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Joshua Topolsky:
This is my next project — As you may have already heard (or read), there's some activity going on in the world of Joshua Topolsky. Earlier this evening, David Carr published a piece in the New York Times about a new project that I'm embarking on... and I want to just say a few things about it.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech Site, As AOL Zeroes in on New EiC — Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had left the huge tech site amid tensions recently, in order to start a new gadget property.
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New York Times, Guardian, VentureBeat, Nilay Patel, mediabistro.com, everwas, Geekosystem, SAI, @futurepaul, @benhuh, broadstuff, @danshanoff and @dannysullivan, more at Mediagazer »
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
10 Things That Simply Need To Be In iOS 5 — WWDC. It's like Christmas for OS X and iOS developers. Each year, they flock to San Francisco's Moscone Center, anxiously awaiting the pair of gifts that Apple annually bestows: the new iPhone, and a bundle of new features upon which they'll build their next big thing.
Daniel Bailey / ConceivablyTech:
Firefox 5: Social Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer, Tab Apps — Details about the next version of Firefox are slowly emerging. The browser will receive significant UI revisions and feature updates that will make Firefox more social and adopt several features that are already working well in Google's Chrome browser.
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The Tech Report, Yahoo! News, MacHackPC, Techie Buzz and Slashdot
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
How We All Missed Web 2.0′s “Netscape Moment” — (Editor's note: This is the third installment in a series about the late stage, secondary investing craze sweeping the venture capital business. For the first two installments go here and here.) — On May 26, 2009 Mike sat down with Yuri Milner …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft's Windows 8 recipe: Hint of Office, dash of Xbox, ounce of Windows Phone — Microsoft has already hinted that it wants to make Windows more like Xbox by supporting the Kinect sensor technology and adopting elements of the Xbox Live interface for Windows-based games.
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CNNMoney.com, Computerworld, Geek.com, WWWery, Mashable!, TechEye, Between the Lines Blog, TG Daily, Softpedia News, PC World, Windows 8 News, VentureBeat and Neowin.net
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 8 Explorer teases file syncing and web sharing
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Microsoft News, LiveSide.net, Download Squad, SuperSite for Windows, WinRumors, Windows 8 Beta and GeekSmack
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's Howard Stringer confirms Honeycomb tablet in US by summer — Ready for a taste of a sweet Honeycomb tablet with a Sony twist? You'd better be — Japan's Nikkei is quoting Sony chief executive, Sir Howard Stringer, saying that the company's first Android 3.0 tablet will be on sale by the end of summer.
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, SlashGear, Android Community and MacNN
B.L. Ochman / AdAge:
Most Fortune 50 Brands Still Hiding Their Social Media — Looking for Facebook or Twitter Icons on Corporate Websites? Keep Looking — Surely, as we head into the second quarter, the Fortune 50 — if not all big companies — are now at least involved in social media and want us to find them everywhere they have an online presence.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library — Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? — Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has derailed Google's bold plan to build the world's largest digital library and bookstore.
Mark Milian / CNN:
Why Nintendo isn't making a phone — Playing Super Mario on a Nintendo phone will remain a pipe dream. — Although Microsoft and Sony — Nintendo's rivals among the “Big Three” gaming companies — have branched into mobile phone development, Nintendo isn't planning to build a phone …
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's Larry Page must mend image of firm, self — Tackling Google's mounting public perception challenges should sit high on the “to do” list as co-founder Larry Page steps into the CEO role on Monday, observers say. — A series of antitrust probes, privacy blunders and regulatory slaps …
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Digital Daily, Guardian and @jason, Thanks:techchronicle
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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Larry Page set to take over as Google CEO starting Monday
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Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Google profile in China shrinking — BEIJING - A year after a public spat with Beijing over censorship, Google Inc. says its business with Chinese advertisers is growing even as the Internet giant's share of online searches in China plunges. — A major Chinese portal announced last week …
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Matthew Campbell / Bloomberg:
Vivendi to Purchase Vodafone Stake in SFR for 7.95 Billion Euros — Vivendi SA said it agreed to purchase Vodafone Group Plc's 44% stake in SFR for 7.95 billion euros ($11.3 billion), giving the French company full control of its largest unit. — Vivendi expects the deal to be completed …
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PC World, BBC and Wall Street Journal
