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Jack McKenna / TechCrunch:
“Deciding” To Move On — AOL has issued the following statement: “The TechCrunch acquisition has been a success for AOL and for our shareholders, and we are very excited about its future. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch has decided to move on from TechCrunch and AOL to his newly formed venture fund.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
It's Official: Arrington Out at AOL; Schonfeld New TechCrunch Editor (Plus Armstrong Internal Memo Too!) — AOL and TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington have officially parted ways, almost exactly one year from the New York Internet portal's acquisition of the popular tech news site.
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Sequoia's Doug Leone to Mike Arrington: Why You Want to Be a VC is Beyond Me — Today, longtime venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital sat down with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, and he was about as vibrant as his socks.
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
ARRINGTON: “It's No Longer A Good Situation For Me To Stay”
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, @arrington, @blam and SFGate
John Cook / GeekWire:
HTC boss on Windows Phone 7, patent wars and why iPhones aren't cool anymore — Martin Harriman of LightSquared; Martin Fichter of HTC and Brad Stone of Bloomberg at Mobile Future Forward — Martin Fichter, the acting president of HTC America, appeared today at the Mobile Future Forward conference in downtown Seattle.
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HTC mulling purchase of operating system: report
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Android and Me, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Mashable!, PC World, GottaBeMobile, Cult of Mac, Examiner, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Google, Wired In Blog| BNET, eWeek, DailyTech, Computerworld, CNET News, MobileSyrup.com, WPCentral.com, OStatic blogs, IntoMobile, X-bit labs, Neowin.net, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Engadget, Ars Technica, FierceWireless, mocoNews, Datamation.com, PalmAddicts, The Tech Trade, FierceMobileContent, Business Insider, Electronista, Hardware 2.0 Blog, SlashGear, Inquirer, iClarified, SoMobile, ZDNet, WMPoweruser, The Next Web and MacDailyNews
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
With Bitcasa, The Entire Cloud Is Your Hard Drive For Only $10 Per Month — The cloud is now your hard drive. And not just a few dozen Gigabytes, Terabytes or even Petabytes, but all of it - infinite storage - for only $10 per month. This is the incredible promise of the new TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bitcasa.
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VentureBeat and PC Magazine
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Winning — Yours truly, last week: … Aaron Pressman argues that I was “deliberately obtuse”: … Pressman is right, in a way. I was too flippant with the aforequoted question. What I mean by “winning” needs more context. — What I'm talking about is the argument that Android is …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gowalla Is Reborn As A Beautiful App For Travel And Storytelling — The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remaining tech and talent. Others are still out there plugging away, but at this point, it seems clear that Foursquare won the all-important battle over the check-in.
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Gowalla, SplatF, Digits, IntoMobile, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, WebProNews, FT Tech Hub, SiliconFilter, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and CNET News
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Fusion Garage hacks $200 off of Grid 10 tablet, aims to play the undercutting game — Looks like we're all indebted to HP in one way or another. Since the TouchPad fire sale began, we've seen a noticeable southward shift in tablet pricing — it's as if iPad rivals finally figured …
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AllThingsD, This is my next, Android Phone Fans, Computerworld, BGR, Geek.com, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, Ubergizmo, Inquirer, Liliputing and TechSpot
Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
Someone Really Needs to Make a Good $100 Tablet — Today we heard that the UK is getting jobbed out of its final shipment of $100 TouchPads, with only HP employees being eligible to buy them. Sozzlepops, UK chaps. — But that got us to thinking: With all the fuss over the TouchPad firesale …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spool Is Instapaper On Steroids — Spool is a new service aimed at addressing the problem created by the multi-device, multi-screen environment we now live in, where the content consumption experience can vary widely from platform to platform. On iOS devices, for example, you can't watch Flash videos without serious workarounds.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple asks courts to stay two Motorola Mobility lawsuits until Google has acquired the company — On Friday, Apple filed motions to stay in two of its various lawsuits with Motorola, arguing that the pending acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google has resulted in “a fundamental loss of Motorola's patent rights”.
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Electronista and Ars Technica
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Samsung's First New iPhone-Killer To Hit The U.S. Is Here And We Have It [HANDS ON] — At last, we have the first model of Samsung's Galaxy S II to land in the U.S. of A. — This is the Sprint model, called the Epic Touch 4G, that's launching September 16 for $199 with a two-year contract.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to release iOS 5 GM to assemblers during week of Sept. 23 — Apple reportedly plans to release the golden master of iOS 5, its forthcoming operating system update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, to its overseas assemblers at some point between September 23 and September 30 …
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Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Examiner, CNET News, The Apple Core Blog, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Computerworld, IntoMobile, FierceDeveloper, everythingiCafe, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, OS X Daily, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, iClarified, Apple Bitch, Techland and Electronista
Megan Rose Dickey / LAUNCH:
Google Docs Launching Comment-Only Sharing Options — Google Docs is rolling out a comment-only sharing option this week for users who don't want to allow full editing access to other people. — No doubt users had asked for this, but Google wanted the feature for itself as well.
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Googling Google Blog, ReadWriteWeb and Docs Blog, Thanks:samirageb
Alana / Nielsen Wire:
Social Media Report: Spending Time, Money and Going Mobile — Social media not only connects consumers with each other, but also with just about every place they go and everything they watch and buy. Nielsen's new Social Media Report looks at trends and consumption patterns across social media platforms …
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Benny Evangelista / SFGate:
U.S. spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook in May
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Trends in the Living Networks, Computerworld, Friending Facebook Blog, ClickZ and Gizmodo
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Authors' Guild sues universities over book digitization project — With the planned settlement between Google and book publishers still on indefinite hold, a legal battle by proxy has started. Google partnered with many libraries at US universities in order to gain access to the works it wants to digitize.
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Delimiter, Slashdot, The Laboratorium and paidContent
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Guy Accused Of Being Part Of Anonymous Banned By Court From Using His Real Name Online — Ah, the bizarre legal results of confused courts and confused laws. Four of the people arrested in the UK and accused of being a part of the not-actually-a-group Anonymous last week won a small part of a court battle.
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Exclusive: SAP will pay $20 million in Oracle criminal case — (Reuters) - SAP AG has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a criminal probe into allegations that it downloaded millions of files from rival Oracle, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Max Levchin And Peter Thiel: Innovation In The World Today Is Between ‘Dire Straits And Dead’ — Peter Thiel and Max Levchin are busy guys. Thiel, aside from being on the Board of Directors for companies like Palantir Technologies, Geni, and Asana, an early investor and former board member at Facebook …
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CNET News and VentureBeat
John D. Sutter / CNN:
How many pages are on the internet? — (CNN) — It seems like an answerable question, right? — But no one really knows how many websites or individual Web pages make up this seemingly infinite digital universe that is the internet. — Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine …
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Pixel Qi receives major investment from 3M, says this is the step to enable ‘mass adoption’ — It was almost two years ago that Pixel Qi founder Mary Lou Jepsen promised a mainstream device (a tablet or netbook, etc.) with the company's unique transflective 3Qi display.
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TechSpot, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, Fast Company and silicontap.com
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Philadelphia papers court subscribers with $99 Android tablet — The Philadelphia Media Network, parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, on Monday officially announced its program to subsidize Android tablets for newspaper subscribers.
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Philly.com, Philly.com, TechCrunch, SplatF, Examiner, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, MacNN and GottaBeMobile
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
China Grants Apple 40 New Design Patents Covering All-Things iPhone, MacBook Air & their Beautiful Shanghai Store Architecture — What's with Apple jamming through hundreds of design patents through China's Patent Office this past year? The increase in design patents is measurably noticeable …
Casey Ross / Boston Globe:
Globe starts far-ranging paid website for all devices — The Boston Globe today launches a new subscription-only website, BostonGlobe.com, betting that readers will be willing to pay for an online product that offers an innovative, inviting reading experience that is the only gateway to all of the Globe's journalism.
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Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:
Computer Hackers' Hackathons Go Mainstream — During a “hackathon” last year, GroupMe co-founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht built a group text-messaging service in one 24-hour stretch. In August, the co-founders sold GroupMe to Skype for around $80 million.
