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Cpen / Twitter Blog:
Discovering Who To Follow — With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we're beginning to roll out a simple, but powerful new feature to help address that — “Suggestions for You”.
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Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets — A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. By Julia Angwin — Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty's computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details …
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Hugo Miller / Industries:
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple's IPad — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company's plans.
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Antonio Wells / Android Tapp:
Android Wallpaper Apps Falsely Accused of Spyware and Stealing Sensitive User Data [FUD] — Wow! A recent VentureBeat article put the blogosphere and smartphone industry on its heels when a reported score of wallpaper Android apps were accused of being malicious by mobile security software maker Lookout …
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Kevin / The Official Lookout Blog:
Update and Clarification of Analysis of Mobile Applications at Blackhat 2010
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Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
8 future Gmail features/changes revealed with a single image — An image uploaded to the Chromium OS bug tracker shows a pre-release version of Gmail sporting a number of new features and changes to the layout. In total, we've spotted 8 differences compared to the Gmail we all use today.
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Yelp CEO: “There is real tension” between Google Places and Yelp — Today at TechCrunch's Cruchup in Palo Alto, CA, Jeremy Stoppelman , Yelp's CEO and John Hanke , VP of Product Management at Google talked about the strain that is building up between Yelp and Google Places.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Motorola Droid getting Android 2.2 next week — We've just been dropped a brief note from Verizon that the original Droid will be getting the full Froyo treatment at some point next week. Considering the brevity of the announcement, it's entirely possible that this was thrown together …
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER. — My apologies... this is a long piece (~2500 words). Not for the faint of heart. If you want the short story, read the abstract below & 3 core assumptions, then cut to the conclusions at the bottom.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Dave McClure Files For $30 Million Venture Fund: 500 Startups
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Will Take Steps To Block The Google-Yahoo Japan Partnership — Microsoft is going to try and block the Yahoo Japan - Google partnership, a company rep told us late last night. — “We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining why we believe that this deal is substantially …
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Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
News Corp's Next Digital News Venture — News Corp [NWSA Loading... () ] is seriously considering what could be a game change in the digital news industry. — Sources close to the company tell me that the company is considering creating a new purely digital news play that would be designed …
Bloomberg:
New York Subway Stations Will Go Wireless, Catching Up With Tokyo, Berlin — After an almost three-year delay, work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring mobile- phone and Wi-Fi service to New York's subway stations. The project was rejuvenated after the group that won …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Before There Can Be An IPO, First Comes A New CFO For Zynga — Social gaming company Zynga is growing at a rapid clip. More importantly, their revenue is growing at a rapid clip. And they need a big gun to handle that. They believe they've just got him: Dave Wehner, formerly a managing director at Allen & Company LLC.
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Software released for attacking Android phones — (Reuters) - Two security experts said on Friday they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc's Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim's email and text messages.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Like a Robot Struck by Lightning: Gowalla to Launch Write API, Possibly With Pictures — Imagine you were a robot who only knew how to describe the world in four ways: self, other, time, and object. Now imagine you were struck by a bolt of lightning and found your robot brain aware of a whole new column in the spreadsheet...Place.
Intel Software Network Blogs:
Adobe and Intel Application Lab was a success! — We had a blast at the Adobe and Intel Application Lab in San Francisco on July 21! There were approximately 140 attendees who came down for pizza, beer and lots of technical discussion - and another 40 users watched via our live webcast.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is Facebook Missing an Opportunity by Saying No to an IPO? — Facebook, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network, has no plans to go public until at least 2012, Bloomberg reports after talking to unnamed sources close to the company. The company apparently wants another year of growth before going public.
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Elizabeth Woyke / Velocity:
Sony's Response To New Kindle: Not Chasing “Cheapest E-Reader” Title — All the chatter about Amazon's new, $139 e-reader isn't forcing competitor Sony to lower its prices—at least not yet. — On July 29, the day after Amazon's new Kindle was unveiled, Sony released a statement proclaiming …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Did we pronounce privacy dead this week? — PHILADELPHIA—Does privacy exist anymore? Do we even know what it is? A conversation between digital academics Jeff Jarvis and Danah Boyd on Friday morning at the Supernova conference capped off a week in which many peoples' perceptions …
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