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Bloomberg:
Facebook Said to Be Working on Phones With INQ for AT&T — Facebook Inc. is working with mobile-handset manufacturer INQ Mobile Ltd. on two smartphones that may be carried by AT&T Inc., according to three people familiar with the matter. — The devices, which will feature Facebook social …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The “Facebook Phone” — Over the weekend I wrote an article about Facebook's mobile plans, particularly that they are working on a branded mobile phone. Facebook said the story was innacurate, despite CNET, Alley Insider and others writing independent stories confirming …
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Steven Bertoni / Money Talks:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Apple's Steve Jobs — Just 5 years after founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is worth more than Apple's iconic chief Steve Jobs. — Image via CrunchBase — This year, Zuckerberg, 26, added $4.9 billion to his fortune-vaulting to #35 on the Forbes 400 with an estimated fortune of $6.9 billion.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates is richest person in America — still — Forbes' 2010 list of the 400 richest Americans is out, and guess who's still on top. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is No. 16 with a net worth of $13.1 billion. Microsoft co-founder and Seattle mogul Paul Allen is No. 17 with $12.7 billion.
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington — Last night, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reported that on Monday night, a group of high-profile Silicon Valley angels met at a San Francisco restaurant, where, Arrington said he later learned, “collusion and price fixing” were on the menu.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Angelgate EXCLUSIVE: BIN38′s Super Angel Menu And More
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Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Buyers Send iPhones on a Long Relay to China — They show up in the early-morning hours: Chinese men and women, waiting silently and somewhat nervously outside of Apple stores in New York. On some days the lines they form can be a block long. — These are not typical Apple fans.
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Barbara Martinez / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools — Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder and chief executive of Facebook, is expected to announce a donation of $100 million to the Newark public school system this week, in a bold and aggressive bid to turn around one of the country's worst performing school systems.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iPad, Apple's ‘Mac of the masses,’ predicted to sell 21M in 2011 — One prominent Wall Street analyst has increased is forecast for iPad sales in 2011 to 21 million, citing expansion of the device's availability, as well as rapid adoption in the enterprise sector.
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PC World:
Dell Evaluating Internet TV Devices and Google TV Software — Dell on Thursday said it is considering the development of devices beyond PCs that would stream Internet content to regular television sets. — The company is evaluating new devices from set-top box makers and original design manufacturers …
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Associated Press:
Verizon CEO hints iPhone not coming soon — NEW YORK - Comments from Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg leave little room for the possibility of a Verizon version of the iPhone in the near future. — Speaking to an investor conference Thursday, Seidenberg said nothing …
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Gizmodo:
HP Slate Tablet Rears its Square-Edged Head in Leaked Video — Admittedly, we're more keen on HP's webOS tablet, or even the ditched Android tablet (basically, anything other than Windows 7!), but this leaked Slate video does suggest that maybe it will wind up in the hands of consumers after all.
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Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID 2 Global Benchmarks and System Info, Hello 1.2GHz Processor — We first showed you our exclusive shots of the Droid 2 Global and now have even more goodies from this amazing looking device. Who wants some Quadrant system info and benchmarks? Unfortunately we don't have screenshots …
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Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
LinkedIn Agrees to Buy Business Reviews Startup — The purchase of ChoiceVendor is the networking site's second acquisition — LinkedIn, the largest networking site for online professionals, bought ChoiceVendor Inc., a website for reviews of business service providers.
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BBC:
‘One app for all’ effort launches — The effort is meant to supplement, rather than replace, existing app environments — A European project to develop an application environment for every internet-connected device has received 10m euros in funding. — The project aims to sidestep operating systems …
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ReadWriteWeb, Open Gardens, gHacks Technology News and textually.org
Jason Fried / Signal vs. Noise:
Why non-profit pricing? — When you're in the software business you'll inevitably be asked if your company offers special pricing for non-profits. I wanted to share my thoughts on the topic for a while now, so here's a blog post. — What's the difference?
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Roku releases new video player boxes — For the last few days we've had a small black box with a sub-$100 price tag attached to the flatscreen TV in the Macworld offices. But this isn't Apple's forthcoming Apple TV box—it's the top-of-the-line member of the new Roku Player family.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
10-inch Galaxy Tab promised for 2011 by Samsung Ireland General Manager — Tucked away at the bottom of a news story about who'll be carrying the 7-inch Galaxy Tab in Ireland this year is the promise of a 10-inch Tab (presumably for the whole world) next year.
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Michael Oliveira / Globe and Mail:
Netflix apologizes for using actors to meet press at Canadian launch — Video-streaming website Netflix Inc. closed down a Toronto street Wednesday and attracted dozens of onlookers for a splashy launch to promote its highly anticipated foray into Canada. Problem is, many of those in the crowd were actors who were paid to be there.
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Bloomberg:
Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy After Online Rivals Gain — Blockbuster Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to quickly adapt its movie- rental model from storefronts to mail-order and online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gmail Creator: Facebook Has The Potential To Be Worth More Than Google — I love Quora. I don't know what it is about the service, but something makes interesting people give very interesting answers to a huge range of questions. Take Paul Buchheit, for example.
Matt Buttell / MeetTheBoss TV:
A Bite of the Apple — Stumble into Apple's App Store and you are greeted with literally thousands of applications you can download for your iPhone. The reason is simple: in a world of constant mobility and interactivity, both smartphone and app markets have gone stratospheric.
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IntoMobile, Co.Design, Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
U.S. Kindle Store Now Has Over 700,000 Books — This morning, Amazon released a small update to its Android app, including voice search and a Wikipedia dictionary. Hidden in the release was another interesting stat—the U.S. Kindle Store now has over 700,000 books. This is up from 670,000 books three weeks ago.
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Amol Sarva / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why We Just Launched Peek 9 Into The Insanely Crowded Mobile Device Market — We launched Peek 9 this week, into the obviously very busy market for mobile devices, smartphones, tablets, various qwerty phones that have some apps, and all the rest. — We must be nuts, right?
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Facebook Sells Your Friends — How Facebook plans to leverage its 550 million users into the greatest advertising juggernaut since ... O.K., only since Google. That's still huge — There were two obvious winners at the FIFA World Cup this summer. Spain took home the 13-pound …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Side-by-side: Flip UltraHD vs. iPhone 4 — Is the iPhone 4 a Flip killer? That's a question we've been asking ourselves ever since Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the latest iPhone generation with HD recoding capability in June. Well, it looks like Cisco's line of consumer camcorders isn't going down without a fight.
