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Push Pop Press:
Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook — Last year Push Pop Press set off to re-imagine the book. We created a new way of publishing and exploring text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics, then teamed up with Melcher Media and Al Gore to create a new kind of book.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Facebook Acquires Interactive iPad Book Maker
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Digits, Good E-Reader Blog, Friending Facebook Blog and 9to5Mac
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's fifth-gen iPhone could be ‘bigger upgrade than expected’ — Sources in Apple's overseas supply chain have reportedly indicated that the company's forthcoming fifth-generation iPhone could be a more significant upgrade than previous rumors have suggested, sporting a larger display and thinner design.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Next iPhone in October? I'll stick to September - and here's why — Murmurings that the next iPhone won't appear until October are being echoed all around the web, but they don't fit the way that Apple operates - nor with the details emerging from carriers
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parislemon, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, MacPost, The Business Insider, AllThingsD and Electronista
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iPhone 5 to launch in October in Canada — BGR has reported on several occasions that Apple will announce its brand new iPhone 5 at the tail end of August with a September street date, though it looks like the company might make the iPhone 5 available a little bit later than that.
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WebProNews, I4U News, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com and MacPost
Shifty Jelly's blog of mystery:
Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core — About 3 months ago, we set off on a little experiment into the world of the Amazon App Store. Back then people were hailing it as the solution to the problems with the Google Market, industry pundits like Andy Ihnatko called it ‘An Excellent Work in Progress’.
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, SplatF, SocialTimes.com, mocoNews, Delimiter, Electronista, PadGadget, Hardware 2.0 Blog, IntoMobile and GigaOM
John Cook / Gawker:
Only 92% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake — Yesterday, we published an item based on a former Newt Gingrich staffer's claim that Gingrich assembled his 1.3 million Twitter followers—a number that he's taken to bragging about—in part by buying fake Twitter followers.
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PeekYou Blog, SiliconFilter, Mashable! and The Politico
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Rolls Out HTML5 Version Of Twitter.com For iPad — Because the stream of realtime palaver that is Twitter needed even more platforms to be consumed on even more devices, the company has just announced that it has started to roll out its HTML5-based Twitter.com for iPad …
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@twittermobile, 9to5Mac, Techie Buzz, MacStories and The Next Web
Timo Burkard / Google Chrome Blog:
Instant Pages on Google Chrome — A few weeks ago, we announced that Google's Instant Pages feature would be available to our Chrome beta channel users. Today, we're happy to let you know that Instant Pages is on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome.
Rick Osterloh / The Big Blog:
Skype Now Optimized for your iPad — Since the introduction of Skype for iPhone with video calling on New Year's Eve 2010, we've seen growing demand for a Skype app for the iPad. — The wait is over, as today we launched Skype for iPad now available for download in the iTunes App Store.
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AllThingsD, Voice on the Web, Skype Journal, VentureBeat, Gear Live, Computerworld, Communications …, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, USA Today, IntoMobile, Lifehacker, CNN, Technologizer and Telecompetitor, Thanks:beet_tv
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Hands-on with the Skype iPad app that came and went (and came back again)
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AppScout, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TUAW, SocialTimes.com, Epicenter, TiPb, Computerworld, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Appolicious Advisor, eWeek, iThinkDifferent, InfoWorld, MediaPost and MobileSyrup.com
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FiOS dominates as FCC measures actual Internet speeds — For the first time ever, the FCC has collected data (PDF) showing real-world speeds that Americans receive from their Internet providers. And the news is pretty good! Or, perhaps, it's pretty bad! — Advocacy group Free Press blasted the results, released today.
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Technology Review, Electronista, CableTechTalk, CNET News, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Light Reading, PC World, ITworld.com, SiliconFilter, BetaNews, MediaFile, The Hill, SlashGear, Digital Trends, @fcc, reddit.com, Slashdot, Telecompetitor and DSLreports
Bloomberg:
Google Hires Federal Trade Commission Intellectual Property Expert Michel — Google Inc. (GOOG), under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for its dominance of Internet searches, has hired one of the commission's top intellectual property officials, Suzanne Michel, the company said.
Thanks:beet_tv
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Buzz Moody / Ausdroid:
Samsung Australia's official comment on Apple's complaint to the Federal Court, Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be sold in AU
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Know Your Cell, TUAW, Geek.com, Network World, DailyTech, CNET News, Softpedia News and Between the Lines Blog
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
U.S. Regulators Agree to Investigate Apple's Patent Claims Against Samsung
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USITC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Electronista, Sammy Hub, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News and Shiny Objects
Chris / cdixon.org:
What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn't need) — Here's what I think NYC needs to become a serious, long-term startup hub: — 1) Some extremely successful startups. We need PayPals - companies that spin out boatloads of talented entrepreneurs and “smart money” angel investors.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Sprint's Galaxy S II dubbed ‘Samsung Epic Touch 4G,’ launches in September — We know we don't have long to wait before Samsung's wildly popular Galaxy S II smartphone launches stateside. It's also a pretty safe bet that the sleek smartphone will reach all four major U.S. carriers considering how popular the original Galaxy S was.
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GottaBeMobile, Know Your Cell, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans and Electronista
EJ / Around The World and Back Again:
How I feel today — I imagine many of you are wondering how I feel today, having read the statement that Brian Chesky posted yesterday on his Airbnb blog. I thought I might best explain my reaction here, in my own words. — When I originally wrote my story, I did so as a personal account …
@twitter:
If you're currently using Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you'll be upgraded to New Twitter this week. http://t.co/8dfSGdV
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CNET News, Search Engine Land, Social Business Blog, Mashable!, Gizmodo and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
Fred / A VC:
Are Real Names Required For Real Socializing? — Over the weeekend my friend Jeff Jarvis and I had a twebate about this topic. You can see it in action on storify thanks to David Connell. — I'm all for real names if people want to use them. I use “fredwilson” on every web service I can and that is almost all of them.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, @kevinmarks, @kevinmarks and @howardlindzon
Timothy Hay / Venture Capital Dispatch:
ZocDoc Staff Gets $50M Surprise From DST Global's Yuri Milner — One way to tell you work at a successful start-up company is when one of the founders of Russian venture firm DST Global appears at your quarterly meeting and says he is giving the company $50 million to continue disrupting the status quo.
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CNET News, The ZocDoc Blog, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Quintura blog, Guardian, VentureBeat, VatorNews and Betabeat
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Ticket Monster's Daniel Shin Talks About Sale of South Korea's Biggest Deals Site to LivingSocial (Video) — As luck would have it, I was in South Korea this week and was able to talk to Daniel Shin, the CEO and co-founder of Ticket Monster, this country's largest social buying site, which was acquired by LivingSocial yesterday.
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
T-Mobile wades into mobile payments — T-Mobile USA inched into the mobile payments arena today when it said it would allow customers to purchase goods and services through their phones. — The carrier said it would extend its carrier billing to digital content such as music and games …
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BGR, TechCrunch and Android Phone Fans
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Ning Is Being Shopped Around at $150M Price Tag — According to multiple sources close to the situation, Ning has been talking recently to a large pool of companies about selling itself, including Google and Groupon, as well as to a number of private equity companies.
Pierre Lebeau / The Official Google Blog:
Calling from Gmail now in 38 languages, with lower rates to over 150 destinations — We're always trying to make it easier for people to connect—whether that means sending an email, chatting or video chatting, you can reach the people you care about from right inside Gmail.
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App Advice, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Next Web, WebProNews, Electronista, SocialTimes.com, Disruptive Telephony and SlashGear
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Turntable.fm Picks Union Square Ventures as Investor Over Kleiner and Accel — In a room of bobbing avatars, “Radiohead” takes on new meaning. — While the legal paperwork is still being finished, Betabeat has learned from multiple sources that Union Square Venture is the big new investor in Turntable.fm.
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The Business Insider, VatorNews, AllThingsD and VentureBeat, Thanks:betabeat
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Federal court to order film service Zediva shut down — Zediva, the video service that attempted to build a business by exploiting loopholes in copyright law, suffered a serious setback today when a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the service.
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Engadget, Ars Technica, Technologizer, DSLreports, GigaOM, Techdirt, ReadWriteWeb, OUT-LAW News, Plagiarism Today, VentureBeat, paidContent and TechCrunch
David Cohen / TechStars:
TechStars on Bloomberg TV — Startups are hard. In fact to many people, they're just a mystery. One of our goals at TechStars has been to demystify what it's like to be a startup founder or investor. Over the years we have been working on helping tell these stories through being as open source as possible.
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Business Insider, TechFlash, Learn to Duck and Mass High Tech
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple hiring iWork web developer as it preps iOS 5 and iCloud support — Apple has posted a new engineering position on its iWork team to “build the front and/or back end of scalable web applications,” indicating an expansion of the company's existing iWork.com and future iCloud offerings …
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The Register, MacNN, SlashGear and The Next Web
