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Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Conducting Search for New CEO — Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. has launched a search for a new chief executive, people familiar with the situation said Monday. — The move comes as the current chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, struggles to find traction for the company …
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Fred Vogelstein / Wired:
Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown — For iPhone fans, it really was too good to be true. A pair of Apple executives had just described the latest model of the iPhone — the 3GS — onstage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2009. The audience loved it.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
It's Hard To Feel Sorry For AT&T — Perhaps now you've read Fred Vogelstein's feature about the relationship between AT&T and Apple in this month's Wired magazine. If not, you definitely should, it's available online. It reads a bit like a story about a couple who after three tumultuous years of marriage are about to split up.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales — The heft and musty smell of a hardcover book are one step closer to becoming relics in a museum. — Amazon.com, one of the nation's largest bookstores, said Monday that for the last three months, sales of electronic books for the Kindle …
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Kindle Device Unit Sales Accelerate Each Month in Second Quarter; New $189 Price Results in Tipping Point for Growth — Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcover Books — (NASDAQ: AMZN) — Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With DECE's UltraViolet, We're About To See Just How Powerful Apple Really Is — When I hear the name UltraViolet as it pertains to Hollywood, good things don't come to mind. Namely, I think about the 2006 Kurt Wimmer film of the same name that was awful.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Meet the Web Database Company Google Just Bought (Hint: Not Metaweb) — Google is in the process of acquiring ITA Software, an airfare information provider that brings the company into the realm of vertical travel search. It also creates potentially awkward competition with ITA customers like Kayak and Bing.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch — It takes a crazier than average entrepreneur to go after the search market. There's an entrenched player, Google, with 65% market share. Google is so powerful the second player, Yahoo, just bailed out of the market.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
How to find start-up ideas — Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people at big companies). It's good advice.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Apple's Magic Trackpad gets FCC approval? — We're admittedly using our Jump To Conclusions Mat a little bit here, but we're pretty sure Apple's Magic Trackpad (or whatever they'll end up calling it) just got FCC approval — and considering how tightly Apple usually manages its FCC dealings …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month — One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in growth since then.
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft's Iron languages embrace ‘official’ open source — Python, Ruby and DLR conversions — Microsoft has cracked open .NET a little further and surrendered some control over its development platform to the open-source community. — The latest code for the company's take on Python and Ruby …
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Arik Hesseldahl / BusinessWeek:
Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum — One of the earliest bits of software that made the original Macintosh computer so interesting to use and unusual for its time was a drawing program called MacPaint. — Released in 1984 with the Mac, it is fondly remembered …
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
HTC DROID Incredible to be updated to Froyo end of July, early August — We just received a juicy tip about the HTC DROID Incredible software update schedule that we'd like to share. One of our strategically placed Ninjas was kind enough to pass along an email from HTC that read as follows:
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Michael White / Bloomberg:
Redbox Plots Web Strategy in Challenge to Netflix — Redbox, which became the fastest- growing U.S. video retailer with DVD kiosks and a $1-a-day rental price stores couldn't match, is developing an online strategy to stay competitive with larger rival Netflix Inc.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BranchOut Unlocks The LinkedIn In Facebook — Everyone you know is on Facebook, and most people have added their resume information. But you can't search by companies and even searching within your friends for company names is virtually impossible. So if you want to research …
Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch:
New Market Research: Social Media Sites as Annoying to U.S. Customers as Cable Providers, Airlines — A new study by ForeSee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that U.S. consumers regard social media sites Facebook and Myspace as lowly as they regard cable providers, airlines and the I.R.S.
Andrew Keen / TechCrunch:
Chris Sacca: “The Obama Administration Didn't Fully Embrace the People Who Got it Elected” [Video] — The best investors are learners rather than teachers. Micro venture capitalist Chris Sacca is one of Silicon Valley's most thoughtful learners - a former lawyer and failed entrepreneur …
Andy M. Zaky / Fortune:
Apple closes in on Microsoft in revenue race — After living in the shadows of Microsoft for 30 years, Apple is just a hair behind Microsoft in sales. Will this quarter be the one? — by Andy M. Zaky, contributor — Whether it deserves it or not, Apple has held onto its lead …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, Others Eyeing Bit.ly — Yahoo and some of the other web giants have been kicking the tires on New York-based URL shortening service Bit.ly, according to a few people in the know. The interest in the company has increased over the past 60 days or so.
Scott Adams / Dilbert.com Blog:
High Ground Maneuver — I'm sure you're all following the iPhone 4 story. If you hold the phone a certain way, it drops calls. — In a press conference on the subject, Steve Jobs said, “We're not perfect. Phones are not perfect. We all know that. But we want to make our users happy.”
