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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple iPad orders drop sharply — A rough three-day estimate, based on an analysis of order numbers: 152,000 units — After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job — Tim Bray—co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee—has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. — The move puts a personal face on the cultural …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
A very personal Google Android vs. Apple iPhone war just got some more personality — Tim Bray, who co-invented XML and is a well-known blogger, has joined Google's Android team and wasted no time taking on Apple's iPhone. — In a blog post (Techmeme), Bray, also a former Sun Microsystems employee …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 Series dev partners: Sling, Pandora, Foursquare and more (updated) — Microsoft just dropped its first press release of MIX 10 on us, and in addition to detailing the Sliverlight and XNA-based Windows Phone 7 Series development situation …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Netflix announced for Windows Phone 7 Series — We just got a quick at Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series, one of the third-party apps Microsoft's showing off here at MIX10, and it looks... well, very Netflixy — it's red to the bone. Unlike other mobile Netflix apps …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ning CEO Gina Bianchini to Step Down-Becomes an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz — Gina Bianchini, the high-profile CEO of social networking platform Ning, is stepping down and will become an Executive in Residence at the Andreessen Horowitz venture firm. — Bianchini (pictured here) …
DigiTimes:
HTC shipping CDMA-version Nexus One to Verizon, says paper — HTC (High Tech Computer) has started shipping CDMA-version of the Nexus One Google phones to Verizon Wireless, which will begin to market the smartphones this month or in April at the earliest, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Product Manager RJ Pittman Defects To Apple — The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We've been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that said “My last day at Google.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
MOG launches mobile apps with unlimited downloads to your phone — Music streaming service MOG unveiled its mobile strategy today, laying out Android and iPhone apps that will let users get unlimited song downloads to their phones for $10 a month. — Subscribers will be able to get on-demand streams …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Pew: readers prefer ad-supported news to pay walls — Advertising remains the primary means of support for online news outlets, and there's a long uphill battle facing anyone trying to forge new business models, at least according to a report produced by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Apps, iPhone Bigger Than Facebook Platform — When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. Flurry said today that Apple's iTunes App Store has over 140,000 applications compared …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo's Top Ad Money-Maker Bradford Leaving for New Job at Demand Media — According to several sources, Yahoo's SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development Joanne Bradford (pictured here) is planning on leaving the Internet giant to take a new position as Chief Revenue Officer of online content upstart Demand Media.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today — Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We'll of course be covering any announcements that will be made by Williams on stage …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless — Waiting in line for movie tickets is still the worst part of going to the movies (unless you are going to see The Bounty Hunter). With so many mobile phone movie apps, it's easy to find what's playing …
Don Faul / Facebook Blog:
New Offices to Support You Around the World — As more and more people share and connect on Facebook, we are growing our operations and teams to support them around the world. Just last week, we announced plans to invest in a new Austin, Texas, office, and today in India we unveiled our intentions to open an office in Hyderabad.
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Ben Horowitz / TechCrunch:
Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove — Editor's note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through …
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
China Issues Warning to Google's Partners — BEIJING — The Chinese authorities have warned major partners of Google's China-based search engine that they must comply with censorship laws even if Google does not, an industry expert with knowledge of the notice said Sunday.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Groupon Directors Establish $100 Million Fund To Invest In The Midwest — Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, two of Chicago's best-known tech entrepreneurs, plan to invest as much as $10 million annually in early-stage technology companies through a new fund dubbed Lightbank.
Michael Calore / Underwire:
Gowalla Tops Foursquare at SXSW Web Awards (But Benson Smokes 'em All) — AUSTIN, Texas - Providing further proof that location-sharing services are currently all the rage, Gowalla picked up the award for best site in the Mobile category Sunday at the 13th annual SXSW Web Awards.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
For NPR, The iPad Means a New App - And a New Web Site — Like many other media companies, NPR is scrambling to prepare an app in time for the iPad's April 3 launch. — But the standoff between Apple (AAPL) and Adobe has prompted the company to take on another engineering project at the same time …
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
AT&T's Latest Dumbphones Come With New Smartphone Services — You don't need a smartphone to get smartphone-like services, claims AT&T. They of course have a few new handsets backing up that boast, but what's most interesting is the free online syncing for both contacts and media.
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Joelle Tessler / Associated Press:
FCC unveiling sweeping national broadband plan — WASHINGTON — Communications regulators are unveiling a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy. Their aim: to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connections to all Americans and make access much faster for people who already have broadband.
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Breaking: Silverlight now on 60% of Internet-connected devices — It seems, backed by many large corporate partners and its superior video quality, Silverlight has now reached 60% market penetration. That's up from 45% at the end of 2009 — a rather startling leap!
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source — Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Microsoft exec says Apple's HTC suit ‘is not necessarily a bad thing’ — Even though Windows Mobile handsets are named in Apple's lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, one Microsoft executive recently stated that the suit might help to sort out intellectual property ownership issues.
