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KPCB:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs — Amazon.com, Facebook, Zynga, Comcast and Liberty Media to Invest and Help Accelerate a New Wave of Social Web Innovations — Palo Alto, Calif. - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) …
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TechFlash, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Digital Media Wire, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, CNET News, Digital Daily, SAI, Tech Trader Daily, SFGate, All Facebook, Black Web 2.0, The Next Web and SiliconANGLE
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Stealth Social Startup Cafebots Scores The First Money From Kleiner Perkins' New sFund — You've likely heard of CRM, customer relationship management. But have you heard of FRM — friend relationship management? Probably not. But Cafebots hopes to change that shortly.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, New York Times, GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch, SelectStart, VatorNews and paidContent
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS — Today Kleiner Perkins is holding a special event at Facebook headquarters to announce the launch of a new $250 million social-centric sFund, which will foster a new generation of companies tapping into the social graph.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Plus, Take Two: How's $4.95 a Month? — Hulu is considering cutting the price on Hulu Plus, the subscription service it began testing in June, sources tell me. I'm told the video site is talking about slashing its $9.95 per month fee in half, to $4.95.
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CNET News, The Next Web and Electronista
iFixit:
MacBook Air 11" Model A1370 Teardown — Join us as we take a peek inside the 11.6" version of the all-new MacBook Air!
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, I4U News and Engadget
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today — Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I'm saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media.
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PC World, TeleRead, Digits, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Engadget, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Boy Genius Report, AppScout, Gearlog, Electronista, MacRumors, TheAppleBlog, Royal Pingdom, Gadget Lab, Crave, GottaBeMobile, TUAW and Inquirer
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Celebrating Windows 7 at 1 Year - More than 240 Million Licenses Sold — Today's an exciting day! We are announcing that more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 was running …
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blogs.chron.com, TechFlash, Digital Daily, Microsoft, The Microsoft Blog, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Reuters, Redmond Pie, Electronista, TechEye, Lifehacker, SAI, I4U News, Download Squad, Softpedia News, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Tech Report, TechCrunch and Engadget, Thanks:brandonleblanc
James Kelly / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes — Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work experimenting with new fiber optic technologies.
MACNOTES.NET:
FaceTime for Mac - a serious threat for your Apple ID — While many users are happy about having FaceTime on their Mac, we are a little anxious about some security glitches present in the current beta of the software. With a few clicks others can make use of the user's Apple ID and reset the password with ease.
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PC World, VentureBeat, Engadget, Download Squad, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, Erictric, Daring Fireball and Fortune
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Dave Caolo / TUAW:
FaceTime for Mac security hole easily remedied
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SlashGear, eWeek, Ars Technica, Appolicious Advisor and IntoMobile
David Carnoy / CNET News:
Source: New Nook is Android-based, full-color — This is just a crude mock-up—and not the real deal—but our source says Nook Color is coming. — Is the upcoming Nook a color e-reader? Barnes & Noble doesn't comment on rumors, but CNET has been in communication with a source …
Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 39% to $7.56 Billion — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2010. — Operating cash flow increased 16% to $2.62 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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CNET News and Between the Lines Blog
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon Q3 Tops Street Ests, But Margins Fall, And Shares Drop
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CNBC, Digital Daily, Between the Lines Blog and Reuters
Cade Metz / The Register:
Mozilla man accuses Jobs of ‘bypass the web’ scheme — Apple.com busts Firefox 4 — On Wednesday, as Steve Jobs went “Back to the Mac,” the fanbois of the world enjoyed their usual collective orgasm. But for Mozilla director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner, the reaction was decidedly different.
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SlashGear
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Nicole Kobie / PC Pro:
Apple looking to ditch Java?
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The Register, CNET News, Jonny Evans's blog, MacRumors, Apple and Neowin.net
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions — Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable.
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TechCrunch, Techland and Rich DeMuro, more at Mediagazer »
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Mike Vernal / Facebook Developer Blog:
Encrypting Facebook UIDs — Over the past few days, we have been investigating a technical solution to the issue of sharing Facebook User IDs (UIDs). While initial press reports greatly exaggerated the implications of sharing a UID, we take this issue seriously.
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All Facebook, Inside Facebook, Post Tech and Neowin.net
Jesse Drucker / Business Week:
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions — Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent — The heart of Google's (GOOG) international operations is a silvery glass office building in central Dublin …
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Relevant Results, The Atlantic Online, CJR and Bloomberg
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
One in three iPad owners has never downloaded a single app — The rest are young, 65% male, well-connected early adopters, according to Nielsen — Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen Co. — Reading between the lines of “The Connected Devices Playbook,” a survey of 5,000 owners of iPads …
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Nielsen Wire, Gizmodo, TUAW, App Advice, FierceMobileContent and MacNN, more at Mediagazer »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Books and Video Win on the iPad, and Users Are Buying
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The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Winamp Blog:
Winamp for Android: Now in Beta — Winamp for AndroidTM is now in Beta! — Winamp, the Ultimate Media Player, is now available in beta on AndroidTM (Android 2.1 OS and above). It offers a complete media management solution by seamlessly syncing with the Winamp desktop library.
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Android Phone Fans, Android Police, AppScout, Switched, Android Community, The Toybox Blog, Eurodroid, Droid Life, Androinica, Gizmodo, Download Squad and Electricpig.co.uk
Andreas Türk / European Public Policy Blog:
How many German households have opted-out of Street View? — Cross posted from Der Google Produkt-Kompass — Since April 2009, people in Germany have been able to ask for their house to be blurred on Street View ahead of the product being launched. At first they could ‘opt-out’ by writing us …
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eWeek, Gizmodo, New York Times, msnbc.com, Reuters, Softpedia News, The Register, Tech Daily Dose, CNET News, PC Pro, Agence France Presse, TechEye, Inquirer, Tech Report, The Next Web and Search Engine Watch
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
President Obama Meeting With Steve Jobs This Afternoon — President Obama is flying to the Bay Area from Seattle this afternoon. — He's speaking at Google exec Marissa Mayer's house in Palo Alto this evening. — Before that, says a source familiar with the details, he will have a one-on-one meeting with Steve Jobs.
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9 to 5 Mac, TechFlash, Gearlog and MacNN
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
A Windows Phone 7 ‘review’ from a non-reviewer — I am not a reviewer. I am a news reporter. I've never written a product review in my life. (And I don't intend to start now.) — But I did — by a stroke of luck plus a little persistence — talk my way into Microsoft's Windows Phone …
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eWeek, Bink.nu, Windows Phone Thoughts.com, IntoMobile, Engadget and Digital Trends
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Microsoft's New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking
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eWeek, The Windows Blog, Engadget, Neowin.net, SuperSite for Windows, ThinkMobile, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Richy Rich, Pulse2, Internet2Go, The Register, Windows Phone Thoughts.com, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, The Atlantic Online, Yahoo! News, GottaBeMobile, BlogsDNA, MobileCrunch, Gadgetell, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, msnbc.com, I4U News, Telegraph and BaltTech
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Square Starts Shipping New iPhone 4-Compatible Credit Card Reader — There was a lot of hoopla yesterday about the fact that the old version of Square's little plastic credit card reader doesn't work with Apple's newest iPhone, the iPhone 4. That's because the metal fitting …
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App Advice and iPodNN
