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The Official Google Blog:
Hide sites to find more of what you want — Over the years we've experimented with a number of ways to help you personalize the results you find on Google, from SearchWiki to stars in search to location settings. Now there's yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don't want to see.
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Google Now Lets You Block Sites You Don't Like Directly from Your Search Results
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AdExchanger.com, Fortune, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM, Post Tech, Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Epicenter and Download Squad
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Veteran Journos Out as AOL/HuffPo Cuts 900 Jobs — It's a bloodbath. — AOL, the beleaguered internet company, is cutting as many as 900 jobs, CEO Tim Armstrong announced Thursday, including as many as 200 editorial staffers in the United States. The layoffs, which were expected …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
NYTimes: When We Do It, It's Journalism, When HuffPo Does It, It's ‘Piracy’ — We regularly see established newspaper journalists look down on the world of sites that add value to news by assuming that aggregating, commenting on and providing context for news first reported by others is somehow a “lesser” product.
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All Things Digital, New York Times, New York Times, SAI and @gaberivera, more at Mediagazer »
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Amid 900 Layoffs, Just How Are AOL's Media Brands Doing? — Finance and Politics Daily Lead Declines While News and Tech Are Up — AOL laid off 900 employees, or around 15% of its work force today, the fallout from its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post in February.
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Wall Street Journal and PE Hub Blog
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
THE GORY DETAILS: Tim Armstrong's Layoffs Memo
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, MediaPost, PC World, Computerworld, BoomTown and Internet Evolution, more at Mediagazer »
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Apple changes purchases policy to protect kids on iPad, iPhone games — Apple said Thursday that it changed its policy for how purchases can be made within applications on the iPhone and iPad, an attempt to protect users, particularly children, from accidentally racking up iTunes charges.
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Liz Reaves Walker / The LinkedIn Blog:
Introducing LinkedIn Today — Staying on top of industry news is something we think matters for any professional whose success depends on being well informed. With all the news websites, blogs, tweets and newsletters out there, staying in-the-know can be time consuming and it's increasingly hard …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Today: A Social News Product For Professionals — Professional social network LinkedIn is holding a press event today to talk about the company's new product strategy. We're liveblogging the announcement. As we heard from Mrinal Desai, LinkedIn is expected to announce a new social news feature today.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook hits FCC in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB flavors — No surprises here, just the straight-up news that RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook is one small step closer to retail: it's gotten FCC clearance. Well, at least the WiFi-only version has — no sign of the WiMAX-capable version for Sprint yet …
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iGeneration Blog, MobileWhack, Erictric and wirelessgoodness.com
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
WiMAX throttling lawsuit: Clearwire can't deliver the goods — Wireless operator Clearwire has had a bumpy few months, and now things are getting worse. A lawsuit has been filed by 15 users over the company's throttling practices, accusing Clearwire of not delivering advertised …
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DSLreports and SlashGear
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow resigns
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CNET News, Mobilized, Computerworld, paidContent, The Seattle Times, Tech Trader Daily, PhoneDog.com and GeekWire
Nick Bilton / Bits:
If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products — Let us pretend for a moment that the year is 1997 and you're in the market for a new laptop computer. You want the top-of-the-line product at the time, so you opt for the newly released Apple Computer PowerBook G3 250 laptop.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon.com Slammed With Lawsuit Over Instant Search Patent — When you go to Amazon.com and start typing in the top search box, you will automatically see a number of search suggestions for items on sale before you finish typing your query. The company also offers such enhanced search …
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TechFlash, Pulse2, Marketing Pilgrim and GeekWire, Thanks:robinwauters
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New XML Standard for Super-Fast, Lightweight Applications Announced by W3C — From embedded sensors to high-frequency stock trading to everyday mobile web applications, the race is on for technologists to build the most efficient systems for quickly streaming large sets of data from one device to another.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Founder, Others Invest $42 Million in Angry Birds — We'd heard Rovio, the company behind the Angry Birds game franchise, was out in the market looking for cash, but never did we think that it would end up raising $42 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and Atomico, the venture fund started by Skype's co-founders.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Need Advice on What to Read? Ask the Internet — Netflix uses a software algorithm to recommend movies and Zappos uses one to recommend shoes. Now Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, is introducing an algorithm to recommend books. — Goodreads was started in 2006 for people who wanted to talk about books online.
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ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:blogfisher
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
The Billionaire Who Friended the Web — Tech's titans used to wonder about Yuri Milner. Now he's the guy everyone wants to copy. — It's 8 p.m. on a winter's night in Moscow. Yuri Milner steps into an elevator for the quick, quiet ride to his penthouse apartment.
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Google fires a shot at Foursquare with check-in rewards and titles [Updated] — It wasn't long ago that Google pulled the trigger by offering check-ins with the Latitude service. Now, the company is stepping up the game one more notch by offering rewards for those check-ins, starting in Austin for SXSW.
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Google LatLong, Screenwerk, Search Engine Land and Google Maps Mania
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Paul Graham: There's No Tech Bubble, Steve Jobs Is A Dictator — Y Combinator's Paul Graham just gave a pretty good interview on Bloomberg TV about startups and the tech industry. — Graham, on top of being really smart, is also the most likable guy in Silicon Valley and very witty, so it's always worth watching him.
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IDC:
Nearly 18 Million Media Tablets Shipped in 2010 with Apple Capturing 83% Share; eReader Shipments Quadrupled to More Than 12 Million, According to IDC — According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, 10.1 million media tablets …
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InvestorPlace, GigaOM, Engadget, Fortune, BetaNews, AppleInsider, Network World, MacRumors, CNET News, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, IntoMobile and The Loop
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPad 2 — I've been coming up empty trying to think of a hook for this review of the iPad 2 — an angle, a narrative structure, a theme to put it in perspective and make it more than a list of benchmarks and disparate observations. Then I realized I already wrote it, a year ago, in this back-page column for Macworld:
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Apple:
iPad 2 Arrives Tomorrow — Apple® today announced that iPad™ 2, the next generation of its magical device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading ebooks and much more, will be available tomorrow …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Availability Tomorrow: 1:00 AM Pacific Online, 5:00 PM Local In-Store
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Geek.com, GigaOM, The Toybox Blog and TiPb
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. — Once or twice a week, I get a letter taking me to task for Slate's commenting policy. The reader wants to tell me that I suck, but he doesn't want to log in to Slate's comment system using his credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter.
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Instapaper 3.0 Is Out: You Can Now “Follow” Other Users — Instapaper, the most popular “read later” tool for the web, iOS and Kindle, received a major update a few minutes ago that brings it to version 3.0 and adds a whole social layer to the app. In Instapaper 3. you can now follow …
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Instapaper Blog, TUAW, kottke.org, The Loop and The Next Web
Robert X. Cringely / InfoWorld:
Hackers unleash fake Google Android update — Symantec says the malware, which purports to be Google's latest security update for Android, sends SMS messages to a command-and-control server — Google's latest update for its Android mobile OS appears to already have been subverted by hackers …
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VentureBeat, CNET News, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo! News, Android Phone Fans and SiliconANGLE
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Dispatch from SXSW: Have Startups Become a Fetish? — Preparing for South by Southwest Interactive every year, I'm inundated with pitches for services (now they're apps when they used to be social or merely web-based products) that are fun, sometimes useful and generally something I wouldn't pay money for.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AdMob Founder Partners With Sequoia Capital On Next Venture: Churn Labs — In December I wrote about how some successful entrepreneurs are starting incubators in a post called The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker - “I'm hearing more and more about people who are simply setting up an office somewhere close …
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