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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why We Often Blindside Companies — A couple of weeks ago I apologized to the CEO of AdMeld for writing about their acquisition without even contacting him to let him know beforehand or ask for a comment. He wrote back “the call would have been nice.” — I know how frustrating …
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Caterina Fake / Caterina.net:
New Startup! — Entrepreneurs gonna entrepreneur. I have a new startup! We are building something consumer-facing, something social — all the things I love best — for optimal founder-market fit!. It's crazy times in the Valley and while I prefer doing startups when the going's tough …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Caterina Fake Raising $2M for New Social Start-Up — Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch and an investor in companies like Etsy, has a new start-up that she says will be consumer-facing and social. — She's raising what looks like a $2 million round, according to an SEC filing …
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Kellex / Droid Life:
Exclusive: Tiered Data Plans Headed to Verizon July 7, Packages Start at $30 for 2GB — We knew that July 7 was going to mark the beginning of something after Verizon extended out the free 4G hotspot promo one more time to the 6th, but what we weren't 100% sure of was if it would have to do with tiered data.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Consumers Don't Want Tablets, They Want iPads — A theory: Though consumers desire the iPad for the functions it performs, they want it more for what it is. Just as many preferred the iPod to the generic MP3 player, so too do they prefer the iPad to the generic “tablet.”
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Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:
Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web, built using HTML5 — We're committed to making SkyDrive the best place to get access to your content from anywhere, collaborate on Office docs, and share photos. Mike recently talked about how we're delivering access to your information seamlessly across devices - starting with Windows Phone.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
What The New ICANN Domain Names Mean For Google Rankings & SEO: Nothing — ICANN - the organization in charge of internet domain names - has approved plans that may create hundreds or thousands of new “top level domain names.” I've seen some reports already that this will help with search engine optimization.
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New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN
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Lauren Weinstein / Lauren Weinstein's Blog:
The Shame on the Internet: ICANN Votes to Massively Enrich the Domain-Industrial Complex
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others — For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook's musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Security Bug Made Passwords Optional For Four Hours — This morning a post on Pastebin outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password. In other words, you could log …
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Arash Ferdowsi / The Dropbox Blog:
Yesterday's Authentication Bug
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Foursquare Blog:
Wow! The foursquare community has over 10,000,000 members! — And, to commemorate this pretty crazy occasion, we put together a little infographic. Be sure to click through to see it bigger; if you're anything like us, watching the full-size animated map puts butterflies in your tummy.
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Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Now Your Embarrassing/Job-Threatening Facebook Photos Could Haunt You For Seven Years — These privacy sunglasses are seeming like more of a necessity — Last week, the Federal Trade Commission gave a stamp of approval to a background check company that screens job applicants based on their Internet photos and postings.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Huawei MediaPad revealed: world's first 7-inch Android 3.2 tablet, dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm CPU — It's here folks — the planet's first Android 3.2 tablet. Huawei just introduced a downright luscious new slate over in Singapore, with CommunicAsia being the launchpad for the 7-inch MediaPad.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
‘Reminder: Call Dad’ Is Another Notch In Google's Belt Of Social Fail — Google, Google, Google ... I don't know if it's that you just don't understand the intricacies of interpersonal relationships or if getting the social stuff right is just extremely difficult ...
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules. Who's Next? — Apple's new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu. But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier. — Here's the old version of the Hulu Plus subscription app for the iPad:
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Charles Newark-French / Flurry:
Mobile Apps Put the Web in Their Rear-view Mirror — Although the Internet entered the mainstream a mere 15 years ago, life without it today is nearly incomprehensible. And our use of the web has rapidly changed as well. In simple terms, it has evolved from online directories (Yahoo!) …
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
RIM is black-burying carriers with half-baked BlackBerrys — Launching new products is always difficult. Launching new products with hundreds of different carriers is exponentially more difficult. Apparently there is an easy way and a hard way to do things, however, and RIM has been making carriers offers they can't refuse.
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Electronista, MobileCrunch, Digital Trends, SlashGear and Gizmodo
Rick Osterloh / The Big Blog:
Skype Gets More Social with Deeper Facebook Integration — We are excited to announce the new Skype 5.5 Beta version for Windows, which enhances the user experience and features new updates to Skype based on user feedback. Skype is also continuing to bring people together whenever …
Thea / Groublogpon:
The Groupon Guide to the “Quiet Period” — At the bottom of each Daily Groupon feature, users can find Groupon the Cat, slouching majestically across a cloud of pure wisdom. Groupon dispenses ancient truisms that still have relevance to our modern lives, as evidenced by today's entry:
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Lulzsec and Anonymous Declare Open War Against All Governments and Fat Cats — Lulzsec and Anonymous have just declared full open war against all governments, banks and big corporations in the world. They are calling all hackers in the world to unite. Their objective is to fully expose all corruption and dark secrets:
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Officially Acquires “AirDrop” & Files for “Photo Stream” Trademark in Canada — On June 17, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published documentation relating to the legal transfer of the “Airdrop” trademark from Urban Airship to Apple. Urban Airship was only granted their certificate …
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Decide Launches An Electronics Shopping Service That Tells You When To Buy (And Wait) — Decide.com has been cloaked in stealth mode for nearly the last two years. During that time, the startup has remained tight-lipped about what it's been up to, while at the same time managing …
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Fred / A VC:
Financing Options: Customers — I wrote in an earlier post in this series that friends and family is the most common form of startup financing. If you are talking explicitly equity investments, then that is probably true. But the most common way that startup businesses get money to get going is they sell something to someone.
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Companies Push for Tax Break on Foreign Cash — Some of the nation's largest corporations have amassed vast profits outside the country and are pressing Congress and the Obama administration for a tax break to bring the money home. — Apple has $12 billion waiting offshore, Google has $17 billion and Microsoft, $29 billion.
