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5:40 PM ET, February 2, 2011

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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.
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.
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.
Discussion: BetaNews, The Register and Redmond Pie
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google Android 3.0 Event
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 …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Daily  —  Video tour of News Corp.'s new The Daily iPad app.
Discussion: TechCrunch and MacGazette.net
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 …
Discussion: MediaPost, 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 …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft adds H.264 support to Google Chrome
Discussion: Download Squad, Thanks:edbott
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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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.
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 …
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
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.
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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.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Senators decry link between Egypt, ‘kill switch’ bill  —  Three U.S. senators who want to give the president emergency powers over the Internet are protesting comparisons with the “kill switch” highlighted by Egypt's ongoing Net-disconnection.  —  In a statement yesterday …
Discussion: SlashGear, The Register and ABC News
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
News Corp. Has Given Up On MySpace; ‘Now Is Right Time’ For Sale  —  News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) is now definitely looking for a MySpace buyer.  —  “With a new structure in place, now is the right time to consider strategic options for this business,” COO Chase Carey told analysts.
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.
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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Kevin Systrom / instagr.am:
A Growing Team for the Opportunity Ahead
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).
Discussion: SAI and Macworld
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:   Details of Apple's paid-subscription model visible in iPad terms of service
 
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Phil Whelan / Phil Whelan's Blog:
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David Wolman / Danger Room:
Leading Egyptian Facebook Activist Arrested, Friends Say
Discussion: AOL News
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T adding an extra 2GB to phone tethering plans, launching …
Bloomberg:
Facebook, Twitter Valuations Fuel Trading Surge to $7 Billion
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Russell Adams / Digits:
Apple to Crack Down on Newspaper, Magazine App Payments
Joe Fay / The Register:
Norwegian MP nominates Wikileaks for Nobel Peace Prize
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Sean Portnoy / Laptops and Desktops Blog:
Computer companies scramble to deal with Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset defect
The Mozilla Blog:
New Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Faster than Ever
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Apple's In-App Rules: ‘Betrayed’ European Publishers Convene A Summit
Discussion: AppleInsider and Daring Fireball
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Quora Raises Questions
Discussion: MediaPost, The Quora Review and @pogue
Lior Ron / The Official Google Blog:
Google Hotpot now on Google.com and around the world
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule
 
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