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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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Zagat's Price: Under $66 Million — A few years ago, Zagat was trying to shop itself around for $200 million. Today, Google bought it for less than $66 million. The price wasn't disclosed, but there was no FTC antitrust review, which is automatically triggered by any deal worth $66 million or more.
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Consumer Reports News
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Google buys Zagat to add people power to its algorithms
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Internet Evolution and @semilshah
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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ReadWriteWeb, TechFlash, Digits, AllThingsD, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Guardian, GeekWire, Mixed Media, Business Insider, New York Times, The Tech Trade, CNET News, Betabeat, Pulse2, Techland, Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, Business Insider, SlashGear, GigaOM, @alexismadrigal and @davepell, more at Mediagazer »
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Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
How Not to Run Yahoo — I seem to be writing a lot of these What the heck was that? columns explaining recent news events. This time it is the firing of Carol Bartz as CEO of Yahoo. I'm not here to defend Bartz, whom I would have fired long ago (or more probably not hired in the first place) …
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Jerry Yang Is Trying To Buy Yahoo — Yahoo cofounder and one-time (failed) CEO Jerry Yang is trying to take control of the company again. — He's trying to buy it. — There is a feud going on between Yang and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock. — “Bostock is trying to keep Yang out,” says a source close to the situation.
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Between the Lines Blog
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
BLAMMO! Huge Yahoo Stakeholder Calls For Chairman Roy Bostock's Head
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AllThingsD
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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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Twitter closes massive funding round — Late last month, All Things D reported that Twitter's recent $800 million funding round was actually two funding rounds: A $400 million direct investment led by DST (already closed), and a $400 million secondary offering for existing Twitter shareholders (in process).
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VentureBeat and The Next Web
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Twitter Has A “Truckload” Of Money And No Interest In Going Public — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that the company has absolutely no interest in going public any time soon. — Twitter has plenty of money and it would rather focus on growing the business than worrying about whether …
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PE Hub Blog
Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
What's coming next for Twitter: fewer fail whales, more users, more ads
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Digits
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter: 100M active users per month, 50% log on every day, 55% on mobile, 1B Tweets every 5 days
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TechCrunch, Guardian, Fortune, Electronista, Mashable! and Business Insider
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's “State Of The Union” Address
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, CNET News, TechCrunch and TechCrunch
Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:
After Arrington: Anarchy at TechCrunch — Michael Arrington is out at AOL. For Real. After presenting his ultimatum, AOL has fired the TechCrunch editor, reports Fortune's Dan Primack. “Not TechCrunch editor. Not AOL Ventures employee. Michael Arrington is on his own.”
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Yes, Of Course I'll Resign Unless Mike Arrington Chooses His Successor
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Scott Yates, Business Insider and Gawker, Thanks:dannycabrera
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
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InfoWorld, Time, MediaPost, PE Hub Blog, mediabistro.com, GMSV, Jeremiah Owyang, GigaOM and The Not-So Private Parts, more at Mediagazer »
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Google announces Dart programming language — A few days after Google was caught registering a bunch of Dart-related domain names, and the inevitable storm of speculation, it has now emerged that Dart is a new programming language for “structured web programming.”
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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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New York Times, CNET News, MediaPost, Mercury News, ReadWriteWeb, NBC Bay Area, SFGate and DailyTech
Adam / Nokia Conversations:
Microsoft Apps are coming to Symbian — GLOBAL - Today, Nokia and Microsoft announced that they would deliver Symbian software updates called Microsoft Apps. These updates will add some serious business productivity tools for anyone buying a new Symbian Belle device, as well as anybody looking …
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Computerworld, MobileWhack.com, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, WPCentral.com, paidContent, Inquirer, My Microsoft Life and WinRumors
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 …
Chang Kim / Blogger Buzz:
Announcing the Blogger app for iOS — Today we're excited to announce the new Blogger app for iOS. With the Blogger app, you can write a new blog post and publish it immediately or save it as a draft right from your iOS device. You can also open a blog post you've been working …
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Google Operating System, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, MobileBurn.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, MacStories and Oaggle
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Launches A Slick Music Beta App For iOS — Web, Not Native — Now that Google Music Beta has been out there for a few months, it's time to focus on how to get people to use it. One key: mobile. — While Google launched an Android app for Music Beta alongside the initial unveiling at I/O this year …
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@google, AllThingsD, Engadget, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, @pkafka, Lifehacker and Electronista
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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Inside Social Games, GigaOM, TUAW and Electronista
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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Gizmodo, The Next Web, CNET News, 9to5Mac and Cult of Mac
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Institutes New Charitable Matching Program for Employees — Apple has launched a new charitable matching program for its employees, with the company offering to match employees' personal charitable contributions up to $10,000 per year. The program is currently limited to full-time U.S. employees …
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Ars Technica, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TUAW, iLounge, Cult of Mac, Edible Apple, TiPb and The Next Web
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple: iTunes U tops 600 million downloads — In researching my recent story, iTunes U: Educating the world, Apple provided me with some updated figures for its free education portal on iTunes. — According to Apple, iTunes U has had more than 600 million downloads since it first launched in 2007.
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TUAW, AppleInsider, GigaOM, MacRumors and The Next Web
