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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble — Updated: Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown — Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific angel investors (and he was also an early investor in Google), wrote an email yesterday to the CEOs of his portfolio companies.
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
EXCLUSIVE: Apple to launch $800 laptop — Some Apple retailers in the United States have been given price lists for a new Apple laptop line, and there's a big surprise: an $800 laptop. The information comes from a source we would categorize as reliable, would have access to such information, and who has been accurate in the past.
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Arn / MacRumors:
More ‘Brick’ MacBook Case Images? — An Apple.Pro blog has posted three small images of what appear to be a new MacBook case. The casing resembles the MacBook Pro case image leaked earlier today, but clearly represents a smaller screened laptop. Absent are the speaker grills of the earlier image.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
More pics of Apple's supposed new laptops surface — Oh Apple — release some new laptops so this madness can end. The forums at MacRumors are abuzz over a Taiwanese site that's showing off pictures of what appears to be a very close cousin of that MacBook Pro-esque casing we saw earlier.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:‘Brick’ MacBook Pro leaked in up-close spy shot?
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Brian X. Chen / Wired Science:
Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image — This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Digg's Kevin Rose: We've got to be more than a fanboy hub — LONDON—Digg founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up. — “We have to do better,” he said in his talk, called “The Future of News,” …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Digg's Kevin Rose: We Need To Move Beyond Geeks, Microsoft Ads — This is the problem for Mixx and every other would-be Digg rival: Even Digg isn't really sure about how far it can take the social news concept, which has yet to appeal beyond a core group of aficionados. Even founder Kevin Rose is admitting as much.
William M. Bulkeley / Wall Street Journal:
IBM Shows Solid Profit, Signaling a Bright Spot — International Business Machines Corp. reported better-than-expected earnings for its third quarter, although revenue growth slowed from previous quarters. — The earnings, released unexpectedly after the close of the New York Stock Exchange …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek planing touch panel Eee PCs — Asustek Computer is planning to launch touch panel Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009, which the company expects will help drive sales further, according to Samson Hu, general manager of Eee PC business at Asustek. — The company has not yet decided details …
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Jitendra Kavathekar / Yodel Anecdotal:
Introducing Yahoo! Web Analytics — Have you ever bailed on an online checkout because something in the user experience bugged you? Or were pleasantly surprised that the sponsored listings were more relevant than the regular results of your web search? This week, we are rolling …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Wall Street gives Net titans price cut, sector caution — A number of Internet titans received an across-the-board stock target haircut on Thursday from UBS Securities analyst Ben Schachter, who said a weakening economic outlook is expected to take a toll on display advertising and, to a lesser degree, search advertising.
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Amazon S3 - Busier Than Ever — Amazon S3 usage has grown very nicely in the last quarter and now stands at 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion just a quarter ago. As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 objects for every person now on Earth! — Our customers are keeping S3 pretty busy too.
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Rich Laden / Gazette:
Hirees told Apple tech support center not coming here — Apple Inc. apparently was considering Colorado Springs for a technical support center to help customers with their iPhones and iPods, but workers already hired by a third-party company on Apple's behalf say they were abruptly told last week the project was canceled.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
YouTube adds “Read Comment Aloud” feature from xkcd — A couple weeks ago, xkcd ran this funny comic: — Randall Monroe, the creator of xkcd, suggested that if YouTube commenters had to listen to their comments read back to them aloud, it might lead to better discussion on YouTube.
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
“TRIBES”: TEN QUESTIONS FOR SETH GODIN — 10 Questions For Seth Godin … 1. For the benefit of gapingvoid readers not yet familiar with your work [all 14 of them], let's get the main schpiel over and done with: From your perspective, what is “Tribes” about?
John Leyden / The Register:
Cisco ships Mexican drug runner music on VPN CD — Bootleg bootup CD features Narco Corridos tune — A sysadmin looking to set up a VPN network was surprised to discover that a Cisco installation CD contained Mexican music instead of security software. Cisco has acknowledged the issue …
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Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices — The London Stock Exchange (LSE) website displayed incorrect prices for the important FTSE 100 index yesterday morning. The problems were less severe than previous London Stock Exchange failures, which actually interrupted trading.
John Thomson / Marketnews:
Toshiba's Lightest Laptop Even Lighter — Toshiba adds four laptops to its ultraportable Portégé series and introduces the premium Tecra R10. — Toshiba of Canada Information Systems Group (Toshiba) has announced additions to its Portégé line up of laptops …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Earthcomber Sues TechCrunch Out Of Spite, Pisses Me Off Personally — We've had serious legal threats five times in the past, from YouTube, Marvel, Rivals, Mediascrape and my personal favorite, Richard Figueroa. None of those threats went to court because all of them were absurd …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Closes At $13.76. What A Train Wreck. — I guess the upside is that a stock can't fall below zero, so there's an end in sight to the ongoing destruction of jobs and shareholder wealth at Yahoo. The stock closed at $13.76 today, down another 5.6%. And this isn't just part …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple Launches iPhone Tech Talk World Tour — After dropping the NDA that served as an awkward communication barrier between iPhone developers, Apple has now launched a worldwide tour of presentations covering the iPhone application development tools and related technologies.
