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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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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, Business Insider, ITProPortal, AllThingsD, paidContent and PE Hub Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
After Big Funding, The Knives Comes Out for Business Insider
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John Furrier, Business Insider and Pulse2
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.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second — This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It's like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again.
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GigaOM, Mashable!, Scobleizer, @dsilverman, @lancehill, @danlev, @mrbrown, @nickbilton, @megan, Gawker, CNET News, Geekosystem and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Tom Anderson / Google+:
Why Facebook's New Vision is Good for Google+ — I sat back …
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@joehewitt, Thanks:myspacetom
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline
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Digits and Facebook Developers
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
What f8 Means for Advertisers: The Ability to Target Users Based on Media Consumption
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paidContent:UK and SiliconFilter
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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CNET News and CNNMoney.com
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
HP Chairman Ray Lane: A profile in courage — HP board chairman Ray Lane is lashing out at critics who are pinning the blame for HP's mess on the board of directors, who are described in this New York Times article as the “worst board in the history of business.”
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John Furrier, Venture Capital Dispatch, Fortune, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Wall Street Journal
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
In First Company-Wide Email, Meg Whitman Says HP Must Focus On Their Mission
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CNET News, Business Insider and AllThingsD, Thanks:grg
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here Comes the Next Bump for Netflix: A Blockbuster/Dish Streaming Service — It's been a bad few months for Netflix. Today might be another lousy day: Dish Network is holding a press conference at 1 pm ET, and the odds are very, very, very good the satellite TV company will use it to introduce …
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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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VentureBeat, Shiny Objects, Computerworld, The Register, CNET News, SlashGear, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Buzz, GottaBeMobile, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Edible Apple, AppleInsider, Newlaunches.com, The Next Web, MacPost, Softpedia News, TiPb, PhoneArena, Techland, How To Arena, Electronista, iLounge, everythingiCafe, Know Your Cell and iClarified
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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PC World, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Droid Life, Android Community, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Fonehome, Engadget, Electronista, Android and Me and Android Phone Fans
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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Android Police, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena and Android Community
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
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.
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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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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AllThingsD, BGR, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web and @pkafka
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Researchers find Mac OS X malware posing as PDF file — Summary: The malware installs a backdoor that contacts a remote server for instructions and can be used to steal files or capture a screenshot of the infected computer system. — Researchers at F-Secure have discovered …
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Ars Technica, The Register, Naked Security, F-Secure Antivirus …, TG Daily, Dennis Fisher and Softpedia News
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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paidContent, VentureBeat, eWeek, LAPTOP Magazine, dailywireless.org, IntoMobile, Mashable!, City Room, AM New York, @fredwilson, MobileBurn.com and Gizmodo
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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Inquirer, TechEye, Android Community and MobileBurn.com
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Bing Makes Bid To Become Top Deals Destination — When Bing launched deals several months ago its partner was deal aggregator The Dealmap, which was subsequently acquired by Google. That forced Microsoft to turn elsewhere for deals and today, as a result, we're seeing the launch …
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Bing, LiveSide.net, PC Magazine, SiliconFilter, WinRumors, MarketingVox News & Trends and Neowin.net
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Overhauls Product Search, Plans To Close Boutiques.com — Google's new Product Search home page is very un-Googley. Dare I say that it actually looks ... stylish? — It's dominated by an oversized image area that changes through a series of five different products.
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VentureBeat, PC Magazine, eWeek, Inside Search, Google Commerce, Fast Company, ITProPortal, Business Insider, 9to5Google and Google Operating System
