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David W. Martin / Cult of Mac:
Preliminary Reports Surface About iPhone 4S Screen Quality Issues — There is an open discussion on Apple's discussion forum where iPhone 4S owners are reporting problems they are having with their new phones display. The majority of complaints are about how the display has a yellow tint …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 4S Sales Now Reservation-Only at Apple Retail Stores in U.S. and Canada — Apple has updated its “how to buy” page for the iPhone 4S to note that Apple retail stores in the United States and Canada are now selling the device on a reservation-only basis.
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Apple's 4-million-iPhone-4S weekend in context — Apple announced this morning that it sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S units over the weekend. That is an Apple record, a mobile phone record — according to Apple — and maybe even a consumer electronics record.
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Jared Newman / PC World:
Early iPhone 4S Problems
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is At 250 Million Tweets Per Day, iOS 5 Integration Made Signups Increase 3x — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has just dropped some numbers at a dinner here at Web 2.0 Summit. Costolo revealed that the company has gone from 100 million tweets per day to 1/4 billion tweets per day — a billion tweets every 4-5 days, he said.
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Twitter's CEO Just Confirmed An $8 Billion Valuation
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Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID RAZR Revealed Early from Teaser Site — We talked earlier this morning about Moto's new teaser site from the DROID RAZR that will slowly be revealed up until launch. Well, we discovered the image early...spoiler alert? It matches up to all of the previous leaks we have seen …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
The Missed Red Flags on Groupon — This summer, Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, flew to Chicago to personally pitch his firm to underwrite what was supposed to be the hottest initial public offering of the year: Groupon, the fledgling online coupon company that was being valued at around $30 billion.
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The Pondering Primate
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong — Chris Poole delivered the most powerful 10 minutes of Web philosophy of the afternoon at Web 2.0. The man formerly known as moot - founder of anonymous image sharing den 4chan and its new, better-lit cousin, Canvas …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, The Register and Digits
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Samsung accused of lifting iPhone screenshot for Galaxy Player promo — Consumer electronics maker Samsung appears to have used a nearly three-year-old screen capture of the Maps application on the iPhone to promote its own Galaxy Player 50 portable media player.
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Sean Parker: Yes, My New Startup Is Called Airtime — The Web 2.0 Summit kicked off today. — Mark Pincus was supposed to kick it off, but canceled on Friday. Presumably that's because of concerns over the company's IPO period. — Instead the irrepressible Sean Parker took …
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Sean Parker on Facebook: “There's good creepy and there's bad creepy”
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric — Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag.
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Spencer Spinnell / Google Commerce:
More Google Wallet merchants are live. Now you can pay AND save in a single tap. — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — We're hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic.
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New Media Age, 9to5Google, eWeek, Android and Me, PC World, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, paidContent, Electronista and TechCrunch
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Another View of Patents From James Dyson — The recent news about patents has all been about big technology companies loading up on them and litigating, especially in the smartphone market. — Microsoft, Apple and a few other companies paid $4.5 billion for the 6,000 patents held …
Greylock VC:
Greylock Builds Talent Team — People are what make companies successful. Easy to say and surprisingly does not always receive the focus it should. We've recently invested in putting together a talent team to help our portfolio companies identify the right people, at every level …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Yahoo CTO Out, But Stays EIR at Company — Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata is stepping down as CTO of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, the company confirmed this afternoon, after I made a query about the change. — He will be replaced by Ash Munshi, Yahoo said. — In a statement, the company said:
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Price of Bitcoin Still Dropping, Falls Below the Price of Mining — The price of Bitcoin continues to drop by about a dollar every week to ten days, currently settling at about $2.80 USD, and Bitcoin enthusiasts are starting to get worried. “I am not trying to cause a panic here …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz Back Cloud Enterprise Performance Analytics Startup Tidemark — Tidemark, formerly known as Proferi, has closed a $4 million Series B round from existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday and founder …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Scoop: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio — Updated. With Skype's sale to Microsoft finally sealed, one might wonder: What are Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the European serial entrepreneurs that have founded KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, up to next?
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Katie Linsell / Bloomberg:
Losing $13.5 Billion to Piracy Spurs Microsoft-Led Europe Legal Push: Tech — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) are among software companies that lost $13.5 billion to program pirates and counterfeiters in Europe last year. Their message to lawmakers: Learn from the U.S. and punish the thieves.
Tim Moynihan / PC World:
Smartphone Camera Battle: iPhone 4S vs. the Android Elite — The iPhone 4S offers better camera specs than previous iPhones, but does it capture better-looking stills and videos than the best Android phones? Let's find out. — By now, you've probably heard rumblings about why point …
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Android Phone Fans, eWeek and Technologizer
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Five things to watch for in Apple's earnings tomorrow — Apple is once again expected to top Wall Street's estimates when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow. — The maker of iPhones, iPads, and Macs is expected to post earnings of $7.27 per share on revenue of $29.3 billion …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Citigroup CEO targeted by hackers over protest arrests — Vikram Pandit, chief executive of Citigroup — Hackers released personal information on the head of Citigroup today in retaliation for the arrest of protesters during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations this weekend.
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Livefyre lands $4.5M to take on Facebook comments — Livefyre, the software platform that embeds live commenting on websites, has secured $4.5 million in a new round of funding. The San Francisco-based company says it plans to use the money to hire more engineers and salespeople and expand its products.
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ReadWriteWeb, Business Insider, PRWeb and The Livefyre blog
Softpedia News:
T-Mobile Releases Source Code for Galaxy S II — Wireless services provider T-Mobile has just added to its offering the high-end Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, and the carrier already made the source code for the device available for download. — The main difference between the T-Mobile flavor …
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Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Android Police and RootzWiki
