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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook and Skype Readying Deep Integration Partnership — You didn't think Facebook would integrate with Google (GOOG) Voice, did you? — Actually, according to sources close to the situation, Facebook and Skype are poised to announce a significant and wide-ranging partnership …
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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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Engadget's Founder on TechCrunch Under AOL — Michael Arrington, one of the most outspoken and wild tech bloggers, is about to get a corporate boss, following AOL's purchase of his site, TechCrunch. — Peter Rojas once found himself in a similar position. He founded Engadget in 2004.
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Tim Armstrong / TechCrunch:
Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch!
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Ross Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
Dell to Launch 7-Inch Tablet in Weeks Ahead — SYDNEY—Dell Inc. will launch its seven-inch tablet in the next few weeks and a 10-inch tablet within 6-12 months, Dell Greater China President Amit Midha said Wednesday. — Texas-based Dell has joined a host of computer makers rushing to offer tablets …
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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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.
Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
The Woman Who Beat Craigslist — Underage girls who say they were sold for sex on the site were behind the battle to shutter its adult-services section. Michelle Goldberg reports on the inside story of their role—and the remarkable woman who led the fight.
Sharon Pian Chan / Seattle Times:
Q&A with Steve Ballmer on mobile, search and Facebook — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sat down with The Seattle Times for a Q and A on the eve of the annual company meeting on Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the story. — With the imminent launch of a new Windows mobile phone …
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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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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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Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Disney, CBS, Fox Sue Online Subscription Service Ivi for Streaming Shows — Walt Disney Co.'s ABC, CBS Corp. and other broadcasters sued Ivi, an online subscription service, for streaming television programs over the Web without authorization. — The companies, also including News Corp.'s Fox …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
By the Numbers: Apple, Microsoft, Dell, H.P. — Back in May, Apple edged past Microsoft as the most valuable technology company. And, my oh my, has Apple stretched its lead since then. — $222.12 billion versus $219.18, or $2.94 billion — That was the gap separating Apple and Microsoft at the close of trading on May 26.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nintendo 3DS ships in Japan February 26, US and Europe in March, auto-generates Mii from camera (update: video!) — Enough with the rumored prices and launch dates for the 3DS already, let's get official. Nintendo just announced a February 26 ship date in Japan for ¥25,000 (about $298).
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets — The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce. — Twitter messages might be limited to 140 characters each, but all those characters can add up. In fact, they add up to 12 terabytes of data every day.
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Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
Destroy entire websites with this Asteroids bookmarklet — Have you ever visited a website and been so frustrated by the content, layout, or adverts that you'd love to destroy it? Well, now you can. — If you head on over to the erkie GitHub page there's a JavaScript bookmarklet you can drag and add to your bookmarks toolbar.
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
MobilePay May Be The Death Of The Wallet. Yes, For Real This Time. — I absolutely hate carrying around both my phone and my wallet in my pocket. What if I could just carry around my phone and my driver's license? That would be awesome. If MobilePay USA takes off, my wish will come true.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Atlassian Buys Mercurial Project Hosting Site BitBucket — In July, product development software company Atlassian said that it would be putting its recently raised $60 million investment towards M&A in the enterprise space. It looks like the company is moving fast—Atlassian …
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Did HP's Todd Bradley just confirm the ‘PalmPad’ name? Still set for early 2011 — HP has already let loose the word that they'd be releasing a webOS-based tablet in 2011, but in todays' Analyst Meeting, HP EVP Todd Bradley was the first HP employee to call it the PalmPad, a trademark HP filed for in July:
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Tello Gives Businesses Consumer Feedback On The Fly — We all have experienced customer service nightmares. Often, one of the must frustrating parts of a poor customer service experience is feeling that your feedback is falling on deaf ears. Tello, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today …
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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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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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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Takes Down Music Downloading App Mulve — Last week an impressive new music downloading application hit the mainstream. Mulve became hugely popular and demand was so great that the site's servers couldn't handle the pressure and fell over. Today the site is down again …
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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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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books — Author John Pipkin worries about the e-book business model: 'I've had to rethink my plans in terms of supporting my family full time as a writer.' — When literary agent Sarah Yake shopped around Kirsten Kaschock's debut novel “Sleight” this year …
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