Apps Raise the iPad’s Aptitude for Real Work

iPads and other tablets are being used every day for productivity tasks once reserved for laptops. Walt Mossberg looks at apps that attempt to emulate the features of Office.
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Ahead of I/O, Google Wallet Drops Plans to Introduce a Physical Card

Google’s planned shiny black card is no longer coming to a physical wallet near you. If ever.
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Connecting Things to the Internet Does Not an Internet of Things Make

The Internet is about shared information, and it’s hard to share from inside a silo.
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Why Adobe Is Moving Its Best-Known Products to Subscription-Only

Having to maintain a fast-changing service and less-frequently updated packaged software products was apparently just too taxing for Adobe’s engineers.
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Google Glass, Workday and “WTF, Firefox OS?” — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

A convenient roundup of the Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD this week.
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Elissa Murphy, One of Yahoo’s High-Profile Tech Execs, Heads to Go Daddy as CTO (Memo Time!)

It’s the second talent raid by former Yahoo product head Blake Irving, who is now CEO at the domain giant.
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Matrix Partners Adds Two New EIRs

Matrix Partners has added two new entrepreneurs in residence, Kevin Barenblat and Mihir Shah. Barenblat founded social music app SpotDJ and Context Optional, a social marketing software startup which was bought by Adobe. Shah was the former CEO of mobile advertising platform Tapjoy, and also worked at social app firm RockYou and QuinStreet, a performance marketing firm. Both will focus on cloud, mobile, consumer Internet and ad tech at the Silicon Valley venture firm.

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Understanding the New Boom in Subscriptions

Businesses optimize for efficiency. Customers optimize for happiness.
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Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Departs to Join Nirvanix as CEO

She has been replaced at the gaming company by Dorion Carroll.
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After Two Years in the Works, Picturelife Comes Alive

The founder of OMGPOP and director of New York Tech Meetup are betting on a better backup solution for photos and videos.
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Depending on the Cloud

Twilio Names New Chief Revenue Officer