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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple to Offer Free MobileMe Service to Some iOS Users? — Earlier this month, we noted that the original golden master version of iOS 4.2 appeared to be preparing to allow users to sign in to MobileMe using their Apple IDs and even offer users the ability create a free Apple ID right from the MobileMe settings page in iOS.
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AppleInsider, Newlaunches.com, I4U News, Electronista, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac and iClarified
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Accel Sold Big Chunk Of Facebook Stock At $35 Billion Valuation — Sometime in the last week or so, we've heard from multiple sources, Accel Partners has sold very significant chunks of Facebook stock. So significant, in fact, that their ownership percentage has dropped to a point …
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VentureBeat and SAI
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Where Are the Android Killer Apps? — Every few weeks or so, I reiterate my wish for an Android analog to the iPod Touch — something more or less comparable to state-of-the-art Android phones in terms of performance, software, and quality, but costing, say, $250 (or less) with no contract.
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Gizmodo, displayblog, Joystiq and EngageDigital, Thanks:rawmeet
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google Turns Its Local Eyes to Groupon-But Who Else Could Enter Bidding? — According to multiple sources close to the situation, Google is in discussions with local deals powerhouse Groupon about buying it. — Without making the requisite joke about the deal of the day …
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paidContent, SAI, Gearlog, Fortune, NetworkEffect, Digital Trends, Reuters, Androinica, The Next Web, MediaFile, TechFlash, MarketingVOX, PC World, Mashable!, WebProNews, alarm:clock, Venture Capital Dispatch, FierceMobileContent, HEXUS.channel, Erictric, VentureBeat, Pulse2, Deal Journal, VatorNews, Between the Lines Blog, The Search Agents, Search Engine Land, Techland, CNET News, The Blog Herald, Tech Trader Daily, Softpedia News and Black Web 2.0
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Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook.com generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US — In March, we reported an important milestone when the market share of visits to Facebook.com* surpassed Google.com*. Since then, we have continued to watch the growth of Facebook.com, which increased 60% from the same week last year …
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TechCrunch, Techie Buzz, All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb and Search Engine Land
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
webOS 2.0 will be released to “all devices” in coming months (Update: Video online) — We just heard a confirmation from Palm's Josh Marinacci that HP / Palm intends to get webOS 2.0 on all existing webOS devices in “the coming months.” That timeline is still vaguer that we'd like …
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GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, PhoneArena, SAI, PhoneDog.com, TechSpot, Gadgetell, BGR, Phones Review, Download Squad, Engadget, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, PhoneNews.com and Phone Scoop
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
China's 18-Minute Mystery — When the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission released its report to Congress this week, something slightly unusual happened: people read it. And there, buried on pages 236-247, a mystery was revealed, and the media have greedily amplified it.
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Challenging Complexity and Computerworld
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
China Hijacks 15% Of Internet Traffic? More Like .015%
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eWeek, Security Watch, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, dailywireless.org and Arbor Networks Security, Thanks:forbestech
Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story:
Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill — It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. — A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor …
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Ars Technica, ZeroPaid.com, ITworld.com, Techdirt, Tech Daily Dose and Computerworld
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Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
Congress's latest awful tech-policy idea: the Net-censorship bill
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Techdirt, Music Ally, PlagiarismToday and DSLreports
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
The Landscape Around Google's Hiring Binge — After a year or two of stagnancy, the Google employee count is growing rapidly again. But the growth spurt and retention efforts seem forced, and unlikely to be the perfect formula to keep the company at the top of the Web heap, despite its clout, market share and massive revenue.
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SAI, Virtualeconomics, Don Dodge on The Next …, Geek.com, WebProNews, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Watch and Reuters
Andrew Sykes / Gizchina:
Genuine White iPhone 4 On the Grey Market in China! — This week it's all been about the iPhone 4, more specifically the elusive yet to be released (rumored to be axed) White iPhone 4. We've brought you pictures of a genuine white iPhone 4 complete with video and we've even managed to track …
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Examiner, TUAW, SlashPhone, Electricpig, Fast Company, MobileCrunch, iThinkDifferent, Covering Web, SlashGear, Geek.com, MacStories, PhoneArena, everythingiCafe, iClarified, gizchina.com, displayblog and Erictric
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its Service — A Florida debt collector contacted a St. Petersburg woman's Facebook friends in an effort to get her to repay a $362 car loan. The woman, Melanie Beacham, promptly hit the collector, MarkOne Financial, with a civil suit in Pinellas County circuit court.
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The Next Web, Inside Facebook, PC World and Switched
Doree Shafrir / Newsweek:
Pennies From Heaven — With cash for tech startups in shorter supply, angel investors are going where VCs fear to tread. Chris Dixon is sitting in his lofty office in New York's Silicon Alley, trying to persuade an 18-year-old to take his money. The young man is in town from California …
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
‘The Office’ Spoofs Silicon Valley — While the fictional desk jockeys of Dunder Mifflin are usually pushing pencils and selling paper, Thursday night's episode of the The Office was unexpectedly technology-focused. (Warning: mild spoilers below.) — In the episode, titled “WUPHF.com …
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New York Observer, SAI and The Huffington Post
Ben Rooney / Wall Street Journal:
High-Tech Buzz: All of a Sudden Everyone Wants to Love a Eurogeek — Europe may be having a hard time of it at the moment, but there is one bright light on the horizon. — Across the continent there is a huge buzz in the tech sector. From the F.ounders conference in Dublin last month …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
What's New At Tumblr: Funding, Hires, Office, Board Member, And A Focus On Fashion — For the past several weeks, there's been a lot of talk about a large new round of funding that the social startup Tumblr was raising. That culminated today with a report in Fortune with numbers on the round.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Tumblr dives into a boatload of money
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alarm:clock, SiliconANGLE, Scripting News, GigaOM, MediaMemo and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Developing CDMA-GSM ‘World iPad’? — Here's an interesting bit of speculation from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, whose recent Qualcomm channel checks may reveal something about Apple's next-generation iPad. According to Blair, Apple is developing a “World iPad” based on one of Qualcomm's multimode CDMA-GSM chips.
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GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, Computerworld, msnbc.com, Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, V3.co.uk, The Register, GigaOM, displayblog, Appolicious Advisor, Yahoo! News, TiPb, Neowin.net, MacDailyNews, CNET News, Electronista, IntoMobile, Electricpig.co.uk, TUAW, The Next Web, eWeek, PhoneDog.com, MobileBurn.com, iClarified, Know Your Cell, Tech Report, Edible Apple, everythingiCafe, The Loop, The Huffington Post, Softpedia News, MacRumors, SAI and Phones Review
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Manhunt! LimeWire, RIAA both search for “Pirate Edition” creator — Last week, hacker “MetaPirate” and his “horde of piratical monkeys” released LimeWire: Pirate Edition to the world. The program took all the file-sharing features of the popular LimeWire Pro and made them free of charge and free of central controls.
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TorrentFreak, ReadWriteWeb, Media Maverick and CrunchGear
