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Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Why the Mac App Store Sucks — Apple launched the Mac App Store today, allowing you to browse, search, read reviews, and buy Mac software of all kinds in one streamlined location. And it's terrible. Here's why. Sure, the Mac App Store is a good idea in theory.
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Cult of Mac, App Advice and RazorianFly
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Mac App Store Cracked Open for Piracy — The Mac App Store's security has been cracked. This means that, by installing a software called Kickback, you will be able to pirate any applications in the store. However, the crack will not be available until February 2011, according to Dissident:
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VG247, Geekword, Techie Buzz, Computerworld, Lifehacker, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW and AppleInsider, Thanks:gizmodo
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Without Proper Code Validation, Mac App Store Downloads Are Easily Bootlegged — Copy the App Store receipt from any legit Mac App Store download — including from any free app — and paste it into a bootleg download of Angry Birds, and it'll run. — This isn't true for all paid Mac App Store apps.
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AppleInsider, Craftymind, MacStories, LiewCF.com and Neowin.net
Richard Gaywood / TUAW:
Mac App Store by the numbers — almost 1,000 apps on Day One — Today's launch of the Mac App Store will doubtless be feeding analyst speculation for some time to come. Developers who choose to work within it gain exposure; users who use it gain frictionless purchasing ability, unobtrusive DRM …
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Computerworld, App Advice, Lifehacker, PC Magazine, Joystiq, TidBITS, RazorianFly, MacRumors, Screenwerk and Download Squad
Apple:
Apple's Mac App Store Opens for Business
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Mac App Store Offers A Taste Of OS X Lion And The Future Of The Platform
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
Mac App Store pricing of featured apps
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Mashable!, The Pocket Cyclone, Computerworld, Shoutpedia, PSFK, Engadget, SAI, Switched, eWeek and BGR
Reuters:
Goldman customers get Facebook financials — (Reuters) - Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, according to documents that Goldman Sachs is providing to clients. — Goldman began hand-delivering copies of the 101-page private …
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New York Magazine, SAI, Pulse2 and The Register
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Will Go Public or Disclose Financials by April 2012 — Facebook Inc. will begin disclosing financial information or stage an initial public offering by April 2012, according to a new 100-page private-placement memo now being distributed to potential investors in the company.
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PC World, Post Tech, Salon, Forbes, DealBook, CNBC, Epicenter, CNNMoney.com, Computerworld, VentureBeat and ITworld.com
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Facebook, Goldman Sachs & How Money Seeks Regulatory Free Zones
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Even If It Had 500 Shareholders Today, Facebook Doesn't Have to …
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eWeek, SAI, L.A. Times Tech Blog, EngageDigital, NetworkEffect, All Facebook, Epicenter and paidContent
Tony Bates / The Big Blog:
Skype to acquire Qik — I'm happy to announce that we've entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that let people capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere. Qik has 60 employees …
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SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CONFIRMED: Skype To Acquire Qik For $150 Million
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Jenna Dawn / Twitter Blog:
Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record — Well, that didn't take long. Just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1st, Twitterers set an all-time record in the number of Tweets sent per second (TPS). At that moment, the world sent a staggering 6,939 TPS wishing friends …
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TechCrunch, VatorNews, Pulse2, Bits, Search Engine Land and WebProNews
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Have Approached Blackstone's Tosi to Becoming Finance Chief — Apple Inc. approached Blackstone Group LP Chief Financial Officer Laurence Tosi to become its finance chief, three people with knowledge of the matter said. — Tosi told Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman that he plans to stay …
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Computerworld, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, SAI, MacRumors, Digital Daily, MacNN, Pulse2, Daring Fireball, RazorianFly and PE Hub Blog
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb shown off in new series of videos — Courtesy of T-Mobile and its newly announced G-Slate tablet by LG, several videos showing off Google's new tablet-only OS have surfaced. Honeycomb will power the next generation of Android tablets, and it appears to offer …
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Android Police, Pulse2, CNET News and Examiner
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
More on Microsoft ‘Jupiter’ and what it means for Windows 8 — After a first tip this week on Microsoft's Jupiter — a new “application model” for Windows 8 — I started nosing around to learn more about this mysterious new Microsoft codename. — Here's a brain dump of what I learned …
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The Next Web
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Most Worthless Week in Tech — The case against the Consumer Electronics Show. — A year ago, Steve Ballmer took the stage of the Consumer Electronics Show to tout a technology that he promised would change the world: the Windows operating system. Newcomers to CES might have been baffled …
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I'm Just Being Manan and BetaNews
Mike Schackwitz / The Windows Blog:
What happened in the recent Hotmail outage — On December 31, 2010, a number of our users reported their email messages and folders were missing from their Hotmail accounts. I want to take a little time to explain what happened, and what steps we've taken to fix this problem and prevent it from happening in the future.
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LiveSide.net and All about Microsoft Blog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Buys Web Conferencing Platform DimDim For $31 Million In Cash — Salesforce is continuing its shopping spree into 2011. The company has announced that it has acquired DimDim, a web conferencing service for $31 million in cash. — DimDim, which has raised around $9 million in venture funding …
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PC Magazine, PC World, Xconomy, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, PR Newswire, CloudAve, GigaOM, VentureBeat and Pulse2
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Show's over: how Hollywood strong-ARMed Intel and the CE biz — Intel's new movie service, Intel Insider, is a lot more interesting for what it signifies than for what it actually is. The service, which takes advantage of a new hardware module inside Sandy Bridge's GPU to enable …
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PC World
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Mac — Twitter is proud to introduce an appropriately slick and simple desktop application for Mac computers. Twitter for Mac has launched today as part of the Mac App Store. — This app gives Twitter users another fast and convenient way to stay connected to what they care about the most.
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PC World, TechCrunch, GigaOM, VatorNews, Pulse2, NetworkEffect, Download Squad, TUAW, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac and MacStories
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Tapjoy (AKA Offerpal) Raises $21M For App Distribution And Monetization Platform — Tapjoy (formerly known as Offerpal Media) has raised $21 million in new funding led by Rho Ventures, with D. E. Shaw Ventures, InterWest Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners participating in the round.
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PR Newswire, eMoney, mocoNews, SocialTimes.com and Xconomy
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
Amazon Web Services Improves Support Offerings — Amazon Web Services on Thursday rolled out two premium support tiers and announced a 50 percent price cut on existing premium plans, heightening competition with rivals like Rackspace and making a clear overture to enterprises that wish to run their operations in the cloud.
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Amazon.com, ReadWriteWeb, The Register and Between the Lines Blog
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Google Apps Adds an Anti-Spam Weapon to Its Arsenal — One of the most frustrating aspects of the battle against spam over the last several years has concerned overly aggressive filters. You can be a perfectly innocent person sending a perfectly routine email, yet the spam filter …
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Lifehacker, Google Enterprise Blog, CNET News, GigaOM, Download Squad, ReadWriteEnterprise, eWeek and internetnews.com
