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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies — Last night I reported on a special meeting held by Sequoia Capital for its portfolio companies, warning them about the fiscal hurricane that was going to hit them, and how they'd better figure out ways to survive what could be a big downturn.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
The Sequoia “RIP: Good Times” presentation: Here it is — Silicon Valley has been trying to digest news of a secret meeting held by top venture firm Sequoia Capital earlier this week. At the meeting, leading Sequoia partners laid out bleak short and long-term scenarios for the world economy …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them! — The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find out.
Chris / Mobile Tech Addicts:
Orange internal statement on Blackberry Bold quality issues — We mentioned the other day about Orange removing the Blackberry Bold from sale due to quality issues, well today we received an anonymous tip off with a copy of the Orange internal statement explaining the decision to their staff.
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Orange drops the Blackberry Bold due to quality issues — In an internal memo to employees, Orange announced that it has suspended the sale of Blackberry Bold handsets citing “software issues” as the reason for the suspension. The suspension is an interim measure while RIM attempts an industry wide fix.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th! — The rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in Cupertino next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops... and you know we'll be there live!
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing Gadgets:MacBook in Oct. 14 event ad is 13.3", aluminum, and not the MacBook Air
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years — If you've had a nagging suspicion that Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't know how he'll turn Facebook into a business, wonder no more. You're right. Here he is talking to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
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Investor proposes Microsoft buy Yahoo for $22 per share — SEATTLE (Reuters) - A small Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) investor proposed a new deal on Thursday to sell the company to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) for $22 a share …
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
The Sum of Your Facial Parts — IS the woman pictured on the right more attractive than the woman on the left? Do her wider-set eyes, the longer distance between her hairline and the bridge of the nose, and the rounder shape of her face make her more beautiful?
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls — From the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes...Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience. You can choose which labels to sync in IMAP — useful if you find your mail client choking on a big [Gmail]/All Mail folder.
Wojtek Dabrowski / Reuters:
Plunge in RIM's shares could attract takeover bid — TORONTO (Reuters) - The recent plunge in the market value of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion could leave the company vulnerable to a takeover from a well-capitalized buyer such as Microsoft Corp. — RIM's shares, which were worth …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
CAN TINA BROWN SHOW ME EVERYTHING THAT'S GREAT ON THE WEB TODAY? — Early every morning, I open my Web browser and load up a half-dozen “aggregator” sites: Techmeme, Memeorandum, Real Clear Politics, Google News, the Drudge Report, and the Huffington Post. This is my first sortie into the day's news …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Giz Explains: Illustrated Guide to Smartphone OSes — You're more likely than ever to buy a smartphone, not just because they do so much more than dumb feature phones, with real email, decent web browsing and downloadable applications, but because they're cheaper than ever.
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Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Required viewing: Sony CEO Howard Stringer on ‘Charlie Rose’ — Anyone who knows my television viewing habits knows that the only program I have my DVR automatically record for me is Charlie Rose, the long-running PBS talk show (OK, there was a season of Prison Break in there somewhere, too, but let's not talk about that).
Ewan / Mobile Industry Review:
US aggregators stunned at Verizon's $0.03 MT transaction fees increase — The US text message market is in a bit of flux. — I've been getting phone calls and text messages from aggregators across the country who can't quite believe that, from 1st November 2008, Verizon will apply …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure — The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the user-driven Wikipedia project, is in the process of migrating its servers to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Wikimedia's move to Ubuntu is part of an effort to simplify administration …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps — With Google's stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isn't so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach. So far this week, we've seen new click-to-buy buttons on YouTube (YouTubevertorials), AdSense for Flash games …
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Experimental Extensions We'd Like to Go Mainstream — Finding new and useful Firefox extensions is a passion of ours, but sometimes we run across extensions adorning the daunting “Experimental” moniker at the Firefox Add-ons web site. We try to avoid these extensions as much as possible …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Some Big Sites Are Using Google Trends To Direct Editorial — Google Trends, which shows you the hot search queries on Google at any given time, is more than two years old now (this year they added website/domain tracking as well). PR professionals and brand managers use it regularly …
Walaika Haskins / E-Commerce Times:
Microsoft Aims for an Experience, Sony Just Wants a Home — Microsoft and Sony both talked up their consoles' proprietary virtual worlds at the Tokyo Game Show Wednesday. Sony said that its long-delayed Home will arrive before 2009, and Microsoft offered some details on the New Xbox Experience, which will arrive in November.
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Sun Microsystems: A Lesson in Failed Cosmetic Surgery — Sun Microsystems, one of the world's largest server and software makers, finds itself in an awkward position: It might soon have enough cash to buy all of its stock and go private. — Sun's shares dropped close to 8 percent Thursday, closing at $5.21.
Ted Dziuba / uncov:
Yes, Uncov is Back — Earlier this year, I said that Uncov was dead. Well, I lied. It's back. Today is the greatest day in the history of the internet. — I'm not going to focus on startups, because startups are boring. I've posted up the archives of everything that's been written here so far …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon Cuts Prices on S3 — Amazon announced today that it will cut prices for its Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) offering on Nov. 1. The company is essentially offering people who use more storage significant volume discounts. For folks using up to 50 terabytes of storage, the price cuts don't make much of a difference.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Parents want to be “cool,” are using SMS with their kids — Hate on the kiddies and their SMS speak all you want, but text messaging is taking off among the masses. AT&T has released data from two studies it recently commissioned, showing that both families and romantic partners are using SMS more and more to communicate.
