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Evan Williams / Twitter Blog:
#newtwitterceo — By all accounts Twitter is on a roll. We've redesigned our web site to great user feedback. Our user and usage numbers are growing at a rapid clip all around the world. We've launched an early, but successful, monetization effort. And, many top engineers …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams And Dick Costolo: New Twitter Triggered CEO Change — As you may have heard by now, Twitter has a new CEO. Former COO Dick Costolo is taking over from Evan Williams as the head of the company. A few minutes ago, I got a chance to speak to both of them about the change.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Dick Costolo Is Now CEO Of Twitter: It's Time To Make A LOT Of Money
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Meet The Management: Twitter Clarifies Just Who Exactly Is Running The Joint Now
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Twitter's New CEO Will be Good for Everyone
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Peter Parkes / The Big Blog:
Skype now available for Android phones — You've been asking us for it - and now it's here. Skype is now available on a wide range of Android phones, so you can save money and stay in touch when you're out and about. Visit skype.com/m on your phone to download, or read on to find out what's inside.
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Fring is now on Android. FringOut takes on Skype at $.01 per minute. — You might remember a few months ago when Fring and Skype got into a heated battle of sorts. Fring, an application that allows for voice and video calling from your iPhone, had enabled people to make video calls using Skype's system.
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Ambarish Kenghe / Google TV Blog:
Here comes Google TV — It's been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we're happy to give you an update on our progress. For those who haven't yet heard of it, Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it's a platform that combines …
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Telegraph, Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, USA Today, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, Go Rumors, Zatz Not Funny!, V3.co.uk, Electricpig, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, Engadget, NewTeeVee, The Next Web, Where amazing happens., Geeky-Gadgets, FM Blog, Pluggd.in, Broadband TV News, eWeek, Google Watch, TheAppleBlog, InformationWeek, AdAge, ForeverGeek, SEO and Tech Daily, Gizmodo, App Advice, Computerworld, MediaFile, Obsessable, Technology Review, 901am, Google Operating System, Twitter Blog, PC World, Webomatica, Silicon Alley Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, I4U News, Hollywood Reporter, FierceIPTV, dailywireless.org and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google TV gets more real: Content partnerships and more apps announced (video)
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
There's An App For That: Google TV Will Ship With Netflix, Twitter, Pandora And More
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John Melloy / Fast Money:
iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player — Apple's iPad sold three million units in the first 80 days after its April release and its current sales rate is about 4.5 million units per quarter, according to Bernstein Research. This sales rate is blowing past the one million units …
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm ‘Mansion’ coming: 800x480, no physical keyboard — Device rumors surrounding Palm smartphones are starting to heat up. After we saw the P102 appear in a certification database (and subsequently get pulled) and heard that we might see something in October, another very reliable tipster …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Holding Special Event This Wednesday — It's been a big couple of months for Facebook — the site launched its Places feature in August, had a major gaming-focused event two weeks ago, and recently revamped its photos feature to allow for high-resolution uploads (which is a big deal).
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: First Photo of Jungle, Panasonic's Portable Online Gaming System — This is Jungle. It's the first portable gaming console designed exclusively for online gaming and MMORPGs. And it's from the company who gave us the 3DO nearly 20 years ago. — Sure, the PSP and Nintendo DS …
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple Challenges $625.5 Million Mirror Worlds Patent Verdict — Apple Inc. is challenging a jury verdict last week in which the computer maker was ordered to pay as much as $625.5 million to Mirror Worlds LLC for infringing patents related to how documents are displayed digitally.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Cover Flow may cost Apple $208.5 million in damages
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Applications Install Just Fine on Apple TV — iPhone developer Steven Troughton-Smith has found out that you can easily install applications into the Apple TV. However, don't expect them to run your favoritest game on it just yet. You will need a launcher for that.
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TiPb, The Apple Core Blog, Geeky-Gadgets, App Advice, MacRumors and TUAW
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Android Invasion — How a tiny piece of software created by a few Google engineers is ushering in the mobile revolution and reshaping the fortunes of the world's biggest tech companies. — Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off-not even Andy Rubin …
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Cpen / Twitter Blog:
Promoted Promotions — When we launched Promoted Tweets back in April, we said that we would be doing lots of experimenting and iterating, as is typical with everything else at Twitter. Since then, we've done and learned a lot - such as adding Promoted Trends to our suite of Promoted Products …
Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile to Sell Microsoft Windows Phone — T-Mobile USA will join AT&T Inc. in selling a smartphone using Microsoft Corp.'s revamped mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, according to people familiar with the launch plans. — T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG …
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Julio Ojeda-Zapata / Your Tech Weblog:
Microsoft to do direct battle with Apple at Mall of America — A Microsoft retail store is coming to the Mall of America and — get this — it's directly across from one of Apple's famed retail stores. — Microsoft is a notorious imitator of all things Apple, and it's doing it again …
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Royal Pingdom:
Chrome rapidly catching up to Firefox — Google's Chrome web browser has only been around for two years, but with an almost frantic pace of development it's already gone through more iterations in that brief time than many other software products do in a decade.
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Engadget, Geeky-Gadgets, The Atlantic Online, The Microsoft Blog and WebProNews, Thanks:rawmeet
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Unable To Find A Better Exit, Qualcomm Cancels Consumer-Direct FLO TV — Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is shutting down its struggling direct-to-consumer FLO TV operations, paidContent has learned. According to sources familiar with the situation, the staff was informed late last week by Bill Stone …
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Gabriella Coleman / The Atlantic Online:
The Anthropology of Hackers — Editor's Note: Pasty kids with greasy hair typing on command lines. Dark villains of the networked world. Security magicians with odd political beliefs. We have a lot of ideas about who hackers are, but very few people have actually tried to seriously investigate …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Skype To Appoint A New CEO, Cisco SVP Tony Bates — Skype is taking another step towards becoming a public company today with the appointment of a new CEO. (Updated) I have confirmed that Skype's new CEO is going to be Tony Bates, a senior VP at Cisco, who runs its Enterprise Group, which is a $20 billion business.
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Peter Parkes / About Skype:
Skype Appoints Cisco Senior Executive Tony Bates as New CEO
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Skype Journal, CNET News, ITworld.com, Mobilized, GigaOM and Pulse2
