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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A Business Insider retrospective — After reading Ryan McCarthy's post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers. — After all, they've linked to nearly every significant article I've written for the last few years, often automatically by scraping Techmeme.
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Dear Tumblr And Instapaper Genius Marco Arment: We're Sorry You're Not A Fan — We've read your criticism of our site, and we'd like to respond. — You don't like our headlines, our slideshows, our sharing buttons, and a bunch of other things. That's fine, we don't mind that our taste isn't your taste.
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Ryan McCarthy / Felix Salmon:
Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic — The news that Business Insider raised approximately $7 million should be great news for those who follow the world of web media. Henry Blodget's got a flat-out growth story on his hands: his staff of 60 now attracts 12 million visitors …
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John Furrier, Daring Fireball, Business Insider and ITProPortal, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
After Big Funding, The Knives Comes Out for Business Insider
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Ben Werdmuller / Ben Werdmuller von Elgg:
The Facebook Timeline is the nearest thing I've seen to a digital identity (and it's creepy as hell) — As an application developer, I have advance access to the Facebook Timeline that Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday. Here it is: — At first glance, it's a rather beautiful replacement …
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate Magazine:
Facebook's terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web. — Mark Zuckerberg wants you to share. He doesn't much care if you want to share. Sharing, in Zuckerberg's view, has morphed from an affirmative act—that video was hilarious, I think I'll Like it!—to something more like an unconscious state of being.
Tom Anderson / Google+:
Why Facebook's New Vision is Good for Google+ — I sat back …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again.
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
What f8 Means for Advertisers: The Ability to Target Users Based on Media Consumption
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Dish's Blockbuster Movie Pass: Streaming, mail and on-demand, $10, Oct 1st — Today Dish and Blockbuster announced that it is announcing Blockbuster Movie Pass. This is a service that will offer movie streaming, DVD and Blu-ray discs by mail and on-demand movie channels. The service will launch October 1st.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Dish Network's Blockbuster ‘Movie Pass’ Aimed Squarely At Netflix — The timing of the Dish Network's and Blockbuster's introduction of new a streaming video venture couldn't be more perfect. With Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) reeling from subscriber losses and discontent after successive PR failures following …
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Sean Hollister / This is my next:
Leo Apotheker's last memo to HP employees — Leo Apotheker may not be the CEO of Hewlett-Packard anymore — Meg Whitman took his place this morning — but the former chief executive didn't head out the door without sending one last memorandum to his employees.
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
HP Chairman Ray Lane: A profile in courage
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Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:
HP's Whitman Says She'll Keep Strategies Begun by Apotheker
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Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Amazon holding press conference on September 28th, tablet coming? — Well, would you look at what just hit our inbox! Yep, Amazon's holding a press conference on Wednesday, September 28th right here in NYC. Of course, the invite is as bare bones as they come, but all signs point …
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Kelly Olsen / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Samsung to Step up Apple Patent War — A top Samsung executive says the company will take a bolder stance in its patent battle with smartphone and tablet rival Apple, which Samsung claims has been “free riding” on its patented wireless technologies.
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, The Register, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, MobileSyrup.com and GigaOM
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Maaike Noordhuis / Bloomberg:
Samsung Files Suits Against Apple in Netherlands, Court Says
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PC Magazine, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Engadget, Computerworld, GigaOM, MacDailyNews, Android Phone Fans, Macworld, Ubergizmo and The Next Web
DigiTimes:
Defect in Wintek-made touch panels may influence initial iPhone 5 shipments — A defect has presented in some iPhone 5 touch panels produced by Wintek which may affect the ability to meet initial shipment targets for the launch which is expected in October, according to iPhone supply chain makers.
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Motorola Edison (Atrix 2) for AT&T preview — Motorola has been rumored lately to be working on an AT&T smartphone codenamed “Edison” that would likely replace the Atrix 4G in the lineup, and as luck would have it, we had an opportunity to play with one today.
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store — (Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. — The business newspaper …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent Adds Android, iOS, PS3 and Xbox Integration — With more than 100 million active users a month and a market share of nearly 50 percent, uTorrent is without doubt the most-used BitTorrent client. — Despite the success story that it is, the uTorrent development team hasn't been sitting still in recent years.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Oracle seeks $1.16 billion from Google in Android case — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp on Thursday estimated it suffered roughly $1.16 billion of damages from Google Inc's alleged copyright and patent infringement of Java technology used in the Android operating system.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay To Announce Something Big With Facebook In Two Weeks — At 500 Startups' Smash Summit in New York today, Robert Scoble revealed that PayPal is launching something big with Facebook in two weeks, and that it would be a more expansive partnership than the existing PayPal-Facebook integrations.
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
AT&T begins Mango update program September 27th. Full details. — For all of you on AT&T and awaiting Mango, we have some big news for you, so grab yourself a seat, because you're hearing it here first. Looks like that earlier info about “being on time” was accurate.
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Cellphone service comes to some NYC subway stations — New Yorkers will finally be able to use their cellphones in subway stations—as long as their commute takes them through one neighborhood in Manhattan. — The 6 line in New York, one of the train lines that still won't get cellular service.
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Greg Lamm / TechFlash:
Amazon.com spends $2.4M on A/C at sweltering warehouses — Amazon.com says that it spent $2.4 million “urgently installing” industrial air conditioning units in four warehouses, including Amazon's Breinigsville, Penn., facility that has been at the center of worker complaints and a PR challenge for the e-commerce giant.
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VatorNews, Amazon.com, GeekWire, MarketWatch and AllThingsD
Matt Warman / Telegraph:
London to get its own web address — Official promotional agency for London announces it will apply for the .London domain — London may have its own web domain by the end of 2012 — London's official promotional agency, London & Partners, has announced that it will apply for a web domain for the city.
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