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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day — Dropbox will announce a number of milestones on Monday morning, we've learned. The file backup and sharing service was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. It was in one of the early Y Combinator classes …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Dropbox 1.4 Brings Tabs Back, Direct Uploads from Other Apps
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9 to 5 Mac
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
What on Earth Happened to BlackBerry? — Research in Motion's new tablet is a misguided mess. — First, a confession: I haven't used the BlackBerry PlayBook yet. The seven-inch tablet computer is scheduled to go on sale next week, and I hope to get my hands on one soon. This, then, is not a product review.
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Omar El Akkad / Globe and Mail:
RIM makes a play for its future
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Michael Geist Blog and Voice on the Web
Larry Fitzgibbon / Demand Media:
Another Statement About Search Engine Algorithm Changes — It's hard to imagine a company more focused on the connection between consumers and content than Demand Media. That point of connection gives us the opportunity to inform, engage and serve the consumer. And it's where trusted relationships start.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Demand Media Downplays Impact Of Latest Google Changes
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Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, Betabeat, Search Engine Roundtable and Poynter
Elsa Wenzel / PC World:
Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside — Now anyone can try Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity package for businesses. The service opened Sunday night for beta testing, coming a step closer to its final launch, which will occur sometime later this year.
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ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, CNET News, All about Microsoft Blog, NewEnterprise, Microsoft, PC World, Business Wire, The Register, TechNet Blogs, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, TechSpot, WinRumors, TechNet Blogs, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Windows 8 Beta, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Neowin.net and Computerworld
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous — For years, there's been a persistent, as-yet-unrealized rumor that Apple will start making HDTVs. Received wisdom, however, has generally argued that it's not going to happen. TVs are too commoditized; TVs would have to come in too many sizes …
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Fast Company, bijan sabet, Marco.org, SAI and parislemon
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Chris Dixon / cdixon.org:
Apple and the TV industry
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PC World, Venture Capital Dispatch, @kevinmarks, Stowe Boyd, Neven Mrgan's tumbl, DisplayBlog, I4U News, @carnage4life and The Next Web
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Busy Job of Judging Video-Game Content to Be Ceded to Machines — The little E's, T's and M's that appear on the covers of video games get there the old-fashioned way: People working for the Entertainment Software Rating Board look at the games, decide how gory, sexy or potty-mouthed they are …
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Yahoo! News and Blue's News
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
What Happens To Your Email Address If It Is Stolen? — Over the past few months, many high-profile companies have had their customer details compromised by attackers, targeting the third-party marketing firms that hold email addresses and many other personal details.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone 4 About To Be Flickr's Top Camera. Point & Shoots? Pretty Much The Opposite. — What's the most popular camera used in terms of pictures taken that are uploaded to Flickr? Right now, it's the Nikon D90. But in about a month or so, it will be Apple's iPhone 4.
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GigaOM, PC World, App Advice, Bits, Digital Trends, Hardware 2.0 Blog, DailyTech, Electronista, dailywireless.org, T3.com News, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe and Ubergizmo
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Veer launch party scheduled for May 2; Update: AT&T confirmed? — We've been hearing “spring,” “soon,” and most recently “very soon” with regards to when the minuscule HP Veer smartphone is supposed to launch. Of course, all this vagueness means little without a concrete date …
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BGR, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Electronista, Engadget and WebOS Arena
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Analysis: Google's Page and Wall Street: Who needs who? — (Reuters) - It took fewer than 400 words for freshman Google Inc CEO Larry Page to set the tone for a strained relationship with Wall Street that could haunt him for years. — The 38-year-old tech visionary …
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Digital Daily, TechCrunch, Fortune, Guardian and Between the Lines Blog
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Apple May Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Making Downloads Matter Less — It looks like Apple made a number of changes to the app store's ranking system last week, adding in new weights on top of download numbers to determine top apps, according to conversations we've …
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9 to 5 Mac and GigaOM
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21 — We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announcing that it will not longer support Yahoo Buzz, its a Digg-like product where users can rank stories from publishers. — According to a message on the Buzz website: Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011.
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VentureBeat, The Register, Light Reading, Mashable!, PC Magazine, Softpedia News and Marketing Pilgrim
Electronista:
HP's TouchPad cloud music, video plans leak in presentation — HP's intention to build a webOS cloud media locker, and possibly beat Apple and Google to the feature, was given more definitive support late Friday after a leaked presentation. A pair of slides describing the TouchPad reportedly showed …
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GigaOM, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, The Register, PC Magazine, Music Ally, PreCentral.net, SlashGear, CrackBerry.com blogs, Engadget, mobiputing and Yahoo! News
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Google Holds Out Against ‘Do Not Track’ Flag — And then there was Chrome. — Apple made it clear this week that the next version of its Safari browser — which will ship with the upcoming version of Mac OS — will include the ability for users to tell websites not to track them …
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Dustin Karnes / Talk Android:
Google now allows you to opt out of ad targeting via the Android Market
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Android News, Rumours …, Android Central, Android Phone Fans and Android Community
