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Samuel W. Lessin / Facebook Blog:
Tell Your Story with Timeline — Since the beginning of Facebook, your profile has been the place where you tell your story. People use it to share everything from the small stuff, like their thoughts on an article, to the most important events of their lives, like the photos of their wedding or the birth of their child.
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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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Bret Taylor / Facebook Developers:
f8: A New Class of Apps
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HP:
HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer — Ray Lane appointed executive chairman; Léo Apotheker steps down as president, chief executive officer and director — HP today announced that its board of directors has appointed Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer.
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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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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
It's Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman — Done. Now what? — Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, is the new CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard. The move, which AllThingsD previously reported would happen today after the markets closed …
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
In First Company-Wide Email, Meg Whitman Says HP Must Focus On Their Mission
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Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:
In Whitman, H.P. Gains a Prolific Deal Maker
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CNNMoney.com:
HP's ousted CEO will take home $25 million
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HP's CEO revolving door will hurt it in the long run
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again. — After last year's f8 keynote, my initial thought was pretty straightforward: I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet. Between the Like Button, the Open Graph, and the Open Graph API, I felt like we were shifting …
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate Magazine:
Facebook's terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web. … Like This Story … - Would U.N. Recognition Allow Palestinians To Prosecute Israeli Officials? - Pan Am: Sumptuous Fluff About American Dominance- How R.E.M. Saved American Music- “Check Out My New Homestead!”
Tom Anderson / Google+:
Why Facebook's New Vision is Good for Google+ — I sat back in awe watching Zuckerberg at F8 today. Facebook has done it again — they are always reinventing themselves, always pushing toward the future. They're so good at incorporating other ideas at the right time (http://on.mash.to/rkpYna) …
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Sorry Facebook, But That Stuff I Share on Your Site is Not the “Story of My Life”
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
What f8 Means for Advertisers: The Ability to Target Users Based on Media Consumption
Steven Levy / Epicenter:
Facebook Is Ready for Your New Closeup. Are You?
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft clears up Linux confusion over Windows 8 Secure Boot feature — Microsoft chose to directly respond to confusion surrounding its Windows 8 Secure Boot feature on Thursday. — Microsoft's Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, admitted there had been some comments recently that …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Spotify Will No Longer Be Invite Only In The US, And Users Get Their First Six Months Of Service Free — I'm sitting here at Facebook's F8 conference with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and he's just told me that Spotify will no longer be invite-only in the US, and that the service will have no limitations …
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John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
Deep Spotify Integration Brings Free Music to Facebook
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers — DEVELOPING: The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned. — Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey …
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Ashlee Vance / Business Week:
The Inscrutable Mad Men of Silicon Valley — Esoteric hardware companies try to dominate airport ad space — Donald Basile is the chief executive officer of Violin Memory, a startup in Silicon Valley that makes superfast data storage systems. You've probably never heard of the company …
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
How Big Was Arrington's Stake In TechCrunch When He Sold It To AOL? — About 85%. — That's according to super angel Ron Conway, who is tight with Mike Arrington. — He was giving advice to a bunch of entrepreneurs and developers at small companies at the Twilio Conference in San Francisco …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US net neutrality rules finalized, in effect November 20 — Get ready, America—net neutrality finally comes to the Internet on November 20, 2011. — That's the plan, at least. The FCC has just filed its final “open Internet” rules (PDF) with the Federal Register, which will publish them tomorrow and make them official.
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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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CNNMoney.com:
Blockbuster's Netflix rival will make streaming market even more confusing — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Cable companies were ticked off when “cut the cord” became a rallying cry in 2009, with disgruntled consumers vowing to cancel their expensive TV plans in favor of cheaper options — namely, Netflix.
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