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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
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Daniel Ruby / Localytics:
iOS 5 Already Powering 1 in 3 Eligible Devices
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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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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Twitter CEO Costolo on Apple, Privacy, Free Speech and Google; Far From IPO
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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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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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Jared Newman / PC World:
Early iPhone 4S Problems
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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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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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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
HTC Titan review — We knew as soon as we first clapped eyes on this hulk of a phone that it'd make a brave purchase. It's not just the 4.7-inch screen that requires a leap of faith, but also the Windows Phone operating system, which is presented here in all its Mangofied glory but is still very much an early adopter's ecosystem.
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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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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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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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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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Tim Castle / Reuters:
UK-U.S. extradition review deals blow to hacker — (Reuters) - An extradition treaty with the United States is not biased against British criminal suspects, a judge-led review said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to campaigners fighting to stop a computer hacker being sent to stand trial in America.
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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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?
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 …
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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BBC:
England riots: Court rejects Facebook sentence appeals — The court upheld Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan's four-year sentences — Appeals by two men jailed for using Facebook to try to incite disorder during August's riots in England have been rejected by the Court of Appeal.
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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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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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 …
