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Facebook updates its Graph API to allow developers to build tools for managing threaded comments (Ken Yeung/The Next Web)
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Excerpt: Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project  —  WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001.   Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium's rendering engine back when we started. A Short Translation from Bulls**t to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ  —  1 Why is Chrome spawning a new browser engine?   The WebKit maintainers wouldn't let us attack Apple directly, by changing WebKit in ways that would make it perform badly on OS X and iOS. Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink  —  Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues.... read the full post.
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Techmeme: Google Adds Twilio For The First Voice And Messaging APIs Available Through The Google Cloud Platform And App Engine (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Excerpt: Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial  —  (Reuters) - With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China's state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power of the government press. More: AllThingsD, iMore, New York Times, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Washington Post, Computerworld, BGR, CNET, Network World, MacNN, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, TUAW, Fortune, The Verge, ValueWalk, iDownloadBlog. com, AppleInsider, Forbes, PhoneArena, iPhone and BBC Microsoft's Windows Blue looks to be named Windows 8. 1  —  Summary: The Windows Blue operating system update is likely to be named “Windows 8.... read the full post.
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2020 Census will be done by Internet
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Excerpt: New Android Smartphone Is Said to Favor Facebook  —  Facebook will introduce a special version of Google's Android software system next week that is modified to put the social network front and center on a smartphone.   The software will debut on a handset made by HTC, said a Facebook employee who was briefed on the product. More: Digits, The Register, johnsherrod. net, The Verge, PhoneArena, Droid Life, MobileSyrup. com, AndroidHeadlines. com, AndroidGuys, Business Insider, IntoMobile, Engadget, nbcnews. com and BGR Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android” Sources Say Is A Modified OS On HTC At 4/4 Event  —  Facebook just invited press to an event at its headquarters on April 4th to “Come See Our New Home On Android”.... read the full post.
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Techmeme: Netflix Stops Issuing API Keys To New Developers, Effectively Ending Its Developer Program
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Excerpt: Google to Pay $7M to Settle Wi-Spy Case With More Than 30 U. S. Attorneys General  —  Google will soon settle with the attorneys general representing more than 30 U. S. states over its Street View cars collecting data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, multiple sources said. No Winning Exploit Found For Chrome OS At Annual Hacking Competition, Pwnium 3  —  Google's operating system Chrome OS survived all attempts to hack it at this year's Pwnium 3 competition, which took place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC this week. More: Geek.... read the full post.
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PeopleBrowsr Vs. Twitter Legal Battle Returns to San Francisco Court
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Excerpt: Antitrust: Commission fines Microsoft for non-compliance with browser choice commitments  —  European Commission  —  The European Commission has imposed a €561 million fine on Microsoft for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users a browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser. Carl Icahn Takes Up to a 6 Percent Stake in Dell: Sources  —  Carl Icahn appears set to enter the fray over the leveraged buyout of Dell.   —  Trading sources said they were confident that Icahn had amassed a position in Dell that may approach 100 million shares, and would bring him to a roughly 6 percent ownership.... read the full post.
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Twitter opens up cross-platform Nielsen Brand Effect survey tool to all advertisers in US, UK and Japan
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Excerpt: YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify  —  Google planning to roll out service to capitalize on the vast power of YouTube.   —  By Ryan Bradley and Jessi Hempel  —  FORTUNE — YouTube, the world's largest digital repository of streaming media, will launch a subscription music service later this year. iPhone 5S planned for August, next iPads may debut as soon as April  —  iMore has learned that Apple is planning the release of the iPhone 5S for this summer, currently for August.   Next generation iPads, presumably the iPad 5 and potentially the iPad mini 2, may also debut as soon as this April.... read the full post.
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Techmeme: Dropbox makes a play for the enterprise with new IT controls
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Excerpt: Apple announces $8B paid out to developers, a jump of $1B in just one month  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook today announced that Apple had paid out $8B to developers, a number that displays an increase of $1B since the last time numbers were announced on January 13th.   That displays a massive increase in acceleration for developer payouts. More: MacRumors, Inside Mobile Apps, Mobile Marketing Watch, CNET, Daring Fireball, CNET, Neowin, PC Magazine, ParisLemon, MobileSyrup.... read the full post.
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Cloud storage service Box launches Partner Network to push into new markets and verticals, as it closes in on an IPO
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Excerpt: Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private  —  Dell announced Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.   —  Under the terms of the deal, the buyers' consortium … Dell Enters Into Agreement to Be Acquired By Michael Dell and Silver Lake  — Transaction implies a 37 percent premium over the average closing share price during the previous 90 calendar days ending Jan. 11, 2013  —  Dell Inc.... read the full post.
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Techmeme: New FCC ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Initative Not Really New (Karl Bode/DSLreports)
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Excerpt: Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs  —  Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that was founded in 2008, sources say.   Although we don't know the exact acquisition price, we were told this is Twitter's biggest acquisition to date. Facebook Is Said to Create Mobile Location-Tracking App  —  Facebook Inc. (FB) is developing a smartphone application that will track the location of users, two people with knowledge of the matter said, bolstering efforts to benefit from growing use of social media on mobile computers.... read the full post.
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Techmeme: Instagram's Updated User Agreement Goes Into Effect This Week (Mike Isaac/AllThingsD)
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Excerpt: Introducing Graph Search Beta  —  Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected.   The main way we do this is by giving people the tools to map out their relationships with the people and things they care about.   We call this map the graph.   It's big and constantly expanding with new people, content and connections. How The New Facebook Search Is Different & Unique From Google Search  —  At long last, Facebook's search challenge to Google has arrived.   But it has arrived in a much different format than many expected.   Indeed, Facebook's not using its data to provide a better search that Google.... read the full post.
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