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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint to ‘Bet the Company’ on iPhone — With the new iPhone coming out this week, Sprint Nextel Corp. is finally expected to gain access to a device it has long coveted—but at a staggering cost. — The No. 3 wireless company is making a multibillion dollar gamble that Apple Inc.'s gadget …
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Sprint scores iPhone 5 exclusive thanks to $20 billion deal with Apple? — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sprint has entered into an agreement with Apple to purchase over $20 billion worth of iPhones over the next four years — that's around 30 million iPhones.
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Computerworld, DSLreports, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Marketing Pilgrim, PE Hub Blog, FreakGeeks, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Business Insider and 9to5Mac
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple will NOT stream tomorrow's iPhone event — In case there was any question, we've heard directly from Apple PR that there won't be a webcast of Apple's iPhone launch event. Last Year's September event was live streamed but for unspecified reasons, Apple has chosen to keep this one off the airwaves.
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CNET News, @dannysullivan, FreakGeeks, TechCrunch, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and GottaBeMobile
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Tim Cook's time to shine with new Apple iPhone — (Reuters) - Tim Cook finally gets his chance to stride out from under Steve Jobs' shadow, and he could not have picked a better time or device to mark his unofficial debut as Apple Inc's CEO. — The latest generation of the iPhone …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
IPhone 5 Risks Same Old Same Old
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Digits, TechFlash, paidContent, BGR and NBC Bay Area
Robert Scoble / Google+:
Will tomorrow be Steve Jobs' last big thing? — I read all …
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9to5Mac, PadGadget, FreakGeeks, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile and MacPost
Jeffrey Veen / The Typekit Blog:
Adobe acquires Typekit — Just a few moments ago, Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch took the stage at their annual MAX conference and explained the company's Creative Cloud strategy. Part of that announcement is very big news for us: Typekit has been acquired by Adobe. — We are thrilled.
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Andre Charland / Andre's Blog:
Nitobi enters into Acquisition Agreement with Adobe
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The Register, ReadWriteWeb, PhoneGap, SplatF, Computerworld and Electronista
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Co-Founder of Siri: Assistant launch is a “World-Changing Event” (Interview) — On Tuesday, Apple will change the way humans interact with electronic devices. All over again. — Perhaps the biggest announcement at Apple's iPhone event on Tuesday will be Assistant, Apple's evolution of the Siri Personal Assistant Software.
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Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, IntoMobile and Touch Arcade
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
‘iPhone 4S’ 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Listings at Vodafone Germany — Over the past few days, there have been a number of reports of next generation iPhone models appear in various inventories. Both Radio Shack and Cincinnati Bell websites have listed “iPhone 5” entries, fueling speculation …
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Brian / The Tech Erra:
Apple to allow iOS app rentals soon? — After some examinations of various strings in iTunes 10.5 beta 9, @SonnyDickson found some interesting results. — If you look at the below image, you can see that it may soon be possible to rent iOS apps. At the end of the rental period …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mobile Marketing Watch, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Geek.com, TUAW, GigaOM, FreakGeeks, PadGadget, MacStories, The Apple Core Blog and Edible Apple
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Sean Parker Is Now On Twitter: “Sorry Zuck” — Sean Parker is getting a lot louder. — You've been hearing about him for a decade now — cofounder of Napster and Plaxo, founding President of Facebook, and most recently as an investor (and advocate) of Spotify.
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CNET News, The Next Web, @sparker and AllTwitter
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
‘Diggnation,’ Popular Web Talk Show, to End in December — Together, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are akin to Oprah for a certain class of tech enthusiasts. — The weekly beta-testing and beer-guzzling show they have hosted for six years, “Diggnation,” adapted the television talk show format …
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@kevinrose and NBC Bay Area
Bloomberg:
Google's Schmidt Says Acquisition of Motorola Won't ‘Screw Up’ Android — Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said the $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. may spur competition among phone makers using its Android software, and the company won't play favorites with its partners.
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Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, AllThingsD, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, IntoMobile, Droid Life, FierceWireless and Electronista
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Rhapsody to acquire Napster (scoop) — Rhapsody, one of the older subscription music services, has now made it official. The company has acquired Napster subscribers and other assets from Best Buy, the companies said today. In a deal that CNET first reported, Rhapsody has acquired Napster's subscribers …
Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Mashable, Once a One-Man Blog, Gains Clout in Social Media — Pete Cashmore acknowledged he was nervous. Only a few years ago, he was living with his parents in a small town in northeast Scotland, trying to start a technology blog. Now, at 26, he was about to interview Elie Wiesel …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock — Among the hot and hyped Web 2.0 scene, not many would pick out 13-year-old digital promotions site, Coupons.com. — But, on the heels of a recent $200 million funding — which valued the quiet Mountain View, Calif. …
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VentureBeat and VatorNews
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Tweet Science — Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 characters on Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, narcissism, the struggle for human freedom, and Starbucks into cash—and quick, before its moment passes. Is this asking too much of even the world's best technologists?
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The Next Web, Felix Salmon, Business Insider and Gizmodo
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Microsoft removes, then re-adds Zune HD to its website [u]
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GeekWire, 9to5Mac, All about Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, Electronista, WinRumors and @theromit
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Judge Refuses To Halt Facebook's Timeline; Spills New Details — A federal judge refused late on Friday to grant a temporary restraining order to Timelines.com, a Chicago company that says Facebook's timeline service may “eliminate” it. In return, Facebook has promised to limit access for now and to hold back on a full launch.
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All Facebook, Mashable!, The Next Web and Marketing Pilgrim
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Adobe unveils Adobe Creative Cloud, Photoshop Touch and five other tablet apps — Update: We go hands on with new Adobe Touch Apps! — Adobe Photoshop Touch and five other new iPad apps from Adobe will land on the App Store soon, coming to Android devices in November.
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PC World, VentureBeat, BetaNews, EON, Computerworld, Adobe, TUAW and Electronista
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Murdoch's Tablet Newspaper Experiment The Daily Shows Some Promise — IPad-only Pub Has 120,000 Active Weekly Readers and Is Getting a Boost From Burgeoning Device Market, But Is Still a Long Way From Viable Biz — Can you build a general-news publication exclusively for tablets and gain an audience of paying subscribers?
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SplatF, PadGadget, VentureBeat and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
John Cook / GeekWire:
IPO window closes, raises fears among venture capitalists — Over the course of the past week, I've bumped into a venture capitalist and a high-tech lawyer who shared with me nearly identical information. Basically, they said things are slowing down. And now here's more evidence of that fact.
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Betabeat, VatorNews and PE Hub Blog
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Kindle Touch 3G can't touch most of Internet without WiFi — Amazon has clarified that the next generation of its 3G Kindle, the Kindle Touch 3G, will not be able to browse the Internet without a WiFi connection. Users will still be able to use 3G to sync book and document purchases, but anything beyond Wikipedia will be off-limits.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PayPal To Open A Pop-Up Store In New York To Showcase New Payments Technologies — Exclusive-PayPal is going to be setting up a pop-up store in downtown Manhattan, New York to showcase some of the new tools and technologies the payments giant will debut in the next few months.
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Between the Lines Blog and ZDNet
Brian Oliver Bennett / LAPTOP Magazine:
T-Mobile and Walmart Team Up To Offer $30 No Contract 4G Data — The battle for pre-paid smartphone customers is heating up. Clearly an effort to counter Sprint and Virgin Mobile's rock bottom cellular service, wireless carrier T-Mobile and mega retailer Walmart announced plans to provide fast 4G data for a low $30 monthly fee.
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BetaNews, PC World, Liliputing, Walmartstores.com, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Engadget, TmoNews, GottaBeMobile, GeekWire, Android and Me and Electronista
