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Bloomberg:
Facebook Said to Be Working on Phones With INQ for AT&T — Facebook Inc. is working with mobile-handset manufacturer INQ Mobile Ltd. on two smartphones that may be carried by AT&T Inc., according to three people familiar with the matter. — The devices, which will feature Facebook social …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details — Of all the recent technology news, the one that's held most of my interest is the existence of the Facebook phone. Why? Because I'd been aware of a project to build a phone based on Facebook for quite some time, though I hadn't been able to confirm it from multiple sources.
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SlashGear, The Next Web, TechCrunch and I4U News, Thanks:labnol
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The “Facebook Phone” — Over the weekend I wrote an article about Facebook's mobile plans, particularly that they are working on a branded mobile phone. Facebook said the story was innacurate, despite CNET, Alley Insider and others writing independent stories confirming …
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Verizon CEO hints iPhone not coming soon — NEW YORK - Comments from Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg on Thursday left little room for the possibility of a Verizon version of the iPhone any time soon. — Speaking to investors at a Goldman Sachs conference …
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Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless Readies Tiered Data Pricing — Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said the company's wireless arm expects to introduce its own form of tiered pricing, possibly over the next four to six months. — But Mr. Seidenberg said Verizon Wireless's offering …
David Heinemeier Hansson / Signal vs. Noise:
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 — Facebook is an amazing success as a social network. Anyone who can get 500 million people to connect, share photos, and click on little cows in Farmville deserves major kudos. — But the bulls**t monopoly-money evaluation merry-go-round has to stop.
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
What Netflix CEO hopes U.S. won't notice — ‘Self-absorbed’ Americans may ignore Canada price disparity … The Hollywood Reporter: You're looking beyond the U.S. border for growth. Where will you expand next after Canada? — Reed Hastings: For now we're focused on Canada.
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Silicon Alley Insider and The Huffington Post
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Michael Oliveira / Globe and Mail:
Netflix apologizes for using actors to meet press at Canadian launch
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Steven Bertoni / Money Talks:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Apple's Steve Jobs — Just 5 years after founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is worth more than Apple's iconic chief Steve Jobs. — Image via CrunchBase — This year, Zuckerberg, 26, added $4.9 billion to his fortune-vaulting to #35 on the Forbes 400 with an estimated fortune of $6.9 billion.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates is richest person in America — still
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Brad Stone / Business Week:
Facebook Sells Your Friends — How Facebook plans to leverage its 550 million users into the greatest advertising juggernaut since ... O.K., only since Google. That's still huge — There were two obvious winners at the FIFA World Cup this summer. Spain took home the 13-pound …
Gizmodo:
HP Slate Tablet Rears its Square-Edged Head in Leaked Video — Admittedly, we're more keen on HP's webOS tablet, or even the ditched Android tablet (basically, anything other than Windows 7!), but this leaked Slate video does suggest that maybe it will wind up in the hands of consumers after all.
Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Digg.com redesign alienates users — The Internet can be a fickle creature, but if there is one lesson that seems to consistently ring true it's this: don't alienate your core users. — It's a lesson that digg.com is learning the hard way. Having been a paragon of social bookmarking …
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Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
LinkedIn Agrees to Buy Business Reviews Startup — The purchase of ChoiceVendor is the networking site's second acquisition — LinkedIn, the largest networking site for online professionals, bought ChoiceVendor Inc., a website for reviews of business service providers.
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Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
More Hotmail updates on the way — We've kept ourselves busy this summer. A few months ago, we released a re-invented Windows Live Hotmail designed around what people said they wanted—a more efficient service to help them manage clutter with features like Sweep and one-click filters …
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Sid Yadav / VentureBeat:
Exclusive interview: The teens who took over Twitter — A teenage prank on Twitter turned into the hack heard round the world Tuesday — and VentureBeat now has the story behind it. Through an exclusive interview with the two New Zealand kids whose code spread around the world in minutes …
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Internet Evolution, Thanks:sidyadav
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iPad, Apple's ‘Mac of the masses,’ predicted to sell 21M in 2011 — One prominent Wall Street analyst has increased is forecast for iPad sales in 2011 to 21 million, citing expansion of the device's availability, as well as rapid adoption in the enterprise sector.
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Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, iClarified, Between the Lines Blog, I4U News, Cult of Mac, Fortune and MacDailyNews
Barbara Martinez / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools — Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder and chief executive of Facebook, is expected to announce a donation of $100 million to the Newark public school system this week, in a bold and aggressive bid to turn around one of the country's worst performing school systems.
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Buyers Send iPhones on a Long Relay to China — They show up in the early-morning hours: Chinese men and women, waiting silently and somewhat nervously outside of Apple stores in New York. On some days the lines they form can be a block long. — These are not typical Apple fans.
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Bloomberg:
Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy After Online Rivals Gain — Blockbuster Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to quickly adapt its movie- rental model from storefronts to mail-order and online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc.
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PC World:
Dell Evaluating Internet TV Devices and Google TV Software — Dell on Thursday said it is considering the development of devices beyond PCs that would stream Internet content to regular television sets. — The company is evaluating new devices from set-top box makers and original design manufacturers …
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Engadget, Crave, SlashGear, Electronista, BetaNews, Softpedia News and Inquirer
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington — Last night, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reported that on Monday night, a group of high-profile Silicon Valley angels met at a San Francisco restaurant, where, Arrington said he later learned, “collusion and price fixing” were on the menu.
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TechCrunch Europe, Webmetricsguru, TechCrunch and MediaPost
BBC:
‘One app for all’ effort launches — The effort is meant to supplement, rather than replace, existing app environments — A European project to develop an application environment for every internet-connected device has received 10m euros in funding. — The project aims to sidestep operating systems …
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ReadWriteWeb, Open Gardens and gHacks Technology News
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
FCC Votes to Open Vacant TV Airwaves for $4 Billion Wireless Market by U.S — Federal regulators cleared the way for technology companies to use vacant television channels for wireless data and Internet services that may be worth more than $4 billion a year.
Chris Thompson / About Foursquare:
Foursquare experimenting with recommendations engine and “manufactured serendipity” — Each day in my office we face a challenge: where to eat lunch. We've tried building elaborate spreadsheets to track the local eateries and where we've been recently, but in the end we usually end up eating …
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ReadWriteWeb and Silicon Alley Insider
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google Says YouTube Service Wins Spanish Case Over Video-Copyright Breach — Google Inc., owner of the most popular search engine, said it won a case in Spain over claims its YouTube video service was liable for copyright violations. — A federal court in Madrid rejected claims …
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European Public Policy Blog and TechCrunch Europe
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikipedia Introduces Article Feedback Tool — Wikipedia, the massively collaborative online encyclopedia, has started testing an article feedback tool that allows Wikipedia users to rate articles on four primary characteristics. — The tool allows users to rate articles on sourcing …
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Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID 2 Global Benchmarks and System Info, Hello 1.2GHz Processor — We first showed you our exclusive shots of the Droid 2 Global and now have even more goodies from this amazing looking device. Who wants some Quadrant system info and benchmarks? Unfortunately we don't have screenshots …
