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Zach Rait / Facebook Blog:
Introducing the Subscribe Button — Until now, it hasn't been easy to choose exactly what you see in your News Feed. Maybe you don't want to see every time your brother plays a game on Facebook, for example. Or maybe you'd like to see more stories from your best friends, and fewer from your coworkers.
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The Next Web, The Huffington Post, T3.com News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Inside Facebook, Poynter, Poynter, MediaFile, GeekWire, Lost Remote, Digital Trends, Front Side Bus, Gawker, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb, Business Insider, Jeff Jarvis, @carnage4life, InfoWorld, @parislemon, GigaOM, All Facebook, Gizmodo, gHacks Technology News, The New Persuaders, Marketing Pilgrim, Bits, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines Blog, Adotas, SiliconFilter, VatorNews, CNET News, WebProNews and GeekSugar, more at Mediagazer »
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Along With Subscriptions, You'll Soon Be Able To Update Twitter From Facebook
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
At f8, Facebook Developers Could Get a Smarter Way to Structure Their News Feed Stories
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TechCrunch, This is my next, Digits and MediaPost
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
At Long Last, Facebook Adds Twitter-Style Following, Calls It “Subscribe”
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Mashable!, Robert Scoble, SlashGear, Techland, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at Microsoft's developer conference on Tuesday, touting the importance of the company's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. — Ballmer noted the early enthusiasm for the product …
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eWeek, SlashGear, BetaNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, This is my next, CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, DailyTech, The Register, Liliputing, Engadget, Front Side Bus and Gadget Lab
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Microsoft jettisons Flash with ‘plug-in free’ Windows 8 Metro IE10 — The tablet-optimized Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be a “plug-in free experience,” as the company follows Apple's lead in abandoning Adobe Flash in favor of HTML5 on tablets.
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MSDN Blogs
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Metro — I don't think there's any hyperbole in Microsoft's claim that this is “Windows Reimagined”. But it's not so much that Windows 8 is Windows reimagined, but Metro that is Windows reimagined. It's truly a whole new concept in how a computer interface should look and work.
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V3.co.uk, MacStories and This is my next
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat — Back in June, Apple unveiled iMessage, one of the major new features of the upcoming iOS 5 update. iMessage is a unified messaging service for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that allows users to send text and multimedia messages over Wi-Fi …
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Code strings indicate iMessage might eventually integrate with iChat
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BGR, GigaOM, Electronista and iLounge
April Dembosky / Financial Times:
Facebook IPO delayed until late 2012 — Facebook is preparing to launch its blockbuster initial public offering in the US towards the end of next year, a later public debut by the social networking site than had been widely anticipated, say people familiar with the company.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is...Shaker — Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to seven finalists, which included Bitcasa …
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PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Hey, Eric Marcoullier …, Bits, @greeterdan, Local Media Watch, @thekenyeung, @scobleizer and BostInnovation.com
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Pavel Vodenski / Google Mobile Blog:
Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6 — Today, we launched a new version of Google Goggles that enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. With this new opt-in feature in Goggles, you can simply photograph an image using your phone's camera, and Goggles will work in the background to analyze your image.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Brings Automatic, Background Visual Search to Android Phones
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Barry Diller Skewers AOL For Firing Michael Arrington From TechCrunch — Earlier today at The Paley Center for Media's International Council, IAC Chairman and Senior Executive Barry Diller took the stage for a keynote conversation with Jason Hirschhorn, CEO of reDEF Group.
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Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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z3ntv:
TECHCRUNCH FOUNDER VS NEW EDITOR TURNS UGLY
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TechCrunch, The Loop and Soshable, Thanks:marsmag
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Don't Mean To Be Rude, But Mike Arrington Wasn't A Very Good Angel Investor
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PE Hub Blog
Bloomberg:
Google Buys 1K IBM Patents for Android Defense — Google Inc. (GOOG) bought 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) as the Internet search and advertising company bolsters its strategy of defending against smartphone lawsuits. — Transfers recorded by the U.S. Patent …
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Engadget, Front Side Bus, AppleInsider, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, Android and Me, SEO by the Sea, The Tech Trade, Gizmodo and Slashdot
New York Times:
Groupon Back on Track for Its I.P.O. — Groupon is planning to put its initial public offering back on track even as markets remain rocky. — After postponing presentations to potential investors early this month, the online coupon giant is now aiming to go public in late October or early November …
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@evelynrusli and Reuters, Thanks:m_delamerced
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling — Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts — A range of major players interested in acquiring all or a large piece of Yahoo have been prepping possible bids and have been in touch with the Internet giant's board over the last several days.
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Reuters, Bloomberg, eWeek, CNET News, Deal Journal, Tech Trader Daily, GMSV and Hillicon Valley
Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Ex-Samsung Worker Says He Gave Apple IPad Data to Fleishman — Sept.14 (Bloomberg) — A former Samsung Electronics Co. manager testified that he passed confidential shipping data for Apple Inc. iPad components to James Fleishman, a Primary Global Research LLC executive on trial on insider trading charges.
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AppleInsider and The Next Web
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify In the Big Digital Music Giveaway — Free, legal music on the web looked like a defunct business model just a few months ago. Now it seems to be going through a revival phase. — Over the summer, Spotify finally opened for business …
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SFGate, Gizmodo, Technologizer, Variety, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web
Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog:
+Snippets on Google Maps: if you can see it, you can share it — We recently launched +snippets for users and publishers, making it easy to visit a webpage and then share it on Google+. We want to make sharing across Google just as easy, so today we're bringing +snippets to Google Maps.
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Mashable!, SlashGear, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, LAUNCH, The Next Web and Google Maps Mania
