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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year — Apple's worldwide single-carrier exclusivity model for each nation is seen as fleeting, as a new report suggests the iPhone could be available for carriers other than AT&T in the U.S. within a year.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Munster on $10 iPhones, $30 TV subscriptions, moving beyond AT&T
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple holding ‘rock and roll’ themed event, September 9th — And just like that, Apple's yearly iPod event is happening. According to an email we've just received, it looks like all those rumors we heard turned out to be true. The big A will be holding the proceedings at the Yerba Buena Center …
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Deborah Gage / PE Hub Blog:
Jim Breyer Scores Big With Disney's Marvel Acquisition — As the third largest direct shareholder in Marvel Entertainment, Breyer stands to make nearly $5 million once Disney's acquisition of the superhero company closes. — Disney said this morning that it plans to pay $4 billion in cash and stock for Marvel.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:Spider-Man Meets Mickey Mouse: Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion In Stock, Cash
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Martin Peers / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Gets a Fuzzy Signal on Apple's iPhone — Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone? — Maybe. AT&T's exclusive right to offer Apple's smart phone over the past two years has attracted new customers, and at least initially enhanced the phone company's image.
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New York Times:
Stopping Start-Ups — VARIOUS pieces of legislation now making their way through Congress would require private pools of investment capital to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The goal is to curtail abuses and protect the public from questionable practices.
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Hadley Leggett / Wired Science:
Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text — Starting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Apple's new OS geared for multicore future — Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge well afterward. — That's because Mac OS X 10.6 begins a longer-term Apple attempt to get ahead by cracking a problem facing …
Matt Hall / Larva Labs:
Android Market Sales, Are Those Tears or is it Raining in Here? — There's been a lot of speculation lately about the size of the Apple App Store, most recently based on some numbers from AdMob which are summarized over at GigaOM. They came to the conclusion that the app store is worth $200M monthly …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
More Alleged Screenshots Of Google Chrome OS. My, What Big Icons You Have. — We've just received a pair of screenshots that may be of Google's upcoming Chrome OS operating system. Google announced the entirely browser-based OS in July, and since then a number of alleged screenshots …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More — A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were no rules, and the whole interview was on the record. Part of the interview was on video as well.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple: The New Microsoft — Well, that didn't take long. — In a decade, Apple (AAPL) has gone from niche-market roadkill to a company whose growing dominance and competitive tactics in a booming market are thrilling investors, angering competitors, and drawing regulatory scrutiny.
comScore, Inc.:
Global Search Market Draws More than 100 Billion Searches per Month — Google Sites Leads Global Search Market with 67 Percent Market Share — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Report: Netbooks Now A Fifth Of All Portable Computer Shipments — Maybe it's because they are cheap. Maybe it's because they are small. Or maybe it's just because people don't need computers for much more than Net access these days. But the popularity of netbook computers keeps growing.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, Check Out The Future Of Television! — No matter how much effort TV networks and cable companies put into trying to keep the TV world from changing, the future is coming. — And it's awesome! — Check out this live online coverage of the first day of the US Open.
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Music Video JV Site Vevo Raising Money At $300 Million Valuation — Vevo, the Hulu-like site for music videos which for now is a JV between Universal Music, Sony Music and YouTube, is out raising money at a $300 million valuation, we have learned from multiple sources.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Opera 10 to emerge Tuesday — Opera Software will release version 10 of its browser Tuesday, a new version of software that has loyal fans but not as much adoption as several rivals. — The Norwegian company says Opera 10 has better performance, a Turbo mode for slow Internet connections …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
HTC Touch Pro2 officially launching on September 8th, $349.99 — We're willing to forgive the horrible quality on these press mock ups of Sprint's HTC Touch Pro2 because, well, we're just way too happy to see this sucker get official to care. Are you a current or prospective Sprint subscriber?
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek set to launch ultra-thin notebooks using new Intel CPUs — Asustek Computer plans to launch two new ultra-thin notebooks using Intel's upcoming 45nm Celeron 743 and SU2300 CPUs on September 7, 2009, according to industry sources. — The new models will initially ship to areas including Taiwan, China and Europe.
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Samsung Application Store announced, the mobile mall gets a little more crowded — Oh, look, it's another place to buy bite-sized mobile apps, this one courtesy of Samsung. The company isn't exactly new to the whole application store thing, launching a little outlet for Nokia users earlier this year …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology — Microsoft's No. 1 rival is a household name, Google. But a strong candidate for No. 2 is a company that is scarcely known outside the technology industry: VMware. — “VMware is definitely a threat,” said Gary Chen, an analyst at IDC, a research firm.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Wal-mart pushes deeper into Amazon ecommerce territory — Wal-Mart today launched a new ecommerce initiative, adding a million items to its online store through partnerships with outside vendors. In doing so, the Arkansas-based big-box chain is moving more and more into online rival Amazon.com's turf.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
iWalk gains $21M, loses Negroponte — iWalk, a startup in Cambridge, Mass., that builds “wearable devices for human augmentation” has announced a $21 million Series B round led by Cambridge-based General Catalyst Partners. GCP partner John Simon has taken a seat on the board …
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Leica's New Camera Unveiling on Collision Course With iPods — Leica's just announced via a YouTube video that it will introduce new Leica cameras on September 9. As if that PR maneuver wasn't confusing enough, get this: Leica's event is scheduled for the same day as Apple's iPod launch gig.
Grant Gross / PC World:
EMC Acquires Cloud Support Vendor FastScale — EMC has acquired FastScale Technology, a vendor of software for data centers, in an effort to focus on supporting private cloud infrastructures, the company announced Monday. — With the acquisition, EMC will focus on increasing the performance …
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Sony to distribute Google browser — Google has forged a distribution alliance with Sony's PC division and is in talks with other computer makers as it looks to promote its well-regarded but little-used Chrome browser. — The renewed efforts to expand the reach of Chrome come a year …
John Cook / TechFlash:
iPhone app wins top honors at Microsoft sponsored event — Learn That Name, a new iPhone app designed to help people remember the names of people they bump into at events, won the most votes at Startup Weekend even though the 54-hour coding marathon was held on Microsoft's campus.
