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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
IPhone May Cost Verizon $5 Billion in Subsidies in First Year — Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, set to get Apple Inc.'s iPhone this month after four years of waiting, may spend $3 billion to $5 billion to subsidize customer purchases of the device this year, cutting into profits, analysts say.
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Examiner, AppleInsider, paidContent, Electronista, MacNN, Pulse2 and Edible Apple
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Why I'm not switching to the Verizon iPhone: Need for speed — The image above says it all. It shows a screen capture of an actual speed test performed on an Apple iPhone 4 while connected to AT&T's 3G network in northern New Jersey. It is not an anomaly.
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Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Mobile Magazine, Network World, Crave and Scobleizer
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Verizon iPhone Hype Shown In One Image — I'm on a plane right now flying out to New York City. Why? Look at the chart above. That's pretty perfect visualization of what the entire world now expects tomorrow: the Verizon iPhone. — Apple's stock has surged over 5 points today.
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Cult of Mac
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon's iPhone: Here comes the fallout
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AppleInsider, Computerworld, Fortune and Open Source Blog
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's Verizon iPhone could ‘cannibalize’ 6.5M sales from AT&T
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Forbes, Fast Company and App Advice
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
AT&T Prepared for Loss of iPhone Exclusive
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Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, VatorNews, DSLreports, Obama Pacman and AppleInsider
Yahoo! News:
Steve Jobs to join Murdoch to unveil iPad paper — Rupert Murdoch will unveil News Corp.'s much-anticipated iPad newspaper onstage this month with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, The Cutline has learned. — The two media moguls will appear together at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art …
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Computerworld, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, Electronista, The Next Web, SAI, The Huffington Post and The Loop, more at Mediagazer »
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Day of The Daily: Murdoch's iPad Thingy Coming Jan. 19
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MacRumors, Crave, RazorianFly, AppleInsider, SlashGear, NewsGrange, Pulse2, CrunchGear, Electronista, App Advice, MediaPost, PadGadget, everythingiCafe and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel/NVIDIA bombshell: two rivals team up — Intel and NVIDIA have announced a six-year, $1.5 billion dollar technology cross-licensing deal that marks the end of a long patent dispute between the two chipmakers. On a conference call this afternoon, NVIDIA representatives described …
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AppleInsider, Examiner, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Fortune, Electronista, NewEnterprise, AnandTech, Between the Lines Blog, MacRumors, TechEye and eWeek
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard — ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it. — Twitter beta-tested a spine.
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FM Blog, Pluggd.in, techPresident and The Register
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Muglia's e-mail to the Microsoft troops: 'I'm moving on to new opportunities outside of Microsoft' — We've seen Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's January 10 e-mail to the troops about Server and Tools Business (STB) Unit President Bob Muglia's unexpected departure from the company.
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ReadWriteEnterprise, SAI, Forbes, Computerworld, The Register, Microsoft Watch, ConceivablyTech, The Microsoft Blog and V3.co.uk
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Arik Hesseldahl / All Things Digital:
Microsoft Server Business Head Bob Muglia To Leave This Summer
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The Next Web, SAI, Datamation, Pulse2, TechCrunch, internetnews.com and Reuters
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer — EXCLUSIVE: Sources date the next Android update — Google will release the next version of its mobile phone operating system, Android 2.4, in the summer, Pocket-lint has learnt. — According to multiple sources familiar with the matter …
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Examiner, Neowin.net, pocketnow.com, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile and Electronista, Thanks:stuartmiles
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz — If you've got an iPhone or Android device, there's a decent chance you're familiar with Bump, the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, Bump Blog and Mashable!
David Dahlquist / Macworld:
Kindle app gets side-loading, background downloading — Amazon has posted a major update to its free Kindle app for the iPad and iPhone. The version 2.5 update adds the ability to take advantage of iOS 4's multitasking abilities, adds support for millions of free books from various Internet sources …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kindle Comes To The Mac App Store, Already No. 5 Free App
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eWeek, The Apple Core Blog, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN and SAI
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars — Groupon has closed what 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 that Kleiner Perkins was also in the round.
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Business Wire, GigaOM, Digits, Venture Capital Dispatch, eMoney, VatorNews, Mashable!, Bloomberg, Bits, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, DealBook and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Most Interesting About Groupon's New Round? Who's Not In It
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VentureBeat
Ben D'Angelo / Google Code Blog:
Google URL Shortener gets an API — When we launched Google's URL shortener externally back in September, there was no accompanying API to allow people to integrate goo.gl into their applications and web pages. However, we said that we were working on one, and today we're happy to announce …
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ReadWriteWeb, Erictric, NewsGrange and The Next Web
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Who Came Out On Top At CES? — Now that the Consumer Electronics Show is over and all the vendors are breaking down their booths, we have one question - who won? — According to social media monitoring site RowFeeder, there was at least one clear leader when it came to the next generation of tablets …
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VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, Business Wire, Yahoo! News and Mark Ramsey Media LLC
Philip Rha / Facebook Blog:
The New Profile Is Here — Last month, we introduced the new profile, which now makes it even easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends. For the month of December, we gave people the option to upgrade to the new profile early, and hundreds of millions of you made the switch.
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All Facebook, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, Gearlog, iPhone Savior, The Next Web, Gawker and Computerworld
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
AMD CEO resigns; search on for new leader — AMD CEO Dirk Meyer will step down after reaching an agreement with the company's board over his departure, AMD said today. — Thomas Siefert, AMD's CFO, will fill Meyer's spot on a temporary basis as the company searches for a new CEO.
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Reuters, Forbes, AMD Press Room, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Digital Daily, Computerworld, Datamation, Between the Lines Blog, BetaNews, The Register, Electronista, Pulse2, Engadget and internetnews.com
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).
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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eMoney, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, GigaOM, SAI, TechCrunch, Mobile Marketing Watch, Pulse2 and MediaPost
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 …
