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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, Heather — Heather Harde, the business brains behind TechCrunch, will be stepping down at the end of the year as general manager of AOL's technology properties (including TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq, and TUAW). AOL GM Jay Kirsch, who oversees Autos, Finance, and Industry on the business side …
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VentureBeat and WebProNews
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Why Heather Matters — TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde announced her departure today. — I'm so angry. — Drift back to the end of 2006. TechCrunch was a year and a half old. My hobby had turned into a business. Federated Media was selling our standard ads and sent a small check every month.
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Business Insider, Thanks:mattlynley
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
IT'S OFFICIAL: TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde Has Left AOL — TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde has left AOL and resigned from the tech news blog, according to the site's founder Mike Arrington. — We first reported Harde was leaving in November when AOL's Brad Garlinghouse left the building.
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@arrington, @taylorbuley and @nero
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Stop Online Piracy Act Vote Delayed — The House Judiciary Committee is considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set — a surprise given that the bill looked certain to pass out of committee today.
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GigaOM, The Hill, Techdirt, The Firewall, CNET News, INFOdocket, The Domains, WebProNews and Felix Salmon, more at Mediagazer »
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Joshua Kopstein / MOTHERBOARD:
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works — I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials' struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing …
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Bryce Dot VC, @hillary, @kevinmarks, Threat Level and GamePolitics blogs
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website
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Geekosystem
Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Exclusive: Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip — SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
UMG claims “right to block or remove” YouTube videos it doesn't own — Universal Music Group has responded to Megaupload's request for a temporary restraining order barring the music giant from further interference with the distribution of its “Mega Song.” UMG insists that it had a right …
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Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com:
Sprint: Carrier IQ has been disabled on our devices — News by Dan Seifert on Friday December 16, 2011. — Sponsored links, if any, appear in green. — A recent rumor has hit the internet stating that Sprint has asked its manufacturer partners to remove Carrier IQ's software from all of the devices that it carries.
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Geek.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, BGR and Android Phone Fans
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Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Franken Still ‘Troubled’ by Carrier IQ Despite Company Responses
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TechCrunch, xda-developers, PC World, Consumer Reports News, Electronista and Slashdot
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
AT&T, Sprint, Samsung, and HTC detail Carrier IQ installations
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Al Franken, Washington Post, Bloomberg, BGR, Electronista, BetaNews, Android Phone Fans, Engadget, Softpedia News, Inquirer, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, SlashGear and reddit.com
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Zynga shares slump 10 percent below IPO in first day — Summary: While there was hope for Zynga, the largest technology flotation since Google's public debut in 2004, the company's share price dropped by nearly 10 percent in its first day. — At the end of Zynga's first day of public trading today …
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Forbes, Financial Times, MarketWatch and CNNMoney.com
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga Confirms Its Billion Dollar Public Offering
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Inside Mobile Apps, TechCrunch, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Digits and NBC Bay Area
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
INSIDE ZYNGA: Meet The Man Charged With Helping The Company Grow Up
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The New Persuaders, Inside Social Games, Business Insider, All Facebook and Bloomberg
Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Apple to launch 7.85-inch iPad in 2012, say sources — Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad prior to the fourth quarter of 2012 in addition to a new iPad scheduled to be released at the end of the first quarter, according to sources in the supply chain.
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9to5Mac, Forbes, AllThingsD, Washington Post, The Seattle Times, GigaOM, I4U News, Computerworld, Mashable!, BGR, eWeek, USA Today, LAPTOP Magazine, Business Insider, Fonehome, Redmond Pie, PC Magazine, Liliputing, ITProPortal, everythingiCafe, Techland, App Advice, Mobile Entertainment, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Appolicious Advisor, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, Fortune, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Silicon Republic, Datamation.com, Newlaunches.com, Digital Trends, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, Techie Buzz, O'Grady's PowerPage, Edible Apple, Electronista, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneArena, Tech Trader Daily and Fudzilla
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Android 4.0.3 announced, bringing ‘variety of optimizations and bug fixes’ to phones and tablets — Merely a day after Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus was gifted with v4.0.2, Google itself is announcing Android 4.0.3, a so-called “ incremental release of the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) platform.”
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9to5Google, Computerworld, BGR, The Verge, CNET News, Android Developers Blog, GottaBeMobile, PhoneArena, AndroidSPIN, netbooknews.com, MobileBurn.com and Electronista
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Verizon Galaxy Nexus Review: Bigger, faster, cheaper and less Google — LTE just makes that Ice Cream Sandwich all the more tasty... The biggest difference philisophically is demonstrated in the logos above. No longer a Google Phone, the Verizon Galaxy Nexus is a Verizon LTE phone, for all that is worth.
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LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, @dannysullivan, Engadget, Marketing Land and Pulse2
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus — Stanford was the frontrunner in the application for an applied sciences sciences and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island. But according to a press release from the Stanford news service, that's no longer the case.
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Digits and NYConvergence.com
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Signing in with a picture password … The experience of signing in to your PC with touch has traditionally been a cumbersome one. In a world with increasingly strict password requirements—with numbers, symbols, and capitalization—it can take upwards of 30 seconds to enter a long, complex password on a touch keyboard.
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Electronista, WinBeta, Neowin.net, Microsoft News and WinRumors
Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Why RIM Needed To Fire Its Co-CEOs Months, If Not Years Ago — The two Waterloo Wallys running Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) have presided over the incredible destruction of shareholder wealth in 2011 by misleading the public again and again about its ability to compete in mobile.
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ZDNet, The Register, Technologizer, PhoneArena, New York Times and DSLreports
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The PlayBook Is Killing RIM
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ReadWriteWeb, New York Times, ZDNet, TechEye, Electronista, Inquirer and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:joemfbrown
Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:
“I'd love if tech writing as a whole held itself to a higher standard:” What notable journalists are thinking about their craft — There's an old expression that we get the politicians we deserve — ie if you don't like it, don't vote them into office. Over the past few months I've …
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ReadWriteWeb
Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:
Apple Makes Siri iPhone 4 Port Legally Possible With Today's iOS 5.0.1 Update — Siri is by far the iPhone 4S's most-desired feature, and many non-4S users have been clamoring for hackers to make the voice assistant available on older iOS devices. While Siri ports have been demoed to the public before …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 4S Debuts in Over 20 New Countries, Pricing Starts as High as $1400 — In line with our report from earlier this month, Apple has launched the iPhone 4S in a number of new countries today. Based on an examination of Apple's site and those of its carrier partners …
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PC Magazine, The Next Web, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and iClarified
Ben Elowitz / AllThingsD:
With Siri TV, Apple Will Dismantle the TV Networks — Steve Jobs died without fully transforming television, but the day before he passed away, Apple unveiled Siri, its natural language interface. Though it's currently only embedded in the new iPhone 4S, Siri could eventually change the face of the TV industry.
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LIVEdigitally and Hardware 2.0 Blog
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
This Is The First Pitch Deck Foursquare Ever Showed Investors — Foursquare is one of the biggest, buzziest startups in New York. — Scratch that — anywhere. — The local check-in startup raised $50 million this past summer from Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital.
Katy Tur / nbcnewyork.com:
Pair of Robbers Want Only iPhones, No BlackBerries — The snobby robbers turn their noses up at phones that aren't the ever-coveted iPhones — A pair of would-be robbers targeting Columbia students in upper Manhattan seem to be rather picky as they prowl.
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WebProNews, NBC Bay Area, NYConvergence.com, Electricpig.co.uk, 9to5Mac and TUAW
