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7:15 PM ET, August 24, 2011

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Apple:
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple  —  Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board  —  Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple's Chief Operating Officer, as the company's new CEO.
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Apple:
Letter from Steve Jobs  —  To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:  —  I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know.  Unfortunately, that day has come.  —  I hereby resign as CEO of Apple.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Apple's COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO  —  Apple's Steve Jobs has resigned from his position as CEO and Apple has just announced that COO Tim Cook has taken over as CEO.  —  As COO, Cook was responsible for all of the company's worldwide sales and operations, including end …
Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO, named chairman  —  (Reuters) - Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.  —  The 55-year-old Apple co-founder and pancreatic cancer survivor …
Discussion: Macworld, Gizmodo, PSFK and Daring Fireball
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Dutch judge considers Apple's slide-to-unlock patent trivial and likely invalid  —  I previously reported on a preliminary injunction granted by a Dutch court today against the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones.  In its official reaction, Samsung underscored …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Mixed decision for Apple: Dutch judge bans Samsung smartphones, not tablets
The United States Department of Justice:
Google Forfeits $500 Million Generated by Online Ads & Prescription Drug Sales by Canadian Online Pharmacies … PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Online search engine Google Inc. has agreed to forfeit $500 million for allowing online Canadian pharmacies to place advertisements through its AdWords program targeting consumers …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Time Warner to Subsidize Subscribers' TV Device  —  Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's top cable and Internet providers, said on Tuesday that it would subsidize some purchases of a set-top box called Slingbox that allows users to watch their home television programming from anywhere, like a vacation home or a mobile phone.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Facebook Targets Instagram With Photo Filters  —  Get ready for the photo-filter wars to begin.  —  Facebook plans to add a series of photo filters to its mobile application in the coming months with the hopes of drawing off fans of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing application.
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Next Web
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
FCC commissioner: BART critics may be right  —  FCC Commissioners Robert McDowell (right) and Mignon Clyburn (left) say the agency is still investigating San Francisco's subway agency.  —  ASPEN, Colo.—Criticisms aimed the San Francisco Bay Area's subway system for temporarily pulling …
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Harold Feld / Wetmachine:   Forget The First Amendment, BART Messed With The Phone System. Violated CA and Federal Law.
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Smartphone Wars  —  Unless the president intervenes, the International Trade Commission could send the wireless industry into a tailspin.  —  Patent litigation is a game created by government, and constructively so.  But the game appears to be getting out of whack in the smartphone patent wars.
Tomio Geron / Forbes:
Enterprise Social Networking Company Jive Software Files S-1 For IPO  —  Jive Software filed its S-1 for an expected IPO Wednesday.  Jive reported revenue of $16.9 million, $46.3 million and $34.0 million for the calendar years of 2008, 2009 and 2010.  For the six months ending June 30 …
Discussion: TechCrunch and MarketBrief, Thanks:adisn
Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:
A Trillion Pageviews for Facebook  —  Google today released an updated list of the most-visited sites on the web and it should not come as any surprise that Facebook takes the top spot with 870 million uniques.  YouTube and Yahoo are next with 790 M and 590 M uniques respectively.
Reuters:
China says Google has not sought approval on Motorola bid  —  (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry said it had not received an application for regulatory approval from Google Inc on its planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings.  —  Under Chinese laws …
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Anonymous Leaks Nude Pics of BART Spokesman  —  Anonymous has declared war on San Francisco's commuter subway system, BART.  They've staged protests and hacked website, but a leak of nude pics of a BART spokesman has taken things to another, more personal level.
Discussion: The Snitch and @revolutionchan
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
First Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ phone, Fujitsu IS12T, released on KDDI au in Japan  —  Microsoft has just dropped us a line to note that Fujitsu and KDDI au have released the IS12T in Japan, becoming the first Windows Phone 7.5 (codenamed “Mango") handset to hit retail anywhere in the world.
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Why Apple Went To Dusseldorf  —  Earlier this month lawyers for Apple celebrated a small, but important victory in court.  On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy city in western Germany.  The document claimed Samsung …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Zillow hits profitability, posts 116% revenue gain in first earnings report as a public company  —  Well, we had a pretty good feeling that Zillow might post its first quarterly profit (at least on a net income basis) today.  And the Seattle online real estate company didn't disappoint …
Discussion: AllThingsD
Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
Samsung debuts new Galaxy lineup, refines naming strategy along the way  —  Good news everyone, we've got a new batch of Sammy smartphones to feast your eyes upon.  Now for the downside: today's announcement is meant only to whet your appetite for their official unveiling at IFA in Berlin.
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Vizio 8 becomes first Android tablet with Hulu Plus  —  Like Netflix and Skype video chat, Hulu Plus is being certified on Android devices one-by-one — presumably out of an abundance of caution that the streaming video can't be easily recorded — and a total of ten phones are currently on the compatibility list.
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.
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 …
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
VMware puts Cloud Foundry on laptops  —  VMware has released Micro Cloud Foundry, a fully functional version of its open-source, Platform-as-a-Service software condensed into a virtual image that runs on developers' personal computers or laptops.  The aim is to make it easier to create …
 
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Peter Lauria / Reuters:
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Detangling the Windows Phone Tango talk
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Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
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Next year's BlackBerries will run Android apps... but not the way you think
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Acer suffers first-ever quarterly loss, predicts iPad ‘fever’ will recede
New York Times:
Technology Devices Either Sell Big or Die Fast
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