Techmeme: Hulu: as TV landscape shifts, it's pass the potato (Andrew Nusca/Between the Lines Blog)

11:45 AM ET, June 27, 2011

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Apple to begin assembling iPhone 5 ‘in mid to late August’ — Apple will begin production of fifth-generation iPhones in August ahead of a projected late third quarter launch, according to intelligence obtained by by one investment banker's recent trip to Taiwan .

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Report: Apple is building two (!) iPhones for September release — An analyst expects Apple to launch both an iPhone 5 and a mid-range iPhone 4S — Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank — For much of the spring, the reporters who cover Apple (AAPL) have been arguing among themselves …

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BREAKING: Anonymous picks up where Lulzsec leaves off with new hack — BREAKING: With the notorious Lulzsec hacking group having announced its retirement yesterday, the Anonymous hacking group has stepped back into the fore. — The group Tweeted: Little teaser while we work on the actual release …

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BestBuy.com stops shipping MacBook Airs ahead of refresh (update: Amazon stock low) — We've known for many weeks now that a refreshed line of MacBook Airs is incoming, starting with rumors about Airs with Sandy Bridge processors way back then, our report that the current SKUs are constrained across …

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Felix Salmon / Reuters:

Skype's evil ways, cont. — The Skype/Silver Lake story is refusing to die, with Yun Lee's revelations bringing out the same anonymous investor-group sources defending Skype's actions. But if the defenders are comfortable in their anonymity, it seems only fair for me to share an anonymous email …

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Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
SKYPE SCANDAL: Here's How Big Bad Private-Equity Firm Silver Lake Sees The Situation

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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:

Companies Are Erecting In-House Social Networks — What would Facebook look like without photos of drunken nights out and tales of misbehaving cats? It might look a lot like the internal social network at the offices of Nikon Instruments. — The tone is decidedly businesslike …

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Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:

The Incredible Sinking Bubble (Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part III) — This post originally appeared as my closing argument in our debate in The Economist. — Technology stocks currently trade at an all time low vs. industrial stocks based on forward P/E ratios.

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

Hollywood studios ask High Court to block film website — Hollywood film studios will ask the High Court tomorrow to force BT to block its millions of broadband customers from accessing a filesharing website, in a test case that could make way for a clampdown on internet piracy.

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

GSV takes stake in Facebook, valuing it at $70 billion — (Reuters) - Investment fund GSV Capital Corp has taken a small stake in Facebook that values the world's No. 1 social networking site at about $70 billion. — The investment fund said on Monday it bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 per share.

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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Take that Netflix, HBO Go app sees big growth too — If you don't believe in cord cutting and that there isn't any competition between Netflix and cable programmers then you needn't read on. — If on the other hand, you at least see the potential for Netflix's meteoric growth …

Discussion: Media Maverick and Neowin.net, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines Blog:

Hulu: as TV landscape shifts, it's pass the potato — From the moment it first launched, Hulu has rapidly reimagined the way we watch television online. But those gains in popularity — and shifts in behavior — often came at the expense of the content creators who supplied it.

Discussion: CNET News, Betabeat, Wall Street Journal and MacNN

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