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Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp (Amir Efrati/Digits)
Amir Efrati / Digits: Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp — Google said it has seen a noticeable increase in activity on its vaunted Web-search in the two weeks since the company began one of the biggest se...
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Liveblog: Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)
Ina Fried / AllThingsD: Liveblog: Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D — While he has presided over a number of events since taking over as Apple CEO last year, Tuesday night promises to offer a new look inside the...
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PhotoBeamer: Imaging tech company Scalado introduces first iOS app; beam photos to any browser (Jordan Kahn/9to5Mac)
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: PhotoBeamer: Imaging tech company Scalado introduces first iOS app; beam photos to any browser — You may not be familiar with the name Scalado, but there is a good chance you have used one of it...
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SoftBank Pantone 5 107SH hands-on: radiation detection comes to Android (Sam Byford/The Verge)
Sam Byford / The Verge: SoftBank Pantone 5 107SH hands-on: radiation detection comes to Android — Despite SoftBank relegating its inclusion to a separate section of the press conference, the radiation detector isn't e...
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1M Students Strong, Echo360 Secures $31M From Steve Case, Ted Leonsis To Flip Higher Ed (Rip Empson/TechCrunch)
Rip Empson / TechCrunch: 1M Students Strong, Echo360 Secures $31M From Steve Case, Ted Leonsis To Flip Higher Ed — As the old school gives way to the new, technology has begun to play an increasingly active role in th...
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New Zealand court tells U.S. to reveal MegaUpload evidence (Greg Sandoval/CNET)
Greg Sandoval / CNET: New Zealand court tells U.S. to reveal MegaUpload evidence — MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom. — (Credit: 3News) — A New Zealand judge wants to see the evidence a...
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Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology — Summary: Moonlight, the open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux and Unix, is no more. — Given the continued d...
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HTC says its phones have clared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings (T.C. Sottek/The Verge)
T.C. Sottek / The Verge: HTC says its phones have clared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings — HTC says that it has completed the review process with US customs, and that “HTC devices have been release...
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With Motorola in Google's Hands, Microsoft Eyes Possibility of Patent Deal (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)
Ina Fried / AllThingsD: With Motorola in Google's Hands, Microsoft Eyes Possibility of Patent Deal — Microsoft and Motorola have been suing each other practically everywhere but in Judge Judy's courtroom, but could a d...
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Groupon acquires Breadcrumb in an effort to better connect with local restaurants (Harrison Weber/The Next Web)
Harrison Weber / The Next Web: Groupon acquires Breadcrumb in an effort to better connect with local restaurants — Groupon has just announced on its company blog that it has acquired Breadcrumb, a fully featured &ldqu...
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Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media For More Than $800 Million (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media For More Than $800 Million — Enterprise, meet social: Cloud computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, t...
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Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass (Roberto Baldwin/Wired)
Roberto Baldwin / Wired: Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass — Google's co-founder manipulates the Google Glass touch pad. Image Capture: Current TV — Sergey Brin has once a...
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Facebook faces extended U.S. review of Instagram deal (Diane Bartz/Reuters)
Diane Bartz / Reuters: Facebook faces extended U.S. review of Instagram deal — (Reuters) - Facebook has received notice that U.S. antitrust regulators will give its proposed purchase of the popular photo-sharing app m...
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Improving performance on twitter.com (Dan Webb/Twitter Engineering)
Dan Webb / Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com — To connect you to information in real time, it's important for Twitter to be fast. That's why we've been reviewing our entire technology stac...
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Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29 (Kim-Mai Cutler/TechCrunch)
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29 — Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook's stock. Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today,...
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Japanese MH-2 Shoulder Robot Wants To Be Your Friend, Literally (Evan Ackerman/Automaton)
Evan Ackerman / Automaton: Japanese MH-2 Shoulder Robot Wants To Be Your Friend, Literally — Nobody likes being alone, and Japanese researchers from Yamagata University are developing a robot to make sure you'll never...
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RIM Expects Operating Loss, Names Two New Senior Execs (Arik Hesseldahl/AllThingsD)
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: RIM Expects Operating Loss, Names Two New Senior Execs — Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an...
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RIM Hires J.P. Morgan, RBC for Strategic Review (Chip Cummins/Wall Street Journal)
Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal: RIM Hires J.P. Morgan, RBC for Strategic Review — TORONTO—Research In Motion Ltd. said it had hired investment bankers J.P. Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to assist ...
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RIM Says Its Going To Have A Loss In Q1, And It Hired Bankers To Explore 'Options' (Jay Yarow/Business Insider)
Jay Yarow / Business Insider: RIM Says Its Going To Have A Loss In Q1, And It Hired Bankers To Explore ‘Options’ — Research in Motion released a boatload of bad news after the market closed today: &m...
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Group Commerce Raises Funding to Expand Its Deals Platform to Europe (Tricia Duryee/AllThingsD)
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: Group Commerce Raises Funding to Expand Its Deals Platform to Europe — Group Commerce, which has developed a platform that helps publishers sell Groupon-like offers, has raised $21 million ...
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Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff (Marie Mawad/Bloomberg)
Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff — When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to m...
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Separate leaks claim to show new iPhone's back, ports (Electronista)
Electronista: Separate leaks claim to show new iPhone's back, ports — Photos depict metal back, smaller dock connector Two separate websites say they have obtained photos of the body of the next-generation iPhone.&nbs...
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms — Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate...
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Windows 8 Release Preview leaks out ahead of official debut (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge: Windows 8 Release Preview leaks out ahead of official debut — A Chinese edition of Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Preview, due in the first week of June, has leaked ahead of its official debut.&...
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Why Facebook Won't Just Give Advertisers Like GM What They Want (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Why Facebook Won't Just Give Advertisers Like GM What They Want — GM dares to dream bigger than this, but for now, Facebook's saying no. — For a company with 900 million...
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As Zynga's stock lockup ends, Game Closure steals a mobile game expert (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: As Zynga's stock lockup ends, Game Closure steals a mobile game expert — Zynga's lockup on the ability for employees to sell stock in the aftermath of its initial public offering expires ...
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New Samsung Chromebook & Chromebox review: Chrome OS grows up (David Pierce/The Verge)
David Pierce / The Verge: New Samsung Chromebook & Chromebox review: Chrome OS grows up — 2012 is the year of Chrome OS — or so we're told. When we spoke with Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Ch...
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Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right (Om Malik/GigaOM)
Om Malik / GigaOM: Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right — We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things right, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right o...
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Xbox Beyond the Box (Yusuf Mehdi/TechNet Blogs)
Yusuf Mehdi / TechNet Blogs: Xbox Beyond the Box — Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has s...
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Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground (Cotton Delo/AdAge)
Cotton Delo / AdAge: Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground — Can Newly Public Company Withstand Demands for Ads That Interrupt User Experience? — GM wanted to brand Facebook. And...
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Crowdsourced Flight Finder FlightFox Grabs $800K In Angel Funding, Joins YC's Latest Batch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Crowdsourced Flight Finder FlightFox Grabs $800K In Angel Funding, Joins YC's Latest Batch — Australian travel search FlightFox has a new take on how to surface the best airline deals, and no...
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Pictures and vision - Okay, I'm going to argue that the futures ... (Robin Sloan)
Robin Sloan: Pictures and vision — Okay, I'm going to argue that the futures of Facebook and Google are pretty much totally embedded in these two images: The first one you know. What you might not know is just h...
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Facebook Falls Below $30 as Option Trading Begins (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Facebook Falls Below $30 as Option Trading Begins — NEW YORK—Facebook Inc.'s shares tumbled under $30 for the first time, 11 days after the social-media giant launched its initial public off...
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Lockerz buys online fashion site Chick Approved (John Cook/GeekWire)
John Cook / GeekWire: Lockerz buys online fashion site Chick Approved — Lockerz continues to bolster its ranks through acquisitions, with the fast-growing Seattle social shopping company announcing that it has acquire...
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The Truth About Those Brutal Descriptions Of Working Conditions At Square (Nicholas Carlson/Business Insider)
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: The Truth About Those Brutal Descriptions Of Working Conditions At Square — Over on Q&A site Quora, several former Square employees have posted harsh descriptions of the workin...
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Exclusive: Sequoia Capital raising new funds (Dan Primack/Fortune)
Dan Primack / Fortune: Exclusive: Sequoia Capital raising new funds — Venture firm seeks at least $1 billion. — FORTUNE — Sequoia Capital is back in the fund-raising market, with a series of ve...
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Dell adds XPS One 27 with 2560 x 1440 screen to its all-in-one lineup, prices start at $1,399 (video) (Sarah Silbert/Engadget)
Sarah Silbert / Engadget: Dell adds XPS One 27 with 2560 x 1440 screen to its all-in-one lineup, prices start at $1,399 (video) — HP, Sony and Toshiba have already outed their new offerings for the back-to-school seas...
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See what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers (Stacey Higginbotham/GigaOM)
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: See what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers — Dell showed off a box that contains 48 ARM-based servers, joining other vendors such as HP making servers that uses the same proce...
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Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to 'Your Video Library' and Prime Instant Video (Amazon.com)
Amazon.com: Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video — Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game...
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Rumored images of Apple's 3D Maps for iOS 6 leak (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
Andrew Webster / The Verge: Rumored images of Apple's 3D Maps for iOS 6 leak — Earlier this month reports surfaced that Apple was preparing an updated Maps app for iOS 6, which would include a focus on 3D. And w...
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Sprint Plans To Shut Nextel Network as Early as June 2013 (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)
Ina Fried / AllThingsD: Sprint Plans To Shut Nextel Network as Early as June 2013 — Sprint said Tuesday that it would shut down its Nextel network as soon as June of next year as the company aims to free up space for ...
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MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others (Sean Ludwig/VentureBeat)
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others — 10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 millio...
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F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference — Faster than you can say “Can I borrow your copy of ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People,’” it's tech conference seaso...
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Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO (Dominic Rushe/Guardian)
Dominic Rushe / Guardian: Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO — Shares continue to slump on Wall Street as lawsuits against founder Mark Zuckerberg allege company misled inves...
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Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present (Mark Gurman/9to5Mac)
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present — Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iP...
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Bitly Launches New Bookmarking Features, Profiles, Search & iPhone App (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Bitly Launches New Bookmarking Features, Profiles, Search & iPhone App — Link shortener Bitly today launched a major redesign and number of new features that all add up to what the...
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YouTube Waves Victory Flag in French Copyright Case (Stephanie Mlot/PC Magazine)
Stephanie Mlot / PC Magazine: YouTube Waves Victory Flag in French Copyright Case — YouTube scored a legal victory today when a French court rejected claims from the country's largest television broadcaster that the v...
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Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources — The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources. — Tho...
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RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada (Hugo Miller/Bloomberg)
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the ...
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Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 (Michael Mace/MobileOpportunity)
Michael Mace / MobileOpportunity: Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 — I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of settling for mediocre incremental improvements in its core products,...
