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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
How High Can You Count: New Facebook Fundraising? — Here's an interesting idea if you don't want to get bought and you can't quite IPO yet and you need to have a tidy war chest for expansion or perhaps a choice acquisition or two: Bring in more investors and raise more money at a huge valuation.
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Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Apple's Joswiak: We Don't Hate iPhone Coders — iPhone native application developers, take heart: Apple doesn't hate you. And now you have a whole new device to play with. — Updated 3:15 PM: Apple says "software updates will most likely break" native apps as they go forwards.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
AjaxWindows: Most interesting Web OS experiment yet — I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser, when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google-hating Aussie watchdog smacked by confused judge — Sponsored-links attack 'incomprehensible' — After accusing Google of misleading web users with its money-making sponsored links, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been accused of saying things that don't make sense.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales Three-Fold — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, whose 50-hour survey of Apple (AAPL) stores produced the most definitive estimate of iPhone sales to date, has combined his data with yesterday's report that Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone on Sunday to calculate the effect of last week's 33% price cut.
BBC:
Facebook 'costs businesses dear' — Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day, a study has calculated. — According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees "wasting time" on social networking.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
When it comes to music fans, iLike faces Myspace — ILike, by far the most popular music application on Facebook, has started overtaking MySpace in sheer number of fans registered for some top music artists. — The young Seattle company is being coy on specifics, but consider this …
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Max Freiert / Compete Blog:
Facebook now ranked 3rd in Page Views; MySpace down nearly 20% — MySpace has enjoyed a relatively long and successful run as in a red hot sector of the internet, but it may not be long before the site has to defend this title. Facebook, having gone through big changes about every three months …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint's Q4 lineup: Rumor, Centro, Touch, and Pearl 8130 — What started as a trickle of unofficially official shots from Sprint's Q4 pipeline has suddenly become a deluge. Check the LG Rumor, Touch (aka, Vogue), and Blackberry Pearl 8130 all dressed up with Sprint logos and sales-goon positioning points for a Q4 launch.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Intel 45nm fab to open in 45 days — SAN FRANCISCO—In 45 days, Intel will open its first high-volume facility for building chips that use a 45-nanometer manufacturing process. — The facility, called Fab 32, is a new one built in Chandler, Ariz., said spokesman Nick Knupffer, in an interview here at the VMworld conference.
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Matt Vella / Business Week:
AT&T Rebrands. Again — The wireless giant's revenues are surging, but it's still struggling to make the most of its new corporate identity — The country's largest wireless company, San Antonio-based AT&T (T), announced on Sept. 11 that it would reshuffle some key elements of its corporate identity …
Paul / Rogue Amoeba:
Transfer Ringtones With MakeiPhoneRingtone — Yesterday I posted about using Fission to create ringtones for the iPhone. Editing with Fission is straightforward, but getting the resulting files onto the iPhone is a bit tricky. The processes for both iTunes 7.4 and iTunes 7.4.1 work, but they're not simple.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Tuesday? Time for a new Technorati strategy — As you can read in a number of different places this morning, Technorati — the ailing blog-search engine that recently lost its CEO, Dave Sifry — has come out with a new offering known as Technorati Topics, which appears to be a scrolling list …
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Dorion Carroll / The Technorati Weblog:Introducing Technorati Topics
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Chris Borowski / Reuters:
NewsCorp won't pull videos from iTunes — WARSAW (Reuters) - News Corp. will not pull its television shows from Apple's iTunes as rival media group NBC Universal has done over a pricing dispute, President Peter Chernin said in an interview on Tuesday. — Many sector watchers expected News Corp …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Polish Man Allegedly Arrested for Googlebombing — Ludwik Trammer translated an article from "Gazeta Wyborcza", calling it the biggest Polish quality newspaper: — Young internet geek is facing up to 3 years in prison. The man is accused of insulting president Lech Kaczyski.
Jeremy Clarkson / Times of London:
Facebook dismisses fears over privacy — The community website's chief privacy officer says that there is no threat to users' confidentiality from its commercial interests — Facebook has shrugged off the privacy concerns surrounding the social networking site, as it gave notice …
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile's new data plans — Just when you thought they couldn't get any cheaper....T-Mobile is set to completely revamp their data plan lineup with a new pricing scheme that is sure to make subscribers swoon. Beginning tomorrow, September 12th, the big Pink will be dropping updates …
