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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:
Twitter Widens Blog War — Twitter seems only to have grown more furious at the tech blog that published its internal documents, accusing TechCrunch of lying and hinting at legal action. Bizarrely, TechCrunch is refusing to fight back. — TechCrunch this week published internal Twitter documents obtained by a computer hacker.
Sam Bayard / citmedialaw.org:First Amendment Protects TechCrunch's Publication of (Some) Hacked Twitter Documents
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Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
App stores are not the future, says Google — Apple customers may have downloaded 1.5bn applications from its AppStore in the past year for their iPhones and iPod touches, but the service does not represent the future for the mobile industry, according to Google.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Search Ad Deal With Microsoft “Down to the Short Strokes"-But Caution Also Advised — Unless there is some major glitch, there might finally be a search and online advertising deal struck between Yahoo and Microsoft at long last. — Top executives at Microsoft-including SVP …
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Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Yahoo!'s Earnings Quagmire — The company reports July 21, and results likely won't be good. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Brace yourself for no surprise: When Yahoo! announces second-quarter results July 21, earnings are going to be bad. With house prices down, travel down and recession-battered consumers …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Opera: Microsoft's ‘minor tweak’ of Windows 7 not enough — Microsoft may have felt forced to leave parts of IE within Windows, since some of the OS's functionality, particularly Windows Update, likely depends on those components. — A month ago, Microsoft acknowledged that its unilateral move might …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Opera slams Microsoft's Windows 7 E move - again — Hokey-cokey IE8 option not good for rivals — Understand how application security is evolving — Microsoft is continuing to insist it has gone to great lengths in recent months to appease European antitrust watchdogs by saying it will …
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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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Softpedia News:
Firefox 3.5.1 Patches a Critical Security Bug — The first update to 3.5 has launched ahead of schedule — A critical security vulnerability in the latest Firefox 3.5 was disclosed a few days ago affecting the Just-in-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. The bug could be used by an attacker …
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Google Blogoscoped:
The Great Google Doodle Triforce Conspiracy — In many well-known programs there are hidden features or messages called easter eggs, being put there by the developers for you to find. Like in some applications from Google: Docs (Cliply), Picasa (bears) and Reader (ninja and the end of internet).
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Michael Osinski / New York Times:
Steal This Code — GOLDMAN SACHS'S announcement this week of record quarterly profits has thankfully overshadowed another news event there earlier this month. Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer for Goldman, was arrested and accused of stealing computer programs that make rapid …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel CEO keen on ‘ultra-thins’ as alternative to Netbooks — During Intel's earnings conference call Tuesday, CEO Paul Otellini said inexpensive “ultra-thins” will give users what they're missing in Netbooks, a theme that the chipmaker has been reiterating in various forums lately.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former AOLer Jim Bankoff Scores $7 Million for Sports News and Community Start-Up — Jim Bankoff-the well-regarded former AOL exec who runs an online sports news network called SB Nation-has nabbed $7 million in funding from investors to grow the company, including Comcast Interactive Capital, said sources.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Music industry wants cut of Pirate Bay sale — The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the Pirate Bay, according to a high-level music industry source and a spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade group representing the music industry worldwide.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Who Does Twitter Love? Breaking Down The Twitter Suggested Users List — In some ways, it's the Who's Who of Twitter — the Twitter Suggested Users list. These are the 241 people Twitter currently suggests that new people should follow. Below, a look at who makes it by categories, such as media or sports.
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of Location-Based Services — There's a reason Google is working at a rapid pace to bring location services to the forefront of many of its products (Maps, Search, Latitude, etc) — new potential business models. Sure, location also happens to be useful …
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
As Twitter and Facebook grow, Google Reader copies features, adding clutter — Google Reader's increasingly cluttered interface (larger version). — Google Reader is one of the best RSS aggregators out there. But with more blogs and newspapers broadcasting their content on Twitter and Facebook …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
New Xbox Live Update: Full Game Downloads, Expanded Netflix Features and More — The newest Xbox live update is in the process of filtering out to the masses, and it brings with it some pretty sweet features. It'll offer downloadable Games on Demand (full games!), new Netflix options and a bunch more.
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
The Big, Awkward Problem of YouTube Fees — YouTube has become our national trove of free video, a place where a company can find a free platform for video marketing junk and individuals can watch dogs sleepwalk. But as we've discussed before, the Web's video giant costs Google …
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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.”
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 …
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