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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Fusion Garage Fired By Its Lawyers — News broke yesterday that Fusion Garage was fired by its PR firm, its website is offline and customers are pissed off that they haven't received their orders. This is the company that we worked with for a year on the CrunchPad project, and eventually defrauded us.
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Joe Pollicino / Engadget:
Fusion Garage's website goes dark — has it bitten the dust? (update: it's back?) — 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 …
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The Verge, PC Magazine, CNET News, Computerworld, @peterrojas, Good E-Reader, @arrington, Liliputing, TeleRead, GottaBeMobile and Electronista, Thanks:akatrent
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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VentureBeat, CNET News, PhoneArena, @dannysullivan, Business Insider, Appolicious Advisor and WebProNews
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Facebook updates its iPhone app; delivers Timeline, Friend Lists and more — Having finally rolled out Timeline access to its 800 million+ users in the browser and on Android devices, Facebook has today pushed live a new update for its iPhone application, delivering a slick new mobile Timeline view and various other improvements.
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Friending Facebook Blog, Mashable!, Lifehacker and MacStories, Thanks:m4tt
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
The Internet Gets Physical — THE Internet likes you, really likes you. It offers you so much, just a mouse click or finger tap away. Go Christmas shopping, find restaurants, locate partying friends, tell the world what you're up to. Some of the finest minds in computer science …
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@timoreilly, Thanks:beet_tv
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents — Last week we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded using BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site gathered this data from public BitTorrent trackers, much like anti-piracy outfits …
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The Register, Between the Lines Blog and Boing Boing
Fred Wilson / A VC:
Some Thoughts On The Louis CK “Experiment” — Since the early days of this blog, it has been filled with musings on how creativity will be rewarded in the internet age. It is a theme I've come back to again and again. These thoughts have worked their way into our investment thesis and our portfolio.
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Guardian and Not Quite a Blog
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
British Telecom sues Google over six U.S. patents allegedly infringed by Android and various Google services — After Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and eBay, British Telecommunications plc (commonly referred to as “British Telecom” or simply “BT") has just become the fifth large publicly-traded company …
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CNET News, The Verge, Engadget and Electronista
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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GottaBeMobile, App Advice, 9to5Mac, TUAW and Electronista
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.
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Washington Post, Beyond Search and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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Both Sides of the Table, @dondodge, Robert Scoble, Pulse2, @kentgoldman, Business Insider, @cdixon and Adotas
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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, Kotaku, WebProNews, Electronista and CNET News
