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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
300 Million and On — As of today, Facebook now serves 300 million people across the world. It's a large number, but the way we think about this is that we're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone. Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect …
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook: 300 Million Monthly Active Users, “Free Cash Flow Positive” — Facebook has just announced it has reached 300 million monthly active users around the world. The company has added 50 million users in just the 75 days, that's 670,000 users per day. In mid-July, Facebook announced that it had reached 250 million.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:Facebook Finds Profitability Despite Nascent Advertising Model
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009 — The 50 startup presentations are over, the judges votes are in, Michael and Jason chewed over the top contenders, and the winner of this year's TechCrunch50 is RedBeacon. The startup aims to help consumers find local service providers such as plumbers, bakers, and contractors.
Omniture:
Adobe to Acquire Omniture — Combined Company Will Deliver Comprehensive Solutions for Creation, Delivery and Optimization of Content and Applications — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Omniture, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMTR) today announced the two companies have entered …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion — Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire Web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share. — That represents a 45 percent premium to Omniture's average closing price for the last 30 days, Adobe noted in its press release.
Xavier Ducrohet / Android Developers Blog:
Android 1.6 SDK is here — I am happy to let you know that Android 1.6 SDK is available for download. Android 1.6, which is based on the donut branch from the Android Open Source Project, introduces a number of new features and technologies. With support for CDMA and additional screen sizes …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: New Macs Coming Soon? — Is Apple (AAPL) about to unveil updated Macs? — Research firm Wedge Partners thinks so. They assert in a note today that the company will release both new iMacs and new MacBooks “in the next several weeks.” — Wedge sees a redesigned iMac witjh a …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Microsoft Sets Up Zune HD for Failure — Again — The Zune HD's lack of a compelling software market will make it nothing more than a repeat failure, according to mobile developers and an analyst. — Microsoft on Tuesday released its newest media player.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate — The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies. — U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
TC50: CitySourced Lets You Report Pot Holes And Graffiti On The Go — Ever seen a nasty pot hole or a wall full of graffiti and wished you could report the problem on the go instead of writing a letter or email to your city bureaucracy? TechCrunch 50 startup CitySourced is launching an a slew …
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Lee Byron Today / Facebook Blog:
Testing 1-2-3: Announcing Facebook Prototypes — Facebook's engineers thrive on innovation and experimentation. We're encouraged to work on projects that inspire us and build on new ideas, but not all of these features and improvements wind up launching on the site.
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS 3.1 Jailbroken Almost Immediately (Just Not For Everyone) — Sometimes it pays to sit back from the bleeding edge a little. Like when the Dev Team releases their Pwnage Tool for iPhone 3.1, and it doesn't work on the 3GS or the new Touch. But it will, you see.
Fred / A VC:
The Best Deal In Startup Land — Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says: … I read that and went right to the comments and wrote: … Our firm has investments in two YC backed companies, Disqus and HeyZap, and hope to make many more.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Communacopia: Murdoch: We'll Start Charging For WSJ Mobile Apps — The Wall Street Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry and iPhone, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference.
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Reuters, TeleRead, TUAW, The Mac Observer, Agence France Presse, MobileCrunch, Associated Press, Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:atul
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Microsoft's vision for a “next-gen newspaper” looks like TweetDeck — The Newspaper Association of America cast a wide net this summer in seeking proposals for generating online revenue. Their request went out to many of the firms we've been covering closely but also several tech companies …
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Gordon Mah Ung / Maximum PC all:
Cheap Chip! Athlon II X4 Breaks the $100 Quad-Core Barrier — Even the Intel fanboys have to hand it to AMD once in a while. After Intel deftly dropped a Core i5 anvil on Phenom II's head, AMD did a quick drop to floor and now fires back slo-mo style with its own chip: a $99 quad core.
brad's life:
On PubSubHubbub and rssCloud ... Are you confused about the difference between PubSubHubbub and rssCloud? You're not alone. — Here's how the confusion came about: — Dave Winer invented rssCloud way back in the day. It only distributed lite pings, the callback endpoint was the IP address …
Stephanie N. Mehta / Brainstorm Tech:
Carol Bartz is friggin' interesting — The Yahoo CEO offers candid views on life post-retirement — and dealing with activist shareholders — Bartz has no regrets about joining Yahoo. Photo: Yahoo — At Fortune's Most Powerful Women conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Yahoo (YHOO) …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another AOL Org Chart Shuffle: COO Partoll, Search Boss Kannapell Out — This isn't the long-rumored round of mass layoffs, but AOL boss Tim Armstrong did let go of two executives today: COO Kim Partoll is out, as is John Kannapell, SVP of search and local media.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
MySpace Has Built Its Own Recommendation Engine, And They're Open-Sourcing It — As social networks continue to grow in size, recommendation engines are becoming a more vital part to each of them. So vital, in fact, that MySpace has built its own. — Called Qizmt, this internally-developed framework …
Ben Snitkoff / Technically Legal:
Copyright Infringement In Action — About 9 PM EDT on Sunday the 13th, Wil Shipley, developer of Delicious Library, tweeted that an application on the iTunes App store had stolen his copyrighted images. — Wil was talking about the woodgrain background that is a prominent feature of Delicious Library.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TC50: CrowdFusion Merges The Best Features Of Blogs, Wikis, And More Into One Unified CMS — As content sites on the web mature, they continue to blur the line between straight news sites, social hubs, and references for structured data. No longer are these sites just home to editorial content …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Oracle unveils second Exadata machine; Ellison steps up data warehousing push — Oracle chief Larry Ellison unveiled the latest version of its Exadata data warehousing appliance on Tuesday and it's clear the company plans on increasing its data warehousing push. — Ellison's Exadata Version 2 launch had three primary goals:
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Threadsy: All Your Communications, All in One Place — I'm still at TechCrunch50-it's winding down, but there's still so much going on that you'll miss a product launch or two if you so much as take a restroom break. The debut that's happening right now is one of the most interesting ones so far …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Chrome Goes 3.0: Gets Themes, Improved Omnibox & Better New Tab Page — Just about a year after Google launched the first version of Chrome, the company released the first stable version of Chrome 3.0 today. According to Google, this release comes after 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes.
OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY …:
CUOMO ANNOUNCES DELL WILL PAY $4 MILLION FOR DEFRAUDING NEW YORK CONSUMERS — Announcement Follows Cuomo's Win in Case Charging Dell With Fraud, False Advertising and Deceptive Practices — Consumers Defrauded by Dell Encouraged to Contact the AG's Office or Visit Updated Website at www.nyagdell.com to get money back
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 bundle has a 250GB HDD, $400 price tag — While the Forza 3 set is still an unconfirmed listing, there's no denying the Xbox 360 has just upped its storage capacity options with a 250GB HDD bundle clad in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 emblems.
Christopher MacManus / Sony Insider:
Sony's Gorgeous New A-Series Walkman Features OLED, Up To 64GB Capacity — Sony has unveiled the latest update to the A-Series Walkman line with some serious features. The new NW-A840 series, available in black and brown, simply is the most brilliant Walkman offering from Sony to date …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Macworld speed test: new iPod touch. Spoiler: twice as fast — Dan Frakes at Macworld ran some basic tests on the new (but cameraless) iPod touch and got some interesting results. Most tests had the new iPod touch coming in around twice as fast as the previous model with browser tests going over 2X speed.
