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4:50 PM ET, October 18, 2010

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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook in Privacy Breach  —  Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds  —  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring.  —  Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal  —  Ahhhhhhhhhahhhaha!  —  The inmates are now running the asylum.  —  All anyone is talking about today is the series of articles that the Wall Street Journal has written about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook.
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Did the Wall Street Journal Overreact to Facebook Privacy ‘Breach’?  —  The WSJ's ‘What They Know’ series, while informative, has an overly alarming tone  —  The Wall Street Journal has been running an interesting series on online privacy, called “What They Know,” about the information advertisers …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Has Facebook lost control of the Platform?  —  This time around, Facebook may actually have seen its privacy Watergate: A report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday found that the phenomenal amount of personal information that Facebook members put in their profiles may indeed have been sold extensively …
Discussion: ClickZ
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook Faces Suit Over Earlier Breach
Discussion: msnbc.com
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
New MacBook Air Has a Bigger Battery, Sharper Case [Independent Confirmation]  —  Apple's new MacBook Air will be thinner, lighter and boxier than the current model.  Mockup exclusively for CultofMac.com by Dan Draper.  —  On Wednesday, Steve Jobs will likely introduce a redesigned 13.3-inch MacBook Air …
Apple:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results  —  Record Mac, iPhone and iPad Sales Highest Revenue and Earnings Ever  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 fourth quarter ended September 25, 2010.  The Company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit …
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Ars Technica:
Liveblog: Apple Q4 2010 earnings call starts at 5pm ET  —  Apple is wrapping up its 2010 fiscal year in preparation for a busy holiday season.  As usual, the company's executives will discuss Apple's fourth quarter earnings, sales data, and other juicy tidbits in a conference call with media and analysts this afternoon.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple FY Q4 Beats: Revs $20.34B; EPS $4.31; 3.89M Macs; 14.1M …
Discussion: MediaMemo and CNBC
Rajat Mukherjee / Google Enterprise Blog:
The new Google Search Appliance - a bridge to the cloud  —  In the last year, businesses have started using cloud-based applications from Google and other technology providers at an accelerated rate.  While many organizations still have information that resides in on-premise systems …
Mack Lu / Google Public Policy Blog:
More transparency and control over location  —  (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)  —  We've always focused on offering people the most relevant results.  Location is one important factor we've used for many years to customize the information that you find.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Determined to Crack the Social Code  —  Google has been stunningly adept at devising computer algorithms to help people search the Internet.  But when it comes to building features for social networking, the company has been much less effective.  —  And changing that is one of the company's biggest business challenges these days.
CARL Book Beacon:
Twitter can do WHAT with your photos?  —  If you're a big user of the microblogging service Twitter like we are here, you know that Twitter has been making some changes.  There is more streamlining, information's available all in one view, it's easier to send updates or replies …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Europe's Trademark Office Confirms iPad's New Landscape Design  —  This week the European Trademarks and Designs Registration Office confirmed that one of Apple's new iPad designs is displaying an extra left side 30 pin connector to allow it to dock in landscape mode under application 001222905-0001.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Microsoft's Billion Dollar Media Bailout Plan  —  The advertising recovery is already in the works, but this could help move it along quite nicely: Close to a billion dollars in marketing money, courtesy of Microsoft.  —  That's what Steve Ballmer and company will spend to push …
Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
[Exclusive] First Android Gingerbread Details  —  We've heard countless reports that it's out there.  We know it's still in development and we know some Googlers have it loaded onto their Nexus Ones.  I'm talking about the Android Gingerbread update, of course, and we can finally bring …
The Microsoft Blog:
Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft's chief software architect  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced that Ray Ozzie, who was up until now the company's chief software architect, will be leaving the post. … In the meantime, here's the full text from Ballmer's e-mail to all Microsoft employees:
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% - Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011  —  The Number Resource Organization, the coordinating mechanism for the five Regional Internet Registries or RIRs, this morning announced that less than 5% of the world's IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses remain unallocated.
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Netflix on Wii drops the clunky disc requirement, starts streaming through Wii Menu  —  It's not just the PS3 that will be doing its Netflix streaming disc-free from today: the Wii is joining in the fun as well!  Americans and Canadians alike will be able to download and install Netflix …
Julia Angwin / Digits:
Mark Cuban Invests in Device-Tracking Firm  —  Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is among investors who have poured $5 million into startup BlueCava, which aims to develop unique IDs for computers, mobile phones and other devices.  —  BlueCava hopes that its device identification system …
Discussion: VentureBeat and SiliconANGLE
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Exclusive Video: New Stoli Ads Feature Twitter Co-Founder in Hot Biz-on-Biz Action  —  Biz Stone is the star of the latest Stolichnaya vodka campaign.  Here's a first-look.  —  Would you have a drink with you?  That's the tagline for Stolichnaya Vodka, which, in a new series of ads …
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Brightcove preparing for IPO in 2011: source  —  (Reuters) - Online video publisher Brightcove is preparing for an initial public offering in the first half of next year, according to a person close to the company.  —  Brightcove, which helps media and marketing companies distribute Web videos across …
 
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
IBM Beats Expectations, Gets Crushed In After Hours Trading
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, IBM and CNBC
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Unsocial: Foursquare Plus LinkedIn Minus All Your Friends
Google Enterprise Blog:
Q3'10 spam & virus trends from Postini
Aaron Bronzan / The LinkedIn Blog:
Now even more ways to customize your LinkedIn profile
Discussion: TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb
David Mihm / Mihmorandum:
Google Places Embarks on TeleSales Campaign for Tags
Discussion: Screenwerk
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Appbackr shows off a wholesale market for selling iPhone apps
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Alastair Goldfisher / PE Hub Blog:
Social Video Ad Startup Sharethrough Gets Series A from North Bridge, Floodgate
Discussion: alarm:clock, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Lawsuit forces HyperMac to cease sale of Apple-patented charging cables
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Even Under New Captain, Yahoo Seems Adrift
Discussion: BoomTown
Dan Tynan / PC World:
Facebook + Bing: The Good, the Bad, the Incontinent
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint promises WiMAX in NYC on November 1, LA on December 1 …
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
On Apple and Its (Enviable) Problems
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel, Microsoft, and the curious case of the iPad
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Daring Fireball