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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Seeking Street Cred, HTC Investing $300 Million in Beats Electronics — Taiwanese cell phone maker HTC is making a strategic tie-up with Beats Electronics, investing $300 million in the digital sound company and working to incorporate Beats technology into its product line.
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Can HTC's $300M Stake In Beats Electronics Crack Apple's Music Stronghold?
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Gadget Lab, Pocket-lint and AllThingsD
Joe Brown / Gizmodo:
Gizmodo Officially Not Being Charged in iPhone 4 Case — The District Attorney of San Mateo County is moving forward in the case of the iPhone 4 prototype we posted about last year. Fortunately, nobody from our team is being charged. — Here's our parent company, Gawker Media's official statement on the matter:
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CNET News:
Prosecutors file charges in prototype iPhone case
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Gizmodo ‘not motivated by financial greed’ in iPhone case, D.A. says
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams — Since its inception, content on Twitter has largely been displayed in the same basic manner. That is a linear, reverse chronological stream of Tweets. Two new sections being added to the service are about to change that.
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Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
Amazon's Cloud Reader Still Doesn't Take the Web Seriously — Late on Tuesday, Amazon deployed its new Cloud Reader, a multiplatform HTML5 web app for reading and buying Kindle e-books in a web browser. Wednesday morning, the company issued a press release about the new product …
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Kindle Review and eHomeUpgrade, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Media Companies Play With Steve Jobs's New Rules: Give In, Go Around or Compromise
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Hands-on with Kindle Cloud Reader: can it replace a native iPad app?
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Inquirer, The Register, ReadWriteWeb, Examiner, TechCrunch, TUAW, Gadgetwise, This is my next, everythingiCafe, Techie Buzz and BetaNews
Wall Street Journal:
FTC Focuses Probe on Android, Web Search — Federal Trade Commission officials are focusing their antitrust investigation on several key areas of Google Inc.'s business, including its Android mobile phone software and Web search related services, people familiar with the probe say.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Silicon Valley's Undertaker: 'We're Anticipating a Major Fallout' — As longtime readers know, we occasionally like to check in with Sherwood Partners in Palo Alto, long known to industry insiders as “the undertaker” because its primary role is to efficiently shutter companies.
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Paul Ducklin / Naked Security:
LinkedIn ‘does a Facebook’ - your name and photo used in ads by default — I'm not a LinkedIn user - at least not yet, though I suspect that like many of my friends and colleagues I may eventually feel compelled to “be there or be square”. As a non-user I haven't been tracking changes …
Sean Hollister / This is my next:
HP TouchPad gets permanent $100 price cut: $399 for 16GB, effective now — HP execs told us they would stop at nothing to be #2 in the tablet space, and this last weekend the company offered some deep discounts on its flagship HP TouchPad to get the ball rolling.
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
TouchPad Go, HP's 7-inch webOS tablet, hits FCC
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Cliff Kuang / Co. Design:
Infographic Of The Day: Google's Hotel Finder Is D.O.A. — Travel booking, more than most industries, is primed for a game-changing disruption. Consider: Orbitz, Travelocity, and Hotwire have all merely rearranged the deck chairs on a pretty crappy user experience.
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple reportedly turns to Samsung after LG's iPad 2 panels experience issues — Apple has reportedly suspended new orders for iPad 2 panels with LG Display and move to rivals Samsung and Chimei Innolux after the display manufacturer's recent shipments to Apple experienced quality issues, Digitimes has revealed.
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Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, PadGadget, iThinkDifferent, iGadgetsReport, BGR, 9to5Mac and Electronista
John Anderson / Hornell Evening Tribune …:
Ceglia, Facebook claimant from Wellsville, in Ireland to avoid Zuckerberg investigators — The whereabouts of Wellsville's Paul Ceglia is again an international story as two newspapers in Ireland are reporting he is in Galway while his Facebook ownership lawsuit plays out.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and Gawker
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
Sony WhiteMagic LCD boasts 50% power reduction coupled with a much brighter display — Sony has today announced a new 3-inch display it aims to bring to both cameras and smartphones. The display, going by the name of WhiteMagic, boasts a 50% reduction in power compared today's small LCDs …
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Engadget, Sony Global, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, OhGizmo!, Gizmodo, DisplayBlog and SlashGear
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: How the London riots showed us two sides of social networking — I watched in disbelief, horror, and dismay as news broke of Londoners laying waste to their—and my—city. My part of South London, Tulse Hill, escaped the riots, probably for want of anything to steal …
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Guardian, The Next Web, TechCrunch Europe, BBC and iPhone Alley
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Skype On Google Voice: We Never Said We'll Be The Cheapest — Google recently expanded calling through Gmail via Google Voice, amping up competition with Skype — Google's phone service, Google Voice, has been regarded as a Skype competitor since its 2009 launch because of its desktop …
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VentureBeat, WPCentral.com, PhoneArena, Inside Facebook and NBC Bay Area
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intel Capital Launches $300M Ultrabook Fund To Invest In Tablet Technologies — Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corporation, has announced a $300 Million Ultrabook Fund to fund technologies that will help deliver new and enhanced user experiences, longer battery life …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sifteo launches intelligent blocks as a new form of entertainment — Sifteo, a table-top game startup, is announcing today that it has begun selling intelligent blocks known as Sifteo Cubes. These devices are like little dominoes with displays on one side.
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SlashGear, Ars Technica, New York Times and Engadget
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Closes as the Most Valuable Company in the World — Apple passed ExxonMobil as the most-valuable publicly traded company several times yesterday, but ExxonMobil ended the day ahead of Apple. Both companies' stock prices were down today, but XOM fell quite a bit farther …
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Forbes.com, Bloomberg, Examiner, iThinkDifferent, Globe and Mail, International Business Times, BGR, GigaOM, The Business Insider and everythingiCafe
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
OnLive cloud gaming service to launch in UK on 22 September — The pioneering technology will allow gamers to select from around a 100 titles, playing them instantly online via a PC, tablet or HDTV — Cloud-gaming pioneer OnLive has announced that it will be introducing its instant-play games service in the UK on 22 September.
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
LinkedIn's Algorithm Taps Talent Graph, But Still Needs Human Touch — Imagine if your prospects for beating the 9.1% unemployment rate depended not on a meticulously crafted cover letter and résumé, but on a complicated algorithm that helped companies determine the best matches for open jobs.
John Cook / GeekWire:
Daily deal site Zulily raises $43 million at huge valuation of more than $700 million — Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens in front of the company's expanding employee photo wall — Plopped in the middle of Zulily's Seattle office is a colorful cardboard rocket ship marking the entrance to the company's HR and recruiting department.
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Changing 200MB Data Plan Away From Throttling To Overage — According to this leaked image which hit our inbox T-Mobile is set to make a change to their lowest data plan offering by removing the throttling and returning to overage charges. This represents a major shift …
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Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout — WHEN Jessica H. Lawrence left her job with the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Redlands, Calif., to pursue a new life in New York City, she arrived in late January without a job, an apartment or someone to keep her warm through the winter nights.
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