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Eric Chu / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the Android Market website — Over the past two years, developers around the world have helped make Android Market the go-to place for more than 100,000 apps, games and widgets. Previously, you could only access Android Market directly from your device, but today …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google (Finally) Unveils Android In-App Purchasing; Disney Brings Tap Tap Revenge To Take Advantage — Today at their Honeycomb event at the Google HQ in Mountain View, Google had a lot of information to share. First, they gave a demo of the new Honeycomb features. Then they shared the new Android Market Webstore.
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VentureBeat, Bits, mocoNews, Examiner, Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM, Gadget Lab and MarketingVOX
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Android Honeycomb features: smartphone apps will work on tablets without modification, built-in video chat — At Google's live Android event, Andy Rubin has just announced some exciting new features present in Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Most notably, all apps built for Android phones will work on Android tablets without being modified.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, T3.com News, FT tech hub, PC World, Techie Buzz and BGR
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Honeycomb Puts Android 3.0 Tablets On Nearly Equal Footing With iPad — This morning Google showcased the features of its new tablet-optimized version of Android: Honeycomb. Danny live-blogged the press event, — Honeycomb represents a dramatic improvement over Gingerbread for tablets in several respects.
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BetaNews, Computerworld and The Register
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Unveils Android Market Webstore. It's Already Live! (Well, Live-ish)
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Google Operating System, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, CNET News, Mashable! and IntoMobile
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google Android 3.0 Event
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Fortune, The Register, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Mobilized, TechCrunch, SAI, Engadget, Rob Hof's Blog, Gizmodo, Electronista, Gizmodo and Ars Technica
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Apple and News Corp's “The Daily” Hits the iPad for $0.99 Weekly, $40 Yearly [Video] — The media world has been impatiently waiting for Apple's iPad daily newspaper, built as a collaboration between Steve Jobs' company and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for months.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
All The Daily Details — This morning we got all the details on Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper, leaked by Rupert himself. Now, the app is ready for download. $40 will get you a subscription to 365 days of these contents: • Over 100 pages of original news, life, entertainment …
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The Register, Macworld, Nieman Journalism Lab, Examiner, SAI, Technologizer, MacStories, AppleInsider, Inquirer, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Poynter, Digital Daily, Between the Lines Blog, App Advice, Mixed Media, 9 to 5 Mac and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:gizmodo
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
News Corp has spent $30M on The Daily iPad newspaper
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard and TechCrunch
The Daily:
Introducing The Daily — Today Rupert Murdoch, Chairman …
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NewsGrange, virtualeconomics and Black Web 2.0, more at Mediagazer »
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Daily — Video tour of News Corp.'s new The Daily iPad app.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
The Empire Strikes Back: Microsoft Goes After Google on Web Video Formats — The war between Google and Microsoft is clearly heating up. — After being accused of copying Google's search results on Tuesday, Microsoft is now going after Google, accusing it of injecting inconsistency …
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Neowin.net, Gearlog and Electronista
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MSDN Blogs:
HTML5 and Web Video: Questions for the Industry from the Community — A Web without video would be a dull Web and consumers, developers and businesses want video on the Web to just work. As an industry we know this and have, until recently, been on a path to make this a reality with HTML5 …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, Daring Fireball, iClarified, SlashGear, Engadget, MacDailyNews and CNET News
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft adds H.264 support to Google Chrome
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Ars Technica and Download Squad, Thanks:edbott
Claudio Caldato / MSDN Blogs:
Greater Interoperability for Windows Customers With HTML5 Video
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TechFlash, The Register, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Techie Buzz
Yusuf Mehdi / Bing:
Setting the record straight — I was unable to attend the Farsight conference yesterday but watched events unfold online and wanted to take a moment to share some thoughts and make sure everyone is clear about a few things. — It was interesting to watch the level of protest and feigned outrage from Google.
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SAI, Search Engine Land, CNET News, The Next Web, @dannysullivan, Electronista and Search Engine Journal
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Daniel Eran Dilger / Roughly Drafted:
Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data? — The tech world seems to be briefly transfixed by the skirmish between Google and Microsoft, not over patents or profits but over accusations that Bing is using Google's search results to improve its own.
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eWeek, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal and @scepticgeek
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google vs. Microsoft over search results: Top takeaway is Bing matters
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Digits, BBC, Technology Review, Digital Trends, E-Commerce Times, Mashable! and TechCrunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No. — Yesterday we reported on Path's new $8.5 million venture round, led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures. I was curious about the valuation and pulled on a couple of threads. What unraveled was a stunning story about a startup …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, @fredericl, GigaOM, @peterrojas, @danprimack and @caro
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Returns To The Internet — Egyptian Internet providers returned to the Internet at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29am Cairo time). Websites such as the Egyptian Stock Exchange, Commercial International Bank of Egypt, MCDR, and the US Embassy in Cairo, are once again reachable.
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Shereen El Gazzar / Wall Street Journal:
Egypt Restores Internet Service — The Egyptian government restored Internet service to the country Wednesday, ending an unprecedented week-long shutdown aimed at making it harder for protesters to organize. — In the end, the shutdown proved less an impediment than a source …
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@google, Arbor Networks Security, The Firewall, @mishahali, BBC, Engadget, Fortune, @bencnn, DSLreports, FT tech hub, Post Tech, Netcraft, TechEye, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, The Register, @bbcworld, dailywireless.org and Epicenter
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Exclusive: iPad 2 screen, fresh from China — With the help of the iFixYouri iPhone 4 repair shop, we have been able to acquire what we believe is an iPad 2 LCD, fresh out of China. At this point, we cannot tell if the resolution is higher (or “Retina") but it is definitely higher quality in terms of its build.
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App Advice, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, O'Grady's PowerPage, Cult of Mac, Computerworld, Redmond Pie, Thoughts from the Sidelines, IntoMobile, Gearlog and TiPb, Thanks:sebastienpeek
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
IAC's Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid For $50M In Cash — IAC's Match.com is continuing its acquisition strategy today with the purchase of online dating site OkCupid for $50 million in cash. The deal also includes future earnouts contingent upon performance.
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Apple:
iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless Available for Pre-Order Tomorrow — Apple® today announced an exclusive opportunity for Verizon Wireless' 94 million customers to pre-order iPhone® 4 online beginning on Thursday, February 3 through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) and at www.verizonwireless.com/iphone.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
One-Click Subscriptions Come To the iPad — Apple exec Eddy Cue announced today at The Daily launch, as expected, that Apple will be enabling subscription pricing for news apps. There will be one-click subscription billing either weekly (99 cents) or yearly ($39.99).
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Instagram Filters Through Suitors To Capture $7 Million In Funding Led By Benchmark — There have been few startups that have gotten as hot as quickly as Instagram. The photo-sharing application for the iPhone surged past 100,000 users less than a week after they first launched.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, Business Week, SAI and VatorNews
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Kevin Systrom / instagr.am:
A Growing Team for the Opportunity Ahead
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, mocoNews, NetworkEffect and Xconomy
