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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Microsoft poaching Apple store managers and sales staff — Microsoft is beginning to look to Apple for more than just inspiration for its retail stores, the company is now also starting to hire away its retail employees. — People that have spoken to The Loop on condition of anonymity confirm …
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Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore:
Store Discord May Result in Employee Walk-Out — Apple's retail stores carry the company's brand and culture around the world, but really, each location has its own personality based largely on the management staff. Now, staffers at the Alderwood Mall (Wash.) retail store say their complaints about …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Verizon, AT&T: Net neutrality not OK for wireless — The wireless industry is gearing up to fight new Net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission is formulating to keep the Internet open. — On Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a speech at the Brookings Institute …
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Roy Mark / eWeek:Republicans Move to Block Network Neutrality
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PC World, BBC, GigaOM, Technologizer, Ars Technica, NewTeeVee, jkOnTheRun, The Register and Digital Daily
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Linus Torvalds: ‘Linux is bloated’ — Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: “Linux is bloated.” While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success …
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Hardware 2.0, The Register, Between the Lines, Linux.com, internetnews.com, Pocket-lint.com, Inc.com, AppScout and Intel Software Network Blogs
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
Microsoft acquires the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) — Today, I'm very excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a company that specializes in bringing the power of parallel computing to the desktop …
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Jnack / John Nack on Adobe:
Lightroom pulls further ahead of Aperture — The past couple of years at this time (see entries for 2007, 2008), independent research company InfoTrends has surveyed professional photographers* about their choices of raw image-processing tools. It's interesting to check …
Business Wire:
Samsung Opens the Door to PC-Level Performance on Mobile Devices with 1GHz Low-power Application Processors — TAIPEI, Taiwan—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced two new 1GHz ARM® CORTEX™-A8 based …
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Jon Fortt / Brainstorm Tech:
Oracle CEO sees long slog for U.S. economy — Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison doesn't expect the U.S. economy to significantly improve until halfway through the next decade - a gloomy scenario he dubbed an L-shaped recovery. — “The American consumer is so deeply in debt …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bing's Slow Growth Continues — Microsoft's Bing search engine grew its share of the U.S. market for its third month in a row, according to comScore. — Bing represented 9.3% of searches in August, up from 8.9% in July and 8.0% in May, according to comScore.
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eWeek, TechCrunch, All about Microsoft, Tech Trader Daily and John Battelle's Searchblog
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:More Modest Results for Microsoft's Marketing Blitz. Now It's Yahoo's Turn
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Rubicon Project Lands $9 Million Third Round Led By NBCU — NBC Universal's Peacock Fund led a $9 million third round for online ad inventory manager The Rubicon Project. Peacock provided $6 million, with the rest provided by existing backers Clearstone Venture Partners and Mayfield Fund.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:More Money for Ad Tech: Rubicon Project Raises $9 Million
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Business Wire:
The Nielsen Company and Facebook Form Strategic Alliance — Industry Leaders to Use Nielsen Products to Help Marketers Better Measure Online Advertising Impact and Realize Greater ROI — NEW YORK & PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Nielsen Company and Facebook today announced a multi-year …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:Facebook to Partner With Nielsen
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Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider, Gawker, Webware.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, All Facebook, VentureBeat, Voices on All Things Digital, Mashable! and Inside Facebook, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Forum Tool Zoho Discussions — Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a brand new product today called Zoho Discussions. Zoho lets any business, individual or organization create public or private support forums where employees or customers …
the nytpicker:
“I Am Not A Reporter!” NYT's David Pogue Declares, Responding Angrily To Recent Criticism. “Since When Have I Ever Billed Myself As A Journalist?” — Clearly stung by recent attacks over conflicts of interest, the NYT's technology columnist David Pogue used a podcast interview Sunday …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google — A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. — According to a court document in the case …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A $1 Million Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Model for Others — Even the near-miss losers in the Netflix million-dollar-prize competition seemed to have few regrets. — Netflix, the movie rental company, announced on Monday that a seven-man team was the winner …
Guardian:
Murdoch's digital news cartel will not persuade people to pay for content — The market research revelation that only 5% of UK web users would pay for online news doesn't surprise me in the least. But I doubt that it will stop Rupert Murdoch in his tracks.
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paidContent, the Econsultancy blog, The Equity Kicker, broadstuff, paidContent, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and mocoNews
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Gelato brings real-time search to online dating — Online dating, meet the social network, meet real-time search. — That's essentially the elevator pitch of Gelato, an early-stage start-up that's presenting at the DemoFall 09 conference in San Diego this week.
Gordon Mah Ung / Maximum PC:
It's Official: AMD Confirms Hexa-Core Thuban CPU — Backwards Compatility with AM3 is the Big Surprise — Eat that Gulftown: AMD officials have not only confirmed that it will release a hexa-core processor next year - but it will be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards.
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Gizmodo, DailyTech, Neowin.net, Engadget, TweakTown News, SlashGear, Electronista, The Tech Report and bit-tech.net
James Sherwood / The Register:
Acer's F1 smartphone launching ‘within weeks’ — Acer has confirmed that its F1 smartphone will be launched next month. — Little has been heard about the device since Acer first spoke about its development back in March. However, the firm has since told Register Hardware that the F1 …
