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11:25 PM ET, August 6, 2010

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HP:

HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns; CFO Cathie Lesjak Appointed Interim CEO; HP Announces Preliminary Results and Raises Full-year Outlook — PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced that Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd has decided with the Board of Directors to resign his positions effective immediately.

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:

HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns After Sexual Harassment Accusations — Update 2: What seems to have caused Hurd to resign is that the HP board of directors, investigating a sexual harrassment allegation by a contractor, discovered he cheated on expense reports. Some of this money seems to have gone to the contractor in question.

CNET News:

HP's letter to employees on Hurd resignation — Mark Hurd stepped down as Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO in the wake of the company's investigation into a former HP contractor's claim that she was sexually harassed by him. Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak immediately stepped in as interim CEO.

Discussion: TechFlash

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider: Marc Andreessen And Other Board Members In Charge Of Helping HP Find A New CEO

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Here's the Big IPO You've Been Waiting For: Demand Media Files With the SEC — Fun weekend reading for the tech and media set: Demand Media's S-1 filing, the first step it will take on the road to a public offering. — The S-1 doesn't include lots of important information …

Discussion: VatorNews, paidContent, GigaOM, TechCrunch, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, John Battelle's Searchblog, lalawag and Romenesko, more at Mediagazer »

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Demand Media's IPO: The Google & SEO Aspects — Demand Media has filed for an IPO. The company, known as a content farm to some, produces much of its content on sites like eHow and others in direct response to what it determines people are searching for on the web.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, All Facebook, paidContent, Techie Buzz and DealBook, Thanks:atul

Matt Burns / CrunchGear:

Best Buy's CTO Tweets Out Pics Of A Rocketfish Tablet. Seriously, A Best Buy Tablet. — Well, look at that. A Rocketfish tablet. Can't say we saw this coming, but Best Buy's CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, just tweeted two pics of the surprisingly polished-looking tablet.

Discussion: Crave, Engadget, eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, Liliputing, Electronista and GottaBeMobile

Dean Goodman / Reuters:

Beatles, iTunes deal still at impasse — Yoko Ono — * Widow unveils John Lennon commemorative projects — Don't hold your breath waiting for Beatles songs to go on sale at iTunes or other online retailers, Yoko Ono said on Thursday. — The Fab Four have long resisted the allure of digital downloads …

Ina Fried / CNET News:

Bill Gates: Better software modeling is a key — LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—The key to many hard problems, from nuclear power to modeling diseases, is better software modeling, Bill Gates said on Friday. — While it's not surprising that he's a fan of using software to hard problems …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web — Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. — No, it's not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte — instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon.

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Microsoft Blog and Future Tense

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Facebook on ‘lockdown’ as it prepares for war with Google — It looks like Google isn't the only one gearing up for a social network battle. — Rumors surfaced in June that the search giant was developing a Facebook competitor called Google Me, and the company's social networking ambitions became …

David Glazer / The Official Google Blog:

Google and Slide: building a more social web — We're excited to announce we've acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. — For Google, the web is about people …

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Slide Pushes Google's Open Social Strategy

Discussion: Computerworld and TechCrunch

Niraj Sheth / Wall Street Journal:

AT&T Downplays iPhone Pact Risks — Carrier Says Any Loss of Exclusivity Won't Have ‘Material’ Impact — AT&T Inc. said Friday it doesn't expect to suffer a “material negative impact” from the end of its exclusive arrangements to carry handsets, including its lucrative deal for Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!

Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:

New ASUS Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Pakistan — We don't have much information on this (yet) but it looks like an ASUS device running on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted in Pakistan. Unlike the LG Panther and Samsung Taylor devices that are only intended to be development devices …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years — Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with a panel including Bill Joy, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte, and Willie Smits. The topic was basically the future of technology.

Discussion: CNET News and Spark Minute

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Adds ‘Genius’ Tab to iPad App Store — Several readers have noted that Apple has rolled out a new “Genius” feature for its App Store application on the iPad. Similar to other Genius offerings from Apple, the new tab offers automatic suggestions on applications users might be interested …

Discussion: Mashable!, App Advice, IntoMobile, Covering Web, Boy Genius Report, everythingiCafe, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

MTV loses Web videos from Universal Music — MTV, once the king of music videos, has failed to reach an agreement with music portal Vevo, for the rights to Universal Music Group's Web music videos. — Negotiations between MTV and Vevo over videos from UMG, home of such artists as U2 …

Discussion: AdAge, Yahoo! News, paidContent, Epicenter, MediaFile, hypebot and NewTeeVee, more at Mediagazer »

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

uTorrent Wants Torrent Sites to Adopt Torrent Tweet — BitTorrent Inc. has released a new App for uTorrent that allows users to find out what others people are saying about a torrent they're downloading. Users can also join the discussion and use uTorrent to tweet about torrents.

Discussion: BitTorrent Blog, TechCrunch and Epicenter

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Controversy erupts over Apple software patent “copying” existing app's home screen — Today's Apple controversy: Apparently, a recent mobile app patent filed by Apple is blatantly copying the home screen of an existing application — the local search app Where To — reports GigaOm.

Discussion: iLounge, MacRumors, Walt Mosspuppet, ConceivablyTech, Engadget, eSarcasm, The FutureBlog, TiPb, Cult of Mac, Tech Eye, The Next Web, TechCrunch and GigaOM

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