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Google plans pay-per-view films — Google's YouTube video site is in negotiations with Hollywood's leading movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, putting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content.
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Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Hurdle: Effect on Web TV — The Justice Department is focusing in on how Comcast Corp.'s bid to purchase control of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal could affect the emerging Internet video market, people familiar with the matter say, amid complaints from competitors …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
CrunchPad Denial of Preliminary Injunction — Mike Arrington gets smacked around in the first round of his lawsuit over the JooJoo/CrunchPad. In short: TechCrunch didn't get much in writing regarding their “partnership” with Fusion Garage to develop the product, and, well, they should have.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. — Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are.
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Don Dodge on The Next …, broadstuff, A VC, CNET News and Venture Chronicles
Ali Partovi / TechCrunch:
Bubble Blinders: The Untold Story of the Search Business Model — Ali Partovi is an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded iLike, acquired by Myspace in 2009, and previously LinkExchange, acquired by Microsoft for $265mm in 1998.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
RIP Breaking News Online App: You Were the Best Way to Get News Fast — One year ago this month, the best iPhone app for finding out what's happening around the world, fast, launched to the public. Breaking News Online (BNO), the incredible team lead by Dutch then-teenager Michael van Poppel …
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Financial Times:
Intel eyes Infineon's wireless chip business — By Helen Thomas in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Intel, the US chipmaker, was on Sunday close to agreeing a deal to buy the wireless chip business of Germany's Infineon. — People familiar with the situation said a deal …
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Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Socket and see: Apple reinvents the audio jack — Although Apple is known for filing patents on complex multi-touch algorithms, anti-piracy measures and advanced user interfaces, it still has a focus on basic hardware engineering. One US patent application filed this week shows the firm reinventing the humble audio jack socket.
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPads now shipping within 24 hours, production issues over? — Since the iPad's initial launch on April 3rd and the 3G iPad's launch on April 30th, customer demand for the product was exceptional and even beat Apple's expectations. Up until a couple weeks ago the shipping times …
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Fortune, AppleInsider, BlogsDNA, RazorianFly, App Advice, Daring Fireball and Electronista, Thanks:markgurman
DigiTimes:
Samsung tablet PC aims to compete against the mini iPad, say sources — Samsung Electronics is preparing to demonstrate its new tablet PC, the Galaxy Tab at IFA 2010, which will be held from September 3-8 in Berlin, Germany. Sources from upstream component makers believe the device is aiming …
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Daring Fireball, Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, Inquirer and Geek.com
Steve Cheney / TechCrunch:
Behind The Bidding War: The Real Reasons Why HP And Dell are So Desperate For 3Par — As I was writing this, news of the HP / Dell bidding war for 3PAR broke on the front page of Yahoo. This made me laugh, as it typified just how crazy this story has become—few things outside of a bidding war …
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Associated Press
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Now 3 Million Strong — It appears that Foursquare hit the three million user mark sometime over the weekend. The location based social network has been adding users at impressive rates, and only hit 2 million users in early July. It took a year to reach one million …
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