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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
A New Path: Path Grows Daily Users 30x Since Relaunch — There is something about waking up day after day to write about people who take risks; You end up rooting for some of them. This is the case with photo-sharing underdog Path. Almost every investor I've talked to loves founder Dave Morin …
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CloudAve, @dondodge, Robert Scoble, Pulse2, @kentgoldman, Business Insider, @cdixon and Adotas
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos Talk Long Term and Mean It — In 1997, the year Amazon.com went public, its chief executive, Jeff Bezos, issued a manifesto: “It's all about the long term,” he said. He warned shareholders “we may make decisions and weigh tradeoffs differently than some companies” …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook For Android Finally Has More Daily Active Users Than Facebook For iPhone — For the first time, the Facebook for Android mobile app has eclipsed the daily active user count of Facebook for iPhone. The Android app launched in September 2009 more than a year after its iPhone sister and has been playing catch-up ever since.
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
‘Find My Car Smart’ is the First Low Energy Bluetooth App for iPhone 4S — Earlier this year, Apple introduced a new version of Bluetooth in some of their products. This new version of Bluetooth is known as “Bluetooth Low Energy” or Bluetooth 4.0. The Mac mini and MacBook Air …
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App Advice, 9to5Mac, TUAW and Electronista
Joe Pollicino / Engadget:
Fusion Garage's website goes dark — has it bitten the dust? — Perhaps it's the comeback that wasn't meant to be — Fusion Garage has apparently silenced its radios for over a week on Twitter, and more than a month on Facebook. Potentially worse, its website is now unreachable, displaying only a “Database connection error.”
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The Verge, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile, @arrington, Good E-Reader, Electronista and TeleRead, Thanks:akatrent
Matthew Futterman / Wall Street Journal:
Pick Up the Phone, NFL: The Future Is Calling — At Long Last, a Hidebound Sport Ponders Embracing Technology — On the sidelines during every game, New York Jets cornerback Donald Strickland performs a trick familiar to any toddler who has ever held a flip book.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene — SINCE moving to Manhattan three years ago, Sean Parker, a founder of Napster and former president of Facebook, has considerably enlivened New York's social scene. — The parties at Bacchus House, his mansionlike home in the West Village …
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VentureBeat and Business Insider, Thanks:steverubel
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Sony launches PlayStation Vita handheld to reclaim mobile gaming — Sony released its PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console in Japan on Saturday in a bid to recapture share in the mobile gaming market from Apple's iOS. — The Japanese consumer electronics maker released …
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Associated Press, Businessweek, VentureBeat, The Age, WebProNews, Kotaku, Electronista and CNET News
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Proliferation of Choices Hurts BlackBerry Sales, Analysts Say — OTTAWA — Research in Motion's chief executives, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, frightened its investors Thursday when they said the company would not have new BlackBerry phones until late in 2012.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong With AOL's Media Business — This note is from BI Research, a new tech-industry intelligence service. The service is currently in beta and free. To learn more and sign up, please click here. — Everyone piles on AOL all day, and we certainly don't mean to add to that.
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Zynga's Pincus Tries to Keep ‘That Startup Feeling’ After $1 Billion IPO — As Zynga Inc. shares began trading in New York yesterday, hundreds of the company's employees gathered to mark the occasion in the atrium of their San Francisco headquarters. — Zynga Chief Executive Officer Mark Pincus …
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VentureBeat, Mashable!, GigaOM and TechCrunch
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft exec: More multi-platform mobile products coming in 2012 — Summary: Watch for Microsoft to continue to roll out more of its productivity wares on non-Microsoft platforms in 2012, an official with the Office 365 team says. — It was a week of rapid-fire releases of Microsoft apps …
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gHacks Technology News, Pulse2 and Neowin.net
Jamie Lendino / PC Magazine:
Google's Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead — At the Google I/O conference in May, many Android phone vendors and U.S. wireless carriers made a long-awaited promise: From then on, any new Android phone would receive timely OS updates for at least 18 months following launch …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Business Insider, parislemon and Slashdot
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Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Flash Player 11.1 Arrives for Android Ice Cream Sandwich
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The Verge, IntoMobile, Computerworld, netbooknews.com, Engadget, 9to5Google and WebProNews
