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Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 wins Apple iPhone deal - at a hefty price — Mobile operator O2 is preparing to unveil Apple's much anticipated iPhone in the UK tomorrow. But serious questions are being raised in the City about how much ground it has had to give away to Apple in order to clinch the deal.
Paul Boutin / paulboutin.weblogger.com:
TechCrunch40 List 2007 — There are 39 companies in the TC40 so far. I've got 38 of them (they're on banners at the Palace Hotel) and hopefully correct URLs for most. But before you click through, be aware that the actual product launches aren't live yet.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Has smart money abandoned U.S. Web 2.0 companies? — Venture capitalists invested about 6 percent more into Web 2.0 companies in the first half of 2007, but the increase was attributable to more deals in Europe and Israel. — Notably, early investors in Web 2.0 slowed their pace.
BBC:
Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal — Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. — The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
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John Oates / The Register:
Microsoft sets spinners on court verdict — Microsoft may have lost in court, but it quickly tried to win the war of media reaction via organisations like CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association and ACT (the Association for Competitive Technology) which both intervened in court on its side.
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet — [Title with sincere apologies to Mitch Albom and his wonderful book.] — One of the hottest of hot topics these days is the topic of Internet platforms, or platforms on the Internet. Web services APIs (application programming interfaces) …
Business Wire:
AOL Realigns Business, Unveils Global Integrated Advertising Platform — The New Entity, Platform A, Will Offer Advertisers Access to the Largest Internet-wide Display Advertising Network and Most Sophisticated Tools; Builds on Success of Advertising.com and Integrates TACODA, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast and ADTECH
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Business Wire:
Idearc Executives Discuss Switchboard.com and Other Directory Assets Acquisition from InfoSpace — Acquisition Significantly Expands Idearc's Local Search Platform and Traffic — DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Idearc Inc. (NYSE: IAR), home to Superpages.com® and publisher of the Verizon® Yellow Pages …
Yahoo! News:
China man dies after three-day Internet session — China man dies after three-day Internet session — BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.
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Ouriel Ohayon / TechCrunch:
The iPhone will be launched in France November 29th at 300 euros, first picture — We just covered the news on TechCrunch France. The iPhone will be launched in France with Orange at the price of 300 euros. It will be on the market the 29th of November and announced on the 24th of September during the Apple Expo in Paris.
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / Financial Times:
Microsoft launches a tipple for techies — Tonight, a select group will gather in a bar in London's Soho to quaff a crisp, South African white wine bottled in their honour. — The hand-picked guests toasting the new vintage are not, however, wine connoisseurs but techies.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project — Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender suffered an embarrassing leak this weekend, when almost 700MB of internal company e-mail was distributed on the Internet via BitTorrent. The e-mails reveal many aspects …
Agence France Presse:
Iran blocks access to Google — TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive, the Mehr news agency reported on Monday. — "I can confirm these sites have been filtered," …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Once you go Mac — I sold and bought my first PC a long, long time ago. Back in the late 80s I owned a Mac, I think it was a Mac2. I honestly thought there would never come a time where I would buy a Mac. Ever. — Then I upgraded my PC to Vista. What a disaster.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Online currency trader nabs $100 million in venture funds — Online currency trading site Oanda only takes in about one one-hundredth of a percent in revenue off of each trade, according to Chief Technology Officer Michael Stumm. — But, since the site can clear around $10 billion in trades on a big day …
