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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
NowPublic Gets $10.6 Million For Crowd Sourced News — "Crowd sourced" news network NowPublic.com has closed a $10.6 milion series A round of financing led by Rho Ventures with seed investors Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund participating. — Crowd sourcing is part of the widely expanding …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
For NowPublic Citizen Journalism Seems to Work — NowPublic, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism site has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding from Rho Ventures/Rho Canada, Brightspark, and the Working Opportunity Fund. — So first off, that's a boatload of cash in the web news business and we're not saying it's justified.
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Shi Tao's case: Yahoo! knew more than they claimed — Yahoo! executives say one thing in public, an official Chinese document says something else. Oops. — I just discovered today that the Dui Hua Foundation, which does excellent, low-key work on Chinese human rights issues, has a blog.
Halvar Flake / ADD / XOR / ROL:
I've been denied entry to the US essentially for carrying my trainings material. Wow. — It appears I can't attend Blackhat this year. I was denied entry to the US for carrying trainings materials for the Blackhat trainings, and intending to hold these trainings as a private citizen instead of as a company.
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Match.com expands mobile online dating service — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online dating service Match.com is launching a new application for cell phones, allowing subscribers to keep track of their paramours while on the go. — MatchMobile will first be made available in the United States …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
What Web Conferences to Attend — Alex Iskold wrote a great post on his company's blog, outlining conference tips for startups. It is written from a vendor or sponsor's point of view and makes for interesting reading. Alex definitely recommends ETech, SXSW.
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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column — "The bug at the bottom of the Calendar front in today's Los Angeles Times says columnist Patrick Goldstein is on assignment," began a July 24 item on the Web site L.A. Observed. "Not true. His The Big Picture column for Tuesday was killed."
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
"Attempted infringment" appears in new House intellectual property bill — Back in May, the Justice Department issued some proposed legislation to tighten US intellectual property laws and to criminalize some forms of "attempted infringement." Now, legislation based on the proposals …
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
Buzzwire streams mobile media, no downloads attached — Buzzwire lets you stream video, audio, and live internet radio to your mobile phone — something other companies do. — But Buzzwire does this without requiring a download — setting it apart from the crowd.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Battlemodo: Microsoft's Local SUV Armada vs Google's Streetview Fleet — Microsoft's Windows Live Local armada is striking back against Google's Streetview fleet with all the technological terror they can find. Check this Chevy Tahoe's intimidating top: six huge cameras …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Court says "no" to changing terms of service without notification — Many of us have seen service agreements that specify that the terms could be changed at any time without notifying the user. Well, a recent court decision could change all that. Service providers should not be able …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Gates Plans His Leave Amid Great Change — Microsoft is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned. — But so far, Mr. Gates, Microsoft's 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of fading away.
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Robin Marantz Henig / New York Times:
The Real Transformers — I was introduced to my first sociable robot on a sunny afternoon in June. The robot, developed by graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was named Mertz. It had camera sensors behind its eyes, which were programmed to detect faces …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why do we have Facebook Fatigue? — Facebook, one has to admit is a great time sink. Given how much you have to do to just manage your Facebook life, it is hardly a surprise; some organizations are taking a draconian approach to them. Jason Calacanis has declared Facebook bankruptcy.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Business plan obfuscation: Twitter style — Charles Hudson says it: "why the 'you don't need a business plan' meme is crazy talk. — Where did that come from? Well, there's this little theory that was reported on a bunch of blogs that Twitter and other companies don't have business plans.
