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Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Our complete letter to the FCC regarding Google Voice for iPhone — Back in July, the FCC sent letters to Apple, AT&T, and Google asking about the rejection of the Google Voice for iPhone app. — When we submitted our letter on August 21, we asked the FCC to redact certain portions …
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Says It Again: We Did Not Reject Google Voice iPhone App — Apple (AAPL) disputes Google's (GOOG) claim that Apple rejected the Google Voice iPhone app. — An Apple rep writes: — “We do not agree with all of the statements made by Google in their FCC letter.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won't Win This Fight. — Well, something clearly broke down behind the scenes in the ongoing Apple/Google negotiations over Google Voice on the iPhone, because Google released one of two nukes it has been holding back. In a letter to the FCC today …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google to Apple: You Lie — Well this is uncomfortable... Asked by the FCC in August if it had rejected Google's Voice app from its iTunes App Store, Apple (AAPL) claimed it had not and that the app was still under review. “Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application …
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. as Traffic Cop in ‘Net Neutrality’ Fight — FCC Proposal on Bandwith a Boon for Consumers and Silicon Valley, Blow to Telecoms — The U.S. government plans to propose broad new rules Monday that would force Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, seeking …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:FCC's Net Neutrality Push to Boldly Go Where Congress Has Failed Thrice Before
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Lawsuit Brings Clarity To Skype's IP Problem (Prognosis: Screwed) — When a group of investors pooled their resources a few weeks ago to put a bid in to buy Skype from eBay, I thought there was a good chance that Skype's legal woes were behind them. Apparently, I was wrong …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Plot Thickens: Skype Founders And Joost Sue Former Chairman And CEO Mike Volpi — The Skype-eBay plot thickens. Joost and Joltid, both companies owned by Skype's founders, have filed a lawsuit against former Joost chairman and CEO, Mike Volpi. The suit also names Index Ventures, the VC firm where Volpi is a partner.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mint.com Founder Happy To Sell To Intuit, VC Conspiracy Wrong — Why did 28-year-old Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer sell his company to Intuit for $170 million after two years in business? Why didn't he wait until the company's valuation was much bigger? — Because he got to sell his company …
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Jason F. / Signal vs. Noise:The next generation bends over
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Cougar sighting at Microsoft? — Microsoft is already trying to fend off Snow Leopards. Now, it has cougars to deal with too. For the second day in a row, there's been an unconfirmed cougar sighting on Microsoft's Redmond campus near building 32. — A note to staffers gives some tips on what to do if they encounter a cougar.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Closing In On Launch, Twitter Tweaks Its Retweet API And Shares A Picture — In the Twitter API Announcement Google Group today, developer Marcel Molina posted a couple interesting updates about the upcoming Retweet API. — First, the launch of the new API is “close at hand.”
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T to launch the Tilt 2 on October 6th; coincidence? — Oh no, we're not done just yet ladies and gents. We already know October 6th is going to be a glorious day and now it looks like AT&T subscribers will be able to join in on the fun. Have you been feeling left out …
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Luis Corrons / PandaLabs:
Your Facebook account is worth $100 — Yesterday I came across (thanks Sean-Paul!) the following site, which really attracted my attention: — As you can see, it is an online service which promises to hack any Facebook account just for 100 bucks (!). My first thought about this was …
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AT&T's Femtocell Coming Soon — AT&T (NYSE: T - News), the second largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscriber base, is set to unveil nation's first 3G femtocell product. The device (called “3G Microcell) is expected to reach select U.S. markets including Atlanta, San Antonio, Seattle and North Carolina in the next week.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Google Revenue Projections For New Ad Exchange Leak — The figures have changed a lot as launch day neared, but we understand Google's internal revenue projections for the ad exchange it launched today are around $400 million of top-line revenue on an annualized basis.
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Neal Mohan / The Official Google Blog:The DoubleClick Ad Exchange: growing the display advertising pie for everyone
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Perfect App To Start Your Weekend Off With A Drink - Or Several Drinks. Fast. — I love the fact that Power Music Hour, a new app for the iPhone, never once mentions drinking in its App Store page description. But anyone who has been to college in the past decade will know exactly what this app is for: A drinking game.
VentureBeat:
Facebook: Twitter is “in the rear-view mirror” — Twitter may still be the media darling of the day, getting all kinds of attention amid its huge user growth earlier this year. But Facebook, once considered Twitter's most fierce competitor because it also wants to let users post bite-sized updates online …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon to launch HTC Imagio October 6th, Android-powered HTC Predator to follow — It looks as though T-Mobile subscribers will have two big reasons reasons to rejoice come November 11th, but they're not the only ones with cause for celebration in the near future.
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Dorsey Talks About His New Venture, and Why Twitter Wasn't Called ‘Twitch’ — Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter, said Friday that his next venture would be based on themes similar to the microblogging service's and may focus on health care and financial services.
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Hulu Already Working On The Technical Requirements For Subscription Service — On Tuesday, News Corps. chairman Rupert Murdoch and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference, indicated that one day, Hulu may indeed have a subscription based service.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
TechCrunch50 conference founders reunite for 2010, blame it all on the puppets — The popular TechCrunch50 conference has gone from off to back on again for next year. — On Tuesday night, high-rolling Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis told several attendees, plus a reporter on Twitter …
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Mike Bracco / The Next Web:
Google ready to unleash spiders and expose your Google Docs — Google just announced in an email to Google App admins that starting “in a few weeks” Google Docs published and shared to users outside of one's domain and linked to from a public website will be crawled, indexed and appear in Google search results.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Mint's iPhone App: Now With Budgets, Push Notifications, and an Extra Layer of Security — Mint, the popular personal finance site that was just acquired by Intuit, just released a major update to its iPhone application (iTunes link). While Mint's iPhone app was always quite good …
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook settles Beacon case: No more Beacon, but there's a $9.5M “privacy fund” — More updates coming soon. — Below is a statement on the Beacon settlement agreement from Barry Schnitt, Facebook's Director of Policy Communications. — We learned a great deal from the Beacon experience.
