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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: Twitter Acquires Social Startup Spindle  —  Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social startup focused on the location and check-in space, and discovering local places of interest nearby.  —  “We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question …

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web: Facebook rolling out ability to insert images natively into comments, starting with Web  —  Is Facebook making a move to allow users to reply to their friend’s status updates with images?  According to a screenshot from devianART’s Product Marketing Manager Dan Leveille, it appears so.

Facebook rolling out ability to insert images natively into comments, starting with Web (Ken Yeung/The Next Web) SoyLaOstia

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes: Microsoft Finally Offers To Pay Hackers For Security Bugs With $100,000 Bounty  —  For years, Microsoft has refused to offer financial rewards to researchers who tell the company about security flaws in its software, even as Google and Facebook have ratcheted up their so-called “bug bounty” programs.

Microsoft Finally Offers To Pay Hackers For Security Bugs With $100,000 Bounty (Andy Greenberg/Forbes) SoyLaOstia

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Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times: L.A. school board OKs $30 million for Apple iPads  —  L.A. schools Supt.  John Deasy stepped out of a Tuesday Board of Education meeting during a vote to spend $30 million on iPads because, he said, he owns a small amount of stock in Apple.  (Luis Sinco / Los [...]

L.A. school board OKs $30 million for Apple iPads (Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times) SoyLaOstia

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Apple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, But Not All of You)  —  Apple’s TV hobby just a bit bigger: Apple has added five new content providers to its sort-of set-top box, notably Time Warner’s HBO Go and Disney’s WatchESPN.  Also available as of today [...]

Apple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, But Not All of You) (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD) SoyLaOstia

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader’s Backend, Power New Web Version Of Feedly’s App  —  In ten days, Google’s RSS feed-reading service Google Reader will shut down for good.  In its wake, developers working on products in the RSS ecosystem have been stepping up to deliver apps, tools and [...]

Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader’s Backend, Power New Web Version Of Feedly’s App (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) SoyLaOstia

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Apple: HBO GO & WatchESPN Come to Apple TV  —  iTunes Viewers Now Purchasing Over 800,000 TV Episodes & Over 350,000 Movies Per Day  —  Apple® today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV® joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes® users …

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Robert Hof / Forbes: You Know What’s Cool?  1 Million Advertisers At Facebook  —  Facebook just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone that signals that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses.  —  OK, so maybe cool isn’t the right word, but it’s hard to resist a good line from [...]

You Know What’s Cool? 1 Million Advertisers At Facebook (Robert Hof/Forbes) SoyLaOstia

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage  —  Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive [...]

Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) SoyLaOstia

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Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook: Google’s Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More Scrutiny  —  Google’s motto is “don’t be evil.”  But its recent acquisition of Waze, reportedly for $1 billion in cash, shows that just because you’re not evil, it doesn’t mean you can’t be aggressive in pushing the boundaries of the law.

Google’s Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More Scrutiny (Steven M. Davidoff/DealBook) SoyLaOstia