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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email] — As we just stated in our previous post, there was clearly an email sent by angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super angels who were likely involved in the Bin 38 “AngelGate” meeting that Mike stumbled into a couple days ago.
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Don Dodge on The Next …, ReadWriteWeb, Scripting News, Adventures in Capitalism, TechFlash, Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, Fortune, The Awl, Inc.com, DailyFinance, BoomTown, bizjournals, VentureBeat, Stowe Boyd, Both Sides of the Table, Venture Capital Dispatch, Blogation, PE Hub Blog and The Diversity Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Dave McClure Says Ron Conway Is Throwing Super Angels Under The Bus
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TechCrunch, msnbc.com, GMSV and Derek Andersen
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The secret hell of tech industry angel investors
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Adventures in Capitalism, Silicon Alley Insider, Umair Haque, DailyFinance and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Facebook Blames Outage On Database Failure — Programming chief says lengthy downtime was traced to an automated system designed to detect and fix error conditions. — Dell To Launch Second Tablet — Chief Executive Michael Dell showed off a prototype of the 7-inch tablet at Oracle OpenWorld, but did not offer details.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally — An unusual database problem at the giant social networking site could only be cured by taking the sort of action you normally take with a misbehaving PC … Ever been on the phone to IT support and they told …
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LaptopMemo, Epicenter, Arbor Networks Security, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Guardian, eWeek, The Atlantic Online and The Register
Robert Johnson / Facebook Engineering:
More Details on Today's Outage
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Yahoo! News, VentureBeat, Digits, Mashable!, VatorNews, All Facebook, GeekSugar, Engadget, PC World, Black Web 2.0, Product Reviews Net, PC Magazine, fiercecio.comwatch, Softpedia News, TECH.BLORGE.com, I4U News, TechCrunch, V3.co.uk, Switched, Inside Facebook, Mobile Entertainment, USA Today, Erictric, MobileBurn.com, CenterNetworks, Techie Buzz, BetaNews and Neowin.net
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: Forget Apple, Facebook, Bing's Our Biggest Problem — Eric Schmidt says Microsoft, not Apple or Facebook, is the biggest rival Google has right now. — “Bing is a well run, highly competitive search engine,” Schmidt tells the WSJ's Alan Murray in a long interview.
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LiveSide.net, Digits and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Extends Its Search Deal With Apple
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Search Engine Land, Business Week and Erictric, more at Mediagazer »
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Startup: Education — Education has always been important to me and my family. Growing up, my parents emphasized the importance of learning and academic success. They both worked to make sure my three sisters and I could all go to good colleges. My grandmother was a teacher …
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ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, Computerworld, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg Says He Wanted To Donate $100 Million Anonymously
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Computerworld and The Huffington Post
Ki Mae Heussner / ABCNEWS:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Shows Softer Side to Oprah
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Salon, CNET News and Bloomberg
Frederic / NewsGrange:
The Microsoft Tanker Has Turned and You Ignore it at Your Own Peril — Whenever I hear people discussing Microsoft, it usually doesn't take long before somebody mentions that the Redmond-based giant is like a huge oil tanker. It takes a while to turn such a huge company around and get it back on track.
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Technologizer, Thanks:rawmeet
Ben Blumenfeld / Facebook Blog:
Discover Facebook Pages — A couple of months ago I found myself online, browsing for movies to rent. There are lots of tools to find new movies or rediscover old ones. As I poked around, I thought, “People should really be able to do this with Pages on Facebook!”
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All Facebook, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, RyanSpoon.com and The Next Web
AppleInsider:
Apple issuing refunds for Apple TV rush orders, citing delay — Some customers who paid Apple for expedited shipping on the soon-to-ship Apple TV are receiving emails from the company Thursday informing them that those shipping charges have been waived due to a possible ‘delay.’
Nick Douglas / The Awl:
The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms — Of the three main drivers of internet culture—blogs, social networking sites and forums—most people in the media and in the general Internet-using public only understand two. Blogs work in a very obvious way: they're like magazines or newspapers, but light.
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb and Hitwise Intelligence, more at Mediagazer »
Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
Scrabble Is First Paid Game/App for Kindle — Screenshot of My Kindle, Getting Beat By the Computer - Image: Tim Carmody — This might be the happiest chapter in Scrabble's short digital history: Electronic Arts has released an official version of Scrabble for Kindle.
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CNET News, TechFlash, Kindle Review, SlashGear and Electronista
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Working on the Next Wave of Digital Camera Technologies — Apple finally introduced a camera system with their latest iPod touch which was released earlier this month and they're already preparing for their next wave of advanced camera technology releases.
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Bits, PC World, Electricpig.co.uk, Phone Arena, Gizmodo, AppleInsider and 9 to 5 Mac
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Confirmed: No FaceTime in parts of the Middle East — We just got confirmation on our story earlier this week that FaceTime had gone missing in parts of the world, mostly around the Middle East. @dutweets is the official Twitter account for du, the telecom operator for the iPhone in the United Arab Emirates …
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App Advice, AppleInsider, The Next Web and SlashGear
Bloomberg:
Oracle May Buy Chipmakers, Industry-Specific Software — Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp., building on a run of more than 65 acquisitions during the past five years, is looking to purchase semiconductor companies and makers of industry- specific software, Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said.
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Tech Trader Daily, Mercury News, eWeek, VentureBeat, Reuters and Digital Daily
Lorraine Twohill / The Official Google Blog:
$10 million for Project 10^100 winners — Two years ago today, we began Project 10^100 by asking you to share your ideas for changing the world by helping as many people as possible. Your spirit and participation surpassed even our most optimistic expectations.
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TechCrunch, O'Reilly Radar, Techie Buzz and ResourceShelf
Milo Yiannopoulos / Telegraph:
Loïc Le Meur, Microsoft and the sound of wedding bells — The French entrepreneur is lavishing praise on Microsoft — Loïc Le Meur is charming, and very intense. It can be unnerving at first. But when you start him off on a subject he's passionate about …
Electronista:
Netflix gets deal to stream previous season NBC TV shows — Netflix and NBC today announced a new content deal that will give Netflix members access to a range of previous season cable and broadcast TV series. Starting next week, shows on will include Saturday Night Live as well as prior season …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Verizon-Apple iPhone agreement ‘may not ever get resolved’ — Struggles between Verizon and Apple are a sign that a deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon's network may never happen, even once the carrier's high-speed 4G network is established, one Wall Street analyst has said.
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App Advice, I4U News, Product Reviews Net and GottaBeMobile
Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics:
The Hole in Android and Google's Double Pony Problem — Android is on fire and Gartner predicts it will be the number two mobile operating system worldwide this year, surpassing Apple and RIMM, but behind the seemingly immortal Symbian. Google embraced the ubiquity strategy and it is working.
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