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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook VC: No Rush For More $, Would Work W/Google — An update from Facebook investor and board member Jim Breyer: The company doesn't need to raise more money, won't go public for at least another 14 months, and isn't afraid of Google's OpenSocial platform — and may be willing to join it.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A "Total Fiction" — When Facebook announced that Microsoft would invest $240 million in the company, a rumor quickly spread, which we noted, that some hedge funds were about to put in another $500 million. Since then I've been trying …
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Technology Live
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
50M Facebook users don't care about OpenSocial APIs — There are 50 Million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will "Checkmate" Facebook and leave them with no moves.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Facebook: "We Have Not Been Briefed On OpenSocial"
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:Report from the front: Tonight's launch of Open Social
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Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:The hidden OpenSocial press conference (future of information sharing)
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
AT&T intros new international iPhone data plans for $25 and $60/month — Perhaps in response to growing noise over international travelers trying to use their iPhones and being slapped with outrageous bills, AT&T has announced today new international iPhone data plans.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
AT&T whips up international iPhone data plan — We're not sure what took 'em so long — reports of unhappy customers who traveled abroad with their surreptitiously email-checking iPhones returning home to bills totaling in the thousands of dollars — have been de rigueur for AT&T since June's launch.
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ap.org:
Remarks by Tom Curley President and CEO/Associated Press Knight-Bagehot Dinner — Madi Reddy is a 22-year-old resident of Hyderabad, India, with ambitions to rise above his hereditary caste. He's a newshound, investing time every day turning the news into diagrams on a whiteboard in his small apartment.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Leopard early adopters suffer for the rest of us — I can't decide whether early adopters are saints or fools. — Mac OS X Leopard, the latest version of Apple's operating system, turns one week old today. An estimated 9 percent of the Mac OS X installed base had already signaled …
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Reuters:
Report: Yahoo exec apologizes to U.S. lawmakers on China — A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for misleading U.S. lawmakers on the company's cooperation with a request by China for details on a journalist who was later jailed, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its online edition.
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PC World:
Everex Readies Sub-$300 Linux Notebooks — After introducing a $198 Linux desktop this week, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under $300 to users next year. — The laptops will come with 12.1-inch to 17-inch screens and run the GOS version of the OS, built on Ubuntu Linux 7.10.
Shimon Sandler / SEO Consultant:
NEW: "Google MDS" - Manager Defined Spend — This is so new that there is no documentation on this anywhere I can find. — My Google team is hot for me to get on this, and I think it's a great product enhancement. — A MDS is essentially a MCC (My Client Center).
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
Web History Adds Blog Search — Google Web History, which tracks all your past searches so you can re-find something you already searched for, has now added Google Blogsearch, bringing the total number of services they cover to ten: — Web — Images — News — Products
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WebProNews
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Blog Search, Included in Google History
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Fortune:
The blogs of war: Engadget vs. Gizmodo — In the consumer-technology blogosphere, the battle between Engadget and Gizmodo has become an all-out smackdown. — (Fortune Magazine) — In the consumer-technology blogosphere, the rivalry between Engadget and Gizmodo is as lively as a big-city tabloid war.
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Weighs WiMax Unit Spinoff — One Option Under Review — Is Merger With Clearwire; — Plans Likely to Await CEO — Sprint Nextel Corp. is weighing changes to its plans to offer high-speed wireless Internet service using WiMax technology, including a potential merger …
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GigaOM, DSLreports, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News.com, Engadget, VentureBeat, Seeking Alpha Wireless stocks, WebProNews, Gizmodo and mocoNews.net
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time — It's easy to dump ire on anlysts for getting it wrong so often. What those guys do, however, is provide a particular service to particular people. Interpreting what analysts say in terms of truth or falsity is to forget the real lesson …
Judi Sohn / Web Worker Daily:
Become a Del.icio.us Power User — As a web developer how we retain, organize, and use information is a high priority. One web application that has revolutionized the way I retain information is del.icio.us. — I originally used it just to save the occasional link. I realized that it's much more than that.
Frank Caron / Opposable Thumbs:
Welcome to the suck: roundup of Doritos XBLA finalists — Back in June, Doritos called for game designers to bring forth ideas for a corporate-sponsored Xbox Live Arcade game. Unlike previous contests, entrants would play the role of designer rather than developer; coding would be handled by a "professional XBLA development team."
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