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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
LEAKED MEMO: Jerry Yang Tells Yahoos The Company Is For Sale — After Yahoo fired CEO Carol Bartz, cofounder Jerry Yang told employees that the company had not begun a sales process. — Since then, reports here and elsewhere have suggested that is a bunch of malarkey and that Yahoo's board …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Dueling Internal Memos: Board, Followed by CEO, Spam Employees in Race to Explain — Today, Yahoo leaders — all of them in two different memos — took to the keyboards to fill their 14,000 employees in on what's up. — Reading them, Yahoos must now be more confused than ever.
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Business Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Microsoft Blog, Reuters and Electronista
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
“Read” in Facebook - It's Not a Button, So Be Careful What You Click! — While the focus of today's Facebook announcements was the new Timeline profile, the Read, Watch, Listen media sharing apps have generated a lot of interest too. These so-called “social apps” haven't been widely launched yet …
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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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LAUNCH, CNET News, AllThingsD, NBC Bay Area, Wired.com, Wall Street Journal, Inside Facebook, Tom Anderson and Slate Magazine
Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook's new features …
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Mashable!, @pkedrosky, @edzitron, @mathewi, The Social Media …, blog.chron.com and NevilleHobson.com
Maura Johnston / naming blogs is easy:
on facebook, privacy, and the hindered development of the self.
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GigaOM and TechCrunch
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Analysis: Facebook Applies the Dimension of Time to the Social Web
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Uh-Oh: Groupon Loses New COO, Who's Going Back to Google — In a blog it just posted, Groupon said its recently hired COO, Margo Georgiadis, “has decided to return to Google (her former employer) in a new role as President, Americas.” — She was only hired in April, just months before the company filed to go public.
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Groublogpon, @fromedome, PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Tech Trade, DealBook, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Fast Company
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
More: Groupon Amends Its S-1 IPO Filing — Again — Over Accounting Issues and CEO Letter
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paidContent, Business Insider, DealBook and Deal Journal
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 Aims To Keep, Gain Subs With ‘Blockbuster Movie Pass’; Thanks, Netflix
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ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Mashable!, AllThingsD, NBC Bay Area, BetaNews, MediaFile, CNET News, Ars Technica, DSLreports, MediaPost, dailywireless.org and The Tech Trade
Paul Carr / Bringing Something To The Party:
What's Next? — So, as promised, here's an update on what I'm doing next. It's pretty exciting. [Update: so exciting, in fact, that while I was writing this post, Henry Blodget scooped me on my own news.] — I'm starting a new company, with financial backing from Tony Hsieh (Zappos …
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Comcast Working on iPad TV Streaming Service Called AnyPlay — Comcast, the United States' largest cable and internet provider, is working on a television streaming solution for iPads, to compete with Cablevision and Time Warner. The streaming product was announced earlier this year, but details haven't been released until now.
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VentureBeat, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Engadget, Electronista, Business Insider and iClarified
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Google+ for iOS Update: Mobile Hangouts, New Notification Settings, And More — A major update to the official Google+ app for iOS has been released on the App Store, and it adds the features mentioned by Google earlier this week when the service hit official “beta” status (open to everyone) after a limited field-trial period.
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VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, ReadWriteWeb, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW and The Next Web, Thanks:viticci
Lisa Gurry / Bing:
Deluged by Daily Deals? Browse Over 200k Offers with Bing Deals — Despite lots of recent news coverage about the death of daily deal sites, people still love a great deal. The number of daily deal sites may be narrowing, but there are still over 300 sites to choose from and consumer interest shows no signs of slowing down.
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WinRumors, PC Magazine, BetaNews, TechNet Blogs, LiveSide.net, The Microsoft Blog, SiliconFilter, Neowin.net, GeekWire, Lifehacker and All about Microsoft Blog
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Bing Makes Bid To Become Top Deals Destination
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BGR, Marketing Pilgrim, Understanding Google … and MarketingVox News & Trends
Marc Lifsher / Money & Company:
Gov. Jerry Brown signs Amazon sales tax collection law — Saying it would save existing jobs and create new ones, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law legislation to require Amazon.com and many other out-of-state Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases by California customers.
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CNET News, Performance Marketing …, Associated Press, Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, NBC Bay Area and Reuters
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Upcoming Twitter events focusing on iOS 5 integration hint at Apple release by Oct 10th — Twitter has announced plans to hold its first two developer events outside of San Francisco. These ‘Developer Teatimes’ will be held in London on October 10th and New York City on October 12th.
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Twitter Developers, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iClarified and Tip Desk, Thanks:wildhairmedia
David Downs / Billboard.Biz:
Killers, Snoop Dogg, Jane's Addiction Rock Sean Parker's f8 Conference/Party — To celebrate Thursday's f8 announcement of Facebook and Spotify's partnership, Sean Parker hosted an exclusive “A Celebration of Music” that night in a San Francisco warehouse, inviting the Killers, Snoop Dogg …
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Rolling Stone, All Shook Down, @snoopdogg, @spotifyusa, @stevenjayl and Pulse Blog
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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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
After Big Funding, The Knives Comes Out for Business Insider
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