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Andrew Harris / Bloomberg:
Motorola Claims Executive Now With Apple Took Secrets — Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple's iPhone. — Michael Fenger in March ended …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fighting For Its Life, Yahoo Uses Its Homepage To Battle Carl Icahn — Yahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself. Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors worldwide in May …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
With Exits Barred, VCs Keep Investments Flat — If you believe the venture capitalists on Friday's conference call about the latest MoneyTree Survey results, which covers venture investing in the second quarter, now is the best time to contact them with your ideas.
Dave Thomas / PragDave:
If you work for Apple, we need your help... So, it's been a week. The iPhone 3G was released, and the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade shipped. We can now all write applications that will run on what is undeniably a cool platform. You can even download the iPhone SDK for free. — We love Apple stuff.
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InfoWorld:
Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue — Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail.
Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Google ad slump spreads abroad — Hit by the widening advertising slowdown, Google's weaker numbers show the search sector is on a steeper slide. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported …
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Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The Long Tail and the Dip — When you launch a new product or service, you have a choice. — It's tempting to go for the bestseller list, to create a mass market hit. This is the box labeled 1 on the tail above. Everyone wants to be here. It's where ego meets profit. A home run.
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David F. Gallagher / Bits:
There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones — I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard someone call out: “Turn in your old iPhone and get the new one free!” — I turned around and saw a bearded guy handing out fliers (photo above).
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Daniel A. Begun / HotHardware.com News:
Speeding: Radar Gun vs. GPS — While an 11-year old, Louisville, Kentucky boy is using a toy radar gun to get drivers to slow down through his neighborhood, the police are finding that real radar guns might not be a match for GPS—at least not when contested in court.
Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Napster Takeover Looms as Funds See Cash Exceed Stock — Napster Inc., the Internet music pioneer whose shares have plunged 95 percent in six years, has become takeover bait for hedge funds zeroing in on a cash hoard exceeding the company's market value. — While Los Angeles-based Napster …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Users reporting failed Microsoft WGA and OGA activations (Updated) — A few of our readers have written in to report problems trying to activate copies of Microsoft Office 2003. One user has been receiving a message telling him that the service is temporarily down since Thursday morning.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Mom continues to chase Prince over ‘fair use’ — SAN JOSE, Calif.—Stephanie Lenz is an angry Pennsylvania mother who refuses to back down from the music industry. — Lenz's attorneys were in federal district court on Friday morning, trying to thwart a motion to dismiss her case against Universal Music Group.
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Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparision — Editor: Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But can an Outlook user make the switch without losing out? Guest contributor Jared Goralnick's here today to take a look.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip — Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers? — The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here at RWW. — Gender is an important lens through …
Kevin Allison / Financial Times:
Facebook sues ‘knock-off’ German site — Facebook on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against a German company that it has accused of running a “knock-off” of the social networking website. — In a complaint filed in a California court, Facebook accused StudiVZ - a German company …
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