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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
At Glassdoor, Find Out How Much People Really Make At Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, And Everywhere Else. — The idea behind Glassdoor is simple: You tell me your salary, and I'll tell you mine. The stealth startup, which raised $3 million from Benchmark Capital last March, just went live.
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Stealth Startup Glassdoor.com Launches: Employment Conditions — Sausalito, CA based stealth startup Glassdoor.com, the subject of months of speculation has launched and offers an employment conditions service. — Glassdoor.com has impeccable backing, with CEO and Founder Robert Hohman previously …
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Steve Jobs's Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone — Apple's iPhone 3G got most of the headlines on Monday after the product was announced at an Apple technical conference in San Francisco. But blogs and other Internet news sites also took note of a gaunt-looking Steve Jobs.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Execs Under Stress-Whither Weiner? — Yahoo's board has been meeting today and, doubtlessly, its directors had a lot to talk about (more on that later!). — Of course, there's the obvious topic of having to figure out how best to deal with the noisy stylings of billionaire investors Carl Icahn …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Exec Spec Swirling Again; Weiner Returning From Paternity Leave But Will He Stay? — It's Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) version of the plagues—Carl Icahn, shareholder lawsuits, another round of speculation about top-level execs and a report that a major internal announcement is on tap Wednesday.
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Heej Hwang / The Official Google Blog:
A new flavor of Google Trends — The latest version of Google Trends is now live! If you've used it in the past, you know that Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages. With our latest update …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google App Engine “Accidentally” Blocks PayPal — Here's one for the conspiracy theorists: It turns out that Google App Engine, their new platform for building and hosting third party web applications, is blocking applications from integrating with PayPal for payments.
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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would “shut down major sources of online child pornography.” — What Cuomo didn't say is that his agreement …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo: Severance Plan Not ‘Nuts’; Not Easily Revoked; And It Wouldn't Cost Microsoft $2.4 Billion — Following the latest twist in the shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Carl Icahn's continued jabs, Yahoo has filed an FAQ with the SEC, detailing everything you wanted …
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Real racing in the virtual world — Sat on the start grid, foot poised over the accelerator, you wait for the row of red lights to extinguish. — Alongside you are top names like Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. The cars' engines are screaming and everyone is poised to go.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter — I will admit, I was entirely biased upon reading this story from Nick Carr, who has a knack for writing pieces that get a lot of attention by baiting his hook with contrarian link chum. Heck, he's really good at it, and I have a lot of respect for Nick.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Metallica to bloggers: don't review our music — Given all that Metallica has done, said, and been through in the last 20 years, what could they still do that would lead bloggers to ask, “What the hell is wrong with Metallica?” In this case, the answer is fairly pedestrian but still dumb: censor bloggers.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Result Offers You to “Skip Intro” — Oh, sweet. You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load... before you can actually find the info you wanted?
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
HP Voodoo silicon mimics MacBook Air, ThinkPad — Notice any similarities between the Hewlett-Packard Voodoo Envy and its thin rivals, the Apple MacBook Air or ThinkPad X300? Yes, they're all very thin. But look inside and you'll see more common features.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Funambol To Offer An Open-Source Competitor To MobileMe . . . As An iPhone App — One of the big announcements yesterday from Apple was that it is replacing its .Mac service with MobileMe, a new service that will sync your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files between your iPhone, Mac desktop, and a Windows PC.
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Game On: Plurk API Available Tomorrow — Fast growing microblogging platform Plurk will have an API available from tomorrow. — Plurk first came to prominence at the beginning of June after constant issues with Twitter saw many start looking for alternatives.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Last.fm Re-design: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly — My favorite online music service Last.fm is currently ungoing a semi-public re-design, available to Last.fm subscribers ($3 per month) at beta.last.fm. Bearing in mind that last.fm is now owned by mega media company CBS, it is great to see last.fm continuing to evolve fast.
