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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Pulls the Plug on TV Rentals — Last year, Apple pushed hard to get the TV networks to rent their shows at cut-rate pricing through its iTune store. Now it has bailed on TV show rentals altogether. — Apple has completely removed customers' ability to rent shows from iTunes …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple abandons 99-cent TV show rentals for Apple TV — Apple has removed the ability to rent TV shows from both iTunes and its Apple TV, taking away what was just last year one of the major advertised selling points of the $99 streaming-centric set-top box.
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MacRumors, CNET News, MacStories, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, TUAW, Between the Lines Blog, parislemon and iLounge
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021 — Apple filed a form 8-K with the SEC because of the changes in corporate leadership at the company. An 8-K is the “current report” companies must file with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about.
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John C. Dvorak / MarketWatch:
Contrarian view of Steve Jobs's decision — Commentary: There may be a reason other than his health — BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — You all know that Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc. The San Francisco Bay Area news organizations, without exception …
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Shiny Objects and Fortune
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One More Thing... I sat down last night to write about Steve …
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Signal News and 9to5Mac
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Facebook ending Deals product after four-month test — (Reuters) - Facebook is getting out of the daily deals business after four months of testing, a move that may ease some competitive pressure on industry leaders Groupon and LivingSocial. — “After testing Deals for four months …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Kills Daily Deals, But Keeps Check-In Deals — After quietly announcing they were killing off their nascent Deals product this afternoon, Facebook caused some confusion. You see, with the decision to kill off Facebook Places earlier in the week, everyone wondered what it meant …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone N94 Prototype Back Cover - Is This Actually the iPhone 5? — Right on the heels of our “iPhone 4S” antenna photos, comes even more pieces to the puzzle. This image from MacPost.net offers the first look at the back cover of an upcoming iPhone. This prototype part is labeled “EVT” …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Photos of iPhone 4S/5 Logic Board Suggest A5 Processor
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AppleLeaks, iLounge and MacPost
Justin Shaffer / Facebook Blog:
Bigger, Faster Photos — With over 250 million photos uploaded each day, sharing pictures is one of the most popular activities on Facebook. We are constantly working on making Facebook Photos better and today we're introducing some improvements to the way you experience photos.
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TechCrunch, Mashable!, Inside Facebook, PetaPixel and LAUNCH
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Groupon traffic drops by half while LivingSocial surges — Summary: Groupon's website isn't exactly seeing the same amount of traffic it used to as its rival continues to gain momentum. — As Groupon continues with its planned IPO and goal to raise $750 million, it's probably going to need …
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Hitwise Intelligence, Dow Jones Newswires and ZippyCart Blog E-Commerce News
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA — RSA was hacked in March. This was one of the biggest hacks in history. — The current theory is that a nation-state wanted to break in to Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman to steal military secrets.
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Network World, Threat Level, The Register, SC Magazine US, eWeek, Dennis Fisher and Softpedia News
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Upcoming Amazon tablet to undercut Apple's iPad — Amazon's upcoming Android tablet will soon launch for “hundreds less” than Apple's $499 entry-level iPad 2 tablet, the New York Post reported on Thursday. According to the report, which cites an anonymous source, Amazon will launch …
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Examiner, New York Post, Shiny Objects, Electronista, Technologizer, Liliputing, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, iClarified, The Business Insider and Electricpig.co.uk
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
HP Finds A Fall Guy For Last Week's Fiasco — Hewlett-Packard's series of earnings and strategy announcements last Thursday was a communications fiasco. — But at least HP knows there was a problem: the company has “reassigned” its communications head, Bill Wohl, according to a memo leaked to PRWeek and confirmed by AllThingsD.
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PRWeek US, AllThingsD and Electronista
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Salesforce CEO: Why I gave Apple the ‘App Store’ trademark in exchange for great advice from Steve Jobs — Bloomberg television has an interesting video up of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff who shares an anecdote on how Apple chairman Steve Jobs helped him out with his unique insights on Enterprise Software (!!):
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TUAW, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Pulse2, The Next Web, The Loop, @ldignan, PE Hub Blog and iClarified, Thanks:jordankahn
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Report: Justice Dept. says Page knew about rogue drug ads — Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page condoned ads from rogue online Canadian pharmacies, says a Justice Department official who led the investigation into the case and talked to The Wall Street Journal about it. — Google CEO Larry Page
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Wall Street Journal and Reuters
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
A6 chip to reach iPad 3 later in 2012, says analyst — Apple's latest chip technology won't appear in the next-generation iPad until June 2012 at the earliest, according to a firm that tracks the mobile processor industry. — An ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core design—which the Apple A6 processor is based on.
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DigiTimes, The Next Web, MacRumors, Electronista, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Electronista and Shiny Objects
Slide Blog:
Update on Slide's products and our commitment to our users — We wanted to give you all advance notice that in the coming months, a number of Slide's products and applications will be retired. This includes Slide's products such as Slideshow and SuperPoke!
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MediaPost, All Facebook, Bits, SlashGear, Inside Social Games and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Razer bucks trends with $2,800 gaming laptop, complete with innovative UI — Razer took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal refuting the idea that PC gaming is dead, and reaffirming the company's love for PC games. The company also promised an announcement today …
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Kotaku, CNET News, SlashGear, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, This is my next and Engadget
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla chair defends rapid-release Firefox — The Firefox rapid-release program has caused some corporate indigestion, but Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker believes it's worth it. — She acknowledged that companies can have problems with the approach, in which new browser versions arrive every six weeks …
Rosie Gray / Runnin' Scared:
City Websites Are All Down; Why Is There So Little Info On Evacuation Procedures? — There's a lot of talk of evacuation right now in light of the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene. The city has already released a map of evacuation zones and evacuated the “most vulnerable” …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Will cell phone networks weather Hurricane Irene?
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