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Chris Cox / Facebook Blog:
Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want — Today we're announcing a bunch of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want. You have told us that “who can see this?” could be clearer across Facebook …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One Year Later, Facebook Killing Off Places ...To Put Location Everywhere
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scribbal.com, Betabeat, Inside Facebook, the Econsultancy blog, PSFK, @taylorbuley and All Points Blog
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Facebook Rolls Out Major, Sweeping Privacy Changes
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digiday:DAILY, About Foursquare, All Facebook, Mashable!, broadstuff, Guardian, NBC Bay Area and AllThingsD
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Facebook Finally Helps Users Avoid Being Tagged in Embarrassing Photos, But Also Expands Who Can Tag
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Softpedia News, Gawker and PC World, Thanks:forbestech
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint to Get iPhone 5, Sources Say — Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone.
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Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Sprint Deal Will Mean 6 Million More iPhones Sold In 2012
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GottaBeMobile, 9to5Mac, Electronista, CNET News, AppleInsider and Appolicious Advisor
Biz Stone / The Obvious Corporation:
Unlocking Potential — It's important never to delude ourselves into thinking that technology changes the world. People are responsible for change—technology just helps out. At Obvious, our goal is to foster systems that help people work together to improve the world.
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Fast Company, The Business Insider, CNET News, Bits, Mashable!, Pulse2, @tonystubblebine, @obviouscorp and @biz
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter — The recently-departed co-founders of Twitter now working together again under the old Obvious Corp. name (Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman) announced their first official partnership today, with a stealth alpha app called Lift.
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, GigaOM and @tonystubblebine
New York Times:
Technology Devices Either Sell Big or Die Fast — Seven weeks after it was put on sale, Hewlett-Packard killed its TouchPad tablet, the company's competitor to Apple's iPad. — Last year, Microsoft pulled the plug on its Kin mobile phones only 48 days after they went on sale.
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broadstuff
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
‘What Idiot Wrote The Patent That Might Invalidate Software Patents? Oh, Wait, That Was Me’ — We recently wrote about a surprising Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruling that might open the door to invalidating a lot of software patents. We received an an interesting comment on the post a few days later from John Pettitt:
Robert Scoble / Google+:
A new respect for entrepreneurs — The story is out that I turned down $500,000 of +Bill Gross money thanks to +Loic Le Meur . https://plus.google.com/108082478497335 384404/ posts/58saxADBQxy — First, hear it in my own words as I discuss this with +Dave McClure who has seen his own startup roles …
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Loic Le Meur and @scobleizer
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: HTC Puccini in the wild, AT&T LTE support confirmed! — Have a gander. Take as long as you need. That, friends, is the AT&T-bound HTC Puccini, and it'll be the first tablet to hit Ma Bell with inbuilt LTE support. According to our sources, the Android-based slate is currently in testing …
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Inquirer, BGR, AppleInsider, Good E-Reader Blog, Liliputing, Electronista, MobileWhack.com, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile and PhoneArena
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ movie as prior art against iPad design patent — Late last night, Samsung filed its opposition brief to Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States. The main part of Samsung's opposition brief has not yet entered …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
YouTube and comScore Deal Has Potential to Make Online Video Blow Up — I've long been bullish on YouTube, viewing it as the best advertising platform ever known to mankind (despite the giddiness that some have for Facebook and Twitter). — A Walled Garden?
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Newest Version Of Yahoo Mail Now Has 100 Million Monthly Active Users — The latest version of Yahoo Mail opened up to users a few months ago and the company is announcing a new milestone today—100 million monthly active users. — Additional features in the new version …
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Yahoo! Mail Blog
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Failbook Phone: AT&T Already Looking To Ditch The HTC Status, Says Source — Surprise! Even a clever little gimmick like a dedicated Facebook button can't save a bad phone from an early demise. — After just 36 days on the shelves, a trusted source close to AT&T tells us the carrier …
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paidContent, SocialTimes.com, PhoneArena, Smartphones …, Neowin.net, BGR, Electronista, Friending Facebook Blog, Android Phone Fans and GottaBeMobile
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft previews smarter file copying in Windows 8 — A consolidated dialog box showing multiple files being copied in Windows 8. This optional, detailed view shows transfer progress and throughput graphs. (Image Credit: Microsoft) — Microsoft tonight showed a new approach to copying …
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
Google Fiber shows its potential with 151Mbps download speeds — Early last year Google set out on a mission to bring 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home networks in selected areas across the U.S. It was a big challenge, and one that states, counties, and cities fought hard to get in their areas.
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Network World
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
China's Renren signs agreement with Microsoft's MSN — (Reuters) - Chinese social-networking site Renren said on Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Microsoft's joint venture instant messaging firm, MSN, to cooperate in areas of instant messaging and social networking.
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LiveSide.net, paidContent, Neowin.net, The Next Web and WinRumors
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple's struggles to meet 13-inch MacBook Air demand trigger price gouging — More than a month after introducing its latest Thunderbolt MacBook Airs, Apple is still unable to meet broader demand for the 13-inch models, which can be seen listed at prices well above MSRP on at least one of the internet's largest ecommerce sites.
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DisplayBlog, Ubergizmo, BetaNews and TUAW
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Sony's S1 Android Tablet is the Tablet S, due to arrive in early September — While one consumer electronics giant is unceremoniously exiting the tablet wars, after many teaser trailers we're hearing Sony is finally ready to reveal its entry. We uncovered the S1 PlayStation Tablet ahead …
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PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, Pulse2, 9to5Google, Know Your Cell, Liliputing, SlashGear, IntoMobile, This is my next, TechSpot, Electronista, Inquirer and The Toybox Blog
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Epson, HSBC Korea, domain registrar hacked: 100,000 domains affected — Summary: A number of Korean websites, including Epson, HSBC and domain registrar Gabia, have been hacked, apparently by Turkish hackers. — A series of hacks have hit the South Korean population …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Millennial: Android Tops iOS For The Eighth Month With 61 Percent Of Mobile Ad Impressions In July — It's no secret that Android is growing at a fast clip, especially over the past year. As Millennial Media, one of the largest mobile ad networks in the U.S., reported recently Android's …
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ZDNet, Millennial Media, BGR, paidContent, PhoneArena and WMPoweruser
Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
AT&T Roadmap: Samsung, HTC, BlackBerry, & More — Obviously the most anticipated addition to AT&T's lineup this fall will be the next iPhone (iPhone-s plural?), but that doesn't mean the carrier has forsaken other popular platforms. In fact, the company's second-half lineup — or most of it …
Brian Proffitt / ITworld:
The impact of Oracle's defense of API copyrights — Long-held practice of API copyright exemption jeopardized — Recent examinations of Oracle's strategy in its Java copyright infringement case against Google reveal tactics that could seriously jeopardize the US software industry, depending on how the Ninth Circuit Court rules.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Slovenia Launches Supervizor, An Official Public Web App For Monitoring Public Spending — The threat of corruption is ever-present in areas like government spending, where miles of red tape, billions in assets, and a legitimate need for secrecy at times presents a potential trifecta for would-be defrauders.
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Bloomberg:
Torture in Bahrain Aided by Nokia Siemens — The interrogation of Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar followed a pattern. — First, Bahraini jailers armed with stiff rubber hoses beat the 39-year-old school administrator and human rights activist in a windowless room two stories below ground …
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Threat Level and Boing Boing
Chuck Salter / Fast Company:
Ticketmaster Teams With Facebook So You Can Sit Next To Your Friends — Live events are inherently social, says CEO Nathan Hubbard. Buying tickets should be, too. — When Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard and his new executive team hit the road earlier this year touting a more innovative …
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scribbal.com, PR Newswire and The Business Insider, Thanks:sheenamedina
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Greplin Releases Must Have iPhone App To Organize Your Life And Avoid Rabid Googlers — It was only a year ago that I first wrote about Greplin, the “other half of search” for you online life. It's an incredibly useful search engine that indexes your online email, Facebook, Twitter …
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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Six Months After The AOL Deal, HuffPo Employee Equity Is Down 40% — When AOL bought the Huffington Post in March 2011, Huffington Post employees had their vested stock options converted into AOL stock, priced at ~$20 a share. — Hopefully they sold! — Today, AOL stock is worth $12.22 per share - a 40% decline.
