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Wall Street Journal:
Apple, Google Collect User Data — Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.
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Pete Warden / O'Reilly Radar:
iPhone tracking: The day after — I don't think either of us were expecting to see this story strike such a nerve. There's been some amazing detective work from researchers across the web, and so here's a selection of the most interesting immediate reactions.
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Computerworld, Zero Percent Idle, The Not-So Private Parts, willclarke.net, CNN, ITworld.com, blogs.chron.com and Apple Gazette
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple location tracker file: Congressman asks Steve Jobs to explain by May 12
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The Apple Core Blog, CNET News, TechEye, @percival, Live in The Future …, BGR, @falsestevejobs, eWeek, The Register, SAI, Slashdot, 9 to 5 Mac and Reuters
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Facebook Employee Accused Of Goldman-Related Insider Trading Got A Raw Deal — Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Facebook fired a corporate development manager named Michael Brown because he bought Facebook shares on a secondary market, violating the company's insider trading rules.
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Brad Stone / Business Week:
Silicon Valley Cashes Out Selling Private Shares — SecondMarket and its ilk allow investors and employees—including Facebook's—to convert pre-IPO shares into millions. But is it healthy for startups? — Vince Thompson doesn't appear in any accounts of Facebook's early years.
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist and Questions Unfold — Amazon Web Services disruption issues are now in a second day as engineers work to get the last of the availability zones restored. — Meanwhile, the customers affected spent the day talking …
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Keith Smith / GeekWire:
Amazon.com's real problem isn't the outage, it's the communication — Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon's Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And like most startups, we are braced for bad stuff to happen, and we do our best to learn from the painful stuff.
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Betabeat, Roman Stanek's Push … and CNET News
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Amazon gets ‘black eye’ from cloud outage
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Fortune, Network World, Bits, @reddit and Datamation
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Amazon EC2 outage calls ‘availability zones’ into question
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justinsb's posterous, PC World, ProgrammableWeb, Computerworld and Social Media & Technology
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple to beat Google on cloud music storage: sources — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans.
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CNET News, PC World, DailyTech, PadGadget, Techland, Edible Apple, Yahoo! News, Neowin.net, Gadgetell, hypebot, IntoMobile, App Advice, MediaFile, T3.com News, Android Phone Fans, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Gizmodo Australia, TiPb, SAI, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, GigaOM, TUAW, Engadget, BGR, MacRumors, AppleInsider and The Loop
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
One Difference Between Apple's Music Locker and Amazon's: Label Deals
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9 to 5 Mac, iLounge, TiPb, ITworld.com, Apple Bitch, AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacRumors, Electronista and everythingiCafe
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung countersues Apple over iPhone, iPad — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung's smartphones and tablets “slavishly” copied its products.
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SAMSUNG TOMORROW, PC World, Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, BGR, Fast Company, Guardian, Digital Trends, CNET News, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Mobilized, FOSS Patents, Techland, SAI, Android Phone Fans, Engadget, paidContent, SlashGear, Android Community, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, TechEye, MacStories, Network World, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Electronista, Phones Review and MacRumors
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
A Clash Over the Airwaves — LAS VEGAS — Dropped calls. Maps that take eons to load. Echoing voices on a mobile phone. And, as iPhone users know, the dreaded “Cannot Open Page.” — Those annoyances are likely to get worse, as airwaves that carry cellphone signals and wireless Internet connections grow ever more crowded.
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facts Should Be Free: SimpleGeo Puts 20 Million Places in the Public Domain — If this week's Where 2.0 conference is proof of anything, it's that developers are excited about creating location aware mobile apps. One of the biggest barriers to creating a place-aware app, however, is getting the ball rolling - you need place data.
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SimpleGeo
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple floats iPhone ‘4S’ with A5 chip to select developers to prepare for next-gen iPhone — The iPad 2′s A5 processor not only is a speedy, dual-core chip, but also works to provide nine times the gaming performance of its predecessor, A4. So, what's Apple to do for their best-selling gaming phone?
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, iPhone Buzz, ITworld.com, MacHackPC, TiPb, Softpedia News, App Advice, MobileWhack, PC World, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, Neowin.net, TUAW, Electricpig.co.uk, iThinkDifferent, Crave, Electronista, Gizmodo Australia, iLounge, MobileCrunch, MacStories, MacRumors and Edible Apple, Thanks:saumil_747
Romil Patel / Venture Level:
Why Groupon Sucks For Merchants and LivingSocial Doesn't — It doesn't matter whether you like Groupon or LivingSocial as a consumer or not, because this post is discussing why Groupon is like dealing with a child, for merchants. As many of you know, I own a few QSR (quick service restaurant) outlets.
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Lucian Cionca / Google News Blog:
Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sections in Google News — Last summer we redesigned Google News with new personalization features that let you tell us which subjects and sources you'd like to see more or less often. Starting today — if you're logged in — you may also find stories based …
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Softpedia News, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable, The Next Web, Search Engine Land and Poynter
Marshall Heyman / Heard & Seen:
Re-Tweeting (Not-So) Humble Promoters — Whether we like it or not, and especially on social media, we're all self-promoters, broadcasting even our quasi-achievements to every friend and follower. In response, Harris Wittels, a standup comedian and a writer on the NBC series “Parks and Recreation …
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's iPhone and Android Apps Let You Find Friends From Your Phone Book, Grow the Site — Facebook for iPhone 3.4.1 released yesterday and Facebook for Android 1.5.3 released Monday both now allows users to “Find Friends” from their device's contacts list and send them friend requests or invites to the site.
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TiPb
DigiTimes:
Apple shipment shortfall prompts cut in 2011 iPad shipment forecast, says IHS iSuppli — Manufacturing issues at Apple led to a shortfall in iPad 2 shipments in the first quarter, prompting IHS iSuppli to reduce its forecast for 2011. IHS iSuppli now forecasts Apple will ship 39.7 million units …
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Fortune, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Bloomberg, MacStories, Dow Jones Newswires and thinq_
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents New Peer-to-Peer Sharing Technology that Utilizes Unique Magnetic Compass and Supersonic Tone Methodologies — In late 2009 Patently Apple reported that Apple was working on a new short-range wireless technology that would work with a newly proposed iTunes Kiosk.
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SlashGear, Neowin.net, TUAW and 9 to 5 Mac
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Japanese Company GREE Buys Mobile Social Gaming Platform OpenFeint For $104 Million In Cash — Mobile gaming startup OpenFeint, has been acquired by Japanese mobile gaming company GREE for $104 million in cash plus additional capital for growth of the OpenFeint platform.
Fred / A VC:
comScore Total Universe Report — For the past three or four years, I'd look at Twitter's numbers on comScore, or Alexa, or Quantcast, or some other third party measurement service and I'd wonder “what would they be if they included mobile devices like phones and tablets”?
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comScore, Inc. and MediaPost
