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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat

Kara Swisher in D10 on March 9 at 10:40 am PT

Speakers? We got your speakers right here.

Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 15 at 10:33 am PT

In the wake of the Path address book flap, Apple says all apps that want access to your data will have to ask nicely.

Health Help: Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Talks About New CareZone Start-Up (Video)

Kara Swisher in Social on February 14 at 9:01 pm PT

Here’s a very intriguing new social networking site called CareZone, aimed at helping people managing chronic health care issues. (I can tell you, based on my own recent scare, it’s needed.)

SurveyMonkey Buys Online Forms Start-Up Wufoo for $35 Million

Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo. While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box–makers of Wufoo–were not disclosed, sources said the price was $35 million in cash and stock.

Microsoft and HP Show Off the Fruits of Their Partnership

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

One year later, it’s time to see what the world’s biggest software company and the world’s biggest IT company could do with $250 million and a year to collaborate on cloud products.

What Facebook Messages Means and Why You Should Care

Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 12:18 pm PT

Facebook yesterday launched an interesting product that tries to get at the heart of how highly connected people communicate casually. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others from the company reiterated over and over again (see my live notes; the repetition is excessive) that the product is “not email.”

Video: Even Apple Product Marketing Head Schiller Touts Facebook Connection, Which Has Now Disappeared on Ping

Kara Swisher in News on September 2, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The plot thickens! While two official Apple pages tout an ability to use Facebook to find friends on Ping–its new social music offering in ITunes–which would be very useful, the feature is now not available on the service. CEO Steve Jobs told me at the Apple launch event yesterday that “onerous terms” prevented the integration at Apple. Which is why it is odd that Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller said in the interview after the jump, which I also did at the confab minutes before, that “you can use your Facebook contacts to find friends who are also on Ping and hook up to them.”

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Xobni Soups Up BlackBerry; No Mac Support

Katherine Boehret, Columnist, Mossberg Solution in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:22 pm PT

On Digits today, Katie fields questions about Xobni, including Mac support, pricing and the need for having all your Outlook contacts on your BlackBerry.

An App With a Knack for Contacts

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on March 16, 2010 at 3:08 pm PT

Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry app compiles contact information on the BlackBerry for anyone you’ve emailed–regardless of whether or not you saved their information in your address book.