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10:50 AM ET, July 11, 2008

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million  —  In what will be seen as a new media coup, sources tell BoomTown that Britain's Guardian Media Group is set to announce this morning that it will buy the company that runs the high-profile digital media news site paidContent for a price “north of $30 million.”
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
ContentNext 2.0: Life With The Guardian Media Group  —  We got scooped on the biggest story of our own company's life.  Such is our life.  Almost six years after our company started with paidContent.org, we have been acquired by Guardian News & Media (GNM), the news media division of UK-headquartered Guardian Media Group (GMG).
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Confirmed: PaidContent Bought By the Guardian - Here's How Media History is Made  —  The trailblazing blog PaidContent, specializing in coverage of the business of new media, will be acquired by the Guardian Media Group, writes Kara Swisher tonight in a very sweet scoop.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Rafat Ali: from blogs to riches
Discussion: Guardian
Dan Kimerling / TechCrunch:
Before the App Store “Opens”, it has already made Apple $55,000  —  Tucked away on the iPhone 2.0 version of Apple's Application Store is a counter for the number of times that each application has been purchased .  When this information is combined with an application's price …
Discussion: Pinch Media, Forbes and GMSV
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The App Store, Day One  —  A few random observations regarding the App Store and some of the apps:  —  DOWNLOAD COUNTS  —  On the iPhone's App Store app, at the bottom of the details page for every app is a downloads count.  Given that the only way to download a non-free app is to buy it …
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
First Look: Exposure for the iPhone  —  It seems like only yesterday I was writing about Exposure, the iPhone native Flickr browser, in a rather circumspect manner.  Now that the App Store is out I took Exposure (available in a free version and a premium version) for a spin and I really liked what I saw.
Discussion: Macworld and Infinite Loop
Raanan Bar-Cohen / WordPress for iPhone:
WordPress For iPhone  —  The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go.  It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer.  —  Timing wise, with the launch of Apple's iTunes App store this morning, we expect to see this showing up very soon.
Daniel Langendorf / last100:
Amid the App Store fanfare, Apple releases significant update for AppleTV
Fred / A VC:
What can we learn about the iPhone app ecosystem from the Facebook app ecosystem?
Discussion: Inside Social Games
Arn / MacRumors:
iTunes App Store Screenshots, Pricing, and Revenues
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
iPhone App Store first impression: Sublime beyond belief
Vindu Goel / Bits:
An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates  —  When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company was unfairly discriminating against heavy Internet users.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Comcast Believes In FCC Authority When It Suits Comcast; Otherwise?
Discussion: Ars Technica and DSLreports
John Dunbar / Associated Press:   FCC chief says Comcast violated Internet rules
Om Malik / GigaOM:
I Can't Find MobileMe  —  At $99 a year, I expect my online service to function all the time.  So perhaps that is why I am a little upset that Apple hasn't been able to launch their MobileMe service properly and are experiencing outages.  The fact that the service was supposed to launch …
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
New iPhone 3G goes on sale  —  Apple's new iPhone 3G went on sale this morning, as the Californian company's latest attempt to capture the public imagination.  —  The first UK iPhone 3G was sold at 8.02am, in a stunt designed to promote the O2 network, which has an exclusive deal to provide iPhone service in the UK.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Adding Geosearch (with Screenshot)  —  YouTube will soon add geosearch — giving viewers the ability to find videos tagged to a certain location — disclosed product manager Brian Glick at a developer talk at YouTube's San Bruno, Calif., campus on Thursday.
Discussion: Domain Name Wire and GigaOM
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
YouTube Adding Geographic Search
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
A victim of its own success: troubled times ahead for VMware  —  VMware shareholders received a double-whammy of bad news earlier this week.  A combination of reduced growth forecasts for 2008 and the surprise announcement that CEO and cofounder Diane Greene was being ousted saw VMW lose 24 percent of its value on Tuesday.
Discussion: One Microsoft Way
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Another key early Facebook employee, Jeff Hammerbacher, is leaving the company  —  Facebook may now be the largest social network in the world, and it may be continually innovating with nice new products like its Twitter-like iPhone application, but more and more beloved early employees are heading out the door.
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero  —  OUSTER AT VMWARE RIPPLES IN VALLEY  —  The number of women chief executives at Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies dropped to zero this week, with the abrupt departure of VMware's Diane Greene from the company she co-founded 10 years ago.
Discussion: Know It All
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS 2.0 Unlocked (YES!)  —  The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken.  It was released just hours ago and it has already been cracked by the iPhone Dev Team.  The first one took a couple of months, but this one was actually unlocked before Apple released it to the public.
Lester Haines / The Register:
Obama bloats Vista by 11MB  —  56MB update adds five words to dictionary  —  We're very much obliged today to readers Hawkeye and Duncan Lilly for providing evidence that the Beast of Redmond's Vista is not the lean, mean fighting machine it really should be.  Try this “important” update warning for size:
 
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Rough estimate: 75% of N.Y. iPhone line wants 16GB phone
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
GE Earnings: NBC U Misses Another Quarter
Discussion: paidContent.org
Ronen Halevy / BerryReview.com:
Javelin ScreenCandy - Live Shots Of A Real Javelin
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Disney Interactive Media Group Integration Begins With Long List …
Joe Fay / The Register:
O2 buckles under 3G iPhone demand
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Shrinking Sun under the gun
Discussion: eWeek, Open Sources and Valleywag
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Firms ‘miss’ social site success
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Why is Scrabulous still up?  —  After Hasbro and Mattel went …
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Calley Nye / TechCrunch:
Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
All Nvidia G84 and G86s are bad
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Priming the Pump: New Users, Meet the Old Winners
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
When Everything On The Internet Is Encrypted...
Discussion: Slashdot and p2pnet
InfoWorld:
Artificial intelligence tied to search future
Discussion: Beyond Search
Mike Simons / Computerworld:
No servers, no stories at Financial Times
Cade Metz / The Register:
Cokeheads slip AI onto Yahoo! front page
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Jerry Yang's Pledge: Not on My Watch
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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