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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer — NEW YORK - Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and AT&T Inc.'s own stores. — The announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarter — Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, and his merry band of observers have spent 25 hours at Apple stores counting folks buying iPhones. His conclusion: Apple sells 95 iPhone 3Gs a day at each of its 188 stores, up from 21 phones a year ago.
AppleInsider:
Sources: Best Buy to sell Apple's iPhone 3G nationwide — Best Buy Co., Inc. is expected to announce as early as Wednesday plans to begin selling the iPhone 3G next month, making it the first independent U.S. reseller to offer the the coveted touchscreen handset outside of Apple and AT&T.
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Launches Fire Eagle — New Platform Enables Users to Easily Update and Manage Their — Location Information Across the Web — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the general availability of Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net) …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo launches Fire Eagle: Gauging my personal ROI — Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a location management service that is the latest step in the company's effort to add social networking features to its portfolio of sites and open its platform. — The company describes Fire Eagle as a way …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Yahoo pushes its location platform Fire Eagle out of the nest …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Yahoo Fire Eagle Launches Geo-Location Platform To The Public
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Spot Runner lays off 100 — Nick Grouf once told me he started his online-advertising agency, Spot Runner, in Los Angeles, not Silicon Valley, for one reason: The video-production talent he needed to customize television ads en masse was down south. Now, a laid-off employee tells us Spot Runner …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Does Good Tech Need PR? — Behind the scenes of many tech blogs these days, there's a rat race for attention, with PR agents struggling to overcome the noise of feeds, news sites and other agents in order to get coverage for their clients. Tiny web tech companies pay $5k …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Users Get More Control Over Feeds — Facebook will tweak the user profile sometime tonight to let users fine tune the news items delivered to them on their home page. Currently users can filter news items to see top items, status updates, new photos and posted items from friends.
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Kontra / counternotions:
Why Apple doesn't do “Concept Products” — Everyone has a favorite “concept car.” Whether it's the '54 Firebird, '64 Stiletto, '80 Epcot or '88 Sunraycer, these “flights of imagination” all have one thing in common: they weren't for real. — General Motors had no intention of selling these cars …
KPIX-TV:
3-Alarm Fire Burns At Apple Cupertino Campus — CUPERTINO (CBS 5 / BCN) ― A three-alarm fire burned Tuesday night at the Apple campus in Cupertino, according to the Santa Clara County Fire Department. — The fire department received a report of smoke at about 10 p.m. at 20605 Valley Green Drive …
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Sue McAllister / Mercury News:Firefighters battle three-alarm fire at Apple's Cupertino campus
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Platform leader Benjamin Ling to leave Facebook, as platform continues to evolve — Last fall, Benjaming Ling was recruited out of Google to help lead the Facebook developer platform product marketing team. But he's planning to leave Facebook within the next couple of weeks, I've heard from sources within Facebook.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint's '08-'09 roadmap: BlackBerry 8350i, Motorola i576, Motorola i950, and a lot more! — What would the world do without BGR? Well, you'd probably have a lot less broken AVAYA phones, less screaming, and just all around happier wireless executives. Oh well.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
VC Firm Subpoenas TheFunded For Negative Review — TheFunded, the site that lets startup founders leave anonymous reports on VCs they've encountered, has been issued a subpoena by a small Michigan based VC firm called EDF Ventures. — The firm is apparently going after an anonymous user …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Venture firm EDF moves to silence entrepreneur at TheFunded
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Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
Google's Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home — A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. — He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Facebook: No. 1 Globally — The social network site has vaulted over rival MySpace in worldwide audience growth, thanks to tools that translate content into many languages — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to illustrate the impact of his social network, he tells a story …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Nvidia: We underestimated AMD — Nvidia had one ugly second quarter. It lost money. It took a charge for defective chips. And it's stuck with low-margin inventory it has to burn off. Amazing how a little price competition from AMD's ATI can magnify poor execution at Nvidia.
