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Facebook Credits Available Offline at Asian, Australian Retailers

Through a partnership with MOL – the online micropayment company that bought Friendster about 7 months ago — Facebook is making its virtual currency, Facebook Credits , available at a large network of retail outlets around Asia and Australia. MOL has its own virtual currency — MOLPoints. In a few months, Facebook users will be able to buy Facebook Credits using their MOLPoints, trading one virtual currency for another. They’ll also be able to buy Facebook Credits outright at certain locations.
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Tiffany & Co. Brings Engagement Ring Shopping to the iPhone [VIDEO]

Boyfriends and bachelors beware: Tiffany & Co.’s iPhone app [iTunes link] for engagement rings arrived in the App Store today, and it’s been carefully engineered for getting clueless and/or commitment-phobic grooms onto the engagement ring floors of Tiffany stores. For those looking to buy or receive a Tiffany’s engagement ring, the app brings the smooth, uncluttered shopping experience of the jeweler’s Flash-based website to the Flash-averse iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Users can browse rings by shape, setting, metal, design and six different carat sizes (up to 2.5 carats in the app, although larger stones are available at Tiffany & Co. stores).
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Join The TechCrunch Birthday Party NOW

Just in case you haven’t heard , TechCrunch is turning the big 5 today. In honor of this celebration there will be 363 meetups with more than 4,440 people across 79 countries, including Australia, China, Israel, Malaysia and Romania. Here, at the TechCrunch headquarters in our new San Francisco office , we will be holding our own birthday bash, complete with cakes, tacos, an assortment of beverages and of course, a livestream . We will stream our event from 5:35 pm to 7:00 pm, featuring interviews with our guests and members of the TechCrunch family.
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Redfin’s CEO, Michael Arrington And Tom Cruise Walk Into A Room

With TechCrunch’s fifth birthday less than 24 hours away, a certain degree of navel gazing is appropriate, if not required. On Wednesday afternoon, TechCrunch founder and newly minted Seattle resident, Michael Arrington , dropped by Atlassian’s Starter Day for a double header: an interview with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman and “Tom Cruise” (more on that later). Over the last few years, Arrington has interviewed Kelman several times (most recently here ), but at Starter Day, Kelman got to turn the proverbial tables on Arrington, taking the questions to him. For those who want a primer, or more insight on the origins of TechCrunch, why he hasn’t sold the company yet, why he doesn’t think he would make a good CEO, and the value of boat ownership, see the video above.
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Use Pantyhose to Protect Yourself From Jellyfish Stings [Clever Uses]

If you're planning on summer adventuring in a locale known for jellyfish—surfing in Australia perhaps?—you can protect yourself from jellyfish stings with the most unlikely of tools—pantyhose. More
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Find Jobs Through Your Facebook Friends on Simply Hired

Job search engine Simply Hired has integrated with Facebook to help job seekers discover new, more relevant positions via their social network. Users who log in to Simply Hired with their Facebook accounts can now search for jobs at their friends’ companies and send private messages to inquire about openings on the site. SimplyHired also pulls profile data about current and previous work titles, location and interests (including companies users “Like”) to make more personalized job recommendations. These features are currently available to residents in the U.S., UK, Australia, Canada and India.
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Playstation 3 Owners Get a New Service for Great Films

Today at the Cannes Film Festival, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced that MUBI — formerly known as The Auteurs — will be coming to the PlayStation 3 this fall. Think of MUBI as Netflix programmed by Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael and Martin Scorsese. Although the larger MUBI service remains available throughout the world, the PlayStation 3 partnership will only be available in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, New Zealand and the other countries where SCEE has dominion. The MUBI PS3 app will be very much like the Netflix app . Once downloaded, users will be able to browse available films and then watch them either à la carte or pay for an unlimited monthly subscription.
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International iPad Pre-orders Are Live

Just as Apple promised last week, international iPad pre-orders are underway as of today. Customers from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK can pre-order the iPad from their respective Apple stores ; the actual device is slated to ship on May 28. As you can see, the prices are quite a bit higher in the UK than in the US, but, unfortunately, European customers are already used to paying a premium for Apple products.
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iPad international launch is go on May 28 (update: pricing)

We knew it was coming end of May , now we have a date: May 28th and up for pre-order on May 10th. That's when the iPad will hit Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. It lands in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore in July. Sorry, still no pricing
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Leaked Next Generation iPhone Footage Goes Viral: Will It Boost Sales? [POLL]

By now, practically everyone has seen Gizmodo’s video of what is said to be a next generation iPhone — well, about 3.5 million people worldwide have seen it, at least. The incident itself, in which a hapless Apple employee named Gray Powell misplaces the phone at a bar, has attracted the attention of myriad news sites as well as its share of speculation. Now the question is: Will all of the buzz amount to greater sales? According to Visible Measures’ blog , the 10-second clip of the yet-to-be-released phone was the top-viewed video on YouTube yesterday in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Israel, Sweden and several other countries
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