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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700) — When we stumbled upon an $800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when? Well, that call has now been answered by an internal Best Buy document that's …
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Why I Don't Buy the Quora Hype — Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don't claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the success or failure of Quora.
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Hacker Shows It Doesn't Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki - Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick — Qwiki is an app that creates pretty slideshows based on Wikipedia entries. The service won the top award at the last Techcrunch Disrupt conference and just received $8 million in new funding …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A To Do List For Google's New CEO Larry Page — Welcome back, Larry! When you were last CEO of Google in 2001, the company was a much loved scrappy underdog with a bright future. Ten years later, you're coming back to the helm. Things have changed. You're soon to be steering …
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Quora:
What should Larry Page focus on now that he is CEO of Google? — 25 Answers — Robert Scoble — I would focus the company on a few key projects: 1. Make Android a real usability leader, not just a marketshare leader. I've been using Android a lot lately, and it simply isn't as nice as iPhone or, even, Windows Phone 7, in usability.
Zee / The Next Web:
Sean Parker: The Social Network is a complete work of fiction — Sean Parker and Paulo Coelho's two man panel at DLD raised a number of interesting points about the future of content but it was Coelho's question to Parker on his thoughts on the The Social Network, that grabbed everyone's attention.
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
$10K iTunes Winner Hung Up On Apple, Thought It Was a Prank [Exclusive] — Gail Davis of Orpington Kent hung up the phone when Apple called to say she'd won a $10,000 iTunes gift card. She thought it was a prank call. — The winner of the Apple's 10 billionth App download sweepstakes nearly …
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Trudy Muller / Apple:
Apple's App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple's new ‘two is better than one’ iPhone ad promotes Verizon, AT&T — Just days after Verizon launched its first iPhone ad, a new TV spot from Apple for the iPhone 4 highlights both Verizon and AT&T with the pitch “two is better than one.” — Set to the iconic Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Verizon iPhone 4 costs $50 more than AT&T iPhone 4 off contract
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Jason Calacanis Starts Promoting Mahalo 4.0 “Pivot” — Jason Calacanis is launching “Mahalo 4.0” on Tuesday, he just said on Quora, “our pivot from human-powered search to....... :-)”. — In other words, Mahalo, his startup, is shifting focus again. — To what? Good question.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry — For years The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the music industry, but things could be about to take a turn for the worse. Over the past days rumors of a new project titled “The Music Bay” have been circling …
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PC Magazine, The Next Web, THINQ.co.uk, Erictric and p2pnet
Paul McMahon / TokyoDev:
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn — A couple of weeks back, an article Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However, Gree and Mobage-town market themselves more as social gaming platforms …
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google May Let You Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam — Ready for do-it-yourself spam fighting? Google has discussed giving searchers the ability to remove domains from its search results. That's according to Matt Cutts, Google's top spam fighter, who's been posting frequently …
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