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7:00 AM ET, January 11, 2011

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
IPhone May Cost Verizon $5 Billion in Subsidies in First Year  —  Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, set to get Apple Inc.'s iPhone this month after four years of waiting, may spend $3 billion to $5 billion to subsidize customer purchases of the device this year, cutting into profits, analysts say.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Why I'm not switching to the Verizon iPhone: Need for speed  —  The image above says it all.  It shows a screen capture of an actual speed test performed on an Apple iPhone 4 while connected to AT&T's 3G network in northern New Jersey.  It is not an anomaly.
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Preps iPhone Plan  —  Carrier to Run New Adds Boosting Service as Rival Verizon Preps for New Phone  —  After enduring months of rumors about competition for the iPhone, AT&T Inc. executives are finally about to face their moment of truth.  —  On Tuesday, Verizon Wireless is expected …
Bloomberg:
Google's Android Is Likely to Lose Out as Verizon Sells IPhone  —  Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. may lose business as Verizon Wireless starts selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone, giving the carrier's customers a new alternative to smartphones running the Android operating system.
Discussion: SAI and Bloomberg
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Verizon iPhone Hype Shown In One Image
Discussion: Cult of Mac
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard  —  ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it.  —  Twitter beta-tested a spine.
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer  —  EXCLUSIVE: Sources date the next Android update  —  Google will release the next version of its mobile phone operating system, Android 2.4, in the summer, Pocket-lint has learnt.  —  According to multiple sources familiar with the matter …
Yahoo! News:
Steve Jobs to join Murdoch to unveil iPad paper  —  Rupert Murdoch will unveil News Corp.'s much-anticipated iPad newspaper onstage this month with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, The Cutline has learned.  —  The two media moguls will appear together at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz  —  If you've got an iPhone or Android device, there's a decent chance you're familiar with Bump, the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Who Came Out On Top At CES?  —  Now that the Consumer Electronics Show is over and all the vendors are breaking down their booths, we have one question - who won?  —  Social media monitoring service RowFeeder kept track of a number of different brands over the last several months …
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Facebook's Google Effect  —  “I hope the only people harmed are speculators.”  —  Roger McNamee, the venture capital investor, was discussing the new race in Silicon Valley to buy up shares of hot private Internet companies in the wake of Facebook's $2 billion fund-raising last week that valued the company at $50 billion.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Why I'm Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud  —  I've always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud.  Not just emails and files, but my entire life.  As I've written before, I live permanently in hotels, and my whole life fits into carry-on luggage.
Discussion: SFWeekly
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Muglia's e-mail to the Microsoft troops: 'I'm moving on to new opportunities outside of Microsoft'  —  We've seen Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's January 10 e-mail to the troops about Server and Tools Business (STB) Unit President Bob Muglia's unexpected departure from the company.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
End of an era: Bob Muglia is leaving Microsoft
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel/NVIDIA bombshell: two rivals team up  —  Intel and NVIDIA have announced a six-year, $1.5 billion dollar technology cross-licensing deal that marks the end of a long patent dispute between the two chipmakers.  On a conference call this afternoon, NVIDIA representatives described …
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NVIDIA Press Room:
Intel to Pay NVIDIA Technology Licensing Fees of $1.5 Billion
Ben D'Angelo / Google Code Blog:
Google URL Shortener gets an API  —  When we launched Google's URL shortener externally back in September, there was no accompanying API to allow people to integrate goo.gl into their applications and web pages.  However, we said that we were working on one, and today we're happy to announce …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kindle Comes To The Mac App Store, Already No. 5 Free App  —  Continuing its quest to be on every major computing platform, Kindle is now available as an app in the new Mac App Store.  As the first ebook app in teh Mac App Store, it is already the fifth most downloaded free app.
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David Dahlquist / Macworld:
Kindle app gets side-loading, background downloading
Discussion: Gadget Lab and App Advice
Philip Rha / Facebook Blog:
The New Profile Is Here  —  Last month, we introduced the new profile, which now makes it even easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends.  For the month of December, we gave people the option to upgrade to the new profile early, and hundreds of millions of you made the switch.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars  —  Groupon has closed what remained of that huge $950 million financing round which we first reported on in late December.  They closed on roughly half of it then, from DST, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley.  We then learned that Kleiner Perkins was also in the round.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
T-Mobile UK Decides Mobile Broadband Shouldn't Actually Be Used For Mobile Broadband  —  If you have T-Mobile in the UK you may be disappointed to know that the company has suddenly decided that you should be perfectly happy to use little more than just 500 MB per month — a paltry amount.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
AMD CEO resigns; search on for new leader  —  AMD CEO Dirk Meyer will step down after reaching an agreement with the company's board over his departure, AMD said today.  —  Thomas Siefert, AMD's CFO, will fill Meyer's spot on a temporary basis as the company searches for a new CEO.
 
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Winklevoss twins gamble $65m for Facebook fortune
Discussion: Digits
Dan York / Disruptive Telephony:
Skype just crossed over 27 million simultaneous users online!
Discussion: GigaOM, SlashGear, Engadget and The Next Web
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Former RIM Employee Highlights Playbook Challenges
Discussion: BGR, IntoMobile and Electricpig.co.uk
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Virginia Poised to Ban Teacher-Student Texting, Facebooking
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Kayak feels the Google-ITA pressure
Discussion: Tnooz
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Best Buy Officially Launches Buy Back Program
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Makers of VLC Player for iOS respond to App Store removal
Discussion: SlashGear, RazorianFly and Ars Technica
New Zealand Herald:
Google billionaire buys Kiwi's superyacht
Discussion: Fortune, Pulse2 and SAI
Brad Sams / Neowin:
Microsoft is working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone [Update]
Discussion: Gizmodo