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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP bought Palm after a five-company bidding war — Palm and HP seem like the happiest of corporate couples right now, but theirs was a heated courtship: according to Palm's latest statement to shareholders, a total of 16 companies were contacted about a deal, and HP was the winner …
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Wikipedia founder tries to remove alleged kiddie porn, then gives up editorial privileges — [Update: Jimmy Wales wrote TechCrunch to say that Fox's claim of a “shakeup” is untrue. Wales also tweeted that a report of his resignation on Gizmodo is not true. “Fox News is off their rocker,” he wrote.
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Jennifer Guevin / CNET News:
Wikimedia's Wales gives up some top-level controls — Change is afoot in the Wikipedia community, according to a report from Fox News, but the reality may be less drastic than has been reported. — The news agency is reporting that Wikimedia Foundation co-founder Jimmy Wales is relinquishing …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’ — I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about “freedom from porn.” — The electronic debate proceeded from there.
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John Harlow / Times of London:
Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss — The 26-year-old billionaire, who is already under fire for his website's abuse of privacy, now faces ridicule — JUST as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac.
Chris / cdixon.org:
Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads — It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. I prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking …
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Alex Ahlund / TechCrunch:
iPhone App Sales, Exposed — This guest post was written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO of AppVee and AndroidApps, which was recently acquired by mobile app directory Appolicious. He is currently an advisor to Appolicious. — One of the most commonly asked questions we get from both developers …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Groupon Invades Europe With Acquisition Of Citydeal — Daily deal service Groupon, hot off a new funding that valued the company at $1.35 billion, may not love all those clones of its service out there. But they're certainly being realistic about things - tomorrow they'll announce …
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danah boyd / apophenia:
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated — From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a social utility. He succeeded. Facebook is now a utility for many. The problem with utilities is that they get regulated. — Yesterday, I ranted about Facebook and “radical transparency.”
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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
What has triggered the suicide cluster at Foxconn? — There was another death at Foxconn yesterday. A 21-year-old man with “several” knife cuts fell out of the seventh-floor window of one of Foxconn's dormitories in Shenzhen. — Foxconn is the Taiwanese company, also known as Honhai …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Time Warner Cable tries to put brakes on massive piracy case — Time Warner Cable has no intention of complying with thousands of requests asking it to identify copyright infringers. — Remember the US Copyright Group? They're the DC legal outfit that is turning P2P copyright infringement into cash …
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Thom Holwerda / OSNews:
Wild Fox: Firefox Fork with H.264 Support — Mozilla, sticking to its ideals of the open web, decided long ago that support for the patent-encumbered H264 codec would not be included in any of its products. Not only is H264 wholly incompatible with the open web and Free software, it is also incredibly expensive.
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