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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Acquire Like.com After Leaving Them At The Altar In 2005 — In late 2005 Google was on the verge of acquiring a company called Riya - the first real attempt at image facial recognition and tagging for consumers. Google eventually walked away from Riya, and the company trudged on.
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Pulse2, Thanks:bobcaswell
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Snaps Up Chai Labs — In yet another small acquisition, Facebook has bought Chai Labs, several sources said. — BoomTown could not confirm the price for the purchase of the content-focused start-up, but it is likely to be around $10 million and more focused on acquiring talent.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
‘Super angel’ Aydin Senkut raises $40M fund — Felicis Ventures, the firm created by early Googler (and VentureBeat investor) Aydin Senkut, just announced that it has raised $40 million. It's the firm's first institutional fund. — Felicis says it will continue to focus on early-stage mobile and Internet investments.
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GigaOM and Wall Street Journal
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Google to open ‘Google Ideas’ global technology think tank — Hoping to apply technology solutions to solve the world's problems, Google is hiring Washington technology insider Jared Cohen. — Jared Cohen in 2007. Image Credit: Washington Life Magazine
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Murdoch's New iPaper: One Last Tragic Roll Of The Digital Dice — “Rupert Murdoch To Launch New National Newspaper”. — As headlines go, that's up there with “DeLorean To Unveil New ‘Gull-Wing’ Car”, “Freddy Laker Reveals Trans-Atlantic Airline Plans” and “Charge! says Light Brigade” …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Conceptual USGA golf scoring app by Microsoft shows Windows Phone 7 apps done right — With the developer momentum building behind Windows Phone 7, there's a lot of work-in-progress applications flying around. Although many of them show a lot of potential, it's easy to get distracted …
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MSDN Blogs, Download Squad, Big in Japan and WMPoweruser.com
Agence France Presse:
N.Korea uses Twitter for propaganda offensive — SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea's propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heals of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube. — South Korea blocks the site and few in North Korea have access even to a computer.
Susanna G. Kim / New York Times:
New Satellites Aim to Offer Improved Internet Service — Satellite companies have been the also-rans of Internet providers. — They serve a little more than one million customers, most in rural areas that have no other options. Their services can be painfully slow and cost twice as much as high-speed broadband.
James Gosling / On a New Road:
Quite the firestorm — The last couple of days have been quite an entertaining firestorm of press and blog-o-sphere commentary. Lots of questions were brought up that give me a bottomless supply of blog topics. I hope I have the common sense to not write on most of them :-)
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Sogrady / tecosystems:
Oracle v Google: Why? — When Android debuted in 2007 …
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Buleyean String, Roughly Drafted, WebProNews and Groklaw
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More — Why are iPads selling as fast as Apple's Chinese subcontractors can crank them out? In part, it's because the iPad has a suddenly-hot product category pretty much to itself. Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up …
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Fortune, Liliputing, Silicon Alley Insider, GottaBeMobile, blogs.chron.com, techblog.dallasnews.com, Gizmodo and PalmAddicts
Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Slide's History Points to Google's Social Plans — Why did Google buy social application developer Slide? A main line of speculation has been that the company wants to build a social gaming platform, and there are many reasons to assume that. — But we're hearing that the search leader …
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Leaked Intel roadmap details Sandy Bridge CPUs, expands SSD lineup? — If a set of supposedly leaked slides are legitimate (and they sure look convincing to us) then the shape of Intel's dirt-brown 2011 plans has finally been revealed. As you can see immediately above …
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Gizmodo and Electronista
