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Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Why I quit Google to join Facebook: Lars Rasmussen — Lars Rasmussen, the Sydney-based co-founder of Google Maps has spoken publicly for the first time about why he quit his job and joined the growing band of high profile Googlers who have switched allegiances to Facebook.
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Telegraph, SAI, Fortune, Guardian, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Neowin.net, The Next Web, Delimiter and Search Engine Land, Thanks:mathewi
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google's Real Problem - GTD? — Google has made it a habit of making news for the wrong reasons! Days after it reported a blockbuster quarter, the company's chief executive made some childish remarks about privacy. — And in past week or so, the company saw three well-known executives leave the company.
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Sydney Morning Herald, The Register, NBC Bay Area, Delimiter and broadstuff
Canalys:
Apple takes the lead in the US smart phone market with a 26% share — In Q3 2010, the worldwide smart phone market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Nokia retained its leadership position, albeit by a diminished margin, with a 33% share of the market.
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GigaOM, 9 to 5 Mac, MediaMemo, Fortune, SAI, PRWeb, BGR, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, SlashGear, RazorianFly and Know Your Cell
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Canalys: iPhone becomes most popular smartphone in the US, Android continues as most popular OS — The Canalys numbers are out, and with Android coming off an 886 percent jump reported at the end of the second quarter we were expecting something big. So, here it is: Android …
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SAI
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live — Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search engines for any topic, along with new features the company hopes will improve relevancy.
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Skrentablog:
Crowdsourcing search relevance
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CNN, Search Engine Land, Technology Review and Computerworld
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Start-Up Aims at Google
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Search Engine Land and Mashable!
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe (updated) — An iPhone bug already seen when Australia switched between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time a few weeks ago has now hit Europe. Twitter is alight with reports of recurring iPhone alarms going off an hour later than usual.
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AppleInsider, Computerworld, PC World, Guardian, TechEye, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Zatz Not Funny!, THINQ.co.uk, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, The Next Web, RazorianFly, Pocket-lint and Phones Review
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
How to Take Down Facebook — Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) — I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. It wouldn't be accurate to say there's something “wrong” with Facebook …
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broadstuff, Thanks:davemcclure
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Intel Grants Rare Access to Start-Up — Chip Giant Will Manufacture Achronix's Semiconductors Using Most Advanced Production Process — Intel Corp. has agreed to make chips for a semiconductor start-up, the first time the Silicon Valley giant has given another company access to its most advanced production processes.
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Inquirer, VentureBeat, TechEye, SlashGear, Reuters and Electronista
Steve Cheney / steve's blog:
The Sexy Details of How the iPad and MacBook Will Hook Up — During the “Back to the Mac” event two weeks ago, Steve Jobs made a particularly witty remark as he unveiled the MacBook Air, one that made the audience chuckle in laughter: … There is always a strategic intent with the things …
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TechCrunch and RazorianFly
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Wall Street Journal:
EBay Attempts to Clean Up the Clutter — Redesign This Week Uses Technological Overhaul to Organize Thousands of Listings — As eBay Inc. prepares for a critical holiday shopping season, the company this week plans to unveil new elements of an overhaul in how shoppers find and buy products on its Web site.
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AuctionBytes Blog
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Jayne O'Donnell / USA Today:
EBay makes it easier for friends, relatives to chip in for gifts
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Go Rumors
Ben Hookway / VisionMobile :: blog:
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate? — [The UI of Android mobile devices is at the epicenter of a conflict between Google and the OEM struggle for differentiation. Guest author Ben Hookway analyses why Google's UI strategy will be paramount to its proliferation as Android moves to multiple screens]
Emily B. Hager / New York Times:
IPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy — OWEN CAIN depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy. — Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped …
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
ViewSonic ViewPad 7 and 10 officially comin' to America — ViewSonic's heavy foray into the tablet market has been no secret, but we've been a bit uncertain as to where on the map its products would land. Until now that is. According to ViewSonic's American team, the company will be kicking off …
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PC World and GottaBeMobile
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Suddenly, Everyone Wants to Be Groupon — How the Young Startup Has Become a Model of Success for Marketers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Groupon has a lot of admirers. From Walmart to a hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz., marketers have taken notice …
