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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 and PE Hub Blog
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Google buys Zagat to add people power to its algorithms
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DealBook, CNET News and @semilshah, more at Mediagazer »
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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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Yes, Carol Bartz had a non-disparagement clause — Did ex-Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just forfeit $10 million by calling fellow board members “doofuses”? — FORTUNE — Fortune today published an explosive interview with Carol Bartz, who on Tuesday was fired as Yahoo CEO after 32 months on the job.
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Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, L.A. Times Tech Blog and NBC Bay Area
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
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Between the Lines Blog and Tech Trader Daily
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
BLAMMO! Huge Yahoo Stakeholder Calls For Chairman Roy Bostock's Head
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
After AOL Rules Out TechCrunch Sale to Arrington, Tense Severance Negotiations Taking Place — AOL is still engaged in complex severance negotiations with TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington, which some close to the situation warn could eventually end in court if not resolved.
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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 — Oh boy. At this point, even the s**t-show is becoming a s**t-show. According to Dan Primack at Fortune, Mike Arrington has been fired by AOL. My inbox is full of emails from journalists, friends and total strangers …
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Scott Yates, PC World, Business Insider and Gawker, Thanks:dannycabrera
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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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
What's coming next for Twitter: fewer fail whales, more users, more ads
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Digits, Macworld, Business Insider and TechCrunch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Closing Its $400M Secondary Offering Tomorrow
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VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog
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, TechCrunch, Guardian, Computerworld, Electronista, Mashable!, Epicenter, Fortune, Business Insider, CNET News and Neowin.net
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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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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AllThingsD, GigaOM, Shiny Objects, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Edible Apple, TUAW, TiPb, The Next Web and iLounge
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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All About Symbian, paidContent, Neowin.net, MobileWhack.com, IntoMobile, Inquirer, My Microsoft Life, WinRumors, SlashGear, Computerworld, Redmond Pie and WMPoweruser
James Glanz / New York Times:
Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers — Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. — The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts …
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The Register, Google Green Blog, Guardian and PC Magazine
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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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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MobileBurn.com, SocialTimes.com, Google Operating System, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, ReadWriteWeb, MacStories, PhoneArena, Electronista, Oaggle and The Next Web
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hires HTML5 App Store Builder — Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been piecing together the puzzle around Facebook's Project Spartan, which is the social network's secret plan to bring applications to the mobile web via HTML5. Today, we've learned that Facebook has made a key hire in the HTML5 space.
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Lowe's rolling out 42,000 iPhones to use in payment systems similar to Apple Store's — Lowe's home improvement stores, in an effort to keep up with its largest rival Home Depot, will be deploying 42,000 iPhones to its employees, reports Bloomberg. The devices will be used …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews and Bloomberg
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, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Techie Buzz, MacRumors, The Next Web and MacStories
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Android to overtake Apple in app downloads — Android is expected to surpass Apple in application downloads for the first time, according to research firm Ovum. — Android could notch 8.1 billion app downloads this year, compared with 6 billion for Apple's iOS devices.
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Guardian and The Tech Trade
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Exclusive: Viewsonic pulls the plug on Boxee TV — Viewsonic has abandoned its efforts to bring a Boxee-powered TV set to market, citing high costs and insufficient interest from consumers in so-called smart TVs. — The company had shown off a 46" TV set running Boxee's media center software at CES …
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Gadget Lab, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Electronista
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Mostly pointless patent reform bill goes to Obama for signature — The United States Senate has approved the America Invents Act, a major overhaul to patent law that switches to a “first to file” rule for granting patents, creates two new processes for challenging already-granted patents …
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TechFlash, CNET News, Electronista, Bloomberg and @dannysullivan
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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