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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
New AOL Chairman and CEO-and About-To-Be-Ex-Googler-Tim Armstrong Speaks! — For a tall man, Tim Armstrong has been on an awful lot of online companies' short lists. — For a big Web exec job, that is. Indeed, whenever one opens up in the Internet space, the 6′-3″ Google ad sales …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Ad Chief Tim Armstrong Replaces Randy Falco As Chairman And CEO Of AOL — Breaking: AOL has named a new CEO and chairman. Tim Armstrong, who headed up ad sales in the Americas for Google, will replace Randy Falco as chairman and CEO. AOL President and COO Ron Grant will also be leaving the company.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:AOL Gets a New CEO: Google Sales Boss Tim Armstrong (Plus the Whole Press Release)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Amount And Value Of Twitter Traffic — Much is being written today about the value of a large following on Twitter. Jason Calacanis wants to pay $125,000 a year to have Twitter recommend him to other users, for example. He thinks that over time accounts with massive followings …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000. — When newbies sign up to Twitter now, they are presented with a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Simply being on that list can boost your followers well above 100,000.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone 3.0 OS event March 17th, we got some info — So it looks like Apple's planning on holding an event for iPhone 3.0 OS March 17th along with showing off an updated SDK. This would fit nicely with their brief history of having a preview software event followed by a hardware refresh in June/July.
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Pre Available First Half of 2009, Pricing Plans Confirmed — Sprint's and Palm just confirmed during a webcast conference that the Pre is still on target for a release in the first half of 2009 and will use Sprint's “Everything” line of plans. — Individuals can choose from 450 minute …
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CNN:
Sex offender kills teen while under GPS monitoring, police say — VANCOUVER, Washington (CNN) — When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn't come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer.
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Google Voice Speaks of World Domination — When Google announced its integrated phone service called Google Voice Thursday, it said something very loud. — Google is saying it wants to be the world's communication hub, and hundreds of companies — ranging from mobile phone operators to Skype to Microsoft better be listening.
Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Inside Apple's new third-gen iPod shuffle (teardown photos) — The latest, most petit version of Apple's iPod shuffle music player can be disassembled without major challenge, according to a new tear-down report, which notes that the player is compatible with third-party headphones …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
New Carrier Promises Unlimited 3G Data, VOIP — A brand-new mobile-phone carrier, Zer01 Mobile said Thursday that it can give you truly unlimited voice and data on smart phones for $69.95/month, without a contract, on a network as broad as the one owned by AT&T. — That's because, in many ways, the network is AT&T's.
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Where to From Twitter — Is Twitter, as Eric Schmidt opined last week, the poor man's email? Is it a Facebook or Google killer? What can clickstream data tell us about how people are using Twitter and how does that compare to email, Facebook and search engines?
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Robot Pete / AndroidGuys:
G1's Going for Under $100... But Why? — Sometimes we hold off publishing certain articles on AndroidGuys simply because know that it would be redundant to post something that's clearly made its way around the net. Such is the case with the stories making their way around other Android and mobile gadget sites.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Hands On With iTunes 8.1 and Remote App — ITunes has been updated to 8.1, and the accompanying iPhone Remote application has gotten a bump to v1.2. The release notes tell us that the update is “faster and more responsive”, but in normal use it seems to be the same old click-and-wait interface we've grown to love.
Mel Carson / adCenter Analytics Blog:
adCenter Analytics Beta To Close — The Microsoft adCenter AnalyticsBeta team announced today the end of the adCenter Analytics beta program. — The beta has been closed, but the program will remain available to current users through December 31, 2009. — Please note that all hosted services …
Rachael King / Business Week:
Is Twitter the Next Monster.com? — Plenty of job seekers spend hours combing through listings on Monster or CareerBuilder but experts say that's not necessarily the most effective way to hunt for a job. It turns out that only 12.3% of hires of candidates from outside the company come …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
New beta paves way for Firefox 3.5 — Updated 3:56 p.m. PDT to include details about the fourth beta and upcoming Firefox 3.5 — Mozilla on Thursday released the third beta version of Firefox 3.1, aka Shiretoko, one of the frontrunners in the current race to improve Web browsers.
Associated Press:
Source: Obama official on leave after FBI raids — WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to President Barack Obama is on leave from his White House job after the FBI raided his old District of Columbia government office Thursday, arresting a city employee and a technology consultant on corruption charges, a White House official said.
Venture Capital Dispatch:
Two Famous VCs Fall Out Of Billionaires Club — Two of venture capital's most successful investors from different eras, Arthur Rock and Michael Moritz, have said goodbye to the exclusive billionaires club this year. — According to Forbes' Billionaires list, the world now has 793 billionaires …
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:Billionaire Bill, down $18 billion, is back on top of Forbes list
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Panasonic's ultra-thin 54Z1 plasma in the wild — Now that it's official and priced, Panasonic seems much happier to show off its wireless HD-sporting, ultra-thin Z1 series, and it's quite the sight to behold. The 54Z1 we got to look at was very strikingly clad in brushed metal gray …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
O'Reilly: Why Tech Business Should Support Obama — Tim O'Reilly had a simple message for the tech community earlier this week at the Emerging Technology conference: Support Obama! Wait, isn't the campaign over? It may be, but the next presidential contest is already around the corner …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Obama White House: Copyright treaty is a ‘national security’ secret — Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated by the U.S. government, which some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing that infringes copyrights.
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Nicholas Carlson / The Biz:
The Arrogance Of Newspapers Is Astonishing — In an article in today's New York Times, Richard Pérez-Peña tries to imagine a world without physical newspapers. He doesn't get very far: — No one yet has unlocked the puzzle of supporting a large newsroom purely on digital revenue …
Robert McMillan / ITworld.com:
Researchers find ways to sniff keystrokes from thin air — I like it! — That PC keyboard you're using may be giving away your passwords. Researchers say they've discovered new ways to read what you're typing by aiming special wireless or laser equipment at the keyboard or by simply plugging into a nearby electrical socket.
Rita Chang / AdAge:
Dockers Introduces ‘Shakeable’ iPhone Ad — Apparel Maker Uses Device's Motion-Detecting Accelerometer — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The latest example of a cool marketer-created iPhone experience is not an app but an ad. Apparel maker Dockers San Francisco has created a “shakable,” …
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Resident Evil 5 Versus mode coming after launch for $5 — While Resident Evil 5 is designed to be played in co-op mode, Capcom has sent word that a Versus mode will be added to the game... for a price. While we have no date other than “post-launch,” the mode will allow up to four players to compete against each other online.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MySpace's Experimental New ‘Events’ Product Finally Taps Into The Social Graph — MySpace's Events page hasn't really seen a major upgrade for years - the site looks like it hasn't been updated since 2005, and now lags behind Evite and the current leader Facebook by a wide margin.
