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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Apple pays music bigs $100M+ — Apple will fork over between $100 million and $150 million in advanced payments to the four major music labels in order to get its iCloud off the ground, three separate sources told The Post. — The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iCloud cost pegged at $25 per year, all 4 major labels signed
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Alex Pham / Company Town:
Major labels, music publishers lining up behind Apple's iCloud
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David Heinemeier Hansson / Short Logic:
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal — Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they're currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they'll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Groupon: Doomed to Fail or Worth a Leap? A Twitter Debate
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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Syrian Internet Shutdown — Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet. Over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 of 59 networks were withdrawn from the global routing table.
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Computerworld, The Register, PC Magazine, Washington Post, ArabCrunch, The Next Web, ZDNet, USA Today, VentureBeat, 901am, Fast Company, msnbc.com, NPR, PanARMENIAN.Net, RIA Novosti and Security Watch
Ilya Grigorik / PostRank Blog:
PostRank has been acquired by Google! — From the seed of an idea in late 2006, to the launch of PostRank in mid 2007, and an incredible four years of continuous learning, iteration, and developing and launching new products—what an amazing experience it has been. And yet, the best is still yet to come.
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@miguelrios, @alexdc, @hornokplease, @pkedrosky and WebProNews
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web — In another move that makes it clear that Google is putting a much greater focus on ‘social’, the search giant has just acquired PostRank. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. — PostRank is a service that helps measure …
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PostRank and @igrigorik
Wall Street Journal:
Gmail Hack Targeted White House — People who work at the White House were among those targeted by the China-based hackers who broke into Google Inc.'s Gmail accounts, according to one U.S. official. — The hackers likely were hoping the officials were conducting administration business …
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
Hotmail and Yahoo Users Also Victims of Targeted Attacks
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Chris Buckley / Reuters:
China PLA officers call Internet key battleground
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The Register, TechEye and The Next Web
Matthew Fraser / This Much I Know:
YOU DON'T SAY: WORDS “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” ARE BANNED FROM FRENCH AIRWAVES — The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations. — Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a society universally admired …
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TechCrunch, Digital Trends and The Next Web
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Xbox LIVE Diamond subscription TV service to debut at E3 — Microsoft is planning to reveal its Xbox LIVE subscription TV service at E3, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is close to finishing a key number of components for its full Xbox LIVE subscription TV service.
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CNET News, VentureBeat, Engadget, BetaNews, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, Neowin.net, Zunited, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Eurogamer, Electronista, Geek.com and The Next Web
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Windows 8: The Beginning of the End of Windows — I have a longstanding rule for evaluating new tech products: Don't judge anything by the demo. I've seen far too many product previews that hid fundamental flaws in usability. Until you can touch and play with the product on your own …
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed — New data from comScore on the U.S. smartphone market shows Android share is still surging, while Apple is just barely growing share. — Research in Motion and Microsoft, on the other hand are being destroyed.
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VatorNews, CNET News, Shiny Objects, TechCrunch, comScore, Inc., WinRumors, AndroidGuys, MacStories and Electronista
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Adobe CEO: Android Will Overtake iPad Just Like it Did the iPhone (Video) — Adobe's Shantanu Narayen debunked a myth today at D that there's an ongoing feud between it and Apple over running Flash on iOS. — Still, he didn't hesitate downplaying Apple's early lead in the tablet market …
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PC World, Pocket-lint, PC Magazine, Techland, Yahoo! News, Engadget, Computerworld, App Advice, PhoneArena, AppleInsider and GMSV
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google's CEO steps into spotlight — In his most extensive public comments since becoming Google's (GOOG) CEO, Larry Page on Thursday delivered a carefully crafted response to critics who say the company is too free-spending, too unfocused and too aloof to investors and Wall Street.
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Search Engine Land, CNET News, Reuters, Agence France Presse, WebProNews, Sacramento Bee and parislemon
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Retail 10th Anniversary Poster: “We've learned a lot.” — Click for larger. — The most public celebration of Apple Retail's tenth anniversary was the rollout of iPad interactive shopping guides, something Apple calls the “Smart Sign”. But behind the scenes, in the retail back-of-house area …
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The Next Web, ifoAppleStore, SlashGear, MacStories, TUAW, Apple Headlines and everythingiCafe
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Amazon May Soon Need to Collect Sales Tax — A proposal in the U.S. Senate aims to end the longtime exemption for e-commerce — California visitors to Wal-Mart Stores' (WMT) website must pay $214 to buy a Philips Electronics (PHG) 22-inch LCD HDTV, one of the hottest-selling flat-panel televisions on the Web.
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DailyTech, Gizmodo and blog.chron.com
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Start-up Offers New Hires $10,000, and All the Accoutrements of Hipsterdom — Earlier this year, my colleague Claire Cain Miller and I reported on the fierce recruiting wars among tech companies as they competed to hire and retain talented software developers and engineers.
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SAI, @dondodge and The Next Web
Bloomberg:
Nokia Breakup Worth 52% Gain: Real M&A — Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), the world's largest mobile-phone maker, has destroyed so much shareholder value that it may be worth 52 percent more if sold and broken into pieces. — The Espoo, Finland-based company, once worth almost $300 billion …
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FierceWireless and Adotas
Nathan Hodge / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App: Army Tests Smartphones for Combat — The Army plans to hold desert trials in the U.S. next week to test off-the-shelf iPhones, Androids and tablet computers for use in war. — Starting Monday, the Army will also stress-test a variety of applications that could allow troops …
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Business Wire, GottaBeMobile and Digits
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
AT&T's Ralph De La Vega on the T-Mobile Deal, Service Issues, Spectrum Shortage — Trying to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. Looking to fend off new competition with Verizon over the iPhone. The looming spectrum crunch and the shift away from unlimited data pricing.
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Mark Milian / CNN:
AT&T: Our 4G will catch up to Verizon's in 2 to 3 years
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PC Magazine and PhoneArena
