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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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IntoMobile, Examiner, Marissa Mayer, Wall Street Journal, Google Watch, Reuters, Zagat Buzz, Epicenter, Softpedia News, Reuters, DealBook, eWeek, Holtz Communications …, Business Insider, Wired In Blog| BNET, InformationWeek, Beyond Search, LAUNCH, AdAge, Bing Watch, Internet Evolution, GMSV, GigaOM, The Register, MediaFile, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, Deal Journal, Zagat, BGR, VentureBeat, @wsj, Daily Dot, @jeffjarvis, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Android Phone Fans, @rafat, The Constant Observer, CNET News, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Search Engine Journal, CNET News, HBR.org, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and MediaPost, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:digiphile
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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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GottaBeMobile, Associated Press and Consumer Reports News
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
OpenTable Investors Queasy After Google-Zagat Meal, Er, Deal
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Deal Journal
Tony Bradley / PC World:
What to Expect from Google and Zagat
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Business Insider, DealBook and Internet Evolution, 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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VentureBeat, Business Insider, NBC Bay Area, CNET News and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Deluge of Content on the Web Swamps Yahoo
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Sean Percival's Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Jerry Yang Is Trying To Buy Yahoo
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Business Insider, Between the Lines Blog and Tech Trader Daily
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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eSarcasm, Time and The Atlantic Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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SFGate:
Anti-Michael Arrington TechCrunch Posts Show Insecurity — The news is all over that TechCrunch Founder and Editor Michael Arrington may step down from running the blog not just to operate a new venture capital fund, but because the rumor is he was fired from AOL.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Yes, Of Course I'll Resign Unless Mike Arrington Chooses His Successor
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PE Hub Blog, Scott Yates, Gawker and Business Insider, 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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Telegraph, textually.org, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Reuters, Bits, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, GigaOM, AllThingsD, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, Soshable, AllTwitter, LAUNCH, Fortune, GigaOM, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, CNET News, VatorNews, INFOdocket, Techie Buzz and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Guardian, Digits, TechCrunch, Business Insider and TechCrunch
Ron / WinBeta:
Microsoft demos fast boot times in Windows 8 — In yet another Building Windows 8 blog entry by Steven Sinofsky, we get to see a demonstration of Microsoft's upcoming operating system's fast boot time. In the demonstration, Windows 8 boots up in less than 2 seconds. Pretty amazing.
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OzTechNews.com
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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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The Next Web, @google, Engadget, AllThingsD, PhoneArena, TiPb, Cult of Mac, 9to5Google, everythingiCafe, Digital Trends, App Advice, Gadget Lab, Ubergizmo, T3.com News, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Techland, MacStories, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, GottaBeMobile, @pkafka, 9to5Mac, mocoNews, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Electronista
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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PhoneArena, All About Symbian, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, WMPoweruser, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, MobileWhack.com, Computerworld, paidContent, WPCentral.com, WinRumors, Inquirer and My Microsoft Life
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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Digital Trends, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Shiny Objects, AllThingsD, TUAW, TiPb, iLounge, Edible Apple, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, Apple Outsider, everythingiCafe and MacNN
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Facebook Begins Auto-Grouping Friends Into Smart Lists — You've got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you've worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows all of this …
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Friending Facebook Blog and Mashable!
James Glanz / New York Times:
Google Details, and Defends, Its Use of Electricity — Google disclosed Thursday that it continuously uses enough electricity to power 200,000 homes, but it says that in doing so, it also makes the planet greener. — Every time a person runs a Google search, watches a YouTube video or sends …
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Google Green Blog, The Register, Guardian, Gawker, PC Magazine, Geekosystem, Gizmodo, CNET News and NBC Bay Area
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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TechEye, Engadget, AppleInsider, PC World, The Next Web, Electronista, Bloomberg, @dannysullivan, TechFlash and CNET News
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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@chrissaad and Electronista
Orian Marx:
What's wrong with the Twitter API — I want to make something clear from the start: I love Twitter, though sometimes I wonder if I'm suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I have devoted much of the last three years of my life to working with the Twitter API and continue to pursue building …
Thanks:rachelsklar
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Anonymous group releases new Twitter tool — Anonymous has released a new tool designed to let its messages ride the coattails of trending topics on Twitter. — The Anonymous group of online activists released a new tool today designed to allow people to hijack trending topics on Twitter and tweet messages within them.
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Softpedia News
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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Gizmodo, Softpedia News, MobileBurn.com, SocialTimes.com, Ubergizmo, TUAW, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac, Electronista, ReadWriteWeb, Google Operating System, MacStories, The Next Web and Oaggle
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Terror-Fighting Start-Up Palantir Technologies Just Raised $68 Million — But From Whom? — Few tech start-ups have a more mysterious brief than that of Palantir Technologies. I first encountered the company while still working for BusinessWeek and I've tried to keep track of it since.
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Bloomberg
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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Shiny Objects, AppleInsider, Guardian and The Tech Trade
