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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Nokia turns to Android in phone wars — Finnish mobile phone giant changes strategy to increase share in the only growing market — Nokia is understood to be developing a mobile phone that runs on Google's Android software platform in a strategic U-turn for the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Prepare Yourself For iPod Video — Like most people who've had an iPhone 3GS in their hands, we've been extremely impressed with the video capabilities of this little device. Not only Does it take near-HD video, it has excellent basic editing software and video can be uploaded to YouTube over Wifi or the cell networks.
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Arn / MacRumors:
More Evidence of Cameras in Next Gen iPod Touch and Nano? — Two new images of cases for the upcoming iPod Touch and iPod Nano have begun circulating. The new cases suggest that the next generation Touch and Nano will indeed include a camera. — The first image from Uxsight is listed as a …
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — My partner Ben Horowitz and I are delighted to announce the formation of our new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and our first fund — $300 million in size — aimed purely at investing in the best new entrepreneurs …
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Details on Marc Andreessen's New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are launching their much-anticipated $300 million venture fund this evening, aptly called Andreessen Horowitz. — The fund will make investments of $50,000 to $50 million …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Web pioneer Andreessen raises $300M for new venture capital firm — Marc Andreessen, the entrepreneur who co-founded the first significant Web browser Netscape at 22, is moving on to his next profession: Venture Capitalism. — Andreessen (pictured left) with his long-time business partner …
Stephen Hutcheon / The Age:
Google wants a bigger slice of the real-estate search business — In a move that has raised eyebrows among established players in the classified real-estate business, Google Australia has unveiled a new tool on its mapping service that will directly link buyers and renters to available property.
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Andrew Foster / Official Google Australia Blog:
Making Google Maps even more useful with real estate search — Ever since Google Maps launched in Australia in February 2007, we've been committed to adding more and more useful and up-to-date information to make it a truly valuable resource for Australians.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:Land Grab: Google Expands Real Estate Listings
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome — The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 …
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves — Twitter seems to be on a roll lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the action, semi-real-time here.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips — When motion pictures were invented at the end of the 19th century, most films were shorter than a minute, because of the limitations of technology. A little more than a hundred years later when Web videos were introduced, they were also cut short …
Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Online Ad Spending Rises At Double-Digit Rates, Gains Share Vs. All Other Media — Despite the global economic recession's drag on advertising budgets, the growth in online ad spending appears to be defying expectations, and is expanding at double-digit rates, according to the latest quarterly forecast …
Reuters:
Advertising set for mild 2010 recovery-forecast — “In the U.S. we predict search advertising to grow 20 percent in 2009, while traditional display grows 3 percent and classified grows just 1.8 percent. — However with the move of money from print to online, the newspaper industry has been hurt.
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Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Google code cloud punts on-demand embarrassment — Mountain View's Sarah Palin moment — Increase your knowledge of the latest threats to your busines — Fail and You Last week, users of Google App Engine - Google's application hosting platform - discovered a new feature in the product: downtime.
Markcuban / blog maverick:
When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free — The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is far from free to remain successful. — The more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? — SUCCESS in Silicon Valley often emerges through trial and error. Willingness to buck popular trends can help, too. — Just ask Osman Rashid and Aayush Phumbhra, the co-founders of Chegg.com, a company that rents textbooks to college students.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Cherry, The Mobile Operator That Doesn't Care Whether You're On Wi-Fi Or Not — The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup …
