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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar... Yesterday I was tipped off about a “secret meeting” between a group of “Super Angels” being held at Bin 38, a restaurant and bar in San Francisco. “Do not come, you will not be welcome,” I was told. — So I did what any self respecting blogger would do …
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VentureBeat, HipMojo.com, GigaOM, A Bajillion Hits, FM Blog, Adventures in Capitalism, Gawker, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo and broadstuff, Thanks:louisgray
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hooray For Mike Arrington — If you haven't already, go read Mike Arrington's story about how he barged into a secret meeting of Silicon Valley's super-angels and discovered that the angels were discussing how to screw traditional venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, the latter by pushing down the prices of early-stage deals.
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VentureBeat
Quora:
Who are the Super Angels that Michael Arrington is talking about in his 9/21/10 Techcrunch post, “So a Blogger Walks into a Bar...”? — And if you can elucidate, what merit is there in his accusations? — Article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/ 21... — 4 Answers
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Venture Chronicles
Wall Street Journal:
RIM Readies Its Answer to iPad — BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early as next week, at a developers' conference in San Francisco, say people familiar with RIM's plans.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Connecting the dots: RIM may launch its Black Pad Monday
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The Register, Boy Genius Report, Electronista and Engadget, Thanks:jasonhiner
Google Mobile Blog:
Updated Gmail app in Android Market — We just released a new version of the Gmail app in Android Market, so Gmail updates aren't tied to Android version releases anymore. Now you can get new Gmail stuff faster without having to wait for system updates. To start you off …
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The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Electronista, Neowin.net, The Next Web, Engadget, Android Community, Google Operating System, Droid Life, SiliconANGLE, Phone Arena, Computerworld, pocketnow.com, 901am, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, AndroidSPIN, Boy Genius Report, Lifehacker, mobiputing, Switched, Download Squad, Ubergizmo, GottaBeMobile, EuroDroid, BlogsDNA, Startup Meme, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, Erictric, Technologizer, Gizmodo and techeblog.com, Thanks:rawmeet
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Droid Attack Spells Doom for iPhone — Last year, while I was on a business trip, my wife surprised me during a phone call by telling me that she was going to purchase a Motorola DROID and finally enter the smart phone age. This was surprising on a number of levels.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
With News Feed changes, Facebook issues a friend request to social game makers — Months after it hurt social game publishers by taking away some of its best viral methods for spreading apps, Facebook is hoping to make amends. — The company is planning to announce today it will make changes …
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TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, msnbc.com, All Facebook, Inside Social Games and CNET News
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Jared Morgenstern / Facebook Developer Blog:
Making Games on Facebook Better
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Facebook Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Download Squad, Thanks:atul
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits — Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all. Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a “buy” rating and a price target of $356 per share.
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broadstuff, App Advice, Fast Company, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN, Macsimum News and MacDailyNews
Bob Lord / Twitter Blog:
All about the “onMouseOver” incident — The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved.
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Mashable!, eWeek, BBC, CNET News, Computerworld, Gizmodo Australia, WebProNews, PC Magazine, The Blog Herald, TechCrunch Europe, Bloggers Blog, TechCrunch, StatusNet, ReadWriteWeb, Bits, Guardian, Electricpig.co.uk, TechSpot, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CloudAve, CNN, LEWIS 360°, Guardian, Help Net Security, Switched, GottaBeMobile, Security Watch, Black Web 2.0, The Huffington Post, InformationWeek, Voices on All Things Digital, The Register, Top stories for TNW Network, Technologizer, Krebs on Security, GigaOM, Boy Genius Report, NBC Bay Area, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Ars Technica, Thanks:atul
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
The Twitter hack: how it started and how it worked
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Inspired? No, The Next Web, F-Secure Antivirus …, Software as Services Blog, Telegraph, InformationWeek, Erictric, Gawker, Asiajin, V3.co.uk, Macworld and Twitter Status
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Developers Can Now Access Locations of 250 Million Phones Across U.S. Carriers — Location Labs today announced a “Universal Location Service” platform that aggregates locations of phones across carriers for developers and centralizes privacy management for end-users.
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VentureBeat
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Verizon Storms the App Castle: Launches Wave of Location …
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Verizon, Urban Airship Blog and mocoNews, Thanks:turoczy
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
VideoEgg Buys Six Apart — Makes bid to become ‘modern media company’ — Rich media ad network VideoEgg is recasting itself as Say Media after its purchase of blog platform Six Apart. — The absorption of Six Apart gives the company the added reach of the latter's Movable Type and TypePad blogging software.
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Connecting the Dots and Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Six Apart Deal With VideoEgg Marks the End of an Era
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The Next Web, paidContent, Mashable!, vanderwal.net Off the Top and Everything TypePad, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Verizon: Our Apps Aren't About Taking Over The Phone — It's About “Choice”. Puke. — About a week ago, we noted that Verizon was gearing up to launch its own app store for Android phones. This app store, called V CAST Apps, would be completely separate from Android's existing Market for apps.
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jkOnTheRun, Electronista and PreCentral.net
Reuters:
AT&T says half a million iPads use its network — NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - About a half a million iPad owners use AT&T Inc's (T.N) network to connect the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) tablet computer to the Internet, according to the telephone company's top executive Randall Stephenson.
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PC World, MacStories, MacRumors, PadGadget and iLounge
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Dan Gallagher / MarketWatch:
AT&T chief not worried about losing iPhone
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ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company and mocoNews
Amanda Enayati / Salon:
My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me — A thief broke into my car. I used Craigslist, a dating site, MySpace and a fast food joint to track him down In the first 24 hours after someone broke into my car in my own driveway, I was mostly mad at my husband.
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Newser
Kevin Fox / fox @ fury:
The first step to fixing the Android Marketplace has nothing to do with the Android Marketplace — Much fuss has been made about the user experience of the Android Marketplace and how it compares to the iOS App Store but, while there are many points to be made about how the Marketplace's design …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple And Facebook Talked For More Than A Year — Then Apple Launched Ping Without Facebook's Help — Three weeks after Apple launched Ping, its new social networking service, Apple still hasn't been able to work out a deal with Facebook to integrate its vast social network into Ping.
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MacRumors, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, Edible Apple, MacNN and iClarified
Michael Zwibelman / The Official Google Blog:
Taking rogue pharmacies to court — We work very hard to make sure that ads shown on Google provide useful information for our users. But sometimes we need to take action against ads that violate our policies, as when we block malware ads, or when we filed suit last year against “Google Money” scammers.
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TechCrunch and Search Engine Land
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Tecca, Best Buy's New Shopping App, Isn't a Best Buy Shopping App — Here's another shopping app: Tecca promises to “help you find, buy and get the best from personal technology.” It's available for Apple's iPhone, Google's Android as well as Web browsers.
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GigaOM
Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post:
The Legend of Mark Zuckerberg — Bill Gates got me into Harvard. I had never met the man even once in my life, and I had certainly never been the beneficiary of his unparalleled personal fortune in any direct sense. I had, of course, used his company's software, and throughout high school …
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Is Apple tuning out audiophiles? — By failing to upgrade the iPod Classic, the tech giant seems to have left in the lurch the customers who made the music player a huge success. — It seems to be a law of nature that, just like toothpaste and government tax codes, great consumer technologies …
Richard Esguerra / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in “Online Infringement” Bill — Senator Patrick Leahy yesterday introduced the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” (COICA). This flawed bill would allow the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to break the Internet …
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Wendy's Blog, Lawgarithms Blog, Threat Level and Hillicon Valley
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Oracle surprises with new Sparc chip launch — When the news broke that Oracle was buying Sun, it seemed quite unlikely that Oracle would soldier on with Sun's boutique chip architecture, the aging SPARC family. But the company announced that Sparc lives, at least for now.
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Oracle, Lockergnome Blog Network and virtualization.info
