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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
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
And, The Really Big Thing About The New iPhone Is... GPS. Geo-anything. Location based services. — Now that the dust over the iPhone 3G launch has settled, it seems that people have divided into two camps; one is welcoming the new features, claiming that the perfect phone just got more perfect …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
More on Whither Weiner — Yesterday, writing about executive stress at Yahoo, BoomTown posted about the swirling speculation around the fate of Jeff Weiner, the Network division EVP, who many at Yahoo (YHOO) think will soon be headed out the door after his recent paternity leave of four weeks.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Google Co-Founder Books a Space Flight — Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more.
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Red Hat shoots down brace of patent disputes — Red Hat Inc today settled two patent lawsuits that the Linux software firm had been contesting. — It said that patent claims by Firestar Software Inc, filed in 2006, and DataTern Inc, filed earlier this year, have now been settled.
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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction — The mere threat of social interaction changes our behavior...if you know your work is going to be put on public display, you'll be much more motivated to make it good. — There is a moment in every blogger's life when they realize that yes …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network — Online education has been booming recently, with new entries coming from startups eduFire and the upcoming (though nebulous) Grockit, among others. One of the newest is LearnHub, a startup that launched last March that has undergone …
Junko Yoshida / EE Times:
The truth about last year's Xbox 360 recall — ANAHEIM, Calif. — When Microsoft Corp. announced a mammoth global recall of its Xbox 360 a year ago, the software giant never disclosed the exact source of the game console's heat problem that led to the fiasco.
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.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Says an Icahn Win Triggers Plan — Yahoo Inc. asserted that a severance plan that investor Carl Icahn has called excessively expensive would be triggered if the activist investor is successful in his bid to take control of the company's board. — The Web giant also said Tuesday …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
iPhone as platform = cha-ching — My friend and fellow mesh 2008 organizer Mark Evans has a post about the iPhone and how it is just one part of a “razor and blades” market model — i.e., the carriers subsidize the phone as a lure, in order to sign you up for long-term contracts at usurious rates.
Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
CDs Have Another Thing To Fear: Vinyl? — There has been no doubt that CD sales have been declining due to the growth of digital music. Well, CDs are now being flanked by an old format: vinyl. Although vinyl LPs have always enjoyed a niche popularity with dance djs and indie rock fanatics …
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.
Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:
FriendFeed openness puts pressure on rivals — Paul Buchheit is a self-confessed do-gooder. He admits to being the Google employee that came up with its “Don't Be Evil” motto and is now trying to bring people together over the web by creating a new social experience.
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InfoWorld:
Microsoft testing prototype of Facebook-like social network — At the request of its SharePoint and Office product development teams, Microsoft 's Office Labs operation has created and is testing a prototype of an internal social network that can provide employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What's Next For Bebo's Founders: Back To Birthday Alarm — I had a chance to speak with Bebo co-founder Michael Birch last weekend at the Founders Brunch event at Loic Le Meur's house in San Francisco. — It was the first chance I've had to congratulate him in person for the $850 million sale of Bebo to AOL earlier this year.
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