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Google Public Policy Blog:
A joint policy proposal for an open Internet — Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications — The original architects of the Internet got the big things right.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google & Verizon Propose Enforceable Net Neutrality — Google and Verizon are completing a press call right now announcing their joint legislative framework proposal: network transparency and FCC enforcement with up to $2 million fines for network providers that engage in anti-competitive measures that hurt consumers.
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TechCrunch and dailywireless.org
Dan Gillmor / Salon:
The Google-Verizon modest proposal — We like the Internet we have, but let's create a parallel one, too — So Google and Verizon had not, in fact, cooked up a special business deal for their mutual benefit. But what they have cooked up, as announced today, may be no great deal for you and me …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google, Verizon Announce a Cake-Having, Eating “Policy.”
Google, Verizon Announce a Cake-Having, Eating “Policy.”
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paidContent and Hillicon Valley
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Press Conference
Live Blogging The Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Press Conference
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Boy Genius Report:
Exclusive: Verizon Wireless 2010/2011 roadmap! — One of our Verizon Wireless sources has dropped a whole bunch of info in our laps. We're talking intimate details of Verizon Wireless' plans for the rest of 2010, 2011 and even some 2012 plans. Android tablets, LTE MiFi units, Android 3.0, video conferencing, and a whole lot more.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Files for IPO — Skype, the Internet telephony company is looking to raise upto $100 million in an Initial Public Offering, according to a registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will be selling American Depositary Shares (ADSs) and will trade on the NASDAQ Global Market.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Skype Spent $343.8 Million To Acquire Its P2P Software From Founders
Skype Spent $343.8 Million To Acquire Its P2P Software From Founders
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Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
With Skype, Marc Andreessen is the new king of Silicon Valley
With Skype, Marc Andreessen is the new king of Silicon Valley
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Josh Silverman / The Big Blog:
Skype files registration statement for Initial Public Offering
Skype files registration statement for Initial Public Offering
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
[UPDATED] Big Tech IPO of the Day: Skype Tries to Dial Up $100 Million
[UPDATED] Big Tech IPO of the Day: Skype Tries to Dial Up $100 Million
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Piece To Google's Social Puzzle: To Acquire Jambool For $70 Million — Google continues to gobble up companies that will form the backbone of it's new social strategy and the upcoming war with Facebook. Last week it was Slide. And they are now buying Jambool and their Social Gold payment product …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Best Buy pegs Droid 2 at $199 with 2-year activation, $599 without (updated) — It's rather astounding to believe we've come this far without Verizon or Motorola so much as recognizing the Droid 2's existence, but with leaks like this on a weekly basis who needs traditional marketing?
Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
A glance at Apple's next iPad, iPhone chip — This morning's hottest Apple rumor claims the company will introduce new iPads with a much faster processor early next year. Apple is also expected to deliver the much-discussed iOS-wielding Apple TV in January, when a new metal-backed CDMA-model iPhone 4 …
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Gus Sentementes / BaltTech:
Apple licenses tech of Liquidmetal Technologies — An SEC filing just hit that shows that Apple Inc. struck a deal with Liquidmetal Technologies, a California-based company that holds patents on new metal and alloy designs, for essentially access to all of its intellectual property.
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Geek.com, everythingiCafe, TiPb, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo and 9 to 5 Mac
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
AT&T U-Verse App: Download Prime Time TV To Your Smartphone — We'd gotten a peak at AT&T's U-Verse Mobile app earlier this year, but it's now officially available for iPhone and BlackBerry Torch owners. You can set your DVR, sure, but you can also download shows to watch on your device.
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Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Steve Nash Drives Into Venture Capital — Each summer, advertising firm Deutsch Inc. has dozens of interns scurrying around its Manhattan offices. Most are in their early 20s, unpaid and (so far) relatively unaccomplished. But two years ago, the group also included a 34 year-old whose bank account …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM BlackPad tablet priced at $499 when it ships in November? — Come on, admit it, you want to believe that RIM is working on a tablet called the BlackPad don't you? You'd better, because Apple Daily is piling on with more unsubstantiated rumor this morning.
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Mat Greenfield / CNET News:
Google ghosts: New Street View tech could wipe humans from the map — Large, powerful companies making people ‘disappear’ is usually the stuff of Hollywood (though we take our lives in our hands every time we write a negative review), but if one computer science graduate has his way, Google might do just that.
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Former softcore porn actress Jodie Fisher identified in HP CEO sex scandal — Above, while it lasts: the video demo reel on YouTube for actress Jodie Fisher (not Jodie Foster!), who was today identified by the New York Times, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News, AP, Reuters …
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