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Apple:
Apple Q&A on Location Data — Apple would like to respond to the questions we have recently received about the gathering and use of location information by our devices. — 1. Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone? — Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Q&A: Jobs and Apple Execs on Tracking Down the Facts About iPhones and Location — Although Apple was silent for several days after researchers raised issues about location information being stored on the iPhone, that wasn't because it was ignoring the issue.
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Apple's Jobs and Schiller On Why Making the White iPhone Was So Darn Tough — It turns out that white is a whole lot harder than black, at least when it comes to making iPhones. — Although Apple announced plans for both a black and a white iPhone 4 last year, the company was forced …
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Apple:
White iPhone Arrives Tomorrow — Apple® today announced that the white iPhone® 4 will be available beginning tomorrow. White iPhone 4 models will be available from Apple's online store (www.apple.com), at Apple's retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious from Yahoo! — Today YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen announced they have acquired the Delicious technology from Yahoo!. They plan to continue the service that users have come to know and love and make the site even easier and more fun to save …
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avos.com, delicious blog, Deal Journal, ReadWriteWeb, Digits, Search Engine Land, BetaNews, @ceonyc, Geek.com, Geekosystem, PE Hub Blog, Social Markets, Laughing Squid, CNET News, SiliconANGLE, Mashable! and Techie Buzz
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Delicious Finds a New Home at AVOS, YouTube Founders' New Company — Yahoo today announced that it has sold the bookmarking service Delicious to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen. According to Yahoo, the plan is to continue the service and “make the site even easier and more fun to save …
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@hornokplease, Guardian, TechCrunch, NetworkEffect, CNNMoney.com, mocoNews, Techland, Marketing Pilgrim, PC World and DealBook, more at Mediagazer »
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can Delicious Solve Our Information Discovery Problem?
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Digital Trends
Reuben Kan / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the new Google Docs app for Android — Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information — from email to web browsing to editing documents. Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why we're happy to announce the new Google Docs app for Android.
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BGR, Engadget, ZDNet, The Register, PC Magazine, mocoNews, MediaFile, This is my next, PC World, The Download Blog, MobileBurn.com, Googling Google Blog, Techie Buzz, ReadWriteWeb and Network World
Reuters:
Exclusive: Facebook investors look for exits — (Reuters) - A group of Facebook shareholders is seeking to offload $1 billion worth of shares on the secondary market, a sale that would value the company at more than $70 billion, according to five sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Visa Makes A Strategic Investment In Disruptive Mobile Payments Startup Square — There is no doubt that mobile payments company Square is on a roll. The company just landed a lucrative deal selling its credit card readers in Apple's retail stores and is growing at a fast clip.
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VatorNews, Business Week, Digits, Bits, mocoNews, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Geek.com, Electronista, eMoney, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, Mogulite, Betabeat, @jack, TUAW and Mobile Industry Review
Josh Estelle / Google Chrome Blog:
Everybody's talking (and translating) with Chrome — Today, we're excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today's new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML. — Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here's one example: Using Chrome …
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Google Chrome Releases, PC World, MacStories, Electronista, Softpedia News, Compixels and RazorianFly, Thanks:tsuvik
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
An Update To My Investment Policy — Before TechCrunch I was an occasional angel investor, going back to the mid 1990s. I've also made investments since TechCrunch, in companies like Dogster, DanceJam, Seesmic and Daylife. Some people have seen this as a conflict of interest, which it of course is.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Barnes & Noble says Microsoft is attacking Android with its patent-infringement claims — Barnes & Noble has filed its response to Microsoft's claim from earlier this year that the Android-based Nook e-reader violates Microsoft patents — complete with allegations around Microsoft's tactics …
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The Microsoft Blog, The Register, paidContent, SAI, FOSS Patents, GeekWire and eWeek
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon's LTE network takes the night off, leaves a bunch of Thunderbolt users bewildered — Is your fancy new phone lacking that certain extra G that makes it special? Worry not, it's not just your device, Verizon's entire LTE network seems to be having problems as outages have been reported from across the US.
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BGR, CNET News, GottaBeMobile, Computerworld, DroidMatters.com, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Digital Trends, LAPTOP Magazine, IntoMobile and Android Community
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
T-Mobile: $1,000 Says Your iPhone's Slower Than Our Galaxy — T-Mobile says the Galaxy S 4G is faster than the iPhone and it's willing to pay $1,000 to anyone who can prove it wrong. — From Friday through Sunday, the carrier is calling on Seattle-area iPhone owners to bring their handsets …
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Issues & Insights Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog and IntoMobile
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 8′s user account roaming feature revealed — Thanks to some random pokings by curious enthusiasts on the MyDigitalLife forums, the user account roaming options in the early builds of Windows 8 has been exposed, shedding some light on what it enables.
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Microsoft News, TechSpot, WinRumors and Geek.com
Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Tumblr Gave Danah Boyd's Username to a Marketing Company — Tumblr just messed with the wrong 43,913 Twitter follower-ed blogger. Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd just posted an open letter to Tumblr, which abruptly moved her blog to a new address and gave her old handle, zephoria.tumblr.com, to a social media consulting company.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Acq-hires Data Organization Startup Daytum — Facebook has just made a talent acquisition out of Daytum, a two-person New York-based data collection and organization startup. Founders Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton will be joining the product design team at Facebook. — From the Daytum blog:
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Bits, Daytum, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, NetworkEffect and VizWorld.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent — eBay just reported first quarter earnings today posting revenue of $2.5 billion, an increase of 16% from the same period of 2010. eBay's net income on a GAAP basis of $475.9 million, or $0.36 per diluted share …
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CNET News, Business Wire, Between the Lines Blog, eMoney, Associated Press and WebProNews
Sean Michael Kerner / Datamation:
Novell Sale to Attachmate Completed — Today is the last day that Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) will exist as a publicly traded company. Trading in Novell's stock will cease at the close of business, as the company is taken private. — Novell is being acquired by privately held Attachmate in a deal that closes today.
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eWeek, InfoWorld, John Dragoon's Blog and Network World
Paul McDougall InformationWeek / InformationWeek:
U.S. OKs Expiration of Microsoft Antitrust Deal — At court hearing, DOJ and state attorneys pass on their last chance to challenge May 12 deadline. — Attorneys for the Department of Justice and several states told a judge on Wednesday that they would not raise any objections …
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Wall Street Journal, WMPoweruser.com, @asadotzler and The Next Web
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Magnet Systems Lands $12.6 Million Round From Andreessen Horowitz — Alfred Chuang was the A in BEA Systems, the software company that was acquired by Oracle in 2008. His new venture is an outfit called Magnet Systems, which is making a play in social enterprise, but it's a little different …
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ben's blog
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Hold Official #Devnest Developer Events — Sad that Twitter Developer conference Chirp did not celebrate its first birthday this year? Well Twitter's Jason Costa has just given those anticipating the gathering a slight ray of hope by announcing an official smaller #Devnest event …
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Richard Lai / Engadget:
Fring Group Video goes live, enables four-way mobile video calls for free — If you missed the opportunity to get your hands on Fring's limited Group Video beta, fret not, because the free service has just gone live for everyone on this planet. What this means is that all Fringsters …
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fring, Apps, TUAW, App Advice, IntoMobile and GottaBeMobile
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
RIM Acquires Social Calendaring Application Tungle.Me — RIM has picked up another company today—social calendaring application Tungle.Me. The startup taps into your social graph and simplifies the process of finding and connecting with friends and colleagues.
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ReadWriteWeb, Inside BlackBerry, Tungle.me, Computerworld, SocialTimes.com, SAI, Engadget, VatorNews, Electronista, IntoMobile and VoIP Watch
