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This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Spotify, Jolicloud, Bluetooth Manager & More [Roundup]

Spotify-iPadAfter months and months of waiting, Spotify finally released its iPad app this week, and it does not disappoint. It features a terrific interface optimized for the iPad’s larger screen, plus plenty of other great features. There’s no wonder why it’s at the top...

Facebook Messenger Updated With Read Receipts, Location, Typing Indicator

Facebook Messenger Updated With Read Receipts, Location, Typing Indicator The official Facebook Messenger app for iPhone was updated today, reaching version 1.7. The new version, first reported by 9to5mac earlier this week, adds a number of optimizations and new features to the standalone messaging client, including read receipts, location information for messages, and a typing...

Yahoo: Facebook’s Open Compute Project also violates our patents

You already know Yahoo is suing Facebook, claiming its "entire social network model" was made possible by Yahoo's patented Web technologies. Now, it turns out Yahoo is indicating it may assert another 16 patents against...

Facebook announces initial IPO price range of $28 to $35

Facebook is slated to set its price range for its initial public offering (IPO) at $28 to $35, according to an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) first reported by the Wall...

The PoP Video Adds A Projector To Your iPhone For Just $99

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jNJOd3muQg Although several rather bizarre rumors have claimed Apple will integrate a projector into a future iPhone, it seems a little unlikely — at least for many years. But thanks to PoP Video, you can add your own projector that displays 960 x 540 video...

Twitter Tried To Buy Camera+ After Facebook Bought Instagram

Why would Twitter feel the need to buy its own photography app?Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram secured the social networking giant ownership of the largest and fastest growing mobile photography network on the planet. Instagram has 50 million users, and Facebook is already...

Memory of Steve Jobs helped inspire Facebook’s organ donation initiative

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told ABC's Good Morning America that it was a combination of ideas from his girlfriend and his friendship with Steve Jobs that prompted him to use Facebook as a platform for addressing organ shortage for patients in n...

Mothers Day: 9 out of 10 moms would prefer an iPad to flowers

But only 12% of their kids plan to buy them a gadget, and most will spend less than $50

FORTUNE -- Think a phone call or a floral display is going to satisfy Mom this Mothers Day?

Think again. According to a survey released Tuesday by the shopping site TechBargains.com, 91% of mothers polled would much rather...

After $1B Instagram Buyout, Could Facebook Buy Viddy Next?

Was Zuckerberg simply showing off his pooch, or is he eyeing up another takeover?Having already treated himself to the hugely popular photo-sharing service Instagram earlier this month, there’s talk that Mark Zuckerberg could now be eyeing up a potential takeover of Viddy, a service...

What does all this ‘bubble’ talk have to do with Apple?

Something may burst, but it's not the company that's making money hand over fist

FORTUNE -- It's symptomatic of the delusion that characterizes much of the thinking in Silicon Valley these days that someone could read Chris Dixon's nuanced "Is it a tech bubble?" post that was Techmeme's lead story Monday and turn it into an...

Bill banning employer Facebook snooping introduced in Congress

Two members of Congress have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of requiring job applicants, employees or students to provide their social networking information. The Social Networking Online Protection...

Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green

Buried in last week’s catfight between Apple and Greenpeace over the energy sourcing for Apple’s new North Carolina data center and how clean it would be, was a surprising fact — that the conversation between Apple and Greenpeace was happening at all.