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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Motorola Readies Its Own Android Social Smartphone — Amid a boom in social-network-friendly handsets, Motorola prepares a new entry, but its Android may not debut until 2009's second quarter — As the wireless world awaits the Oct. 22 debut of the first phone based on the Google-backed Android software …
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Profy, GigaOM, Between the Lines, Boing Boing Gadgets, I4U News, Engadget Mobile, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, RotorBlog.com and Sidecut Reports
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Plans Major Cost Cuts, Including Layoffs — Struggling Internet Giant to Disclose Significant Reductions as Economic Troubles Spread and Rivals Pose Stiff Competition — Yahoo Inc. is drafting significant cost-cutting plans to try to reverse its fortunes from the inside.
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Mark Evans, TechCrunch, Guardian, Between the Lines, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent.org and Newsweek
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Steven Musil / CNET News:
Report: Yahoo plans cost-cutting moves, layoffs — Yahoo is expected to announce cost-cutting moves this week, including another round of layoffs, according to a report Sunday in the Wall Street Journal. — The exact number of layoffs is unknown, but job cuts are expected to come …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Glam Media Finds Its Male Side, Launches Brash.com — After offering a hint about its plans last month, female-centric Glam Media has released Brash, its new male-focused lifestyle and entertainment online hub. Brash is being targeted to men 18-49 years old and is beginning life …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Glam about to launch Brash, a content and ad network focused on men? — Glam Media, a content and ad network focused mostly on woman, is apparently about to launch a network focused on men called Brash.com, something we'd expected after reporting on it last month after early rumors.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Apple Ads About Microsoft Ads About Apple Ads About Microsoft — Apple released a couple of new “Get a Mac” ads today, and while I wouldn't usually bother to mention that here, these ones are noteworthy: They make direct reference to Microsoft's current $300 million ad campaign for Windows.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA now wants to avoid trial in innocent infringement case — The RIAA has apparently had a change of heart towards a Texas woman accused of sharing music over KaZaA when she was 16 years old. In Maverick v. Harper, the industry group has backed off its demand for a jury trial …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
iLike Teams With TuneCore To Help Artists Sell Their Music — Popular music service iLike has teamed with TuneCore, a music distribution platform, to help artists promote and sell their music as easily as possible. — TuneCore (whose CEO thankfully seems to have stopped handling the site's PR) …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
OMG Britney! On Twitter! — This is perhaps the most exciting news since the May launch of TomCruise.com: I'd like to welcome Britney Spears to our world. She (or rather her people) have launched both a Twitter account and a bloggy sort of site with near constant updates on her fascinating life.
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Guardian, RotorBlog.com, Profy, Pulse 2.0, The Social, TECH.BLORGE.com, GO2WEB20 Blog, Brian Alvey, MediaFuturist and I4U News
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Google Learns Lessons in the Ways of Washington — After Google and Yahoo announced an advertising partnership in June, letters from consumer groups and advertising associations poured into government regulators, urging them to support or block the proposed deal.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Toshiba, SanDisk restructure flash memory venture — Toshiba and SanDisk announced Monday that their joint flash memory manufacturing venture is being restructured. As a result, Toshiba will gain a larger ownership stake while SanDisk will reduce costs. — SanDisk said Monday …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts? — Google, I am a very lucky American who is living the dream of owning or being a partner in several small businesses. Each of these businesses utilize Google's GMail and Google Docs, in an effort to cut …
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Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Blu-ray has case of the economic blues — This year, Blu-ray won the war. Now it faces another battle. — Technology analysts say the world's economic roller coaster could mean consumers will be holding onto their money instead of buying pricey Blu-ray players and discs - the high-definition DVD format.
