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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The big tech pedigree doesn't help: Whitman and Fiorina go down in flames — Perhaps tonight's elections in California should be a lesson for technology executives at big tech companies. The pedigree of being an executive at a major tech company isn't necessarily a winning background for California politics.
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Mercury News, Hillicon Valley, Computerworld, SAI, GMSV, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News, TechEye and Capitol Weekly
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Nokia Gets Support of ITC Staff in Apple Smartphone Trial — Nokia Oyj shouldn't be found liable of infringing Apple Inc.'s patents, the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission said as a trial started. — “The evidence will not establish a violation” of Apple patent rights …
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AppleInsider, Computerworld, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, RazorianFly, Electronista and SlashGear
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
At My Wit's End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us — Jason Calacanis, our former partner on our TechCrunch50 events, is threatening to sue us. His demand letter and draft complaint are embedded below. In a nutshell, he wants part of the proceeds from our sale to AOL.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple to Extend iTunes Song Previews to 90 Seconds in U.S. — According to Symphonic Distribution, Apple has informed music labels that it is preparing to extend the length of iTunes Store song previews in the United States to 90 seconds for songs that are at least 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.
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PC World, Macworld, App Advice, FierceMobileContent, AppleInsider, Gearlog, Music Ally, TiPb, BGR, iLounge, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, SlashGear, RazorianFly, Neowin.net, BlogsDNA, everythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, MacStories, iPodNN, TUAW, Gizmodo, Mobile Entertainment, Know Your Cell and Gizmodo Australia
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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Facebook's Initial Crew Moving On — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, the most successful start-up of the last decade, is only six years old, and an initial public offering is still a way off. — But a number of Facebook's early employees are giving up their stable jobs, free food and laundry service to build their own businesses.
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The Atlantic Online, Thanks:rawmeet
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
T-Mobile roasts AT&T in debut of ‘Largest 4G Network’ campaign — T-Mobile USA tonight is launching a new slogan — and a new attitude — with an advertising campaign that lays claim to “America's Largest 4G Network” while poking fun at the notorious network problems experienced by iPhone users on the competing AT&T network.
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Yahoo! News, MobileCrunch, FierceWireless, Android and Me, DailyTech, blogs.chron.com, Androinica, FierceBroadbandWireless, TUAW, Gizmodo, CNET News, TmoNews, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Electronista, Engadget and Neowin.net, Thanks:johnhcook
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X — Dave Winer speculates: … Rene Ritchie even wonders if that's what's going on this week at the private iOS developer meeting in Cupertino. (It's not — that event is a Game Center summit.) — There's no doubt that iOS is where the developer mojo is.
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MacStories and Scripting News
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down, Raises $650 Million Fund — The fundraising crunch doesn't seem to be hitting venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which announced today that it has raised $650 million for a second fund, more than doubling the $300 million it raised 16 months ago.
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BoomTown, New York Times, SAI, Fortune, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Digits, Thanks:oryankim
Quentin Hardy / At Your Servers:
HP's Move on IBM — The competition for the world's biggest tech contracts just kicked in harder. — Hewlett Packard is announcing a comprehensive reconfiguration of how it sells large, complex computing systems to its biggest clients. The program, the first big move by HP chief Leo Apotheker …
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TechEye and SiliconANGLE
Zee / The Next Web:
Google's Biggest Mistakes According to Marissa Mayer — Google's Marissa Mayer has been with Google since 1999 and is one of its first twenty five employees. Needless to say she's one smart cookie and in another life, could quite easily slot in neatly as a politician or press liaison.
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Gizmodo and The Huffington Post
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Aircraft bomb finds may spell end for in-flight Wi-Fi — The long-awaited ability to use a cellphone or Wi-Fi connection on an aircraft might become a casualty of the latest aviation security threat. — It was revealed on 29 October that parcels containing a powdered explosive packed …
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CrunchGear, Electronista, Wi-Fi Networking News, Boing Boing and Gizmodo
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook's Big Mobile Event: What's On Deck? — Facebook is hosting a big mobile event tomorrow afternoon at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. — What's going to be presented? — Facebook won't say, but we anticipate: — An update on Facebook Places.
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Fast Company
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tests Smaller Font In News Feed, Users Retaliate On Twitter — We noticed a small change tonight on Facebook's news feed: the font seems to have become smaller. It's unclear how much the size was adjusted but it looks like the change is significant enough that it drew user attention as soon as the font was tweaked.
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Softpedia News, All Facebook and parislemon
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Startups play poker, big companies play chess — Mike Arrington, founder of Techcrunch, wrote a great article “Are you a pirate?” which captures the essence of the startup mind set. I have been on both sides; the pirate life with 5 startups (Forte, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, Groove Networks) …
Thanks:gapingvoid
Jamie / Signal vs. Noise:
Introducing Chalk: A fun little browser-based app for iPad inspired by our new office — My favorite thing about the 37signals office are the 4 team rooms. Team rooms are where people can work together uninterrupted without disturbing anyone else. These team rooms are equipped with big chalkboards.
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App Advice, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, PadGadget, MacStories, Lifehacker, Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Sesame Street Parodies Apple With its “There's An App For That” Song — You know why Sesame Street has felt it necessary to do a song-and-dance about “iPogo Stick” apps? Like their other themes of bullying, violence and err, obesity, parents ignoring their children for Angry Birds playtime has become a real problem.
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Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable!, everythingiCafe, Phones Review and technabob
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Federated Media targets moms with its first big acquisition — Online advertising and marketing company Federated Media just announced its first full startup acquisition — BigTent, a company offering social networking tools to help parents build communities on the Web.
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TechCrunch, BoomTown, SiliconANGLE, paidContent and FM Blog
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Earnings Beat Expectations For The First Time In A Long Time — AOL just released earnings. — Total revenue was $563.5 million, which is better than analyst expectations of $557.04 million. — That means Tim Armstrong has delivered a beat for the first time at AOL. (He missed the last two quarters.)
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Reuters, paidContent, Technology News, MediaMemo and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
John Ebbert / AdExchanger.com:
Aol Buying Dotomi - UPDATED! Still Only Rumor — Following up a report from earlier today on AdExchanger.com, yet another reliable source says that Dotomi is being acquired by Aol as CEO Tim Armstrong reaches to his company's cash and stock to add a quality retargeting solution.
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Fast Company
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
LG Pad coming in Q1 2011, with Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2, and 8.9-inch screen — Want some specificity about LG's super-duper tablet roadmap? Last we heard from the Korean tech giant, it was canning plans for a Froyo slate and looking forward to a more suitable iteration of Android …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps — Urban Airship, a startup that makes it easier for mobile app developers to offer push notifications, in-app purchases, and other key features, has closed a new $5.4 million funding round.
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mocoNews, ReadWriteWeb, Xconomy and VentureBeat
E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Google Tool May Have Had Wrong Polling Place Locations for Hundreds of Thousands of Voters — Political technology and info company Aristotle says flaws in Google's poll finder tool are widespread. — After a Fast Company editor got a wrong address from Google's polling place locator this morning …
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The Politico, Gizmodo Australia, ResourceShelf and Search Engine Land, Thanks:noahr
Serenity Caldwell / Macworld:
Some MacBook Airs exhibiting screen issues — Some of Apple's newly released MacBook Air models may have display problems, according to both Internet reports and first-hand accounts. — First reported by Cult of Mac over the weekend, some users have reported odd kernel panics …
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Tech Trader Daily, Cult of Mac, Ars Technica, SlashGear, displayblog, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, MacNN, ThinkMobile, Pulse2, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Next Web, DailyTech, RazorianFly, Erictric, MacRumors and MacStories
Josh Halliday / paidContent:UK:
UK Rules Google Street View Breached Data Privacy Law — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) committed a “significant breach” of the UK's Data Protection Act when its Street View cars collected personal data including full emails and passwords from unsuspecting users, the UK information commissioner confirmed today …
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Computerworld, Post Tech, BBC, Telegraph, Associated Press, Guardian, p2pnet, The Register, THINQ.co.uk and The Next Web
Zach Epstein / BGR:
AppleCare protection plans now transferable to new products — Apple has made changes to its policy regarding the transferability of AppleCare Protection Plans, a source told BGR. Starting immediately, an Apple customer will have the ability to transfer AppleCare Protection Plan coverage …
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9 to 5 Mac, MobileBurn.com, RazorianFly, App Advice, Geek.com, Gadgetell, Lifehacker, Ubergizmo, MacStories and Gizmodo
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Coming Soon in Google Docs: Third Party Apps, Cloud Printing and Sync — Google Docs' source code includes a message that reveals some important upcoming features: “Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices”. — Cloud printing is a project that will enable applications on any device to print documents.
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Docs Blog, TechSpot, PC World, Techie Buzz, Neowin.net, Electronista, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, Pulse2, Download Squad, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Lifehacker and Fortune
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Just When You Needed To Know Whether Prop. 19 Will Pass, CA.gov Results Page Goes Down — Man, it looks like Silicon Valley is getting its butt kicked at the Califonia polls, with forecasted losses from former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and the heavily tech industry …
