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Apple:
Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …
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Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Subscription Rules Raise Possible Antitrust Issues — Apple Inc.'s new subscription service could draw antitrust scrutiny, according to law professors. — Apple will allow magazines, newspapers and other publishers to sell subscriptions of varying lengths to users of Apple's popular iPad, iTouch and iPhone products.
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SAI, TechCrunch, Electronista and PE Hub Blog
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Is Apple Getting Too Greedy? Demands 30% Cut of In-App Subscriptions — After a lot of confusion earlier this year, Apple today finally clarified its rules for in-app subscriptions for magazines, newspapers, video and music. The rules are very straightforward: Publishers can continue …
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TechFlash, Think Vitamin, ZDNet, Reflections of a Newsosaur, The Register, GigaOM, Mixed Media, GMSV, Download Squad, RazorianFly and PadGadget
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple's Big Subscription Bet: Brilliant, Brazen, Or Batsh*t Crazy? — We all knew it was coming, but the details of the App Store subscription model, which Apple outlined today, are fascinating on a number of levels. Simply put: this is one of the boldest bets Apple has ever made. And it could backfire.
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SAI, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, TiPb and MacStories
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple's new App Store rules affect Amazon's Kindle — Amazon must remove link to Web e-bookstore from app, offer in-app purchases so Apple can take its 30% cut — Computerworld - Apple today unveiled the details of its App Store subscription plan, and confirmed that it will demand …
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TechFlash, @dsilverman, SlashGear and TUAW
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Rhapsody won't bow to Apple's subscription policy, issues statement
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Technologizer, @alexia and TUAW
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions
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PC World, AppleInsider, AppAdvice, MacStories and MacRumors
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Apple's new subscription policy means for news: new rules, new incentives, new complaints
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@dannysullivan, GigaOM and Faster Forward
Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg:
Nokia's Elop Only Put Microsoft Plan for Board Vote — Nokia Oyj executives put only the Microsoft Corp. option for vote at a board meeting on Feb. 10 after having studied three plans, Executive Vice President Mary McDowell said in an interview. — “We had presented three scenarios …
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broadstuff and Nokia Plan B
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks Microsoft, Symbian, MeeGo, and Windows Phone — We had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with the man who's arguably stolen the show here at Mobile World Congress this year — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop — to talk about everything …
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CNET News, Mobile Opportunity, WinRumors, PC World, Crave, DailyTech and Windows Phone Thoughts.com
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google's Schmidt: We Would Have Loved for Nokia to Adopt Android — Google would have loved Nokia to choose Android, and executive Eric Schmidt expressed hope that it might someday decide to do so, its partnership with Microsoft notwithstanding. — “I hope at some time in the future they will be …
Charles Wu / Facebook Blog:
A Better Mobile Experience — Every day, hundreds of millions of people access Facebook from their mobile devices to share and connect with the people they care about, whenever and wherever they want. As this number continues to grow, we want to make sure that everyone has a great experience regardless …
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ReadWriteWeb and VatorNews
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BBC:
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg answers mobile rumours
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, PC World and NBC Bay Area
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC Salsa and Chacha bring the dedicated Facebook button to Android (update: eyes-on)
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Engadget, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Bits, Switched, RazorianFly, Neowin.net, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, GigaOM, Gadgetell, Geek.com, Friending Facebook Blog, ReadWriteWeb, The Atlantic Online, NBC Bay Area, Computerworld, Crave, everwas, IntoMobile, Telegraph, The Next Web and Mobilized
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook's Phone Project Lingers, But It's None Of Those
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and pocketnow.com
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Is Microsoft Zune about to be Kinned? — Over the past few days, more and more Microsoft watchers are noticing that Microsoft execs seem to be making a deliberate effort to avoid using the Z (Zune) word. That avoidance has set off a wave of speculation. — Some pundits claiming …
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Digital Trends, I'm Just Being Manan, LiveSide.net, CrunchGear, SlashGear and WinExtra
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad Head Carolyn Everson — Apparently, it's not only in Google's pond where Facebook fishes for talent-the social networking giant has recruited Microsoft's global advertising head Carolyn Everson as one of its top sales execs.
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paidContent and The Seattle Times
Josh / Social Apples:
Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers - Updated — I just recently updated my iPhone to 4.2.1 thanks to the greenpois0n jailbreak. Yes, I jailbreak... and I'm proud of it. There are many benefits to jailbreaking your iPhone like SBSettings, Activator, Infinifolders, etc.
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TUAW, GigaOM, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, Techie Buzz, BlogsDNA, TiPb, AppleInsider, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, thinq_, The Next Web, MacDailyNews, The Loop, Shoutpedia, The Register, Softpedia News and Black Web 2.0
Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Clinton Pledges $25 Million for Net Freedom Fighters — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed on Tuesday to invest $25 million for developers to build tools that will let online dissidents get around “thugs, hackers and censors.” It's her attempt at giving teeth to the so-called …
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CircleID, The Atlantic Online, PC World, TechCrunch and NBC Bay Area
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Hillary Clinton's speech: Shades of hypocrisy on internet freedom
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Wall Street Journal
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook's Stranglehold On Mobile Time — Time spent on Facebook is pretty big on the desktop, but it's downright obscene for mobile, according to data from comScore looking at UK users. — ComScore reports Facebook's 7.5 million unique mobile users spent 2.5 billion minutes on its site in December.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, hypebot and The comScore Data Mine
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
PayPal Founder: Facebook Could Become One of the More Valuable Companies in the World — Max Levchin — Google VP of engineering and founder of PayPal and Slide — argues that Facebook will become a serious contender to become one of the more valuable companies in the world if it can “successfully replace core messaging.”
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Friending Facebook Blog and SAI
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Having A Bad Day: Bizarre “Blank Page” Is The New “Fail Whale” — Notice that everything's seemed kind of unusually quiet in the blogosphere all day ? From lagging tweets to the emergence of the new “@anywhere boosh” blank screen ("Fail Whale without the Whale") error …
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BlogPost and Runnin' Scared
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Near-Field Communication: Beyond Mobile Transactions — BARCELONA, Spain — Among the many buzz words — Androids, tablets, LTE — being tossed around the showroom floor here at the Mobile World Congress, there's one that I still haven't quite been able to wrap my head around.
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NewsGrange
Thomas Crampton:
Three Kingdoms of China's Internet — While China's Internet is already dominated by power players in a way that the US Internet is not, investment bank CLSA sees further consolidation through lose alliances. — A recent report by the investment bank describes the evolution of China's Internet …
Emil Protalinski / TechSpot:
Rumor: AMD is up for sale, Dell may be interested — As far as the stock market is concerned, Advanced Micro Devices may be up for sale. AMD's shares were significantly up yesterday, apparently on rumors that Dell is interested in buying the American multinational semiconductor company.
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Bloomberg, ITworld.com, ConceivablyTech, Geek.com, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, The Tech Report, Softpedia News and Tech Trader Daily
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
AT&T CTO Says Voice Over LTE Coming In 2013 — Verizon Wireless' successful attempt to make a call over its new 4G LTE network has won it attention and acclaim in the past week. The carrier says it will commercially launch the service, known as Voice over LTE or VoLTE, in 2012, in part to improve call quality for its customers.
