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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
I'm Leaving TechCrunch. Here's Why. — So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark —that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Paul, I Accept Your Resignation — Paul Carr, one of our columnists who was hired for his grandstanding ways, has decided to fall on his own sword and quit very publicly on TechCrunch. I believe this is the second or third time he's quit in public in the past couple weeks. I keep losing count.
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Erick Schonfeld Cut a Side Job With Arianna for TechCrunch Editorship, Paul Carr Says in Resignation Blog Post — Flabbergasts! New York-based TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld, newly-named editor in chief of the site, has been accused. In a glorious resignation post …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook price slashing begins: $249 and up for Rogers workers — Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie revealed on the company's second-quarter earnings call that RIM would soon be dropping prices on its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. While the new price points have not yet been disclosed …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Big PlayBook update coming October, adds Video Store, Android, email and more
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Microsoft to take 30% cut of Metro apps under Windows 8 — New Metro-style apps designed to run on Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 for tablets will copy Apple's App Store business model of charging a 30 percent fee from developers, allowing the potential for Microsoft to regain control …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Windows 8 on ARM won't run x86 apps Microsoft admits
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Shakes Things Up Again: Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet Leaving Board — Twitter's is reshaping itself yet again, this time at a corporate level: Investors Fred Wilson and Bijan Sabet are leaving the company's board at the end of the month. Sources say the company won't fill their seats.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Loses Its Chief Scientist, Summize Co-Founder Abdur Chowdhury
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
The mysterious disappearance of the Microsoft Senior Vice Presidents — Summary: Microsoft is eliminating the “Senior Vice President” title across the company. Here's why, according to company officials. — Titles at Microsoft always are a source of confusion, even for those of us paid to keep tabs on the Softies.
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Roberto Baldwin / Gizmodo:
Belkin's Got a Crazy Half-Off-Everything Sale Today (Updated) — Networking and accessories vendor Belkin is about to make your Friday spendtastic. [Today only,] Through September 30, you can get 50% off everything at Belkin.com with no minimum purchase. Just use coupon code “FB50” when you check out and you're set.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Thunderbolt Display with Multiple Monitors: No Daisy Chaining Mini DisplayPort Monitors — With the new 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display now shipping to customers, Apple has posted a new support document outlining what can and can not be accomplished with multiple monitors on Thunderbolt-enabled Mac systems.
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Mike Elgan / Datamation:
Why Facebook is the New Yahoo — Facebook's awkward attempts to copy Google+ smack of a quiet desperation. — Sure, Facebook looks massively successful. With a mind-boggling 750 million users, the social site can do no wrong, right? — Wrong. — Look closer, and it looks like Facebook can do nothing right.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple seen in ‘no rush’ to release iPad 3 as competitors struggle — Apple reportedly has prototypes for its third-generation iPad already circling in its supply chain, but no new model is expected to arrive this year as a true second-place tablet has yet to emerge.
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Grant Gross / PC World:
Obama Signs Patent Overhaul Legislation — U.S. President Barack Obama has signed the America Invents Act, the first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in about 50 years. — The America Invents Act, passed 89-9 by the U.S. Senate last week, would allow new challenges to patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Ouriel / Appsfire Blog:
1 million apps! (iOS + Android) — There you go. We just hit the a significant milestone. If you take all the apps ever developed on iOS and Android we just reached today 1 million mobile apps combined, or at least, that's what our appGenome™ is telling us.
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Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Seven states join effort to stop AT&T/T-Mobile deal — (Reuters) - Seven states have joined the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit to stop AT&T's proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA, the Justice Department said on Friday. — Attorneys general from California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York …
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Hulu sale at risk even as new bids are due — (Reuters) - The auction of online video site Hulu has been slowed by recent developments which could derail it completely, according to sources familiar with the process. — Among the issues are conflicts over complicated digital rights …
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Mac App Store tweak aims to curb accidental buys — The new warning message that appears when trying to purchase an app from Apple that you got from somewhere else. — In an effort to keep users from accidentally purchasing a piece of software they might have gotten elsewhere …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Bump Shares What Its 10 Million Users Share (Infographic) — The mobile app Bump may still be known to people in tech from what it started as — a way to exchange contact information between the owners of two phones by touching them — but it's become a much more broadly used way to share content over the air.
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Microsoft Source: We're Talking About Buying Yahoo — As big shareholders flee AOL and Yahoo's board flounders, consolidation is “definitely” in the air, a source close to Microsoft's portal, MSN, tells us. — “Definitely, people are talking about it.” — This source - who asked …
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Facebook wants to be big among small businesses — At Google, Sandberg served as vice president of global online sales and operations in a role that helped build the company's money-gushing search-advertising business. — Now, the chief operating officer at the world's largest social network wants the same for Facebook.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs — MacRumors has learned that Apple is working on a process to merge multiple Apple IDs into a single login. The issue of juggling multiple Apple ID logins has been a minor inconvenience in the past, but with the early developer testing …
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple's Patent Win Over HTC to Be Reviewed by U.S. Trade Agency — Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — A U.S. trade agency said it will review a judge's finding that HTC Corp. infringed two Apple Inc. patents, a decision that could lead to a ban of HTC's Android- based phones in the country.
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