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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X — In 10 years of writing Times columns, I've never encountered anything quite like this. — In Thursday's paper, I reviewed Apple's Final Cut Pro X, a professional video-editing program. It's not an update of the existing Final Cut …
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Jeffery Harrell, Richard Harrington Blog, Observatory, Digital Trends, TUAW, MacNN, Computerworld, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, GigaOM and AppleInsider
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Conan O'Brien Presents:
Conan's Editors Absolutely Love Apple's New Final Cut Pro X — Apple recently released their new editing software Final Cut Pro X and our editors absolutely love it!
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Fortune, CNN, Engadget, RazorianFly, TUAW, The Next Web, The Wire, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac and Mashable!
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting — Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the company's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line.
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Felix Salmon:
Upgrading Skype and Silver Lake to Evil — Last week, Bloomberg's Joseph Galante published a story claiming that Skype investors in general, and Silver Lake in particular, were firing senior executives just before the company is sold to Microsoft, so that they don't get their full share of the proceeds from the sale.
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Skype Journal, FrameThink and The Business Insider
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
GOOGLE OFFERS REVEALED: Here Are The Secret Details About Google's Groupon-Killer — Google launched its Groupon-killer, “Offers,” in Portland, Oregon, about a month ago. — And now it's gearing up to launch in San Francisco and New York. — Could Offers become a massive new revenue stream for Google …
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The Business Insider
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Health: Why It's Ending & What It Means — Google's quest to organize the world's information will no longer include one of society's most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever …
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New York Times, PC World, The Healthcare IT Guy and The Official Google Blog
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Lacking Partnerships And Patience, Google Shuts Down Google Health and PowerMeter
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, ITProPortal, PC Magazine, silicontap.com, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages — Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier.
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Mashable! and Quora, Thanks:pragmatic_rebel
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Will Zynga give The Sims on Facebook a run for its money with Familyville? — Electronic Arts is making some big waves in the social gaming world this week amid rumors the company is buying PopCap Games a direct competitor of Zynga. But that's not the only news regarding EA and social gaming.
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The Business Insider and Kotaku
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Hackers leak former British PM Tony Blair data — Hackers today released what looks like personal information on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, including the contents of his electronic address book, with contact data for members of Parliament and for what could be Blair's dentist and his mechanic.
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i found the internet, THN, Boing Boing, Softpedia News and @_teamp0ison_
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft exploits uproar over Firefox 4's retirement to beat IE drum — Addressing the IT furor over Mozilla's plan to pull support for Firefox 4, Microsoft issued an open letter affirming its commitment to support the current Internet Explorer edition through 2020.
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eWeek, Ed Bott's Microsoft …, The Register, PC World, GeekWire, Mikes Musings, All about Microsoft Blog and OStatic blogs
Susan Watts / BBC:
Newsnight online ‘chat’ with Lulz Security hacking group — The CIA website was reported to have come under attack by Lulz Security hackers earlier this month — The Lulz Security hacking group that has claimed attacks on high-profile targets including the CIA and Sony in recent weeks …
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Guardian
Andrew Colley / TheAustralian:
Hackers put Telstra in filter bind — THE voluntary internet filter for child abuse is facing a major setback, with Telstra wavering on the commitment it made to the scheme last July. — At the time Telstra public policy director David Quilty said Telstra was happy to implement the filter …
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Slashdot, @davewiner and Digital Trends
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Jillian York / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Australia Heads Down the Slippery Slope, Authorizes ISPs to Filter
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Delimiter, Delimiter, International Business Times, Techdirt and ZeroPaid.com
This Is Fake DIY:
Turntable.fm Blocks Non-US Users, States Licensing Constraints — If you've been hawking round the right circles on the internet over the past week, you can't help but have come across turntable.fm. If you're not from the US though, you're out of luck. — A website that allows members …
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The Next Web, @turntablefm and The Next Web
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Skype coming to the iPad soon — After plenty of success with the iPhone version of the Skype app, the company is finally releasing an official version for the iPad. Skype hasn't announced a date for release yet, but video of the app has leaked out online, and the app is expected to be approved soon.
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PC Magazine, CNET News, Pocket-lint, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, MacGazette.net, iFans, RazorianFly, TiPb, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, App Advice, Engadget, It's All Tech, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Mashable!, Techie Buzz, This is my next, Electronista, Crave, iClarified, The Next Web, MacStories, OnlyGizmos, InfiniteApple, MacRumors, PhoneArena and Gizmodo
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation — Foursquare has just closed one of the most secretive rounds of venture capital TechCrunch has seen. — The company is raising $50 million, and all of it will go towards building out the company, no secondary sales here.
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Deal Journal, GigaOM, VatorNews and ReadWriteWeb
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