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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg To Layoff 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent — It was just a few months ago that Digg dropped 10% of its staff. Now the company is making much deeper cuts - 25 employees will be laid off, a little more than 37% of Digg's total staff. — This comes on top of news that Digg lost …
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VentureBeat, BoomTown, NEWS.com.au, SAI, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM, Pulse2 and New York Magazine
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Digg Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Departs for Start-Up — Chas Edwards (pictured here), the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources. — The exec, who came to Digg …
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Digg Blog, Mashable!, TechCrunch, ChasNote, VentureBeat, Pop17, CNET News, SiliconANGLE, SAI, Xconomy, paidContent and Gawker
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Digg's former CEO Jay Adelson has “no regrets” about not taking offers
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Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security:
Google Sets New Internet Traffic Record — In their earnings call last week, Google announced a record 2010 third-quarter revenue of $7.29 billion (up 23% from last year). The market rejoiced and Google shares shot past $615 giving the company a market cap of more than $195 billion.
Ray Ozzie:
Dawn of a New Day — To: Executive Staff and direct reports — Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across the company. In the opening section of that memo …
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Fast Company, blogs.ft.com, SAI, InformationWeek, Electronista, Datamation, TechCrunch, internetnews.com, Don Dodge on The Next …, ITworld.com, eWeek, BetaNews, CloudAve, Computerworld, Daring Fireball, Seattle Times, DailyTech, Between the Lines Blog, Softpedia News, CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, Velocity, www.pocketgamer.biz, paidContent, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, TechFlash and winrumors
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect on the ‘post-PC world’
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SAI, ITworld.com, PC World, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and BlogsDNA
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iPhone Security Hole Lets You Make Calls When The Phone Is Locked — It seems like there's a huge bug in iOS 4.1 for iPhone: with a combination of sleep / power button and a fake emergency call, it is possible to access the iPhone's contact list and phone keypad even if the device is locked.
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Threat Level, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Hardware 2.0 Blog, App Advice, TiPb, The Firewall and iClarified
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:
Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity — Orlando, Fla.—Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system …
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Download Squad, Ars Technica, Network World, CNET News, internetnews.com, Datamation, OSNews, Inquirer, PC Pro and Technovia
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Video: The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet In Action — When Research In Motion announced its PlayBook tablet, the company didn't demo the software. It just showed the device. Well now we have some video evidence of what the OS will look like in action. — We grabbed the video below …
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Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com and Fone Arena
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Jeff Gamet / The Mac Observer:
Teen Model Sues Apple Over Stolen iPhoto Pics — 19 year old Rebecca Battino is suing Apple and iPhone app company Samba Studios over risque self portraits she snapped with her digital camera that managed to find their way into the eXtreme Cam Girls iPhone app.
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New York Post, MacDailyNews, Macsimum News, TUAW and Computerworld
Piero Sierra / The Windows Blog:
The new Messenger for Mac 8 with Video Chat is now out of Beta — Today Messenger for Mac 8 came out of beta! It will be available (soon) as part of the Office for Mac 2011 suite, and is also available as a free standalone download. — Messenger for Mac 8 provides real …
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Erictric, The Next Web, Download Squad and LiveSide.net
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google Instant May Provide Instant Revenue Increase — When Google rolled out a new feature called Google Instant for its search engine in September, thousands of its AdWords advertisers—who pay the company every time a user clicks on their text ads next to search results—took note.
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Droid Life, WebProNews and Gizmodo
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Mark Zuckerberg Asks His First Facebook Question — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg just asked his first question on Facebook Questions, a recent feature on the social network that launched in July. But if you were wondering what unanswered, burning queries were on the young billionaire's mind, don't hold your breath.
Bloomberg:
Apple Enlists Unisys to Help With Corporate, Government Deals — Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone and Macintosh computer, has enlisted Unisys Corp. to help it sell more to businesses and U.S. government agencies, expanding beyond a customer base made mostly of consumers.
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AppleInsider, Electronista, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, iClarified, Macsimum News, Velocity and MacDailyNews
Rik Myslewski / The Register:
Nielsen cops to iPad stat cock-up — Fewer iPad download virgins — The customarily competent media-survey firm, The Nielsen Company, has backtracked on its startling claim that one-third of all iPad users have never download an app. The company now says that the number of download virgins is fewer than one in ten.
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CrunchGear, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacNN and MacDailyNews
Marianne Schultz / MacRumors:
Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac Beta Now Available — As reported earlier this month, Microsoft has released software allowing Mac users to synchronize media with a Windows Phone 7 device. Microsoft had held a media event earlier this month to officially unveil its Windows Phone 7 operating system along …
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Download Squad, Engadget, pocketnow.com, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, Macworld, MacStories, winrumors, TUAW, Electronista, MacNN and WPCentral.com
Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
What Disney Got in the Playdom Acquisition — In a new industry like social gaming, a single acquisition can have a disproportionate effect on the ecosystem. The buyout of a prominent company changes perceptions across the market, whether the price is high or low.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Old Meets New As Groupon Partners With eBay — Groupon may not turn out to be the next eBay according to our own Mike Arrington, but the social buying site is on a veritable tear. Coincidentally, the latest Internet giant to partner with the ecommerce startup is ... eBay.
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WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb, VatorNews and Pulse2
Om Malik / GigaOM:
100 Mbps DSL is Here & 800 Mbps is Around the Corner — It is mind boggling to think that copper, thanks to new generation DSL technologies is staying competitive with fiber and cable broadband. Today, a new breakthrough shows that it will only be a matter of time before DSL broadband crosses the 800 Mbps threshold.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Win for Adobe: Condé Nast Will Use It Instead of Rolling Its Own Tablet Magazines — Here's a win for Adobe, which could use one: Condé Nast, which has been testing the software company's tablet publishing tool against a homegrown version, is going to use Adobe's offering instead.
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Epicenter and MacStories, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With OS X Lion, It's No Longer Point & Click, It's Flick & Swipe — It feels like we're on the verge of something — “feel” being the keyword. Personal computing has more or less been the same for a few decades now. It's the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the machine.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
French three strikes agency getting 25,000 complaints a day — Nobody knows how many file sharers are getting warnings from France's new P2P infringement authority, but Billboard.biz says that French labels are sending 25,000 complaints a day to Hadopi, the agency enforcing that country's “three strikes” law.
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ZeroPaid.com and Techdirt
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Wi-Fi Direct certification begins today, device-to-device transmission starting soon — So, Bluetooth — last fall didn't end up being as frightful as you had probably imagined, but this fall is bound to be different. Or so the Wi-Fi Alliance says. If you'll recall, Wi-Fi Direct promised …
