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• Barnes & Noble Caught in a Wall St. Whirlwind - New York Times
• Report: Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericsson hacked - CNET
• New scam targets Apple App Store patrons - msnbc.com
• Twitter Buying TweetDeck: A Passionate Plea - PCWorld
• Introducing: The Y Combinator for Cleantech - Reuters
• Apple bolsters patent portfolio with 200 patents from Freescale - BetaNews
• Google to launch mobile payments system: source - Reuters
• Windows 8 unofficially officially coming to PCs, slates, and tablets in 2012 - Ars Technica

Barnes & Noble Caught in a Wall St. Whirlwind - New York Times Posted: 24 May 2011 02:02 PM PDT Reuters Barnes & Noble Caught in a Wall St. Whirlwind New York Times Can Wall Street save Barnes & Noble? Or is it leading the nation's largest bookseller astray? Liberty Media, a company controlled by John C. Malone, announced a proposal last week to acquire Barnes & Noble for $17 a share in a ... Barnes & Noble Unveils New Touchscreen Nook That Costs $139Bloomberg Liberty Media Plans A Hands-Off Role At Barnes & NobleWall Street Journal Take-Two loss grows; Rockstar contracts extendedMarketWatch International Business Times -CNNMoney -UGO all 767 news articles »

Report: Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericsson hacked - CNET Posted: 24 May 2011 02:02 PM PDT Globe and Mail Report: Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericsson hacked CNET The onslaught against Sony apparently continues: this time hackers have reportedly targeted Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Ericsson's eShop. Meanwhile, a Sony spokeswoman confirmed today that e-mails, phone numbers, ... Bringing Great Shame to Their Family: Sony Hacked Yet AgainDailyTech Latest Sony Hack Targets Japan Music SitePC Magazine Sony BMG Greece hit by hackerComputerworld Forbes (blog) -Register -AFP all 407 news articles »

New scam targets Apple App Store patrons - msnbc.com Posted: 24 May 2011 02:13 PM PDT Telegraph.co.uk New scam targets Apple App Store patrons msnbc.com Online crooks are taking advantage of iPhone and iPad owners with a new, ingeniously timed phishing campaign designed to scare them into giving up personal information. The scam emails, spotted by researchers at the security firm ... Estimates peg App Store at 500000 appsCNET Apple's App Store Has Had Half-a-Million AppsPCWorld Apple's iTunes store: 500000 iOS apps and countingCNNMoney PC Magazine -Wired News -Apple Insider all 306 news articles »

Twitter Buying TweetDeck: A Passionate Plea - PCWorld Posted: 24 May 2011 02:43 PM PDT The Guardian Twitter Buying TweetDeck: A Passionate Plea PCWorld After weeks of rumors, it looks like it's finally a done deal: Twitter is buying TweetDeck, the popular third-party client for the microblogging service. Now, the sale isn't official yet, mind you -- thus far ... Twitter acquires TweetDeckCNN Twitter buys TweetDeck - What happens to the apps?IntoMobile Twitter to buy TweetDeck for £25mThe Guardian Computerworld -PC Magazine -Los Angeles Times all 184 news articles »

Introducing: The Y Combinator for Cleantech - Reuters Posted: 24 May 2011 08:01 AM PDT Introducing: The Y Combinator for Cleantech Reuters Will the popular incubator program for young web and mobile start-ups, Y Combinator, work for cleantech? That's what a group of entrepreneurial investors including Mitch Lowe, Dave Graham, and Dillon McDonald, ... Greenstart: New Bay Area tech incubator homing in on green technologySan Jose Mercury News Ex-Automotive Executives Start Incubator for Greentech Start-UpsNew York Times (blog) Clean tech incubator calls for entrepreneursTG Daily Sustainable Industries -Wall Street Journal (blog) -VatorNews all 27 news articles »

Apple bolsters patent portfolio with 200 patents from Freescale - BetaNews Posted: 24 May 2011 02:09 PM PDT Macgasm Apple bolsters patent portfolio with 200 patents from Freescale BetaNews Apple has beefed up its patent portfolio, apparently obtaining the rights to about 200 patents formerly held by Freescale Semiconductor. The patents cover a range of technologies, from Wi-Fi to cellular ... Apple loads up for battle with over 200 Freescale patentsArs Technica Apple obtains over 200 Freescale Semiconductor hardware patentsApple Insider Apple Boosts IP Portfolio with 200 Freescale PatentsThe Mac Observer Macgasm -Mac Rumors -Pocket Gamer.Biz all 9 news articles »

Google to launch mobile payments system: source - Reuters Posted: 24 May 2011 02:05 PM PDT Reuters Google to launch mobile payments system: source Reuters Samsung's Nexus S mobile phone, the first smartphone to use the Android 2.3 ''Gingerbread'' operating system, is displayed at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 15, 2011. By Maria Aspan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a ... Report: Google, Sprint to Launch NFC Payments ThursdayPC Magazine More Proof Of A Google NFC Announcement: A Curious YouTube Live Event PageWashington Post Google, Sprint to allow mobile payments using NFCComputerworld Wall Street Journal -Mashable -Unwired View all 54 news articles »

Windows 8 unofficially officially coming to PCs, slates, and tablets in 2012 - Ars Technica Posted: 24 May 2011 02:05 PM PDT Social Barrel Windows 8 unofficially officially coming to PCs, slates, and tablets in 2012 Ars Technica Speaking in Japan yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the next version of Windows would arrive next year. Calling the as-yet unreleased operating system "Windows 8," he said that the ... Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 commentsComputerworld Windows 8 Rumors Swirl After Ballmer StatementeWeek Ballmer: Windows 8 Will Land in 2012, Pop up in TabletsDailyTech CNET -PC Magazine -X-bit Labs all 94 news articles »

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