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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Leave — Whatever we expected, we all hoped we'd seen our last Steve Jobs medical leave. When the news went out this morning, there was a collective, wincing, “F**k.” — I'm not going to speculate about Steve Jobs's health, but I will speculate about Apple.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Apple Says Steve Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave — Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc., is taking a medical leave of absence, a year and a half after his return from a liver transplant, the company said on Monday. — Mr. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees …
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Joe Weisenthal / SAI:
Apple Is Rising In German Trading — Remember, you don't have to wait 5+ hours to get a quote on Apple. — It's trading in Germany right now, and after yesterday's big losses it's bouncing back (somewhat), currently rising about 2% from yesterday's close. — Here's where to get an Apple quote.
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New York Times:
A Deep Bench of Leadership at Apple
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Few Thoughts On Apple's 2011, Stock, Tim Cook, And The Future
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Everything You Need To Know About Tim Cook, Apple's COO
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam — Matt Cutts is the head of Google's anti-webspam team and tonight he came across what looks like a huge trove of scammy, spammy spam - on Facebook. And it involves Microsoft. Advertising publication AdAge reported tonight …
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Facebook Books $1.86B in Advertising; Muscles In on Google Turf — New Estimate From eMarketer Shows Majority of Social Network's Ad Revenue Comes From Small Businesses — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It turns out Facebook is a lot like Google after all. — As the social network steams past …
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Suspends Phone & Address Sharing Feature — Just before the weekend, Facebook announced that it would begin allowing third-party applications and websites to request that users share both their mobile phone number and address. Now, the company has said that it will be putting …
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
iPad 2 Rumor Roundup — The next version of the iPad is, if timing and supply line rumors are to be believed, just around the corner. Although unexpected delays may follow in the wake of Jobs' medical leave, the design must be finalized, and the factories in China are at this moment preparing …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Exclusive: Chinese supplier floating iPad 2 case with possible SD card and Mini DisplayPort — A Chinese accessory supplier is floating a new “iPad 2nd generation” case differing from previous designs shown at CES, with port openings that appear to be designed to accommodate a new SD Card slot …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes — Cheezburger, the internet publisher responsible for LOLcats, FAIL Blog, and other memes, has raised a whopping $30 million in new funding led by the Foundry Group with Madrona Venture Group, Avalon Ventures …
Jamie / The Official Netflix Blog:
Removing “Add to DVD Queue” from Streaming Devices — Hi there, it's Jamie Odell, director of product management at Netflix, with an update for members who add DVDs to their Queue from the device they use to watch instantly. We're removing the “Add to DVD Queue” option from streaming devices.
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Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Netflix Enrages Subscribers By Limiting DVD Queue
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Aaron Lucchetti / Wall Street Journal:
Goldman to Offer Facebook Shares Only to Non-U.S. Clients — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. decided to exclude U.S. clients from the private offering of as much as $1.5 billion in shares of social-networking company Facebook Inc., citing “intense media attention.”
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Joe Weisenthal / SAI:
The Facebook Fiasco Is A PR Disaster For Goldman Sachs, And Now …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix … Disgusted that a video rental store raked him over the coals for returning a movie late, Reed Hastings created Netflix. Seventeen million subscribers later, some people probably wish a clerk would have just refunded the man his 40 bucks.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone User? 90% Chance You're On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance — As a member of the media, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Nexus S running Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” a few weeks ago. It's great, easily the best version of Android yet. I hope one day soon you all get to try it out.
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Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Exclusive: Roku Lands Its First Cable Channel — Roku is expected to announce Tuesday an unlikely addition to its programming lineup: WealthTV. This will mark the first time a cable channel has joined the streaming device, which begs an obvious question: How is this even possible?
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store — Angry Birds and its variants have dominated the top ranks of iPhone games for the past year. But on Thursday, a game called Bubble Ball ousted Angry Birds: Seasons from the No. 1 spot on the App Store's top free apps list.
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
RIM: BlackBerry PlayBook Is Great Even Without A BlackBerry — One of the more unusual aspects of the upcoming tablet from BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is the fact that users need to synch their BlackBerrys to it to fully access their email, calendars and memos.
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Matt Warman / Telegraph:
10 per cent of users take 90 per cent of mobile data, say researchers — Video will take up to 60 per cent of all mobile data in 2011 thanks to a small minority, says new research — Just 10 per cent of all mobile phone users account for 90 per cent of all networks' data traffic, researchers have found.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft meets with Windows Phone 7 “unlocker” team … Microsoft has begun discussions with the ChevronWP7 team today. — Microsoft representatives met with Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng of the ChevronWP7 team on Monday to discuss the tool and Microsoft's plans to support homebrew applications on Windows Phone 7.
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Electronista:
Disney to have Android phone in Japan despite Apple link — Disney took an unusual direction in Japan with word it was launching its own smartphone using Android. The phone will be a rebadging of the Sharp Galapagos 003SH and will focus mostly on its inclusion of glasses-free 3D on the 3.8-inch display.
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