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Lenovo’s Horizon PC Turns Your Coffee Table Into a Touchscreen Game Center

The Lenovo Horizon “tabletop” PC transforms your coffee table into a game center. But is it worth $1,700?
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Yahoo Buys Tumblr and Promises “Not to Screw It Up”

“We’re not turning purple,” says Tumblr founder David Karp, who then drops an f-bomb.
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Tuesday’s Clearwire Vote a Key Moment for Sprint, but Won’t Settle Things

Sprint’s bid for Clearwire faces stiff opposition from key minority shareholders. Either way, Sprint finds itself the subject of competing bids from SoftBank and Dish Network.
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No End-Zone Dance for Tumblr Investor Fred Wilson

You can count on it — when a deal works out spectacularly everyone involved will take credit for it. This behavior is particularly annoying to the entrepreneurs who put the sweat, blood, and tears into the Company.

“Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson, one of Tumblr’s earliest investors, celebrating the Yahoo deal without celebrating

Have Faith in Innovation, Fed Chairman Tells Graduates

“Humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.”
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Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

Pinterest brings information from the rest of the web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.
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How to Spend a Billion-Plus on User-Generated Content, Google Edition

Sure, Tumblr could be a GeoCities for Yahoo. What if it’s a YouTube? Here’s what the video site’s financials looked like when Google bought it.
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Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected

Done (just like we said).
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Netflix, “Breaking Bad” and an Energy Boost

I don’t think you’d be sitting here interviewing me if it weren’t for Netflix. In its third season, ‘Breaking Bad’ got this amazing nitrous-oxide boost of energy and general public awareness because of Netflix. Before binge-watching, someone who identified him- or herself as a fan of a show probably only saw 25 percent of the episodes.

“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan, talking to New York magazine about his show’s surprising success

Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem

Does Tumblr host a lot of pictures of naked people? Yep. But they’ve got an ad plan that deals with that.
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One Year After IPO, Facebook’s Biggest Bets Could Take a Long Time to Pay Off

The products that could do well for Facebook’s bottom line still have a long way to go. Will Wall Street stay patient?
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Yahoo Falls For Tumblr, Google I/O, and Bill Gates on Steve Jobs — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

The week in AllThingsD, in one convenient post. You’re welcome!
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