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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Board Will Meet Tomorrow To Decide On Google Deal — Amidst everyone in the world writing about the rumored $5.3 billion dollar Google Groupon offer at the moment, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal has not yet been sealed and that Groupon's board of directors is holding …
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DealBook:
Google's Gambit for Groupon Raises Concerns — Google's $6 billion bid for Groupon, an online coupon start-up, is an aggressive move by the company to dominate local online advertising and help with its long-sought move into social networking. — Google has offered Groupon $5.3 billion …
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Local Onliner, Fortune, New York Times, Under the Radar, Pulse2 and VatorNews
Wall Street Journal:
Google in Talks to Buy Groupon
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Erictric, Googling Google Blog and SAI
Wall Street Journal:
Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture — Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Google executives had said they hoped to launch this summer …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole Position — Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. Things have developed since then, it seems.
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VentureBeat, SAI and Howard Lindzon
George Ou / Digital Society:
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth — Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.
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Level 3 Communications, CNET News, Bit Rate, GigaOM and isen.blog
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J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works
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PC World, CableTechTalk, paidContent, GigaOM, Digital Society, Telecom Trends, Between the Lines Blog and Business Wire
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Skype Journal, GigaOM, Susan Crawford blog and Media Decoder
Vijay Sankaran / Nokia Siemens Networks Blog:
New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance — With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size. Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports …
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Engadget, DailyTech, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, Communications …, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Light Reading, iClarified and IntoMobile
Andrew / Groublogpon:
Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed — This summer, we launched personalization to bring you deals that better suit your interests. We weren't about to stop there - today, we're giving you a sneak peak of some new stuff that will bring you even more deals you love: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed.
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TechCrunch, Mashable! and The Next Web
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Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Groupon buys 3 discount sites, expands into Asia
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ZDNet, Financial Post, The Next Web, PC Magazine and Digital East Asia
Royal Pingdom:
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart) — Where do you think Apple's iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia's Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry? — We're going to answer all of those questions and more in this article …
Discussion:
Technologizer and Internet2Go
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Facebook Engineering Director Aditya Agarwal Departs — Facebook director of engineering and very early employee Aditya Agarwal is leaving the company after more than five years, he announced last night. — In a note published on his Facebook profile, Agarwal said:
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011 — One of the major new features deployed in iOS 4.2 last week was AirPlay, Apple's solution for streaming video, audio, and photos from portable iOS devices to the new Apple TV for display on users' televisions.
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PC World, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, TiPb, MacStories, TUAW, App Advice, Netputing, BGR, iClarified, Edible Apple and everythingiCafe
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Kindle Feels iPad's Heat, Sees E-Reader Lead Going Up in Smoke — When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first announced the company's new iBookstore and iBooks application for the iPad back in January, he said that while Amazon had done a great job with its Kindle e-book reader, Apple planned to “stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”
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InvestorPlace, MacRumors, TechCrunch, ThinkMobile, SAI, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, BetaNews, Digital Trends, IntoMobile, CNET News, MacDailyNews, Computerworld, Fortune, iLounge, TUAW and displayblog
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders — AppNexus, a high-flying ad technology start-up, just had a bad few days. The next few weeks could be rough, too. — That's because over the weekend, Google suspended the company's access to the ad giant's “real time” ad exchange.
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AdExchanger.com, ExchangeWire.com, FM Blog and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine — I did a search at Google today for “cars” and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for “cars” on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own search results.
Nick Denton / Lifehacker:
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog — The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form that has transformed online media over the last eight years.
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SAI, VentureBeat, CNET News and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Emre Peker / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Gives Bankers IPads, Signaling Danger to RIM — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will give its investment bankers iPads to provide an additional mobile tool as Apple Inc. expands its domain to Wall Street, threatening Research in Motion Ltd. in a market it traditionally dominated.
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InformationWeek, MacStories, Electronista, eWeek, SAI and The Huffington Post
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Winamp Wants To Be The iTunes Of Android; Now Out Of Beta With Wireless Sync — Today Winamp for Android is coming out of beta, a month after its initial launch and more than 500,000 downloads later. The public Android release lets you manage your music downloads on your Android and will offer …
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron Duo review — When Dell first demoed the Inspiron Duo and its vertically rotating screen on stage at IDF in September, our mouths nearly hit the floor. It looked like a plain old netbook until its 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen did a magical backflip and folded down over its keyboard to morph into a tablet.
Discussion:
ThinkMobile, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing and SAI
Softpedia News:
Flash Player 10.2 Beta Adds Full GPU Acceleration for Video and Multi-Monitor Support — Adobe has announced the launch of the Flash Player 10.2 Beta. The latest testing release of the popular plugin comes with several new features and broader hardware acceleration for videos.
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Adobe Flash Player Team Blog, CNET News, TUAW and BlogsDNA
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Future Is Here: DoubleTwist Brings Wireless Sync To Android For Music, Photos & Video — Earlier today, Winamp released a new version of its Android application that allowed users to sync their music wirelessly with their Windows desktop (disclosure: Winamp and TechCrunch are both owned by AOL).
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Music Ally, Engadget, Electricpig.co.uk, BlogsDNA, IntoMobile, Lifehacker, Android Phone Fans, Ubergizmo and Electronista
Terry Walsh / We Got Served:
HP Pulls Out of the Windows Home Server Market, Leaves Vail Out in the Cold — HP today announced an immediate withdrawal from the Windows Home Server market. — In a briefing earlier this month, the company explained that the recent acquisition of Palm had led to a shift in business priorities across …
Discussion:
The Windows Blog and The Microsoft Blog
Nick Bilton / Bits:
For Start-Ups, the Ultimate Goal: Becoming a Verb — When starting a new Web site or Internet service, most technologists are aiming to sell to a larger company or gain hundreds of millions of users. But for some there is an even bigger glory than cash: their company name becomes a verb.
