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Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft's Ballmer sells 12 percent stake in company — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sold $1.3 billion worth of shares in the company, cutting his stake by about 12 percent, but said his first stock sale in seven years should not be taken as a lack …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Steve Ballmer saved $100 million in taxes selling $2B in MSFT stock — Reuters is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is selling 75 million shares of his Microsoft holdings netting $2 Billion. By selling the stock before the end of the year Ballmer saves $100 million in capital gains taxes.
Fortune:
What really happened between HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher? — To this day, only two people know the full truth. But one thing is certain: The deeper you dig, the weirder it gets. — Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher — Mark Hurd was miffed. It was 2007, two years into his tenure …
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Wall Street Journal:
Accuser Said Hurd Leaked an H-P Deal — CEO Lost Out as Board Lost Faith — “Dear Mr. Hurd,” began the note that Mark Hurd read on June 29 in his office at Hewlett-Packard Co. “Please be advised that we represent Ms. Jodie Fisher regarding her claims... against Hewlett-Packard ('HP') and you, Mr. Mark Hurd, as an individual.”
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Googler Accuses Twitter Engineer Of Sexual Assault, Trial By Twitter Commences — Google technical writer Noirin Shirley wrote a post on her personal blog earlier this evening entitled “A hell of a time,” describing her experiences last night at ApacheCon in Atlanta.
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Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Apple's example Mac app prices land around $15-20 — Reader Shane did a little zoom and enhance on Apple's promo image for the Mac App Store, and divined some potential prices for Apple's official apps. These same apps are the ones that set the pricing bar on the iPad, and so if these are real …
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Download Squad, 9 to 5 Mac and Appletell
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Rival calls foul over Microsoft's delivering Security Essentials via Windows Update — Trend Micro says Microsoft's offer of free antivirus software in update service may be unfair competition — Computerworld - Microsoft this week began offering U.S. customers its free antivirus program via Windows' built …
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PC World and Download Squad
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Tests Call Recording — Andrew Banchich spotted a new Gmail feature that lets you record calls. I don't see the call record button in my account, so it's probably an experimental feature that's not yet widely available. — It's similar to the call recording feature from Google Voice.
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Softpedia News and Download Squad
Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Faces New Competition — WikiLeaks, the document-leaking website that has come under intense pressure after publishing classified U.S. military documents, is facing a new challenge: competition. — A group that includes former WikiLeaks staffers who left the organization …
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Techdirt, SAI, Ars Technica and THINQ.co.uk
Peter Kirn / Create Digital Music:
On iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone, New MIDI Support, via Wires, Wireless — Over 25 years later, portions of MIDI introduced early on in the spec remain relevant. And if you want to connect your MIDI-equipped gear to Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad mobiles, you will soon have an array of choices.
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TUAW, Phones Review, mobiputing, THINQ.co.uk and PadGadget
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
ZTE Peel hitting Sprint November 14th; $30/month, no contract? — We've just heard from a Sprint source that the ZTE Peel — the iPod touch case designed to bring cellular data to your otherwise non-cellular device — will go on sale November 14th. We don't have any details …
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MacRumors, IntoMobile, Go Rumors, MobileWhack.com, MacStories, displayblog and iPodNN
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps: Uncle Sam's To Blame For That Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border Error — Earlier, we covered how a Nicaraguan military commander, using Google Maps, moved into Costa Rican territory and sparked a dispute between the two countries. Now Google has explained where the boundary error came from: the United States government.
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