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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Apple, Google, Others Settle Antitrust Probe Into Their Hiring Practices — Six major technology companies—Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Intuit, Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE), and Pixar—will no longer agree not to poach employees from each other …
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Justice Department Requires Six High Tech Companies to Stop Entering into Anticompetitive Employee Solicitation Agreements … WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six high technology companies - Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc. …
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VentureBeat, Digital Daily, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, MacRumors, TechFlash, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Google Public Policy Blog:
On recruiting “cold calls” — Google grew by more than 16,000 people between 2005 and 2009 — a five fold increase in the size of our company. In fact, we were hiring so fast that on average 40 new recruits were joining every day by 2007. At the same time, we were also building partnerships …
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Ars Technica, CNNMoney.com, ITworld.com and The Precursor Blog
Chad Catacchio / thenextweb.com:
Video of Zuckerberg's chat with Oprah today — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Oprah today to discuss his new Startup:Education foundation that he officially announced this morning in a blog post.
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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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MediaPost, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, ABCNEWS, PC Magazine, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Salon, Silicon Alley Insider, ITworld.com, CNET News, Bloomberg and Computerworld
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg Says He Wanted To Donate $100 Million Anonymously
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The Huffington Post, Computerworld and Education IT Blog
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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TechFlash, Microsoft Watch, Search Engine Land, Digits, Erictric, LiveSide.net 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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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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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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Download Squad, Kindle Review, CNET News, TechFlash, SlashGear, Electronista and Engadget
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.
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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ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and RyanSpoon.com
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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Adventures in Capitalism, MediaPost, Scripting News, Don Dodge on The Next …, GigaOM, Fortune, ReadWriteWeb, msnbc.com, The Awl, Inc.com, TechFlash, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, GMSV, DailyFinance, Stowe Boyd, bizjournals, BoomTown, CloudAve, Venture Capital Dispatch, Blogation, PE Hub Blog, The Diversity Blog and Derek Andersen, more at Mediagazer »
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The secret hell of tech industry angel investors
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Adventures in Capitalism, Umair Haque, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyFinance and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
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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Pulse2, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb and Hitwise Intelligence, more at Mediagazer »
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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9 to 5 Mac, SaudiMac, App Advice, AppleInsider, The Next Web, SlashGear, MacNN and iLounge
John P. Falcone / CNET News:
Sony's Google TV product slated for October 12 NYC unveiling — Get ready for more details on Google TV. — Sony has just dispatched an invitation for a New York City media event slated for October 12 which promises the introduction of “the world's first Internet Television.”
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Electronista, Crave and Engadget
Bloomberg:
Sony Ericsson Is Planning No New Symbian Products — Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd., the mobile-phone venture of Sony Corp. and Ericsson AB, is the latest vendor to abandon the Symbian operating system. — “We have no plans for the time being to develop …
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Ars Technica, OSNews, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile, Engadget, Phone Arena, Newlaunches.com, FierceWireless and VentureBeat
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google's Extremely Bizarre Pizza Video — There's only one word we can come up with that describes this new and utterly bizarre promotional video from Google: pizza. — We ran across this little gem thanks to our friends at Reddit. It's a promotional video from Google Mobile designed …
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Geek.com and Eater National
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Windows Phone 7 will not be able to tether after all — In an interview on TWiT podcast Windows Weekly, Director of Windows Phone 7 Brandon Watson indicated that his company's new mobile operating system would have the ability to tether; it would just be up to carriers to allow it.
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DailyTech, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Phone Arena, Engadget, Wccftech.com, Electronista, Gizmodo and WMExperts
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Former Googler Cassidy Steps Down as Polyvore CEO — Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (pictured here), former president of Google's Asia-Pacific and Latin American operations, is leaving her CEO job at the fashion and shopping social network Polyvore. — Co-founder Pasha Sadri …
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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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CNET News, Bits, Computerworld, Electricpig.co.uk, Gizmodo, Phone Arena, Gizmodo Australia, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider
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, SlashGear, I4U News and Product Reviews Net
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Ping Updates: ‘Ping Sidebar’ Coming Soon? Record Labels Miffed at Secrecy — Aside from the occasional discussion of the Apple-Facebook negotiations prior to the launch of Apple's social networking service for music earlier this month, things have been fairly quiet when it comes to Ping.
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The Next Web, Fast Company and 9 to 5 Mac
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 …
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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Epicenter, O'Reilly Radar, TechCrunch, Techie Buzz and ResourceShelf
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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MediaPost, Digits, Internet Evolution, Yahoo! News, All Facebook, Pulse2, LaptopMemo, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo, Epicenter, eWeek, Arbor Networks Security, The Register and Computerworld
