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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's How Amazon Could Quietly Become A Huge Tablet Player — It would be foolish not to include Amazon on the list of potentially huge players in the tablet industry. — While the company is still only selling simple Kindle e-readers, Amazon has quietly built all the tools it needs …
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InformationWeek, TomsTechBlog.com, ThinkMobile, Daring Fireball, BetaNews and Nieman Journalism Lab, more at Mediagazer »
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser
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Bits, Amazon.com, Reuters, MediaPost, SAI, Techland, Digital Trends, LAPTOP Magazine, Geek.com, Neowin.net, mobiputing, PhoneArena, Xconomy, Black Web 2.0 and OStatic blogs
Justin Williams / carpeaqua:
8 Easy Steps — Previously I posted a snarky one liner …
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Daring Fireball, Daring Fireball and Download Squad
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Groupon President and COO Rob Solomon Steps Down — Sources close to Groupon, the social buying site, said its COO, former Yahoo exec Rob Solomon, is stepping down from his job. — It's not clear what the reasons for Solomon's departure are, but the move seems to be sudden.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CNET News and SAI
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update now available — Microsoft has started to distribute its first full Windows Phone 7 update. — The company began pushing out “NoDo” to devices on Tuesday after a number of device ROMs leaked to the Internet early. Microsoft's first Windows Phone 7 platform …
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WPCentral.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Windows 8 Beta, LaptopMemo, BlogsDNA, PC World, Geek.com, GigaOM, Neowin.net, Know Your Cell, mobiputing and Gizmodo, Thanks:tomwarren
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Michael DeGusta / The Understatement:
Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional) — Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:
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The Equity Kicker and Zero Percent Idle
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall Dodgers
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Felix Salmon, Techdirt, TechSpot, @dannysullivan, @dandotlewis, @doctorow, @jeffbercovici, Mashable! and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Court rejects Google Books settlement — A New York federal district court has rejected the controversial settlement in a class-action suit brought against Google Books by the Authors' Guild, a publishing industry trade group. — “While the digitization of books and the creation …
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San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Freedom to Tinker, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Publishers Weekly, Reuters, PC World, Ars Technica, Engadget, Betabeat, Gizmodo, New York Times, SAI, Public Knowledge, Slyck, Technology Liberation Front, The Register, The Authors Guild Blog, Reuters, Associated Press, Kindle Review, MarketWatch, The Authors Guild Blog, Search Engine Land, mediabistro.com, BetaNews, NPR, @hnfirehose, paidContent, Pulse2, WebProNews and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Rejects Google Book Scanning Settlement With The Authors Guild
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GeekWire, Threat Level and Between the Lines Blog
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
U.S. senators ask Apple to pull police-evasion apps — A group of U.S. senators is calling on Apple to remove applications that alert users to the presence of police and other law enforcement checkpoints that have been set up to combat drunk driving. — U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.) …
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MacNN, Cult of Mac, ReadWriteWeb, @drudge_report, Computerworld and PC World
Justin Moore / Foursquare Engineering Blog:
Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style — Last summer, foursquare's employee count had grown a bit beyond our office capacity (as we surged towards 20 employees) and we had people sitting in whatever open space we could find. We were split between floors, parked on folding tables, and crammed into couches and loveseats.
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About Foursquare and ProgrammableWeb
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer! — As you're aware by now, earlier today Mozilla officially unveiled Firefox 4 to the world. At first glance, it's a great update with massive speed improvements. And that's good, because that's exactly …
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Google Chrome Blog, Google Chrome Releases and The Next Web
Reid Hoffman / Greylock VC:
Ten Entrepreneurship Rules for Building Massive Companies — Last week I gave a talk at South by Southwest, and in it I shared my top ten rules for entrepreneurship. They are borne from my experiences starting companies and partnering with great entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley as an angel and a venture capitalist.
Robert Seidman / TVbytheNumbers:
Showtime to Netflix: No Streaming for You! — Sure, Netflix bought the rights to House of Cards and has a digital deal with Starz (that expires this fall), but it's not like you can stream HBO's True Blood. Showtime has been playing less nicely with Netflix streaming, too.
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and new Galaxy Tab 10.1 hands-on: thinner than the iPad 2, dual-core power, TouchWiz 4.0 — You know who took the iPad 2 launch pretty seriously? Samsung, that's who. Just as we had heard, the company's executives were impressed by Apple's ability to slim down its tablet and …
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MacHackPC, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, IntoMobile, Crave, AppleInsider, PC World, I4U News, Techland, BetaNews, eWeek, Softpedia News, iThinkDifferent, Computerworld, DailyTech, Technologizer, CrunchGear, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, Liliputing, netbooknews.com, Internet Evolution, Inquirer, dailywireless.org, Electricpig.co.uk, Gadget Lab, LAPTOP Magazine, mobiputing, Fortune, Tech Trader Daily and GottaBeMobile
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google working to reverse Chrome bloat — When Chrome got its start, the browser was svelte and fast-loading if limited. — Now, it's got plenty of features, but two years later, it's nearly three times bigger. And Google, deciding that's not a good thing, has set up a task force to curtail Chrome bloat.
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thechromesource and Softpedia News
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Meet Y Combinator's Latest Class — Y Combinator on Tuesday showed off its latest class of start-ups at its Mountain View, CA, headquarters, offering an extra-large sampler pack of developer tools; social apps; lots of services for markets like real estate, doctors and parents; and, of course, a few of its trademark productivity apps.
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Netflix Shares Soar, Site Goes Down — It's not a great day for the Internet, folks. Web services seem to be dropping like flies. For several hours today, WordPress.com's back-end was nowhere to be found, causing several TechCrunch writers to consider writing on legal pads and posting on Craigslist.
The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast, Sleek and Customizable Browsing Experience to More Than 400 Million Users Worldwide — Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Gets An Absurd Patent For Its “Google Doodles” — If you needed any more proof that the U.S. patent system is totally out of control, here it is: after ten years of lobbying, Google was granted a patent on Google Doodles this morning. — Doodles are the customized version …
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The H Open Source, GeekWire, Techdirt, Geek.com and CNET News
Alexia Tsotsis / CrunchGear:
Groupon Wants To Hire Over 100 People In Palo Alto Office, Buys Billboard Campaign — Daily deals site Groupon has joined the tech billboard wars in an effort to bulk up staff at its West Coast office. Groupon PR representative Julie Mossler tells me it's looking to hire over 100 developers …
DigiTimes:
Motorola Xoom monthly orders to drop in 2Q11 — Taiwan's shipments of Motorola Xoom in the first quarter of 2011 are expected to meet upstream component suppliers' forecast of 700,000-80,000 units, as Motorola already placed orders for about 200,000 units for the first half of March and shipments …
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PhoneArena, Neowin.net and Electronista
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google spends $1 million on censorship and throttling detection — Google has awarded $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers so that they can develop simple tools to detect Internet throttling, government censorship, and other “transparency” problems. — That money will cover two years …
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Engadget, Google Public Policy Blog, Network World, Pulse2 and NewsGrange
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Facebook traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese ISP — Routing cockup most likely explanation — For a short time on Tuesday, internet traffic sent between Facebook and subscribers to AT&T's internet service passed through hardware belonging to the state-owned China Telecom before reaching …
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Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Amazon reinstates API access for Lendle — Lendle reports that their access to the Amazon API, which was revoked yesterday and is crucial to the startup's operation, has been reinstated. — Yesterday we covered Amazon's decision to revoke Lendle's API access.
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@lendleapp, GigaOM and Guardian
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Begins Culling Content Sites — AOL will begin rolling out its plans to overhaul its panoply of content sites as early as today, a key part of its integration with the Huffington Post, sources familiar with the situation said. — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will be sending out an internal memo …
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Mixed Media, Mediaite, @gruber, Pulse2, @nick, PE Hub Blog and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon Announces Additional 4G LTE Cities for 2011, 145 Markets by the End of the Year — With the release of the HTC Thunderbolt last week, Verizon wants to make sure that more of you can take advantage of its ridiculous 4G LTE speeds. At this time, only 39 markets are enjoying the power …
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VentureBeat, Crave, DSLreports, Gadget Lab, Gadgetell and Verizon
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Twitter Gets New VP Operations From eBay — Mazen Rawashdeh, VP of technology operations for eBay Marketplaces, has joined Twitter to lead its operations team, according to a tweet by Twitter VP Engineering Michael Abbott. — Twitter recently completed two data center migrations …
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