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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
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Pegatron to begin shipments of iPhone 5 in September — Pegatron Technology has landed orders for 10 million units of iPhone 5 to become the second ODM of the smartphone. Shipments will start in September, according to industry sources. — As iPhone gross margins are relatively small …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista
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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.
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
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.
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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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, SplatF, PadGadget, Delimiter, mocoNews, SocialTimes.com, GigaOM, IntoMobile, Hardware 2.0 Blog, ChannelAndroid.com and parislemon
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!, The Politico and Slate
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, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Techie Buzz, MacStories and Electronista
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Groupon Clones Struggle to Compete, but Are Ripe for Acquiring — While daily deal clones may not have a chance competing against the giants in the space, they still have a good chance of being sold. — A study by the 451 Group's M&A KnowledgeBase found that so far this year …
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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.
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.
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9to5Google and L.A. Times Tech Blog, Thanks:beet_tv
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, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena and Electronista
@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, @dsilverman, Mashable!, Gizmodo and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
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, Skype Journal, Epicenter, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Voice on the Web, CNN, PC World, Computerworld, GigaOM, Technologizer, Lifehacker, Communications …, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Telecompetitor, USA Today, Gear Live, Gadget Lab, Seattle Times, TechnoBuffalo and GeekWire, Thanks:beet_tv
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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Electronista, CableTechTalk, GigaOM, Light Reading, Technology Review, PC World, The Hill, SlashGear, Digital Trends, @fcc, CNET News, ITworld.com, reddit.com, Slashdot, Telecompetitor, TechCrunch, MediaFile, SiliconFilter, DSLreports and BetaNews
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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Adrian Croft / Reuters:
UK to legalize private copying of CDs: source — (Reuters) - Britain will signal on Wednesday that it intends to legalize copying of CDs or DVDs onto digital music players or computers for personal use, a government source said on Tuesday. — The move was one of the recommendations …
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BBC, Engadget, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Electronista and SlashGear
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 …
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VentureBeat, CNET News, Gawker, Betabeat and Marketing Pilgrim
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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MacRumors, The Register, Engadget, MacNN, The Next Web and SlashGear
Pierre Lebeau / Gmail 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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eWeek, App Advice, Engadget, WebProNews, Electronista, SocialTimes.com, Disruptive Telephony, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SlashGear and 9to5Google
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Janrain Raises $15.5M for Social Log-ins — Managing online identities used to be a niche cause full of acronyms and hypotheticals, but now that the Web is getting more personalized it's obvious how integral this topic is — witness the recent debate about Google+ and Facebook requiring real names versus allowing anonymous usage.
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VentureBeat, GigaOM and Oregonian
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
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza — For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits …
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CNET News, Reuters, Reuters and Vanity Fair
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, OnSwipe Company Blog, The Next Web, Pulse2, TechFlash, Mass High Tech, The Business Insider and Learn to Duck
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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TechCrunch, The ZocDoc Blog, CNET News, VatorNews, Quintura blog, Guardian, VentureBeat, VatorNews and Betabeat
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.
