Home — Time Warner Cable Inc. is digging in its heels in a dispute with several big media companies over whether it can beam live TV channels to Apple Inc. iPads, exposing tensions between …
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Larry Ellison Is On Jury Duty — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison couldn't make today's earnings call because he was on jury duty. — Instead, Mark Hurd — the company's president, who was dismissed as HP's CEO last year — sat in. — The report confirms a couple of tweets from Tuesday …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Oracle delivers strong third quarter, to hit Sun profit target
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Market Wire, New York Times, VentureBeat, NewEnterprise, Linux.com and Reuters
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Says They're Working On Meter Accuracy Insists They'll Work With Users On Problems — Earlier this week we noted that AT&T's usage meters for their upcoming metered billing push aren't accurate when compared to user firewall or router logs. That's been par for the course with a lot …
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CrunchGear and Techdirt
