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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Go Daddy lost 21,054 domains yesterday in wake of SOPA PR disaster — It's going to get worse before it gets better for domain registration company Go Daddy. Yesterday, we reported that Go Daddy had reversed its decision to support SOPA. Its customer service reps are even taking to the phones …
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VentureBeat, The Domains, Techi.com, TomsTechBlog.com and CNET, more at Mediagazer »
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
GoDaddy's domain registration after SOPA: behind the numbers — GoDaddy has been bearing the brunt of much of the anti-SOPA rhetoric on the web for the past few days, leading it to withdraw its support for the legislation. The action may have come too late to save its public image, but has it also cost GoDaddy subscribers?
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Computerworld and The Next Web
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Desperation: Go Daddy calling customers, begging them to stay — Not to keep beating a dead horse (or elephant), but Go Daddy continues to screw up with its latest PR effort is to let you know that it was just kidding, and that it doesn't really support SOPA.
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Chris Heald, @andrewbaron, Examiner, Business Insider and GeekWire, Thanks:thatdrew
Go Daddy:
Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA — Looks to Internet Community & Fellow Tech Leaders to Develop Legislation We All Support — Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress. — “Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance …
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Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
Brave GoDaddy CEO Says He's Neither For Nor Against SOPA
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TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Engadget, eWeek Security Watch, Betabeat, AllThingsD, @gigibsohn, The Atlantic Wire, Geek News Central, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gawker and VentureBeat
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Law Firms Removing Their Name From SOPA Supporters' List; SOPA ‘Support’ Crumbling
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TorrentFreak, Petzl and Adotas
MG Siegler / parislemon:
Pay To Stay — I've been thinking more about Google's renewal of their search deal with Mozilla for Firefox. It's fascinating on a few different levels. Most notably: Google is committing close to a billion dollars to bankroll a browser which is a rival to their own browser. — Why?
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TechCrunch, Peter Kasting, PC Magazine, @dannysullivan, Daring Fireball, All New Musings, Beyond Search, InfoWorld, SlashGear, Datamation.com and eWeek
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Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Partner, Not A Competitor — Google and Firefox renewed their partnership last week, ensuring that Google will remain Firefox's default search engine (and major source of revenue). Kara Swisher reported that the deal brings in just under $300 million per year for Firefox …
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Digital Trends and Softpedia News, Thanks:jonmwords
Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Why Running A Mobile OS By Committee Can Be Very Hard — Attempting to build consensus among Android vendors is a tricky undertaking in late 2011. As a result, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and its partners appear ready to enter a year in which Android will likely dominate the smartphone market without having come …
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parislemon, @andrewbaron and eWeek
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
The Galaxy S not getting ICS isn't a Samsung problem, It's an Android problem — Samsung has announced that it will not be delivering an official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to its massively well-selling Galaxy S phone. It says that it cannot deliver it in the memory available …
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Daring Fireball, PC Magazine and L.A. Times Tech Blog, Thanks:ramez0ne
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
If Samsung doesn't care about customers, how can it hope to keep them?
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SlashGear, mocoNews, AndroidSPIN, Digital Trends and The Verge
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Watch Out Yammer And Jive, Google Is About To Enter The Social Enterprise Space — The social enterprise has been growing as more and more companies look to incorporate Facebook-like communications among workers. Jive (which just debuted on the Nasdaq), Yammer, and Salesforce are all betting …
Caleb Garling / Wired Enterprise:
Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft — The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why — in great detail. — Google and Microsoft are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of businesses …
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msnbc.com, @dondodge, GeekWire, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Neowin.net and Business Insider
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Study: Apple's iPhone, iPad account for 90 percent of mobile purchases — If people are buying through mobile online retail site, they're most likely doing so on Apple devices, according to a new report this week from retail analysis firm RichRelevance. iPads and iPhones accounted …
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PC Magazine, AppleInsider, MacNN and ITworld.com
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Google tries to kick Authors Guild out of court in book case — It's as if the last four years hadn't happened. In 2007, Google's legal dispute with a coalition of authors and publishers over Google Books was put on hold while the parties hashed out a settlement agreement.
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The Digital Shift, Electronista and TeleRead
