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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” — Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property.
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mathewingram.com/work, VentureBeat, Regular Geek, The Blog Herald, ZDNet.com.au, Marksonland and Digg
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:Third Time The Charm? Google Reportedly Buying Digg, Again (GOOG)
Chad Dickerson:
Leaving Yahoo! — I've thought a lot about how to begin this post, but it's best to get right to the point (especially in light of the speed of Techcrunch). I'm leaving Yahoo! to pursue another very exciting opportunity: joining the Etsy team as CTO. I'll save my thoughts on Etsy for later …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Chad Dickerson To Leave Yahoo For Etsy — Chad Dickerson, a long time Yahoo exec and the head of their Brickhouse special projects group, is leaving the company to become the CTO of Etsy, a a website that allows users to buy and sell handmade items. Mike Folgner, the former GM of Yahoo Video …
louisgray.com:
Bloggers' Interactions With Readers Decrease With Prominence — Guest post by Hutch Carpenter of I'm Not Actually a Geek (FriendFeed/Twitter). — I had an interesting discussion with Robert Seidman on FriendFeed about whether bloggers need to actually interact with their readers.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you
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/Message, Techland, ben barren, SheGeeks, WinExtra, Technology Questions, Alfred Thompson …, GigaOM, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Sidecut Reports and Susan Mernit's Blog
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple:
The Real Issue About Steve's Health — After the earnings call last night I talked with a source who is close to Apple and who who has in the past proven very well informed on the concerns of Apple senior management. This source told me with near-certainty that Jobs' cancer has not returned.
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John Markoff / New York Times:Talk of Chief's Health Weighs on Apple's Share Price
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MacDailyNews:
RUMOR: Apple's secret product is ‘MacBook touch’ — Get ready for Newton 2.0 MacBook touch?! — So says our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod, iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — in staccato fashion: … MacDailyNews Note: This is a rumor.
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TeleRead, Between the Lines, Boing Boing Gadgets, CrunchGear, GMSV, Geekologie, Simon's Blog, Computerworld Blogs, CyberNet, The iPhone Blog, GottaBeMobile and AppleInsider
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:Rumor: MacBook touch Coming in October
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Cult of Mac, Coolest Gadgets, PalmAddicts, The Tech Report, InformationWeek, dailywireless.org and Ubergizmo
Andy Schwerin / Google LatLong:
Pound the pavement — It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and when it's not too hot, it feels like a waste of gorgeous weather to get behind the wheel or hop in a cab. Doubly so when you're traveling to a city you'd love to explore, and you're pretty sure that you could walk from your hotel …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live — Earlier this month, I reported that Google Maps was testing walking directions on a small subset of users. This morning, I noticed that Google Maps now is offering walking directions for all Google Maps users. — For example, conduct a search …
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CNET News.com, Lifehacker, CyberNet, SitePoint Blogs, /Message, Kelsey Group Blogs, Google Blogoscoped, AppScout, UMBC ebiquity, Bloggle, Screenwerk and WebProBlog
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun — In the life of every company, there comes a time when it is faced with the choice of how to extend its reach: Either build a new product or service, or acquire the one that's already established itself as the best in its class.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - One Less Independent Blog In The World — Blogging network GigaOm will announce the acquisition of the small but excellent mobile-focused blog jkOnTheRun this evening. Founders James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel will remain in Houston and continue doing their thing.
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale — updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo earnings decline, miss estimates — Yahoo's earnings for its second quarter came in 1 cent lower than expectations, with net income declining 19 percent and revenue a bit light as well, but the company called the quarter “strong.” — Using generally accepted accounting principles …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Some Facebook Apps Are Actually More Equal Than Others — Tomorrow, when it rolls out its new platform, one of the more interesting pieces of news from Facebook will be its initiative to dub certain of its third-party app developers more special than others.
Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog:
What Will We Do When Growth is No Longer the “In Thing” Anymore? (Web Startups) — I was reading Scoble's post and another post in Hank Williams' blog, both of which touch (in different ways) on what's happening in the world of technology startups. Scoble focuses on the shift in talking …
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Carl Icahn / The Icahn Report:
How I Spent My Weekend — Proxy fights are very expensive and time-consuming. Unlike political elections, where change is often seen, it is unfortunately extremely difficult to take control of a company. By the end of last week, I realized that although many large shareholders supported …
Blake Whitman / Vimeo:
New upload rules — New Features — The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, fraps …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Some news from the editor's desk — For most of us here, at some point the sensation of breaking the news takes hold and turns into something else, something much more like an addiction. It really gets into you, keeps you up at night, makes you stay in on weekends.
