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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.
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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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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Techcrunch 40 Coverage Update and a Tip
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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.
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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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Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
STORMHOEK BLUE MONSTER RESERVE — [Yon standard pack shot. Indeed.] — I mentioned previously that I would be announcing my "Next Big Project" sometime today, the 17th of September.The Financial Times beat me to it.. "Social Object", Baby: … The wine is not a commercially available product …
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) …
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.
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.
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.
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
Tor Anonymity Server Admin Arrested — In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Although he was released shortly afterwards, information about the arrest had been kept quiet until …
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Bill Palmer / iProng:
iPhone features you'll miss out on by buying an iPod touch — I'm smack in the middle of my hands-on testing of the new iPod touch and the full review will be posted by Monday, but in the meantime I know there are some of you who are seeing a handful of iPod touch models come …
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 …
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 …
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
First look: social networking leads to social publishing — If social networking isn't enough for you, consider "social publishing.'' That's what Shervin Pishevar, president of Freewebs, calls the new Pagii web site at www.pagii.com. This free web site debuting today allows you to create …
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David Twiddy / Associated Press:
Sprint Nextel to introduce the Airave — KANSAS CITY, Mo. - One of the big complaints lodged against wireless phone companies is poor signal quality inside buildings, especially homes. — Sprint Nextel Corp. is trying to overcome that obstacle with a device that boosts wireless signals indoors …
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