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Tony Bates / The Big Blog:
Skype to acquire Qik — I'm happy to announce that we've entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that let people capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere. Qik has 60 employees …
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ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Qik Blog, SlashGear and IntoMobile
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SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CONFIRMED: Skype To Acquire Qik For $150 Million — Update: A second source just confirmed the news, and told us that with an earnout, the price is $150 million. — Earlier: Internet phone giant Skype has acquired Qik, the service that lets you stream video from your smartphone, for around $100 million, a source tells us.
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Mashable!, VatorNews, GigaOM, eMoney, Mobile Marketing Watch, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, Android Phone Fans, Geek.com, Tech Musings, SlashGear, Erictric, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:binoyxj
Apple:
Apple's Mac App Store Opens for Business — Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps …
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Richard Gaywood / TUAW:
Mac App Store by the numbers — almost 1,000 apps on Day One — Today's launch of the Mac App Store will doubtless be feeding analyst speculation for some time to come. Developers who choose to work within it gain exposure; users who use it gain frictionless purchasing ability, unobtrusive DRM …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Releases OS X 10.6.6 and Mac App Store
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Ars Technica, Apple, mocoNews, App Advice, PC World, Computerworld, The Atlantic Online, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, RazorianFly, TUAW and Gizmodo, Thanks:viticci
AppleInsider:
Apple restricting employee vacations as first 2011 products loom — Apple is quietly prohibiting vacation days for some retail employees for three weeks beginning later this month, a move that could foreshadow a significant product introduction in the coming weeks, AppleInsider has learned.
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Computerworld, Examiner, MacRumors, CNET News, Fast Company, App Advice, Erictric, PhoneDog.com, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, BGR, SAI and THINQ.co.uk
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows at CES 2011 — It's been an exciting day for Windows with lots of news shared. I did however want to take a few minutes to share with you a bit more about the rest of the Windows story and the things we will be talking about this week at CES. — At last year's CES …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Ballmer At CES 2011: “Whatever Device You Use, Windows Will Be There”
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: What Microsoft's Ballmer didn't say
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Between the Lines Blog, LiveSide.net, ZDNet, VentureBeat, WinRumors, The Register, TechEye and Geekword
Andy Rubin / Google Mobile Blog:
A Sneak Peek of Android 3.0, Honeycomb — The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the Android team: we recently released Nexus S and Android 2.3, Gingerbread, and we've even had some of our most popular team members take a trip to space. But we haven't stopped buzzing with excitement …
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Microsoft gives LCDs the power to see with Surface 2.0 — Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology for large displays has shed a lot of bulk in its newest iteration, and in the process it has also given liquid-crystal displays — the ubiquitous screens used in everything from laptops …
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The Next Web, WinRumors and Geek.com
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: New Microsoft Surface to be priced at $7,600
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Between the Lines Blog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Even If It Had 500 Shareholders Today, Facebook Doesn't Have to Disclose Financials Until Spring of 2012 — For all those in a tizzy-including BoomTown-about Facebook's deal with Goldman Sachs, which some think is designed to circumvent securities rules related to shareholder numbers …
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Guardian, Computerworld, Venture Capital Dispatch, GMSV, Deal Journal, DailyFinance, SAI and Wall Street Journal
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Hollywood's ‘UltraViolet’ aims to replace the DVD — A group of stakeholders in the entertainment industry are poised to make a important sales pitch to consumers concerning the way they buy and watch movies and TV shows. — Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, MediaMemo and SiliconANGLE, more at Mediagazer »
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Mac — Twitter is proud to introduce an appropriately slick and simple desktop application for Mac computers. Twitter for Mac has launched today as part of the Mac App Store. — This app gives Twitter users another fast and convenient way to stay connected to what they care about the most.
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9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, blogs.chron.com, TUAW, Download Squad, Gizmodo, MacStories and The Next Web
AppleInsider:
New Apple patent for network booting could lead to cloud-based Mac OS X — Apple has recently been granted a patent for administering and maintaining a network-booted operating system, possibly laying further groundwork for a cloud-based version of Mac OS X.
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Dave Caolo / TUAW:
Mac App Store pricing of featured apps
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SAI, Switched, The Pocket Cyclone, Shoutpedia, Engadget and MacStories
BBC:
Thousands of stolen iTunes accounts for sale in China — Apple's iTunes service has been targeted several times by criminals in recent years — Tens of thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are for sale on a major Chinese website, it has been revealed.
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Digital Trends, china.globaltimes.cn, Agence France Presse, The Last Watchdog, 9 to 5 Mac, USA Today, TechEye, Naked Security, MacStories, Geek.com and RazorianFly
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Avatar Kinect: Now Your Avatar Smiles, Smirks and Talks When You Do — Your Xbox Live avatar leads a lonely existence. Or did, anyway, before Avatar Kinect came along. Now, Kinect recognizes your face: When you smile, when you raise your eyebrows, when you talk—and your Avatar uncannily does the same.
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eWeek, Microsoft, BetaNews, eMoney, Ars Technica, Digital Society, Geekword and Guardian
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Netflix and Hulu Plus with Kinect coming this spring to Xbox 360
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The Next Web
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Microsoft sold 8 million Kinects in 60 days
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VentureBeat and Fast Company
Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom first hands-on! (update: video!) — Look what we found hanging around the Motorola stand at CES this evening: none other than the just announced Motorola Xoom tablet. While this sleek little device is still running a very early build of Honeycomb, we were able to sneak …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola XOOM tablet announced
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VentureBeat, Seattle Times, eWeek, Motorola Mobility, Inc., Digits, Gearlog, BetaNews, CNET News, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, TechEye, Engadget, Newlaunches.com, MediaNama, Pocket-lint and Phones Review
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
LinkedIn plans to go public in 2011: sources — (Reuters) - LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, plans to go public in 2011 and has selected its financial underwriters, three sources familiar with the process told Reuters. — Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan …
Jenna Dawn / Twitter Blog:
Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record — Well, that didn't take long. Just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1st, Twitterers set an all-time record in the number of Tweets sent per second (TPS). At that moment, the world sent a staggering 6,939 TPS wishing friends …
Jonathan Christensen / The Big Blog:
Skype coming soon to Sony BRAVIA and VIZIO VIA TVs — Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we ushered in a new era of face-to-face communications with the introduction of Skype-enabled TVs. This year at CES, we're making further strides in the living room by making it even easier to get Skype on your TV.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Skype is Killing it On Long Distance — Skype voice traffic is expected to grow by 45 billion minutes in 2010 to more than twice the volume added by all of the world's phone companies combined, according to research out today from consulting firm Telegeography.
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MarketWatch, ReadWriteWeb and TeleGeography Research
Marin Perez / IntoMobile:
BlackBerry PlayBook will have Sprint 4G — Research in Motion didn't want to be one-upped by the Motorola Xoom, so the company just announced that it's upcoming PlayBook tablet will have 4G capabilities thanks to Sprint and its WiMax network. — As you probably know by now …
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Digital Daily, PC World, PhoneNews.com, eWeek and DailyTech
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Dan Moren / Macworld:
AT&T halves price of iPhone 3GS, adds fuel to fire — The Mac App Store may be garnering the oohs and aahs this morning, but please, let's not forget about the iPhone. AT&T certainly hasn't: the carrier announced on Thursday morning that it will begin selling the iPhone 3GS for just $49 …
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Computerworld, Examiner, Wall Street Journal, AT&T, Fast Company, TechCrunch, SAI, Gizmodo, Techland and 9 to 5 Mac
