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Zusha Elinson / LAW.com:
Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm's marketing brochure.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Winklevoss twins made $65 million on Facebook “copycat” settlement — Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss may have had some serious evidence showing that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole ideas like “profile pages” back when he worked at their social-networking startup, ConnectU.
Zachery Kouwe / New York Times:
Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing — Sirius XM Satellite Radio has been working with advisers to prepare for a possible bankruptcy filing in a move that could put pressure on the satellite company EchoStar, which owns a substantial amount of the company's debt.
Fiona Ramsay / Marketing magazine:
Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use — LONDON - Twitter is planning to charge brands for using the micro-blogging website. — Twitter — Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: 'We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them.
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Nothing To Report Just Yet — There was a sudden burst of news early this week surrounding some ideas we've shared publicly for quite some time. We've been thinking out loud for more than a year about the growing use of Twitter by companies, brands, and other commercial organizations.
Thanks:atul
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
$99 iPhone Coming This Summer: RBC (AAPL) — Apple will start selling a cheaper, ‘entry-level’ iPhone sometime this summer, for around $99 after subsidy, according to “checks,” RBC analyst Mike Abramsky said in a note this morning. — The main cost reductions would come from fewer features …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple, Google, and Palm — M.G. Siegler has an intriguing report today regarding the lack of multi-touch support in the current Android OS: … This jibes with a story I heard several months ago from a source who works at Apple, which is that Google showed Apple legal a pre-release prototype of the HTC G1 …
Fast Company:
Forget Kindle 2: Fujitsu's E-Reader Screen is Bigger, and It's in Color — In all the fuss about the new Amazon Kindle 2 yesterday, it was easy to forget that the “upgraded” device still has a relatively small paperback-sized screen and can only cope with greyscale imagery.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Intel demos first-ever 32nm processors — Intel had a little roadmap event today to shed some light on its massive $7b fab investment, and the focus was mostly on the upcoming transition to 32nm processors — highlighted by the first-ever demo of a working 32nm Nehalem-based Westmere chip.
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PC World, The Register, Gizmodo, The Tech Report, GPS Obsessed, SlashGear, DVICE, Ubergizmo, Electronista, dailywireless.org and Forbes
Matt Shobe / FeedBurner Status:
Feed serving and FeedBurner application outage — Issue: FeedBurner stopped serving feeds for about 45 minutes today, starting at approximately 9:15am PST. Most feeds are being served again properly, but we are still working to restore full service. feedburner.google.com is not currently available …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
How Microsoft is trying to make its $1.3b Fast Search deal work — Microsoft today will unveil plans to start incorporating Fast Search's technology into its products, rolling out a blueprint for capitalizing on one of the largest acquisitions in its history. — It still remains to be seen if the $1.3 billion deal will pay off.
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Nick / Rough Type:
The writing is on the paywall — There has been much interesting speculation about the future of the newspaper business in recent weeks. There was Michael Hirschorn's pre-obituary for the print edition of the New York Times in The Atlantic. He foresees the Times shrinking into “a bigger …
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New York Times, mathewingram.com/work, Nerd World, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, GMSV and Reflections of a Newsosaur
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
More Sprint details: New Treo Pro target launch, Rumor 2, Instinct Mini, HTC Cedar and more — Ok Sprint people, you had some bad news yesterday as we learned the Treo Pro will not be launching on time this coming Sunday. It's time to regroup and calm down because you know we wouldn't just hit and run with bad news.
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MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Unwired View, Electronista, Obsessable, Gizmodo, WMExperts, MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo and tinyComb
Yury Pinsky / Google Mobile Blog:
Calling all Carriers — Introducing AdSense for mobile search — In September 2007, we launched Adsense for mobile content so that publishers could join our mobile content network and monetize their sites with Google text ads. — Today, we're happy to announce a new AdSense product …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft patches four critical IE, Exchange holes — Updated at 12:30 p.m. PST with nCircle comment. — Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates that fix four critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected computer remotely.
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009 — Last week (w/e 07/02/09) Twitter became one of the 100 most visited websites in the UK for the first time. It ranked 91st within All Categories, placing above online heavyweights such as Expedia UK (96), Gumtree (100) …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's “sticky” iPhone — When Barclays' Ben Reitzes refers to the “stickiness” of Apple's iPhone, he's not talking about adhesives on the product's surface. (Indeed, the iPhone seems to us as slippery as ever, which may be why there's such a lively market in protective cases.)
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Dell uses Zink Imaging to create an ink-free mobile printer — Zink Imaging is steadily expanding its reach for its inkless printing technology as it announces that licensee Dell has released its Dell Wasabi PZ310 Ink-free Mobile printer. — Bedford, Mass-based Zink Imaging figured …
Jack Davis / SiliconBeat:
Sirf agrees to merge into British company — Sirf Technology, the troubled supplier of chips and software used in global position systems that has gone through three rounds of layoffs this year as its sales collapsed, said it has agreed to be acquired by CSR, a British supplier of Bluetooth connectivity tools.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
The Secret to Start-Up Success: Save Customers Money — These days, venture capitalists are ever more cautious with their money. The way to catch their eye? Pitch a company whose mission is to save customers money. — That is the advice from three venture capitalists who invest …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla call for EU intervention in browser war is troubling — Mozilla has voiced support for Opera's effort to convince the European Commission to impose sanctions on Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer in Windows. But is this a necessary or even a wise move for the open source developer?
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CNET News, BetaNews, The Technology Liberation …, Microsoft News Tracker, TechSpot, OSNews, The Progress & … and GMSV
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
IBM Scorns Cisco and Gets Serious About Clouds — IBM yesterday trumpeted its cloud computing strategy with a demonstration at its Silicon Valley campus and a press release touting new customers, products and other tidbits we are going to ignore (you can read the release here).
Microsoft:
Microsoft Appoints Simon Sproule as Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications — Sproule brings 17 years of broad communications experience to Microsoft. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Simon Sproule will join the company as corporate vice president of Corporate Communications.
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
How to become an iPhonedeveloper in eight easy steps — You've probably heard all about iShoot. Written by a programmer at Sun Microsystems in his spare time, this Worms-style artillery shooter blasted to the top of the App Store charts earlier this year and stayed there for weeks earning …
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
AMD shares drop as spin-off vote delayed — Blaming weak turnout and an “aggressive” timetable, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has postponed a shareholder vote on plans to spin off its factories and sell a bigger stake of the company in deals with the Abu Dhabi government.
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Hot Chicks With Douchebags Authors Free to Call Women ‘Hot Chicks,’ Men ‘Douchebags’ — A New Jersey judge has revealed the secret to calling someone a “douchebag”: Make it clear you're just kidding! That's why the Honorable Menelaos Toskos cleared the author of Hot Chicks With Douchebags of defamation.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Open source video player, aggregator Miro goes 2.0 — The team behind open source internet video player Miro have pushed out version 2.0. The new player features a new interface, improved speed and performance, and the ability for users to add links to online streaming video portals like Hulu and CBS.com to the sidebar.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
According To Author's Guild, You Cannot Read Books Out Loud — from the player-pianos-anyone? dept — As you may know, when player pianos were first introduced, there was a massive fear among musicians that it would be the death of the live music industry.
Michael Calore / Epicenter:
Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots — Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music and videos, to help you quit smoking and lose weight …
