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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I've Seen It, Played With It. — It's called simply the “Amazon Kindle”. But it's not like any Kindle you've seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And it runs Android.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Mike Arrington, AOL Employee, Won't Have “Influence on Coverage,” Says AOL — You thought a story about Mike Arrington would clean and easy? Ha. — So here's the latest (for those just tuning in, we'll do back story later - who said the inverted triangle was dead?):
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
CrunchFund confusion — If Michael Arrington is leaving TechCrunch, what does that mean for the investors in CrunchFund? — Yesterday we were first to report that tech blogger Michael Arrington has launched a $20 million venture capital fund, which is being backed by AOL (AOL) and a group of Silicon Valley's top VC firms.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Arrington is the future of what we used to call journalism — Interesting but not too surprising how the tech press is spinning the new VC fund being run by Mike Arrington of TechCrunch. — There's not any real controversy here, however. — 1. It's not news. He's been investing in tech startups for a long time.
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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Arrington On Whether He Works For TechCrunch Or AOL: “I Have No Idea” — Michael Arrington doesn't even know what his relationship with AOL is anymore. — He just told the New York Times: “I have no idea what AOL's final position on this will be. I look forward to hearing it.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? …
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Alan Eustace / The Official Google Blog:
A fall spring-clean — Technology improves, people's needs change, some bets pay off and others don't. So, as Larry previewed on our last earnings call, today we're having a fall spring-clean at Google. — Over the next few months we'll be shutting down a number of products and merging others into existing products as features.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Shutters Fast Flip, Sidewiki, Aardvark, Subscribed Links & More Google Labs Projects — The purge of products in Google Labs continues. The company has just announced the closure of several well-known projects, including Fast Flip, Sidewiki, Aardvark and Subscribed Links.
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Desktop Will Be Discontinued
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Peter Jamison / The Snitch:
Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police ‘Assisted’ Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man's Home — The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple to ITC: Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android framework while working at Apple — I just provided a detailed update on the current state of affairs in the ITC investigation of Apple's first complaint against HTC, and I saved a true gem for this separate blog post.
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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Dish Said to Plan Blockbuster Rival to Netflix — Dish Network Corp. (DISH), the second largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, will introduce a Blockbuster streaming-movie service to compete with Netflix Inc. (NFLX) next month, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans.
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Hulu Said to Be Talking With Up to Five First-Round Bidders
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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
This Guy Walked Away From The Genius Bar With A Drive Full Of Apple's Retail Secrets [Exclusive Pics] — After news broke yesterday that Apple had, for the second time in two years, lost an iPhone prototype at a San Francisco bar, the general reaction was one of incredulity.
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Microsoft defends Windows 8 design choices — When Microsoft announced and launched the ‘Building Windows 8’ blog, we sat up and took notice, as it was to be the official conduit that the company would use to unveil elements of its next operating system. — Today, on the other hand …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's Windows chief: Media Center will be part of Windows 8
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James Kwak / The Atlantic:
Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders — Apple's CEO is unique, but one lesson we can take from his story is more universal. Corporate boards worship “superstar CEOs”. But more often, the first executive makes for the best executive. — This year, dozens of startup company founders …
Reuters:
AT&T prepares two-track plan to save T-Mobile deal — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc is expected to soon present a proposed solution to U.S. antitrust regulators to salvage its planned $39 billion acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA, according to people close to the matter.
Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Samsung Electronics Would ‘Never’ Pursue Purchase of WebOS, Says CEO Choi — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, rejected speculation it may buy Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)'s WebOS software used in handsets and tablet computers.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google+ To Roll Out A Twitter-Like Suggested User List — Google's Bradley Horowitz just Tweeted out a note indicating that Google is about to add a Twitter-like Suggested User list to Google+. … As stated in the message, Horowitz is looking for users who have more than a 100,000 followers on Twitter.
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Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Google-Oracle settlement likely with top execs called to court — Summary: Although a trial date is still set for Halloween, a new court order is pointing towards a possible settlement between Oracle and Google. — As it gets closer to the scheduled Halloween trial date over Google …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
This is what Eric Schmidt really said about leaving Apple's board — There has been a misquote being passed around the net like wildfire this morning. According to the quote that is being reported widely by tech and Apple blogs, Eric Schmidt said that he stayed on Apple's Board of Directors until he …
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Apple continues to dominate mobile browsing — In the mobile browser world, one Apple's mobile Safari is unmatched in terms of reach. New data from Net Applications shows the iOS version of Safari as easily beating out even the closest competition by a wide margin in terms of mobile browser usage share.
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