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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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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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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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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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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Inside Facebook's Next Billion Dollar Business
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CircleID:
New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN — The Board of ICANN today gave final approval to the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades — allowing the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This monumental decision will allow companies and organizations to turn their own brands …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
What The New ICANN Domain Names Mean For Google Rankings & SEO: Nothing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Now Your Embarrassing/Job-Threatening Facebook Photos Will 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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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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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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The Lulz Boat / @lulzsec:
Tango down - soca.gov.uk - in the name of #AntiSec
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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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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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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 …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Seesmic dumps BlackBerry: Start of a stampede? — Seesmic, a popular third-party Twitter client for desktop and mobile devices, today announced it would end support for BlackBerry handsets at the end of June. In a blog post today, the company shared the news, saying the reason for the decision is …
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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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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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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Investors Provide Millions to Risky Start-Ups — PALO ALTO, Calif. — What if you threw a $41 million party and nobody came? A start-up company called Color knows how that feels. — In March, Color unveiled its photo-sharing cellphone application — and revealed that it had raised $41 million …
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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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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.
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Miguel Bustillo / Wall Street Journal:
Best Buy Battles Over Use of ‘Geek’ — Retailer Fights to Protect Squad's Trademark; Putting Rivals—and a Priest—on Notice — Just a few decades ago, a geek was a carnival freak who bit the heads off of chickens and rats. — Then geek became a catchall word for socially maladjusted individuals …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google To FCC: Stop Letting The Voice Network Tail Wag The Internet Dog — The Internet carries nearly 160 times more traffic than voice networks in North America, yet many of the regulations and inter-carrier traffic fees are based on the quickly receding era when voice networks ruled.
