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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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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Amazon Is Only Launching A 7″ Tablet? Genius. (Plus A Mockup!) — The Amazon Kindle tablet is real. Very much real. As in, MG has held it in his very own hands. I threw together the mockup above based on what he shared with me. — As MG explained, we now know that the Kindle tablet …
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Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Crunch theater: blogger's VC fund creates media spectacle — The tech blogosphere was on fire on Friday with a flood of constantly-updated news reports and a barrage of tweets dissecting every angle of the story. — A new iPhone? Details of the long-awaited Facebook IPO? — Not quite.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It's Business as Usual in Silicon Valley. — Of course I have something to say about the news yesterday that AOL would be a key investor in a new early-stage venture fund being started by TechCrunch's …
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The Wrap, The Business Insider, Digits, Tweetage Wasteland, @howardlindzon, ReadWriteWeb and BRYCE DOT VC, more at Mediagazer »
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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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
The CrunchFund: Actually, Tim, We Don't All Have “Different” Standards — Yesterday afternoon, Mike Arrington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced the launch of “the CrunchFund”, a venture fund that will — according to the New York Times — “invest in start-ups, including some that [Arrington] and his staff write about”.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Arrington is the future of what we used to call journalism
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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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Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Apple Investigators Reportedly Impersonated SF Police in iPhone 5 Search (Updated)
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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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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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AppleInsider, The Business Insider, TiPb, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, The Next Web, TUAW, Electronista, Gizmodo and WMPoweruser
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 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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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Microsoft, Yahoo, TripAdvisor, Yelp and VEVO Now Among Largest Facebook Applications — The Facebook platform is best known for social games, but another class of applications has been on the rise in the past couple years: integrations of Facebook features by large media and tech companies into their own properties.
Alexander Howard / Google+:
A Google Suggested Users List is up. Here's their official “get started” page: — https://plus.google.com/getstarted/ follow — +1 to +Craig Kanalley for putting this together and adding his perspective. — I can't help but feel like we've been here before with Twitter.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google+ To Roll Out A Twitter-Like Suggested User List
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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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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Awards Eddy Cue 100,000 Shares of Stock as Promotion Bonus — In recognition of Eddy Cue's promotion to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, Apple has awarded Cue 100,000 restricted stock units with half vesting in 2013 and the other half in 2015, pending continued employment through the vesting dates.
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AppleInsider, The Next Web and Computerworld
Johnathan Nightingale / Mozilla Security Blog:
DigiNotar Removal Follow Up — Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted root program. Complete revocation of trust is a decision we treat …
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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 …
