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Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple — Apple® today announced that Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Mac® Software Engineering, will be leaving the company. Craig Federighi, Apple's vice president of Mac Software Engineering, will assume Serlet's responsibilities and report to Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Between the Lines Blog, Mobilized, GigaOM, SAI, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacStories, Tech Trader Daily, Gearlog, Edible Apple, TUAW, Softpedia News and The Huffington Post
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
The Father of Mac OS X Is Leaving Apple — Bertrand Serlet, the guy who led the development of Mac OS X since its very beginning, is leaving Apple. He's one of the heavy weights at the company. More »
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CNET News, Macworld and WebProNews, Thanks:gizmodo
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox 4 doubles IE9's 24-hour download tally — Firefox 4 managed to double IE9's download total in less than 24 hours after its release. — Firefox may be under fire from Microsoft's newly competitive browser, but with more than twice the downloads in its first day, Firefox 4 today soared over its rival by one measurement.
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Engadget, GeekWire, VentureBeat, CNN, PC World, Digital Trends, Business Wire, TechCrunch, blogs.chron.com, USA Today, Web Browsers, Webmonkey, fredericiana, SAI, Gearlog, ITProPortal, TG Daily, TUAW and The Tech Herald …
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft uses IE9 promoted Tweet to infiltrate Firefox 4 Twitter search results
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Computerworld
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Plays To Its Strengths, Succeeds Brilliantly, With Lady Gaga Interview — As the battle for Silicon Valley engineering talent intensifies, it seems as if hot tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter have launched some sort of ridiculous competition as to who could can score …
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Gizmodo, WebProNews, Mashable!, Gearlog, The Next Web, SAI, CNET News, New York Magazine, BoomTown, @stevenjayl and NBC Bay Area
Michael DeGusta / The Understatement:
Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional) — Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:
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Gizmodo and The Equity Kicker
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
WSJ Launching Single-Issue Downloads For iPad
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Macworld, Pulse2, everythingiCafe, mediabistro.com, MacStories, Mobile Entertainment and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer! — As you're aware by now, earlier today Mozilla officially unveiled Firefox 4 to the world. At first glance, it's a great update with massive speed improvements. And that's good, because that's exactly …
Reid Hoffman / Greylock VC:
Ten Entrepreneurship Rules for Building Massive Companies — Last week I gave a talk at South by Southwest, and in it I shared my top ten rules for entrepreneurship. They are borne from my experiences starting companies and partnering with great entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley as an angel and a venture capitalist.
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Tech Europe and Howard Lindzon
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Publishers back Inkling's iPad textbooks — iPad textbook startup Inkling just announced that it has won financial backing from the two biggest names in the textbook business — McGraw-Hill and Pearson. — Founder and chief executive Matt MacInnis said Inkling's goal involves using …
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ReadWriteWeb, Bits, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Fortune, NetworkEffect, Xconomy and TeleRead
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung denies rumors of Galaxy tablet inventory buildup — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's No.2 handset maker, denied market speculation of massive inventory build-up in its Galaxy tablet on Wednesday. — Shares of the South Korean company have come under pressure recently amid market talk …
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PC World, Inquirer, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and Electronista
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's How Amazon Could Quietly Become A Huge Tablet Player — It would be foolish not to include Amazon on the list of potentially huge players in the tablet industry. — While the company is still only selling simple Kindle e-readers, Amazon has quietly built all the tools it needs …
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TechCrunch, SocialTimes.com, Daring Fireball, TomsTechBlog.com, Techland, ThinkMobile, InformationWeek, carpeaqua, Daring Fireball and Bits, more at Mediagazer »
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Groupon President and COO Rob Solomon Steps Down — Sources close to Groupon, the social buying site, said its COO, former Yahoo exec Rob Solomon, is stepping down from his job. — It's not clear what the reasons for Solomon's departure are, but the move seems to be sudden.
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WebProNews, Fortune, BoomTown, SAI, Wall Street Journal, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2, Reuters, Bloomberg and CNET News
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Windows Phone 7 Update Adds Copy and Paste Functionality — Microsoft is finally pushing out a software update for Windows Phone 7 devices dubbed NoDo, which brings copy and paste functionality among other minor improvements. Microsoft's revamped mobile OS has been missing copy and paste capabilities since its October launch.
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The Register, Tools, Pulse2 and WPCentral.com
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DigiTimes:
Motorola Xoom monthly orders to drop in 2Q11 — Taiwan's shipments of Motorola Xoom in the first quarter of 2011 are expected to meet upstream component suppliers' forecast of 700,000-80,000 units, as Motorola already placed orders for about 200,000 units for the first half of March and shipments …
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BGR, Crave, Android News, Rumours …, Gearlog, Pulse2, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, ThinkMobile, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Neowin.net, SlashGear and Fudzilla
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Anonymous And Ex-Anonymous Hackers Wage A War Of Identification — Anonymous and the group calling itself Backtrace Security seem to be engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured anonymity destruction. — As promised, Backtrace Security, a group of pseudonymous hackers formerly associated …
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
Sprint Plans Appeal to Congress to Halt AT&T-T-Mobile Deal — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse said the company plans to submit its concerns over AT&T Inc. (T)'s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA to Congress, saying the deal hurts the wireless industry.
Nicole Martinelli / Cult of Mac:
Breaking: Apple Pulls Christian “Gay Cure” App — It looks like Apple has responded to the outcry over an app from Christian group Exodus International aimed at “homosexual strugglers” by removing it from iTunes. — Some 145,000 people signed an online petition demanding it be removed.
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@alanmchambers, Edible Apple, App Advice, The Next Web, Slashdot and Guardian
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Prettier $200 Million Valuation — Flipboard, the high-profile and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, is out raising another round of funding at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, according to numerous sources close to the situation.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Facebook traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese ISP — Routing cockup most likely explanation — For a short time on Tuesday, internet traffic sent between Facebook and subscribers to AT&T's internet service passed through hardware belonging to the state-owned China Telecom before reaching …
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blyon.com and The Next Web
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
U.S. senators ask Apple to pull police-evasion apps — A group of U.S. senators is calling on Apple to remove applications that alert users to the presence of police and other law enforcement checkpoints that have been set up to combat drunk driving. — U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.) …
Justin Moore / Foursquare Engineering Blog:
Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style — Last summer, foursquare's employee count had grown a bit beyond our office capacity (as we surged towards 20 employees) and we had people sitting in whatever open space we could find. We were split between floors, parked on folding tables, and crammed into couches and loveseats.
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SAI, MarketingVOX, Pulse2 and ProgrammableWeb
Richard Esguerra / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
An Introduction to the Federated Social Network — Lately, EFF's work to protect rights and liberties in the online world has focused rather heavily on social networking sites and their policies. The logic is borne out by the numbers — Facebook and Twitter combined claim hundreds of millions …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and @caterina
DailyTelegraph:
Banning baby-faces from social site Facebook — ABOUT 20,000 children are kicked off Facebook every day for lying about their age, the social network site admitted yesterday. — Despite efforts to enforce the strict 13 years or older age limit some children still slip through the checks.
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The Huffington Post, Fast Company, All Facebook, Pulse2, NBC Bay Area, Geekosystem and Switched
Abigail Pesta / The Daily Beast:
A Blogger's Sex Slavery Drama — Last spring, the Internet lit up with rumors of a Manhattan blogger who saved two Russian college students from possible human trafficking. In an exclusive interview with the targeted women, Abigail Pesta reveals their terrifying ordeal.
