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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple's Next Event to Be Held on October 4, Starring Its New CEO — That's the day Apple is currently expected to hold its next big media event, according to sources close to the situation, where the tech giant will unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
If iPhone 5 is unveiled Oct. 4, when will it go on sale? — “Sources close to the situation” say within a few weeks. History suggests earlier. — All Things Digital's John Paczkowski reports that Apple (AAPL) plans to unveil the new iPhone at a special event on Tuesday Oct. 4.
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Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:
Seeking a level playing field... Yelp helps consumers find great local businesses. One important way consumers find Yelp is through a search on Google. — You may have heard that a number of government officials are investigating whether Google has violated state and federal anti-trust laws.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Rivals Are Readying An Antitrust Assault in D.C. — Three Internet companies—Nextag Inc., Yelp Inc. and Expedia Inc.—are gearing up to attack Google Inc. on Capitol Hill, claiming the company is taking new profits for itself by unfairly punishing them on its search engine.
Tom Conrad / Pandora:
New Pandora for All — Today is a big day for Pandora: after more than a year of planning, design, engineering, and beta testing we're launching an entirely new Pandora website. — In late 2010 we started with a clean sheet of paper, challenging ourselves to create a new internet radio experience …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Being Considered for HP CEO Job to Replace Apotheker — Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is being considered by Hewlett-Packard directors as a possible candidate for CEO, in a move that would replace its current leader Léo Apotheker, according to several sources close to the situation.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Gling? Glam Buys Ning for $200 Million, Mostly in Stock — Glam Media, a social content platform for sites primarily targeting women, said it's buying Ning, the custom social-platform start-up co-founded by Marc Andreessen. — The purchase price wasn't disclosed, but sources close …
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Marc Andreessen / pmarca:
Merging Glam and Ning
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Windows Phone manager who tweeted inside info about Nokia device is out at Microsoft — A Windows Phone principal program manager has left the company two weeks after making headlines for tweeting his impressions of an unreleased Nokia phone running the Microsoft mobile operating system.
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Tim Carmody / Wired.com:
Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town — Google+ is opening up. The service that the enthusiastic and curious once begged to join is now open to anyone with a Google account, except those unfortunate Apps users (what's up with that?). Users new and old also get to play …
Paul Krill / Computerworld:
Adobe forges ahead with Flash 11 as industry turns away — Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are announced just as Microsoft chooses HTML5 over plug-ins like Flash in Metro version of IE10 — Adobe has moved forward with its Flash-based strategy, announcing today Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 for creating …
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
The Man Who Would Have Facebook — PAUL CEGLIA IS A PUDGY 38-YEAR-OLD, with greasy black hair and creases around his light brown eyes, a serial small-time entrepreneur who could sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. “He's got tremendous confidence,” said Bill Castle, an upstate hotelier …
David Goldman / CNN Money:
Microsoft's plan to stop Bing's $1 billion bleeding — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. — Microsoft ( MSFT, Fortune 500) has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009 …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Amazon launches Kindle book-lending service with 11,000 US libraries — We knew that Amazon was working to launch its own Kindle Lending Library service but today the internet retailer has taken the wraps off its book borrowing service that will see Kindle users be able to check …
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Mark Tonkelowitz / Facebook Blog:
Interesting News, Any Time You Visit — When you visit Facebook, you should see the things you're most interested in, like status updates from your family and closest friends. Last week, we announced improvements to Friend Lists and a new Subscribe button to help you see more of what you care about, and less of what you don't.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Twitter to launch political advertising — Trying to capitalize its status as a hub of the national political conversation, the social networking giant Twitter is beginning for the first time this week to sell political advertising, executives told POLITICO.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple finds a use for some of those first-generation iPads — Donates thousands to teachers in America's poorest schools — Teach for America might sound like a fun way to spend a couple years after college, but it's a pretty tough gig. With just five-weeks training, recent graduates …
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Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Remember Kazaa? They Just Built An iPhone App To Compete With Spotify — Kazaa, perhaps the most popular peer to peer music piracy service circa Y2K, just announced the availability of its brand new iPhone app. — Except there's no piracy even remotely involved here …
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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Google draws a big blue Google+ ad on its homepage — Have you visited Google.com today? — Now that Google+ is available to everyone in the world, the company is making it crystal clear in reminding its users it's now open to the masses. Check out the shot below of the enormous arrow animation …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Netflix, Discovery Ink Expanded Two-Year Licensing Agreement — Even more news from the Netflix camp, which has just signed an agreement with media juggernaut Discovery Communications to renew and expand their licensing deal. — The companies this morning announced a two-year …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Stitcher gets $10M to personalize Internet talk radio — Stitcher, the Pandora of Internet talk radio, has raised $10 million as it capitalizes on the opportunity in non-music streaming radio. The San Francisco company raised the money from New Enterprise Associates, which led the round …
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog and MacNN
Amy Gahran / CNN:
New law bans warrantless cell phone searches — Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. — (CNN) — If you get arrested …
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Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Apple: Why It's Not In The Dow — An interesting question cropped up today: Why isn't Apple in the Dow Jones Industrial Average? — After all, Apple is now the world's largest company by market cap, with a value at today's close of $383 billion, well ahead of previous leader Exxon Mobil at $360 billion.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Gilt Groupe Investor Matrix Partners Leads $33M Round In Fashion Retail And Styling Platform JustFabulous — JustFabulous, a fashion retail and styling platform, has raised $33 million in Series A funding lead by Matrix Partners (who also invested in flash sales giant Gilt Groupe) …
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Myriam Joire / Engadget:
HP's unreleased white TouchPad and Pre 3 for AT&T (hands-on video) — What's this? Some of HP's unreleased WebOS devices? Well yes! Say hello to the white european TouchPad, the black TouchPad 4G for AT&T, the Pre 3 for AT&T, and our very own Veer 4G review unit, all gathered on a fine specimen of new century modern upholstery.
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Softpedia News, IntoMobile and webOSroundup
Instagram:
Introducing Instagram v2.0 — Today, we're excited to announce the release of one of the largest revamps to the Instagram app since it launched nearly a year ago. — Since the day we launched, one core part of the app has remain largely unchanged: the camera.
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Introducing Engadget Distro! — Say hello to Engadget Distro. At its most molecular level, it's nothing more than a series of ones and zeros, cobbled together in a compiler and made to look like words and images on Apple's iPad. But in reality, it's something far greater …
