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Tim Armstrong / TechCrunch:
Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch! — I'm very pleased to announce that we have acquired TechCrunch. Details are in the press release below, and I'm sure founder Michael Arrington will have a few words to say as well. This is a great complement to our continued investment in world class content.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Insider Says TechCrunch Price Only $25 Million - CNBC Says $40 Million — Update: Sources tell CNBC that AOL paid $40 million. We're guessing the $25 million figure is cash and the rest is an earnout. Earlier: AOL has told insiders that the company is only paying $25 million for TechCrunch, a second-hand source tells us.
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Gawker, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Atlantic Online, Adotas, Digital Trends, Black Web 2.0, ITworld.com, Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, Techie Buzz and The Blog Herald
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here — By now you must have heard the news that AOL has acquired us. Here are videos of the on stage signing of the agreement and an interview with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong immediately afterwards. — So how did all this happen?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
TechCrunch to keep independent voice, Arrington says
TechCrunch to keep independent voice, Arrington says
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Why AOL Bought TechCrunch
Bryan Gardiner / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: The Plans For Steve Jobs' New House — You knew Steve Jobs was tearing down his old mansion. You didn't know what he was building in its place. Until now. — After nearly a six years of detailed cost comparisons, environmental impact surveys, court appeals …
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iClarified, MacNN, MacRumors Page 2 and Obama Pacman, Thanks:adambharris
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
RIM VP Confirms PlayBook QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS — Over a breakfast event today at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartphones in the long run, and ultimately replace the existing BlackBerry OS.
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Boy Genius Report, SlashGear and Voice on the Web
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak: the tale of the tape
BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak: the tale of the tape
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PC World, Between the Lines Blog, Black Web 2.0 and dailywireless.org
Shayndi Raice / Digits:
Best Buy In Talks to Carry BlackBerry PlayBook
Best Buy In Talks to Carry BlackBerry PlayBook
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Mobilized, internetnews.com, CrunchGear, FierceMobileContent and MarketWatch
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
T-Mobile G2 preview — Well, well, well... would you look at what we found lounging around Best Buy's NYC holiday event! Yes, indeed, it's the T-Mobile G2 (the US version of the HTC Desire Z if you happen to think it looks familiar). After months of leaks and blurry shots we finally got …
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IntoMobile, displayblog and Google Android News …
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David / TmoNews:
The G2 Has Landed, Available In Just 8 Days
The G2 Has Landed, Available In Just 8 Days
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Erictric, Phone Arena, Android Police, Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com and Fone Arena
Clayton Morris / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE Apple TV Review: Hands on With Steve Jobs' New Hobby — Apple's latest gizmo, the Apple TV, streams high-definition web videos from your home PCs to your television. — Steve Jobs swung for the stands with the new Apple TV, a tiny box that plays high-definition web video on your television.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Updates Remote App with iPad and Retina Display Support — As predicted, Apple has updated their Remote app that allows iOS users to control iTunes and their Apple TV from their devices. The app hadn't been updated for nearly a year, but has finally received a 2. update that brings support …
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Engadget, Ars Technica, Download Squad, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Newlaunches.com, TUAW, App Advice, MacStories, MobileCrunch, The Next Web and AppleInsider
Office For Mac:
Office for Mac 2011 Available October 26 — We are excited to announce that starting on October 26 you can get your own copy of Office for Mac 2011! And starting today preorders can be placed at Amazon.com. — One of the most visually impactful features in the new suite also is called Dynamic Reorder …
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Pulse2, The Microsoft Blog, Gadgetell, Macworld, AppleInsider, Mashable!, All about Microsoft Blog, PC World, Boy Genius Report, eWeek, Macsimum News, Gizmodo, Erictric, MacRumors, Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, TUAW and TechFlash
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Google CEO: the Internet of things will augment your brain — For Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the next step in technology is the same that it has always been — augmenting humanity to handle information that a human brain couldn't otherwise keep up with, and just make things work.
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The Register, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, mocoNews, Phone Arena, Network World, Next Big Future and The Huffington Post
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Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Why Schmidt should tone down tech utopia talk
Why Schmidt should tone down tech utopia talk
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Rob Hof's Blog
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Buys Schedule Management Startup Plannr — According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Google has just bought Seattle-based mobile planning startup Plannr, which if you remember our coverage launched about two months ago as an Outlook for hipsters.
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TechFlash, MediaPost, TechEye, FierceMobileContent, Techie Buzz, Erictric and GigaOM
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Pinger brings free calling to your iPod Touch — A startup called Pinger says it has already built a big user base for Textfree — which is (you guessed it) a free text messaging service. Now it's offering a similar service for making phone calls. — The calls can be made over a 3G cellular network or your WiFi network.
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Gary Merson / HD Guru:
Google TV by Sony Revealed-Exclusive First Photos — (September 28, 2010)Best Buy conducted its holiday preview press event today in New York City. Included among the hot items for the fourth quarter was the first Google HDTV, the Sony NSX-46GT1. HD GURU received a quick demo and snapped these exclusive photos.
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CrunchGear, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and Electronista
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Document Foundation forks OpenOffice.org, liberates it from Oracle — A group of key contributors to the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project have formed a new organization called the Document Foundation to manage a community-driven fork of the popular open source office suite.
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eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, internetnews.com, PC World, Computerworld, OSNews, Network World and Rob Weir
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers
OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers
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ConsortiumInfo.org …, PR Newswire, GigaOM, All about Microsoft Blog, Open Source Blog, Download Squad, Inquirer, Computerworld and Datamation
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
GameCrush — where you pay to play video games with hot girls — opens its doors — GameCrush is just like prostitution, but with boys buying game time rather than sexy time from a dizzying array of cute, gamer girls. The service, which has been privately beta testing since the start of the year …
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VentureBeat and IGN
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Exec Churn Continues, With Media Head Pitaro Ready to Bolt — Last week at a Goldman Sachs investment conference, voluble Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz tried to minimize the impact of the recent spate of significant executive departures at the Internet giant.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
AOL's Wild Acquisition Day Concludes With Thing Labs, Maker Of Brizzly — It's a Ronco kind of day for folks who cover AOL (NYSE: AOL)—you think you're done and then the company says, but, wait, there's more. For the last one (today), paidContent can confirm that AOL has acquired Thing Labs and its Brizzly social media reader.
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, AOL Corp and louisgray.com
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Apple takes legal battle with Nokia to Britain — (Reuters) - Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, extending the two technology giants' legal battle over patents beyond U.S. borders. “We are investigating the claims, which appear to be based on nine implementation patents already in suit between …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Two new iPhones and an unidentified device show up in the AppleTV firmware — Well, what do we have here? The current iPhone 4 is actually called iPhone 3,1 in Apple product speak. The AppleTV firmware makes reference to new versions 3,2 and 3,3. — Verizon? Sprint? China Mobile? T-Mobile?
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Boy Genius Report, I4U News, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com, TiPb, Erictric, Phone Arena, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, MacStories and App Advice
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Former Palm CEO: HP's Android Tablet Tossed — Confirming what we first reported here back in July, former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein-who currently heads up Hewlett-Packard's mobility group, tells the Financial Times that HP has abandoned plans for its Android tablet.
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Between the Lines Blog, Financial Times and Phone Arena, Thanks:rawmeet
The Official Google Blog:
What does the future of display advertising look like? — This afternoon, we gave a keynote address at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's MIXX Conference in New York, entitled “Display 2015: Smart and Sexy.” — As you know by now, we're investing significantly to make display advertising better …
Ogle Earth:
Beware: Chinese iPhone 4 comes with a crippled Maps app — The iPhone 4 officially landed in China yesterday, so I bought one from the new Apple Store at Xidan in Beijing. In China, Apple sells its iPhones unlocked and without a contract (16GB = USD747, 32GB = USD895), so you can pretty much stick in any sim card and go.
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InformationWeek, Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat, Thanks:atul