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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million — Intuit will acquire the free online personal finance service Mint, we've confirmed from a source close to the deal, for around $170 million. Silicon Alley Insider first reported a rumor on this. The deal should be announced in the next few days.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Drops 40GB Apple TV and Discounts 160GB Model to $229 — Apple has quietly discontinued the 40GB Apple TV overnight and reduced the price of the 160GB model down to $229. Previously, the 40GB and 160GB models were priced at $229 and $329, respectively. — Now Apple is offering only a single 160GB model at $229.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's TuneKit iTunes LP format appears aimed at Apple TV — The iTunes LP album and iTunes Extras movie-enriching bonus material bundles Apple introduced as a new feature of iTunes 9 are built using a new TuneKit JavaScript framework and appear aimed to deliver new big screen content to Apple TV.
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:Apple slashes Apple TV prices, abandons 40GB model
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Jeff / Wolfire Blog:
Preview of WebKit's WebGL / Canvas 3D — Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for “WebGL” scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL patch has quietly landed. With a name like “WebGL”, I couldn't help but investigate. — What is WebGL?
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Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
WebGL: bringing native 3D graphics to your browser — One of the most-anticipated features HTML5 promises for the web is the canvas tag, which allows for dynamic rendering of 2D images. If you can use HTML to draw a 2D image, can native 3D graphics be far behind?
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Telegraph:
TMobile owner eyes multibillion dollar bid for Sprint — Deutsche Telekom has called in banking advisers to study a possible multi-billion dollar bid for Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile phone operator in the US. — The company's decision to call in Deutsche Bank comes hot on the heels …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Home Delivery: The New York Times Serves Up Some Malware — Here's a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its Web site. — The paper says “some readers” have seen unauthorized pop …
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Riva Richmond / Gadgetwise:What to Do If You Saw an ‘Antivirus’ Pop-Up Ad
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
LG officially announces GW620, its first Android phone — Though it already broke cover at IFA out in Germany a few days ago, LG's just sealed the deal on its very first Android phone — the GW620 landscape QWERTY slider. Interestingly, the “Etna” name seen at IFA is missing …
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
iPhone gets .Net app development — Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple's handheld — Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft's …
Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Solid-state drives offer new savings over disks — Solid-state Flash drives (SSDs ) are making inroads at both ends of the computer market - finding a place in small netbooks and also beginning to replace the traditional hard-disk drive for data storage in the enterprise.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The “Good Enough” Test: Flip Vs. Apple iPod Nano — When Apple added a video camera to the iPhone last summer, the digerati declared that Flip, Cisco's cheap digital video camera line, was dead. When Apple added a video camera to its cheap and tiny Nano iPod last week, the digerati heaped dirt on the camcorder's grave.
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Ian Paul / PC World:
iPhone MMS Shows Up Early — Some lucky iPhone owners are reporting that multimedia messaging has started working on their iPhones. The earliest report about MMS activation came from Mediaite blogger Ash Kalb on Saturday who said select U.S. iPhone customers now have MMS support.
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Laura Northrup / Consumerist:MMS For iPhone Rollout Begins, 2 Weeks Early
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Ran / Omgili blog:
Near-Real-time search on Google — Did you ever want to know what's happening on the internet in real-time? Yes you say, I use Twitter! Well good for you, I guess I can't teach you anything new since you already know everything... So go on and don't read the rest of the post because you are so smart and successful...
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Sells $150 Million Worth Of Alibaba.com Shares As Tensions Lurk — Yahoo is about to raise approximately $150 million by selling 57.48 million Alibaba.com shares, according to a term sheet obtained by Reuters earlier on Monday. The Internet giant is selling the large chunk of shares …
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Associated Press:
NEC, Casio, Hitachi to merge handset businesses — TOKYO - — Japanese electronics makers NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi said Monday they will combine their mobile phone handset-manufacturing operations by April next year in a bid to boost their competitiveness at home and abroad.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Joost: Volpi Was Forced Out As Chair, ‘Investigation’ Underway — When the virtually wound-down Joost confirmed to us late last week that former CEO Mike Volpi has also exited as chairman, it didn't tell us that owners had forced him out of the role. Now, in a statement via WSJ and elsewhere …
