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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Finding A Perfect Match — Last month, Twitter had a very special date in New York City. We met with another startup, had lunch at the famous Shake Shack, and spent some quality time together in Union Square. The meeting with this other startup was largely a formality …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Buys Summize For About $15M: Gets Search - And Maybe A Business Model — Now it's a done deal. Twitter has purchased search engine Summize, a deal that leaked out last week but didn't wrap up until the last few days. Twitter's Biz Stone has the official announcement here …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine — Update: Full transcript of video interview is here. — It turns out those rumors last week were accurate. Microblogging site Twitter has acquired the Summize search engine, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams confirmed to me.
San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. officials locked out of computer network — (07-14) 19:23 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone 3G: Sold out in 21 states — Shoppers hunting for iPhone 3Gs can still find them — if they're willing to get up early and, in some cases, drive long distances. — As of 6:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, all three models (8GB black, 16 GB black or white) of the hot-selling device were sold out in 21 states …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:iPhone 3G: (Mostly) Sold Out In Five Days (AAPL)
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar — [UPDATE: Suit now confirmed. More to follow shortly ...] — It seems that Apple has grown tired of Apple-clone Psystar and has filed suit against the Florida company at the federal district court for the northern district of California.
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VentureBeat, Between the Lines, MacRumors, TechCrunchIT, Techdirt, Today @ PC World, Industry Standard, The Apple Core, Beyond Binary and Macsimum News
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YouTube Blog:
The Law and Your Privacy: An Update — As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users' viewing histories and we will not be providing that information.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hold On — Issues Remain Over Google & Viacom's Deal On YouTube Viewing Privacy — Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Viacom, Google agree to mask 12TB of YouTube user data
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David Faber / CNBC.com:
SK Telecom in Talks to Acquire Sprint: Sources — SK Telecom, which is smaller than Sprint — [S Loading... () ], would be joined in any deal by private equity firms that would contribute cash towards the purchase, sources told CNBC. — A deal is not imminent and while the talks are on-going …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
SK Telecom In Talks To Buy Sprint, CNBC Says — SK Telecom (SKM) is in talks to acquire Sprint Nextel (S), according to CNBC. This is not a new theory; rumors that SK Telecom might want to buy Sprint have been around for at least a year. Last November, the Wall Street Journal reported …
Business Wire:
Intel Posts Record Second-Quarter Revenue of $9.5 Billion — SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intel Corporation today announced record second-quarter revenue of $9.5 billion, operating income of $2.3 billion, net income of $1.6 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 28 cents.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand up
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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
The backstory on Senate's Google-Yahoo hearing — The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless discussions conducted with the public's best interests in mind.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Google's Talking Points For Today's Antitrust Hearings: The Only …
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Google Watch, Microsoft, Google Public Policy Blog, IP Democracy, Search Engine Journal and Beyond Search
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G Unlocked with SIM Card Adapter — Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it's using an official carrier.
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CNET News.com, p2pnet, The Apple Core, Unwired View, The iPhone Blog, DSLreports and TechSpot
Michael Steil / pagetable.com:
1200 Baud Archeology: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape — The audio file that was posted two weeks ago is indeed a very important artifact of computer history: It is a recording of the “Apple I BASIC” cassette tape that came with the Apple I. It is the first piece …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold review: we've been rockin' it for a month — This might be a shocker out there to many, but we do actually, you know, not leak things from time to time. What's important here, is that we've been rockin' a BlackBerry Bold for around a month now and have a great handle on the unit.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Will Sept. Qtr Guidance Disappoint the Street? — Apple (AAPL) has a well-established pattern of low-balling its financial guidance - and BMO Capital's Keith Bachman thinks we will see more of the same when it comes to the September quarter. — In a research note this morning …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Test feature shows social search may be on the way for Google — A lucky Google user, Adrian Pike, has noticed something cool on search results: buttons to vote on links, much like Digg or StumbleUpon. He sent some screenshots over to TechCrunch. — The feature is being “bucket tested …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mini Exit: BallHype and ShowHype Acquired for $3 Million — The husband and wife behind BallHype and ShowHype, two Digg clones that focus on baseball and entertainment news, have earned a modest pay day: $3 million from media group Future US. That's not bad given the two never raised …
