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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Exclusive: Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed! — Look what we've found! This is the first image you'll see anywhere of the early fruit of Microsoft and Nokia's budding new partnership. We have it on good authority that the technicolor phone on show is an early conceptual device produced …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIP: Symbian — This slide was just presented by Stephen Elop and Nokia CFO, Timo Ihamuotila, at Nokia's Capital Markets Day. Although there's no date listed, it's clear that Symbian — a “franchise” OS that Nokia will “harvest” — will be wholly consumed by Windows Phone on Nokia devices …
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Geek.com, VentureBeat, GeekSmack, ITworld.com, CNET News, internetnews.com, DailyTech and The Nokia Blog
Horace Dediu / asymco:
In memoriam: Microsoft's previous strategic mobile partners
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TechCrunch Europe, Nokia, PC Magazine, Digital Daily, WinRumors, Microsoft, FierceWireless, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, MSDN Blogs and Bink.nu
Eric S. Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:
The Smartphone Wars: Nokia's Suicide Note
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Forum Nokia Blogs, Communities Dominate Brands and PC World
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dear Nokia fans: you're nuts!
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GigaOM, Forum Nokia Blogs, BetaNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Wap Review, 9 to 5 Mac, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechFlash, SiliconANGLE, Pulse2, WPCentral.com, iClarified, Technology Review, AppleInsider and PadGadget, Thanks:kevinctofel
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Implications of Nokia's new strategy for the smartphone patent wars
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AppleInsider, The Windows Blog, Computerworld, CNET News, SAI and The Register
MG Siegler / parislemon:
Introducing The Microsoft Puppet
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Apple Outsider, PR Newswire and Pulse2
Matt Bencke / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
What the Nokia Deal Means for Microsoft Developers
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The Windows Blog, Download Squad, BetaNews, Epicenter, The Official Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs and eWeek
Rik Myslewski / The Register:
Intel defends MeeGo after Nokia defection
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, Internet Evolution, Notebooks.com, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch, i'm special and Fortune
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Apple Is Revamping Notification System For iOS [Exclusive] — UPDATE: I sent an email to App Remix's CEO Jonathan George asking whether his company was going to be bought by Apple. His response? “No comment...” he said. — Apple is working on a new notification system for iOS …
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TUAW, MacRumors, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Redmond Pie, Shoutpedia, MacStories, RazorianFly, iPhone Download Blog, TiPb, AppleInsider, ITworld.com, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac and everythingiCafe, Thanks:cultofmac
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
With 80 Million Users, Pandora Files To Go Public — Music streaming service Pandora has filed to go public. It could end up raising as much as $100 million. According to its S1 SEC form, for the first nine months of 2010 it lost $328,000 on revenues of $77 million.
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Pandora's IPO Filing: All The Long-Held Secrets You Want To Know — Pandora just filed to go public. — We went through the S-1. — OF NOTE — Proposed amount to raise is $100 million. — Revenue for the 9 months ended October 31, 2010 was $90.12 million.
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eMoney, ReadWriteWeb, Venture Capital Dispatch, Digital Trends, @stephenbove, Important If True and @stephenbove
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Who Will Make Millions When Pandora IPOs — Pandora just filed for an IPO. Revenues for the first 9 months of 2010 came in at $90 million. — Spin that forward to $120 million revenues, and a 10X valuation on massive (200%!) growth puts the company's worth over $1 billion.
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PR Newswire, mocoNews, VentureBeat, The Social, SFGate, GigaOM, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web, @tconrad, Music Ally, NBC Bay Area and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross' Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck — The number of companies in the Twitter ecosystem keeps contracting. But not for a necessarily bad reason, but because they keep getting purchased. And what's crazy is that it's largely one person who has been buying them up: Bill Gross.
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MediaMemo, @nichcarlson and The Next Web
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Ubermedia now controls 20% of tweets sent daily. here is how I feel: congrats to Bill and Iain. — Tweetdeck just got acquired by Ubermedia. 20% of the tweets sent daily are from Ubermedia apps with all the other Twitter clients acquired recently (Echofon, Twidroid and UberTwitter).
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paidContent and @loic
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Wael Ghonim: I'll go back to Google if I'm not fired — Katie Couric spoke with Wael Ghonim, Google's Middle East and North Africa marketing manager, on whether or not he feels Google will rehire him after his role in sparking Egypt's uprising. Here's the clip and Charles Cooper's take.
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John Bussey / Wall Street Journal:
How to Handle Employee Activism: Google Tiptoes Around Cairo's Hero — As the world marveled this week at the remarkable story of Wael Ghonim, the Google manager who helped organize a popular rebellion in Egypt, a great sigh of relief could be heard rising from much of the rest of American business:
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
AT&T says thank you to iPhone users with 1000 bonus minutes — AT&T is continuing to say thank you to their iPhone users who are sticking with them. Last week was a 20% off an accessory coupon and this week is a free extra 1000 rollover minutes. Some readers have sent in screenshots of the above …
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MacRumors, TUAW, MacDailyNews, Ars Technica, The Loop, Examiner, IntoMobile, Crave, RazorianFly, Gadgetell, CrunchGear, MobileWhack.com, BaltTech, Life On My Mobile, AppAdvice, Neowin.net, iLounge and @taylorbuley
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
HP TouchPad planned for June, priced at $699? — One of our sources has just provided us with new information surrounding the launch of the recently unveiled HP TouchPad. It's been communicated to us that HP is (or was — it's not clear if things have recently changed) planning on having the TouchPad in market before the end of June.
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Android Community, Electricpig.co.uk, Geek.com, Everything webOS, PhoneArena, SAI, PalmAddicts, Electronista and MacDailyNews
Julian Lee / The Age:
War looms as Sony hints that it will abandon iTunes — SONY has signalled it may withdraw its artists from Apple's iTunes store and withhold its games from the iPhone in a sign the two companies are on the brink of all-out war. Sony plans to open a competitor to iTunes …
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CrunchGear, AppleInsider, WebProNews, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, CNET News, TiPb, Apple Bitch, Business Wire, TUAW, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Examiner, Technologizer, RazorianFly, Pulse2 and Gizmodo Australia
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Abandoning iTunes Would Be SUICIDE For Sony Music
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Samsung 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet to debut at MWC — EXCLUSIVE: Tab two just days away — Pocket-lint sources have confirmed that Samsung will launch a Honeycomb-packing 10.1-inch tablet on Sunday night at the start of Mobile World Congress. — The new device will be thinner and lighter …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
MacBook Air ‘Sandy Bridge’ update expected in June — Apple is targeting a MacBook Air update for this summer that will include a move to Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, CNET has learned. — Initial shipments of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor were snafued on January 31 by a minor glitch …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft accuses former manager of stealing 600MB of confidential docs — New motion alleges Matt Miszewski took cloud computing strategic plans when hired by CRM rival Salesforce.com — Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday accused a former manager of taking hundreds of megabytes …
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NewEnterprise, The Next Web, WinRumors, Neowin.net and SAI
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
In A Step Back Towards V3, Digg Ending RSS Submissions For Publishers — In a step back towards the old Digg, Digg Product manager Mike Cieri just sent out an email to partner publishers stating the intent to remove the RSS submitted stories feature. For those of you that remember …
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