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The United States Department of Justice:
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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Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
DOJ strikes down no-poaching agreements between Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe, and others — The U.S. Justice Department has struck down agreements that prevented some of the largest tech companies in the world from poaching employees from each other in a settlement today that included heavy hitters like Google, Intel and Apple.
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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RCR Unplugged, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, PC World, CNNMoney.com, The Precursor Blog, V3.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac and TechCrunch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Movie Gets Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews, But Will People Go See It? — Premiering at New York Film Festival yesterday and coming to theaters October 1st, the world's first Hollywood movie about the founding of a social network can now also claim the bragging rights …
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Computerworld, Reuters, AceShowBiz.com, webpronews.com and SEO and Tech Daily
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Andrew Hough / Telegraph:
Social Network writer backs Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg over ‘stolen ideas’ claims — Aaron Sorkin, the creative brains behind the new Facebook movie “The Social Network”, has offered his support to Mark Zuckerberg, after the tech boss was accused of stealing the idea for the social networking site.
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Salon, webpronews.com, Electricpig.co.uk and Time
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iTunes 10.0.1 Goes Live with Ping Sidebar by Federico Viticci — Tweet — Apple released a minor update to iTunes last night, which reaches version 10.0.1 and introduces a new feature for Ping users: the Ping sidebar. The Ping sidebar allows you to always have the updates from the people …
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MediaMemo, Macworld, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac and Thoughts from the Sidelines, Thanks:jailbreaki4
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Twitter Founder Also Involved In Mark Zuckerberg's $100M Donation To Newark — Image by Twitter / Twitter via CrunchBase — Facebook is not the only social network Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker is getting help from for the city's public schools. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has also donated …
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TechStartups.com, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, ITworld.com, BetaNews and Facebook, Thanks:ojchiang
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg Says He Wanted To Donate $100 Million Anonymously
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SelectStart, Velocity, The Huffington Post, New York Times, MediaPost and ABCNEWS
Spiegel Online:
Internal Strife at WikiLeaks — German Spokesman Says He Will Leave Website — A dispute has broken out within the leadership of WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing classified documents including the Afghanistan war logs. In an interview with SPIEGEL, WikiLeaks' German spokesman …
Patrick Thibodeau / InfoWorld:
IBM warns of challenge to U.S. supercomputing leadership — China is building a massive new supercomputing center ‘to basically eat our lunch,’ IBM VP warns — WASHINGTON — To make a point about China's interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM's vice president of deep computing …
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
European Union ends antitrust investigations of Apple — The European Union has ended two antitrust investigations into Apple's iPhone policies after Apple relaxed developer restrictions and introduced cross-border warranty repair service. — According to a statement released Saturday by the EU …
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EU Press Room, Electronista and Reuters
John-Paul Ford Rojas / Press Association:
12 years in jail for man in ‘vile’ porn plot — A handyman who ruined a school caretaker's life by planting child pornography on his computer was jailed for 12 years today. — Neil Weiner launched the “wickedly evil and vile plot” hoping to get Eddie Thompson sacked so that he could be promoted.
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Richard Silverstein / Tikun Olam:
Iran Confirms Stuxnet Damage to Nuclear Facilities — The AP is reporting confirmation from Iranian sources that Stuxnet, which I've posted about here, has caused extensive damage with the country's computer and industrial system: … Until now, western security experts were the only ones reporting on and analyzing Stuxnet.
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The Age, Guardian, Associated Press and The Earth Times Online …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Massive crowds greet iPhone 4 in China — More than 50,000 pre-orders and a queue more than 1,000 customers long — The scene Saturday morning outside Apple's new Joy City store. Photo: AFP — What a difference a year makes. — Last November, when Apple (AAPL) …
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Computerworld, China Real Time Report, IntoMobile, Cult of Mac and Electronista
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Need Pre-Facebook Movie Drama? Go Read “Googled” This Week — With the Facebook movie's debut a week away, how about something to keep you entertained while you wait? A book. About that other major internet drama story, Google. The book? “Googled, The End Of The World As We Know It,” by Ken Auletta.
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Zynga finalizing biggest S.F. office lease in years — (09-24) 16:28 PDT San Francisco — Zynga on Friday was putting the last touches on the biggest new office lease in San Francisco in nearly five years, finalizing a long anticipated deal that underscores the social gaming company's phenomenal growth fueled …
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TechCrunch, Inside Social Games and VentureBeat
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Vast Majority Of Software Patents In Lawsuits Lose — Well, this is interesting (and quite surprising). A new study by John Allison, Mark Lemley, Joshua Walker looked at highly litigated patents to see how well they did in court, and came up with some really unexpected findings.
