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Today's Top Stories // May 7, 2013

AWS Offers General Availability For Node.js, The Popular Development Platform

Node.js is the everyman's platform for developing apps. It's JavaScript on the sever. It's relatively easy to learn and it's immensely popular. Now Amazon Web... read more

Tumblr's Teenaged, Double-Edged Sword

"im ddeleting the internet [sic]": A telling re-blog from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of... read more

Now 200M Users Strong, Viber Launches Desktop App With Video Calling In Version 3.0

Viber has made quite a name for itself as a global mobile first company, but today that all changes as the company breaks ground in the desktop space. That... read more

Rocket Internet-Backed FoodPanda Raises $20M+ As It Prepares For The Next Course In Its Food Delivery Ambitions

The food delivery wars continue to heat up: today foodpanda, the Rocket Internet-incubated startup that offers a one-stop service to order food from a selection... read more

Kim Dotcom Makes Another Plea For Legal Relief As U.S., UK, Canada Attorneys General Converge Down Under

Kim Dotcom and his legal team are seizing the moment of a meeting of attorneys general from the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in Auckland to bring... read more

RunKeeper For Pebble Arrives, Bringing Run, Walk And Bike Ride Progress Tracking To The Smart Watch

So far, the Pebble smart watch has done little besides offer up watch faces for users to tinker with, but the apps are starting to come in, and today marks the... read more

Microsoft Says It Has Sold More Than 100M Windows 8 Licenses, 250M App Downloads In Last 6 Months, Blue Coming "Later This Year"

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Nokia Appoints A New Lead In China As It Seeks To Reverse Its Declining Sales In That Country

Nokia's newly-appointed general manager of China, Erik Bertman, has plenty of experience in emerging markets, but it's unclear if he'll be able to reverse the... read more

iPad Mini With Retina Display Screen Production To Start In June Or July, NPD DisplaySearch Says

The iPad mini is quickly becoming a key component of Apple's product lineup, and according to some sources, might even be the best-selling tablet Apple makes at... read more

Monday In Tech And Hip-Hop: Sheryl Sandberg Joins RapGenius, Everyone's Obsessed With Snoop's New App

Mondays aren't always smile-inducing, but today two news stories cropped up that were pretty fun -- and showed the increasing crossover between the worlds of... read more

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