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Imtiyaz Delawala / ABC News:
Bill Gates Dismisses Criticism in Steve Jobs Biography — Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates dismissed criticisms of him by long-time competitor Steve Jobs in the new biography released after Jobs' death, saying “none of that bothers me at all,” while praising the impact the Apple executive had on the world.
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Preston Gralla / Computerworld:
Bill Gates — I helped Steve Jobs create the Mac — Steve Jobs had some very harsh things to say about Bill Gates in the just-published biography of him. In an interview yesterday, Gates responded quite kindly to that criticism, but also took credit for helping Steve Jobs invent the Mac.
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Electronista and Neowin.net
Soledad O'Brien / CNNMoney.com:
Michael Arrington is right (about one thing) — Michael Arrington thinks there should be more effort made to improve diversity in Silicon Valley. I agree. But that important message is being drowned out by a heated online debate.
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Business Insider, CB Insights, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @karaswisher and @theslowman, Thanks:markphillip
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Mitch Kapor / Mitch's posterous:
Beyond Arrington and CNN, Let's Look at the Real Issues — On November 13 CNN will be airing Black in America 4 — The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley, a documentary focusing on eight African-American entrepreneurs and their quest for success in Silicon Valley.
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dylan tweney, Jeff Nolan, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulp Tech Blog and The Loop
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
SimpleGeo To Be Acquired By Urban Airship — SimpleGeo, the once promising location startup, has been acquired, I've heard. The buyer is Urban Airship. — This is an all stock acquisition apparently, totaling around $3.5 million in value. Since SimpleGeo has raised nearly $10 million …
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Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, All Points Blog and Pulse2
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Retail Stores to Allow Self-Checkout via iOS App for Accessory Purchases — MacRumors has learned that Apple is planning to launch an update to its retail store iOS app that will allow consumers to utilize self-checkout for purchases of accessories and other shelf-stocked items at the company's retail stores.
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Revealed: Why Techmeme links to them instead of you! — Over time, nearly every major tech news publisher has asked us a variant of “why do you always post them and not us?” or “why did you pick them over us for that story when we posted first?”. So it's probably time to address this issue in a general way.
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TechCrunch, @anthonyha, @amandablair, @taylorbuley, @ekrangel, @owenthomas, @gaberivera and @mathewi
Matt McLernon / YouTube Blog:
Life in a Day now available on YouTube — On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world recorded videos of their lives to take part in Life in a Day, a cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. From more than 4,500 hours of footage recorded and uploaded to YouTube …
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Gizmodo, Neowin.net, The Next Web, Pulse2 and WebProNews
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Job Cuts to Cost Motorola Mobility $31 Million — Disposing of 800 positions will cost Motorola Mobility $27 million in severance and $4 million for facility closures as it prepares to be acquired by Google — (Bloomberg) — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the mobile-phone maker that agreed …
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AllThingsD, Pulse2, paidContent, Engadget, Phone Scoop, 9to5Google, DailyTech, Neowin.net, thinq_, PhoneArena, DSLreports and MobileBurn.com
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple looking to bring AirPlay Mirroring, iMessage application to Mac OS X — AirPlay Mirroring shown with an iPad 2 and an Apple TV — Sources familiar with the future of Mac OS X say that AirPlay Mirroring and an iMessage application are currently in development.
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Google quietly reveals GOMO, a service that mobilizes your site on demand — Early last month, I wrote about Google registering the domain names Howtogomo.com, Howtogomo.net, and Howtogomo.org, and I wondered why the search engine giant went out and bought the web addresses.
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ReadWriteWeb and Betabeat, Thanks:fusible
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Apple spending big next year on retail and cloud — Apple is doubling down on its retail and cloud operations. The company says it will spend about $8 billion in capital expenditures in 2012, which is almost twice as much as the $3.4 billion it spent during fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30.
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AllThingsD, MacRumors, AppleInsider, NBC Bay Area, Daring Fireball and TUAW
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Builds Up Kindle Fire Content With Disney-ABC Deal — In last week's earnings call, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with Disney-ABC (NYSE: DIS) Television Group, Amazon Prime members can stream shows like Grey's Anatomy, Lost and Spider-Man for free.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Outsmarted: Captcha security not much of a gotcha — Elie Bursztein says he was able to decode 66 percent of the anti-bot tests used by Visa's Authorize.net payment site. — PALO ALTO—A team of Stanford University researchers has bad news to report about Captchas, those often unreadable …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Something New From Nook, Coming in a Week — Barnes & Noble will be announcing ... something at a New York City press conference in a week. — About what? The oblique invitation I just got in my inbox doesn't say a word, other than promising that it will be a “very special announcement.”
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, Digits, LAPTOP Magazine, Business Insider, CNET News, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile and Softpedia News
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Test Page For GDrive Appearing In Google Search Results — In case there was still any doubt about the long-rumored “GDrive's” existence, a page now appearing on Google's search results offers a pretty clear indication that something is going on. On Writely.com - the online word processing …
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Engadget, Softpedia News, Gizmodo UK and News On Droid
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Entire $1.65B Acquisition Of YouTube Took A Week, Was Negotiated At Denny's — In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, YouTube co-founder Steven Chen reminisced about selling his company to Google. “Was there any way you could not have sold?” Sarah Lacy asked?
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Softpedia News
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple airs impressive new iPhone 4S iCloud, Siri, and Camera TV ads — Following up on the first iPhone 4S Siri TV advertisement from last week, Apple has just released three new advertisements surrounding the iPhone 4S. The iCloud iPhone 4S advertisement shown above shows the out of the box iCloud integration for the iPhone 4S.
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BGR, The Register, PC Magazine, Shiny Objects, IntoMobile, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Appboy Blog, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, AllThingsD, MacStories, TUAW and MacNN, Thanks:markgurman
Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal:
Hackers Press the ‘Schmooze’ Button — Chris Patten called a large investment-management firm to report that he was going through a divorce and was worried that his wife had set up an account under a false name. — And with that story—entirely plausible but in this case a lie …
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Digits and NBC Bay Area
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers' content — Google appears to be experimenting with a new paywall-esque content roadblock for publishers, and it's not One Pass. For lack of a better name, let's call it a “survey wall,” because instead …
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The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Acer, Asustek initial ultrabook sales not up to expectations, say sources — Shipments of ultrabook by Acer and Asustek Computer are expected to reach 100,000 units each by the end of 2011, falling short of their targets of 200,000-300,000 units, due to relatively high prices, according to sources at channels.
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The Register, ITProPortal, AllThingsD, Neowin.net, Liliputing, Softpedia News, Electronista, TechEye and Datamation.com
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Google TV Update Rolls Out Today, Already Hitting Select Sony Internet TV Devices — The much-anticipated Google TV update is systematically rolling out today. Sony Internet TV devices are first in line followed by Logitech Revue units shortly thereafter. But wait patiently.
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Android Central, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine and Distimo
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Korea's Pantech to Use Kinect-Like Gesture Recognition in Android Phones — Korean phone maker Pantech, best known in the U.S. for low-end Android and messaging phones, hopes to make a name for itself by adding gesture recognition a la Microsoft's Kinect. — The technology …
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VentureBeat, Droid Life and Android Phone Fans
