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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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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?
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Venture Chronicles, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard and MediaNama, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
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.
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Why AOL Bought TechCrunch — Tim Armstrong Explains Why AOL Decided to Buy This Time Rather Than Build — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told Ad Age today that he wants a “build-first” culture at his company, in which the growth is sparked internally, like the world's oldest startup.
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dailywireless.org
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
TechCrunch to keep independent voice, Arrington says
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, MediaMemo and ITworld.com, Thanks:atul
Ross Miller / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak: the tale of the tape — What a day — yesterday, that is. Research in Motion finally announced its long-awaited BlackBerry tablet, the 7-inch PlayBook (thankfully not named the BlackPad). While there's still quite a few missing details …
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eWeek, PC World, Between the Lines Blog, Zatz Not Funny!, dailywireless.org, Black Web 2.0, Digits and displayblog
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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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SlashGear, Voice on the Web, Boy Genius Report, Phones Review and MobileBurn.com
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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The Apple Core Blog, Seattle Times, Velocity, MacNN, MacRumors Page 2, iClarified, Obama Pacman and Cult of Mac, Thanks:adambharris
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Tweet This Milestone: Twitter Passes MySpace — There's a new piece of data that Twitter Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo could take with him to the stage today at the IAB MIXX conference in New York, as the company tries to woo marketers. — Last month the four-year-old micro-blogging …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Bits, Download Squad, Velocity, MarketingVOX, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, webpronews.com and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
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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eWeek, IntoMobile, The Register, TechCrunch, mocoNews, 9 to 5 Mac, Phone Arena, Network World, Next Big Future, The Huffington Post and MobileBurn.com
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Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Why Schmidt should tone down tech utopia talk
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Register and Rob Hof's Blog
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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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AppScout and IGN
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google Wants to Make Online Display Ads ‘Sexy’ — Google has long dominated Web search, and the advertising it generates. But the company has vowed to build a major business in the parallel market of online display ads, and on Tuesday laid out some predictions about how that business will evolve.
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Silicon Alley Insider and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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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, TmoNews, Phone Arena, Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com, Google Android News …, displayblog, Fone Arena and Electronista
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Internet pioneers protest Senate anti-piracy bill — Some of the rock stars of Internet engineering (yes, they exist) on Tuesday protested a Senate bill aimed at fighting online piracy, saying the legislation could lead to censorship and destabilize the architecture of the Web.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Mike Taylor / New York Observer:
Did Apple Suffer a Mini Flash Crash? — Shares in Apple Computer experienced two sharp downward spikes today. But the price action is very different from what we saw yesterday with Progress Energy. Progress' shares dropped 90 percent almost instantaneously.
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Tech Trader Daily, The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, Reuters and MacDailyNews
Anil Dash:
Make The Revolution — Malcolm Gladwell gets started with “The revolution will not be tweeted” in this week's New Yorker, condemning social media's ability to enact real cultural change with an argument he sums up early in the piece: … Who are the “they”? It's not really clear.
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Leigh's Blitherings
Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
Jeff Bewkes: Beware of Apple, Amazon deals — TW chief says low-cost digital giveaways devalue TV fare — LONDON — Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes told British media execs that television is entering a second golden age of creativity and reward but warned against the danger of low-cost digital giveaways.
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 data network or Wi-Fi.
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AppScout, TechCrunch and IntoMobile
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
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 …
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.
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 …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Condé Nast's iPad Apps Are Too Portly. Blame Adobe. — The Wired iPad app has a weight problem. — The first one came in at about half a gigabyte of memory, and it hasn't shrunk that much since. — And Condé Nast's newest iPad app, from the New Yorker, isn't much better …
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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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paidContent, The Wire, webpronews.com, Tech Trader Daily and MediaPost Raw, more at Mediagazer »
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
First Ben Silverman Online Program-"Ready, Set, Dance!" -Debuts on Yahoo — Yahoo and Electus, the multiplatform content studio headed by former NBC entertainment head Ben Silverman, debuted its first original, branded entertainment programming tonight with “Ready, Set, Dance!”
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPad owners: younger and more male. Kindle's: richer and better educated — What Nielsen has learned about the owners of tablets and other connected devices. As part of Advertising Week's Mobile Ad Summit Tuesday, the Nielsen Company released the results of a survey of 5,000 consumers …
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Electronista, Nielsen Wire, Kindle Review, IntoMobile and Macsimum News
