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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Google just got ZAGAT Rated! — “Did you know there's a place in Menlo Park near the Safeway that has a 27 food rating?” one of my friends asked me that about two years ago, and I was struck because I immediately knew what it meant. Food rating... 30 point scale... Zagat. And the place... had to be good.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google acquires Zagat, enters original content business — Google on Thursday acquired Zagat in an effort to bolster its local products with the restaurant rating service. More notably is that Zagat is a content company. — In a blog post, Google said that Zagat will “be a cornerstone of our local offering.”
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@marissamayer:
Acquisition announcement haiku: Delightful deal done; Zagat and Google now one; foodies have more fun! http://t.co/T2gZ4yC #gogooglelocal
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Google buys Zagat to add people power to its algorithms
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Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Carol Bartz exclusive: Yahoo “f—ed me over” — Here is what Carol Bartz thinks of the Yahoo (YHOO) board that fired her: “These people f**ked me over,” she says, in her first interview since her dismissal from the CEO role late Tuesday. — Last evening, barely 24 hours …
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
BLAMMO! Huge Yahoo Stakeholder Calls For Chairman Roy Bostock's Head — Daniel Loeb of Third Point LLC says his multi-billion dollar hedge fund has acquired 5.1% of Yahoo's stock, and that he would like several of Yahoo's board members, including chairman Roy Bostock, to step down.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Arrington out at AOL (for real this time) — Not TechCrunch editor. Not AOL Ventures employee. Michael Arrington is on his own. — It has been a very long week for AOL. And it's about to get even longer. — Last Thursday, word leaked that one of its employees …
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The Not-So Private Parts, GMSV, VentureBeat, @arrington and Jeremiah Owyang, more at Mediagazer »
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Fred / A VC:
Whither TechCrunch? — The media has had a lot of fun over the past week watching AOL, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and Mike Arrington figure out how to move on. I feel badly for the TechCrunch crew including MG, Erick, Sarah, and many others. They are awesome at what they do and I feel …
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Betabeat
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
After Bartz, Armstrong Looks to Be Next
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GigaOM and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »
Twitter Blog:
One hundred million voices — Five years ago, Twitter came to life when @jack sent the first Tweet to his seven followers. Now, 100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out what's happening in the world right now.
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paidContent, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, John Battelle's Searchblog, Reuters, The Next Web and WebProNews
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter: 100M active users per month, 50% log on every day, 55% on mobile, 1B Tweets every 5 days — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is holding an in informal business meeting at Twitter today. TNW is there and Costolo is sharing some interesting statistics. The chief among those is that Twitter currently …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's “State Of The Union” Address
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DigiTimes:
Suppliers of iPhone 5 supply chain gearing up production — Suppliers in the iPhone 5 supply chain in Taiwan have geared up production recently with volume shipments of the new Apple smartphones to begin soon. Production of iPhone 5s at OEM maker Foxconn Electronics has reportedly reached 150,000 units per …
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Reuters:
Apple sues Samsung in Japan over patents: report — (Reuters) - Apple is suing Samsung Electronics in Japan, accusing it of patent violations relating to the iPhone and iPad, Kyodo news agency said, the latest salvo in a series of patent battles between the two firms.
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Los Angeles Times:
Amazon cuts deal on California sales taxes — Legislative leaders agree to let the online retailer delay collecting taxes for a year, while it would drop its battle to overturn the state law. Gov. Jerry Brown has not said if he will support the plan. — “It's a safe harbor for up to a year …
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ReadWriteWeb, Mercury News, SFGate, Gizmodo, Consumer Reports News, The Tech Trade, Jacket Copy, The Register, DailyTech and The Next Web
Yahoo! News:
Samsung, Microsoft tie up for new tablet — South Korea's Samsung Electronics has teamed up with Microsoft to make a new tablet computer powered by the US software giant's latest operating system, according to a report. — The Korea Economic Daily, citing an industry source …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Gina Bianchini's New Start-Up Is a Guide Creation Tool: Mightybell — Mightybell is today launching a beta version of its tools for sharing step-by-step guides to experiences like traveling, recipes and education. — The service, which is available as a Web site and iPhone app …
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Digits and The Next Web
Mike Rosenberg / Contra Costa Times:
Newest iProduct coming to Cupertino: Apple Campus 2 — mrosenberg@mercurynews.com — Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs once called the humongous campus a spaceship. So you might think the forthcoming circle-shaped Cupertino headquarters would carry a grandiose name befitting a potential signature Silicon Valley landmark.
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CNET News, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacStories and Cult of Mac
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
HTC: We Paid for Patents We Got From Google — HTC told AllThingsD on Wednesday that it did pay for the patents that it recently acquired from Google and is using in its latest patent actions against Apple. — However, in answer to the million dollar (or $1, or $10,000) question, HTC won't say how much it paid for the patents.
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SlashGear, GottaBeMobile and eWeek
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google+ API Not Close ...Unless You're “Trusted”, Then It's Ready — Just yesterday, we wrote that those developers waiting on a Google+ API would have to wait a while — months, even. This disappointing information came to us by way of one eager developer based on what they were told by a project manager for Google+.
Jeferson Valadares / Flurry Blog:
Mobile Freemium Games: Gen Y Plays, but Gen X Pays — Freemium games on iOS and Android continue to dominate the app economy, now accounting for over 65% of all revenue generated among the Top 100 grossing apps in the App Store alone. In a series of recent pieces on free-to-play mobile games …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
How an omniscient Internet “sextortionist” ruined the lives of teen girls — In the spring of 2009, a college student named Amy received an instant message from someone claiming to know her. Certainly, the person knew something about her—he was able to supply details about what her bedroom looked …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Watch Out Amazon: GetJar Launches A Full Catalog Of Premium Android Apps For Free — Today, third-party mobile application store GetJar is publicly launching its GetJar Gold service, which has been in beta testing for the past month. The new service presents a viable challenge to Amazon's Appstore …
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ReadWriteWeb, Widgets Lab, Lifehacker and SlashGear
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Echoecho gets Google investment to make location sharing simple — Location sharing over smartphones still faces challenges, whether it's privacy concerns, the limitations of check-in services or more practical worries about battery life draining from services that constantly broadcast your location.
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