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Steve Wozniak / @stevewoz:
The long wait begins. I'm first in line. The guy ahead was on the wrong side and he's pissed. (@ Apple Store) http://t.co/16in6G0p
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CNN, @joehewitt, Business Insider, MacRumors, @pdparticle, App Advice and everythingiCafe
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Apple's New IPhone Sells Out at U.S. Carriers — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s latest iPhone has sold out for pre-order at AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) according to the carriers' websites, signaling customer demand even before it goes on sale in stores tomorrow.
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CNN, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, BGR, I4U News, DailyTech, MacPost, Business Insider, GottaBeMobile, Techland, IntoMobile and App Advice
Electronista:
iPhone 4S goes on sale in Australia to hundreds in line — iPhone 4S now on sale in first countries — Australia as is often case has had the distinction of being the first for an Apple launch in carrying the iPhone 4S. Apple's flagship Sydney store showed that demand hadn't tapered for the new model …
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Digital Trends, MacStories, Sydney Morning Herald, Mashable! and IntoMobile
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple: We're Gonna Need a Bigger iPhone Order
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Examiner, DigiTimes, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, Edible Apple, Techie Buzz, MacDailyNews, GottaBeMobile and IntoMobile
Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. — “We had a great quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue was just short of $10 billion.
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AdExchanger.com, eWeek, Mashable!, SplatF, Engadget, @mattcutts, Android and Me, AllThingsD, AllThingsD, GeekWire, Neowin.net, SlashGear, VatorNews, The New Persuaders, WinRumors, Business Insider, Android Community, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, The Tech Trade, Fortune, Gizmodo Australia, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo and The Next Web
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Q3: $9.72 Billion In Revenue, $2.73 Billion In Net Income
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Inside Mobile Apps, MarketBeat, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, BGR, MarketBeat, Search Engine Watch, Electronista, GMSV and WebProNews
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Larry Page: Mobile Revenues At $2.5 Billion Run-Rate, 190 Million Android Devices
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ClickZ, Larry Page, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and WebProNews
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google's third quarter results shine, Google+ hits 40 million users
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9to5Google, CNET News, Neowin.net, Search Engine Land, Business Insider, The Domains and Android Central
iFixit:
iPhone 4S Teardown — iFixit: “Siri, may we disassemble you for all to see?” iPhone 4S (Siri): “42” iFixit: “I didn't ask for the meaning of life, Siri...” iPhone 4S (Siri): “42 is the number of seconds you have left until I initiate the self-destruct sequence...” iFixit: “Message received.”
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AnandTech, Reuters, Examiner, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Digital Trends, IGN Gear, ITworld.com, Shiny Objects, TechCrunch, Edible Apple, The Next Web, App Advice, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, TiPb, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo UK, GigaOM, Sprintfeed, Bits, IntoMobile, TechnoBuffalo, MacStories, CNET News, MobileWhack.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, ITProPortal, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, SlashGear, Gizmodo Australia, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Cleaning... This is going to be a problem: — (Screenshot by someone on Twitter two weeks ago. I can't find the tweet now — sorry.) — Every iOS app has its own “home” directory where it can store files. Every file and directory that an app puts there, except anything in a Caches or tmp directory …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
U.S. judge says Samsung tablets do infringe Apple — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Samsung's Galaxy tablets do infringe Apple's iPad patents, but also said Apple might have a problem establishing the validity of its patents. — The comments from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh came …
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AllThingsD, Digital Trends, GigaOM, CNET News, paidContent, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, Android Community, The Next Web, SlashGear and FOSS Patents
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
MacBook Pros constrained, new models appear in Apple's inventory system — Apple's current line of MacBook Pros is heavily constrained with all models appearing to be nearly out of stock. Don't fear, though, if you want a MacBook Pro because new models are right around the corner.
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MacStories, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, TechCrunch and Electronista, Thanks:deancorp
Christopher Zinsli / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Zynga Reveals Just How Much Power Mark Pincus Has — We already knew that Mark Pincus had considerable control over his online social-gaming company Zynga thanks to a multi-class stock structure. Now we know exactly how much that voting power represents.
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SiliconBeat, Company Town, Social Markets and Between the Lines Blog
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Zynga (ZNGA) to play on Nasdaq
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat and Inside Social Games
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Google Said to Be Planning an MP3 Store — Five months after it introduced a cloud music service with limited capabilities, Google is in negotiations with the major record labels to expand that service and also open an MP3 store that would compete with Apple and Amazon.
Hulu Blog:
Hulu Equity Owners Announce Decision To Terminate The Hulu Sale Process — The following is a joint statement from Hulu owners News Corporation, Providence Equity Partners, The Walt Disney Company and the Hulu senior management team: — “Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value …
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bitly Enterprise Blog:
Social Search — Today we're pleased to announce the beta launch of bitly's search platform and reputation monitoring service. — bitly shortens 80 million URLs every day, give or take a few. Now, with our new search technology, we're crawling and classifying every URL we shorten to create …
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ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Bitly Rolls Out Reputation-Monitoring Tool and Social-Search Product
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The Next Web, bitly blog and @taylorbuley
Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
Stanford unveils spectacular proposal for opening a campus in New York City. — It's already got palm trees, sunshine and some of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley. What else could Stanford possibly want? — A big, enthusiastic bite out of the Big Apple.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Twitter's VP Engineering Mike Abbott Departs — According to sources close to the situation, Twitter VP of Engineering Mike Abbott has left the company. — He is apparently interested in doing more investing. — [UPDATE: Twitter confirmed the departure in a statement …
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The Next Web
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
The Windows 8 Task Manager … We are really excited to share some of the improvements we are making to the Task Manager in Windows 8. Task Manager is one of the most widely used apps, and it has a long history. It showed up in early versions of Windows as a simple utility to close …
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WinRumors, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, WinBeta and SlashGear
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Video: Mitt Romney on how he tried to hire Steve Ballmer — (Post updated with excerpts from Romney's remarks on free trade.) — I'm over in Redmond this afternoon to hear Mitt Romney, one of the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, talk about trade and business issues …
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The Register and The Microsoft Blog
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung and Google Reschedule Android Event for Oct. 19 in Hong Kong — Samsung and Google have rescheduled the Ice Cream Sandwich launch event that was to have taken place this past Tuesday. The companies postponed the event in the wake of Steve Jobs's death.
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Khosla Venture's $1.05 Billion Fund — Venture-Capital Firm Plans to Invest in Clean Tech, Mobile Companies — Khosla Ventures, the venture-capital firm run by longtime Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, closed a $1.05 billion fund that ranks as one of the biggest new venture funds this year …
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Business Wire and PE Hub Blog
Ian Lamont / The Digital Media Machine:
The iCloud tax for Mac users — Last night, I updated my iPod touch to iOS 5. Lots of people had reported problems, but my update went smoothly, and soon I was going through the setup for some of the new features, such as iMessage, the iPod mapper, and iCloud.
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Mashable!, @nowever and Webomatica, Thanks:ilamont
Alcatel-Lucent:
Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011: Message from Jeong Kim — Dennis Ritchie (right) receiving the Japan Prize in May 2011 — [Message from Jeong Kim, President, Bell Labs, to our employees] — It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dennis Ritchie has passed away at the age of 70.
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Unfiltered Opinion …, Wired Enterprise, ZDNet, CNET News, SiliconANGLE and TG Daily
Garrett / StumbleUpon Blog:
20 Million Stumblers! — We are excited to announce that StumbleUpon has just reached 20 million members! We've come a long way over the last few years, and I wanted to thank all of our Stumblers for helping us get to this point. What started as a Firefox extension has now become available …
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Search Engine Journal
Nielsen Wire:
40% of Tablet and Smartphone Owners Use Them While Watching TV — American consumers are increasingly connected and our recent survey shows they are increasingly multitasking when it comes to multimedia. — Roughly 40 percent of tablet and smartphone owners in the U.S. used their devices daily …
