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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
AT&T Prepared for Loss of iPhone Exclusive — Another question to ponder on the eve of the iPhone's debut on Verizon: Now that its arch-rival has the device on which it once had an exclusive, a device that has done so much for its bottom line, how will AT&T respond? — Or, rather, how has it been responding?
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon's iPhone: Here comes the fallout — Verizon Wireless will finally get Apple's iPhone on Tuesday and the network and sales machine appears to be ready to roll. — But Tuesday is only the beginning. While the iPhone is an obvious boon for Apple and Verizon Wireless there are other ripple effects to consider.
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Open Source Blog, ZDNet and SlashGear
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple follows AT&T, drops official US iPhone 3GS price to $49 — Apple has quietly dropped the price of its entry-level 8GB iPhone 3GS to $49 with a new two-year contract with AT&T, matching the new low price that last week was offered exclusively by the carrier.
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Already Attacking Verizon iPhone: “Not Sure iPhone Users …
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Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless Confident It's Got Muscle for iPhone
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
End of an era: Bob Muglia is leaving Microsoft — The leader of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business goes out with a slap in the face. — In an executive e-mail released by Microsoft today, CEO Steve Ballmer revealed Bob Muglia's departure. The Microsoft veteran played an essential role building …
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Arik Hesseldahl / All Things Digital:
Microsoft Server Business Head Bob Muglia To Leave This Summer
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Muglia's e-mail to the Microsoft troops: 'I'm moving on to new …
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Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:
Square Raises $27.5 Million — Square Inc., the mobile payments service co-founded and led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has just closed a new $27.5 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital. — The funding, which also is set to include some strategic and individual investors …
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Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
Intuit takes a swipe at Square — Intuit's GoPayment is going freemium to battle Jack Dorsey's Square, but is the mobile payment pie worth fighting over? — The Intuit GoPayment reader — Intuit, best known for its Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax accounting software …
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan — TOKYO — Mark Zuckerberg. Who? — Mr. Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook chief executive and co-founder, may be the man of the moment in the United States and much of the rest of the online world. But here in Japan …
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Myspace Plans to Lay Off 550 to 600 Employees Tomorrow — Myspace, which has been struggling to revitalize itself, is expected to lay off 550 to 600 of its staff of just over 1,000 tomorrow, according to several sources. — NetworkEffect first reported news of the large-scale cuts at the end of December.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Goggles Can Now Read Print Ads. Oh, And Play Freaking Sudoku! — Of all the mobile applications that Google has come out with in the past couple of years, Google Goggles is definitely one of the coolest. You point your smartphone at any object, and Google attempts to figure out what it is …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Day of The Daily: Murdoch's iPad Thingy Coming Jan. 19 — Mark your calendars, media nerds. Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 is the day it all changes. Maybe. — That's the planned launch date for The Daily, the iPad-only publication News Corp. has been feverishly developing.
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DigiTimes:
Motorola expected to ship 700,000-800,000 Xoom tablet PCs in 1Q11 — Motorola, with assistance from Google, has showcased its new Android 3.0-based Xoom tablet PC and has placed orders for about 700,000-800,000 units with four color options for the first quarter of 2011, according to sources from upstream component makers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars — Groupon has closed the remained of that huge $950 million financing round which we first reported on in late December. They closed on roughly half of it then, from DST, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley. We then learned Kleiner Perkins was also in the round.
New York Times:
1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web — SAN FRANCISCO — Concerned by the wave of requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies, Google last year set up an online tool showing the frequency of these requests in various countries. In the first half of 2010, it counted more than 4,200 in the United States.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple AirPlay devices set to explode in 2011 — Although DLNA may have had a significant head start, the streaming media standard available on more than 9,000 devices is about to be challenged in a very big way by Apple's upstart AirPlay technology. At least it will be if Jordan Watters …
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Alexandra Topping / Guardian:
Twitter endorsements face OFT clampdown — Watchdog says online companies who did not disclose paid-for promotions by celebrities and bloggers were deceptive — How does a celebrity declare their affiliations to certain brands in fewer than 140 characters?
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BBC:
Microsoft investigates ‘phantom’ Windows Phone 7 data — Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has promised updates to the operating system soon — Microsoft has told BBC News that it is investigating why some handsets running its Windows Phone 7 software are sending and receiving “phantom data”.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Klout Lands $8.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Greycroft To Measure Social Influence — Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, has raised $8.5 million in new funding led by the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer recently launched sFund with participation from Greycroft Partners.
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New Zealand Herald:
Google billionaire buys Kiwi's superyacht — Sir Douglas Myers has lost his Senses: he's sold the 59m luxury superyacht to Google billionaire Larry Page. — The luxury motor boat sold last month to the Google co-founder after being listed on the boat international website for €35 million ($60.5 million).
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
EMI, Music Labels Rejected by High Court in Appeal of Song-Pricing Lawsuit — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the country's four largest music labels, refusing to block a suit accusing them of conspiring to fix Internet song prices. — Units of Sony Corp., Vivendi SA …
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Brad Sams / Neowin:
Microsoft is working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone [Update] — Microsoft had a solid CES appearance with the announcement of many new key products. But sometimes it's not what's said at the main events but in side conversations that can provide a peek into the upcoming products from the company.
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Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
PlayStation Phone captured in the wild, on video — Well, the leaks have been flying fast and furious: the presumed PlayStation Phone has been in the hands of folks for a hot minute, and now a video has popped up showing one lucky hombre playing Resident Evil 2 and Rage Racer on the device.
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