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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet” — On Tuesday evening more than 300 confidential Twitter documents and screenshots landed in our inbox. We said we were going to post a handful of them only, and we've spent much of the last 36 hours talking directly …
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Someone Call Security — Early yesterday, we were contacted by two blog journalists who had just been offered internal business documents stolen from Twitter by a hacker. — First, it's important to note how these documents were stolen. In this case, a Twitter employee used the same non-unique password on multiple services.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
TechCrunch Supresses Its Best Scoops at Twitter's Request — TechCrunch has been taking heavy flack for publishing purloined Twitter documents, but the tech/business blog has a message for the haters: Don't worry, we're sitting on the most newsworthy documents. Um, what?
Sam Bayard / citmedialaw.org:
First Amendment Protects TechCrunch's Publication of (Some) Hacked Twitter Documents — in - Criminal - Journalism - Publication of Private Facts - Twitter — There's an interesting debate afoot about TechCrunch's decision to publish selected documents it received from someone who hacked …
Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER 2009 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. — “Google had a very good quarter, especially given the continued macro-economic downturn. While most of the world's largest economies shrank …
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The Official Palm Blog:
Mojo SDK available to all — After a successful early access program, Palm's Mojo Software Development Kit is available to all interested app developers. The SDK can be downloaded from a new developer portal — Palm webOSdev — at developer.palm.com. Any interested developer …
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Wayne Rosso / THE MUSiC VOiD:
Exclusive: The Pirate Bay 2.0 — Dateline London: On June 30, news broke that The Pirate Bay had been purchased by a little known publicly traded company named Global Gaming Factory X based in Stockholm. Having been through the p2p wars in my own rite, the only thing I could think was …
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24/7 Wall Street:
Yahoo! (YHOO) Deal With Microsoft (MSFT) “Imminent” — Sources at a major client of investment house ThinkEquity say that the firm considers a Microsoft (MSFT) link-up with Yahoo! (YHOO) in the search business to be “imminent”. The comments were made by analyst William Morrison.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wants You To Know A Google Docs Redesign Is Coming (I Wonder Why) — On the Google Docs blog today, the company took the time to make a non-announcement. Basically, there's a bunch of words that bury the real story: That Google Docs will soon be launching a “brand new shiny interface.”
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Nick Nguyen / Mozilla Add-ons Blog:
Firefox Add-ons Contributions Pilot — The Firefox Add-ons community is an amazing source of creativity and innovation for Firefox users all over the world. Thousands of developers create add-ons that foreshadow the future of Web browsers, and until today, developers who wanted some sort …
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Sam Niccolls / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
TechCrunch Upskirt: Why Michael Arrington Blogs about Porn — In 1970 porn was a 10 million dollar industry. Today, the porn industry pulls in close to a billion dollars. According to Alexa, four of the hundred most trafficked sites on the web are porn sites.
Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Games Industry Suffers From Recession, Finally — After a few months of lagging sales, market researcher NPD Group is finally saying the recession caught up with the video games industry. All it took was for gaming to suffer its biggest year-over-year sales drop in 9 years.
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Google's Eyeing Cellphones For Chrome OS — At today's Mobilebeat 2009 Conference, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra spoke about mobile platforms and what enables success. Interestingly enough, Gundotra quickly mentioned web app development as the future of successful mobile platforms.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Analysis: Palm Pre sync flap, hardware issues, hurt Palm — Pre fans point to the Palm's WebOS, saying it matters most — Computerworld - Since the Palm Pre launched on June 6, it has been hailed with exaggerated exuberance as an iPhone killer and reviled for pesky hardware problems.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates: What does ‘browser’ mean these days, anyway? — In an interview with CNET News, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates responded to Google's announcement that it is developing Chrome OS, an operating system entirely integrated with a Web browser. — He noted that the term “browser,” these days, is fairly loose.
Jack Margo / eWeek:
Twitter Leak Illustrates Google Chrome OS Security Hazards — Recently leaked Twitter documents that were stored on Google Apps highlight a deeper issue - namely, when everything you do is stored online, how will you protect your personal data? As Google revs up its new Chrome OS, phishing and hacker attempts will be exacerbated.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft: Citing Worries On Windows, Argus Says “Sell” — According to Thomson/First Call, there are 33 sell-side analysts with ratings on Microsoft (MSFT). They count 13 Strong Buys, 10 Buys, 10 Holds and zero Sells or Strong Sells. But that information is a bit out of date: this morning …
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Amazon makes good on cracked Kindles — Excerpts from the blog After countless calls and e-mails, Amazon.com finally responded to the story we broke Tuesday about a Seattle customer... Excerpts from the blog — After countless calls and e-mails, Amazon.com finally responded to the story …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Bit.ly Starts Warning About Malicious Links — Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility. — Bit.ly has started warning users of potentially malicious sites …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On — Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6. Without Netscape to compete against it and the ability to bundle its browser with Windows XP, Microsoft experienced superior market share - up to 95% at the peak.
Roman Loyola / Macworld:
First look: Comcast Mobile App for iPhone — Comcast is one of the largest cable TV and Internet service providers in the United States, and the company on Thursday released the Comcast Mobile App for iPhone (iTunes Store link), which allows you to access some of Comcast's services from your iPhone or iPod touch over Wi-Fi.
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Taylor Buley / Forbes:
Revving Up Digg — What Digg is doing outside the media spotlight to gain traction and keep momentum. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg, is not easily flustered when cool technology hits the skids. Barreling south through San Francisco recently to reach an appointment …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
‘Almost all’ news sites will charge within a year, predicts FT editor — Building payment platforms is one of key challenges facing news organisations, says Financial Times editor Lionel Barber — The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that “almost all” …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Belkin kills the FlyWire — does wireless HD / HDMI even have a chance? — We sort of saw the writing on the wall, but now Belkin has went and made it official: the FlyWire is dead. Originally showcased at CES 2008 and at practically every AV-related trade show since …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Pizza Hut Comes to the iPhone: Will Other Restaurants Follow? — A couple of months ago, Papa John's marketing manager Jim McDonnell was quoted as saying that their “iPhone application” simply wasn't delivering as well as their mobile display advertising was.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
No, @Oprah doesn't really want you to watch that pirated copy of Harry Potter — If you're following celebrities like Oprah, Michael Arrington, and Justin Timberlake you might find that folks are retweeting some odd stuff purportedly originally posted by the aforementioned celebrities.
