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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million — Closing another chapter on one of the Internet's most iconic properties, Myspace has been sold to to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million. — Sources close to the situation said the deal is being completed today …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
MySpace Acquired: Email From CEO Mike Jones To Employees — Myspace CEO Mike Jones just sent out this email and press release to all of the company's employees. Kara Swisher is reporting that the sale was for $35 million. — Updating.
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AllThingsD, The Business Insider, Neowin.net, Geekosystem, ReelSEO Online Video … and Techie Buzz
EON: Enhanced Online News:
Specific Media Acquires Myspace — Vanderhook brothers and Justin Timberlake partner to transform the social media icon — IRVINE, Calif.—(EON: Enhanced Online News)—Specific Media, a digital media company, today announced its acquisition of Myspace, a leading social networking destination for consumers, celebrities and artists.
Lee Brenner / hypervocal:
Was MySpace Downfall Inevitable? Plenty of Blame to Go Around
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Search Engine Watch
Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
What Google+ Learned from Buzz and Wave — After a half day of using Google+ with the limited number of people I know in the field test so far, I like it a lot. I will love Google+ when and if all my friends show up and stick around. — I've been been watching Google flail around social web apps …
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SiliconFilter, Guardian, The Huffington Post and Techland, Thanks:arpitnext
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Does The Google+ Interface Remind You Of Facebook? You're Not The Only One
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The Business Insider, @uxboy, The Business Insider and @dannysullivan
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
While We Await The Native App, The Google+ iPhone Mobile Web App Is Pretty Solid
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App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and iPodNN
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Google+ won't hurt Facebook, but Skype will hate it
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Google Watch, Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, louisgray.com, New World Notes, GMSV and Simply Zesty
Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines Blog:
Beware the buzz about Google+
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PC World, BBC, TechCrunch and Webscopia
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung files ITC complaint against Apple:long-time partners heading for ugly divorce? — The ITC website shows that yesterday Samsung filed complaint no. 337-2824 concerning the following types of products: Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices …
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VentureBeat, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, TiPb, Computerworld, Gizmodo, The Register, mocoNews, SlashGear, CNET News, MacStories, iPhone Buzz, MobileCrunch, GigaOM, The Next Web and iPhone Download Blog, Thanks:fosspatents
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Bloomberg:
HP Is In Talks to License WebOS Software — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the world's largest maker of personal computers, is in talks to license its webOS mobile software, Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker said in an interview. — “We are talking to a number of companies,” …
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:
Amazon: associates program in California to be terminated — Amazon announced today that its Associates program is to be terminated in California, in response to a new sales tax bill there. The move appears to be pre-emptive hardball to try and avert the bill being signed into law.
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GeekWire, TechCrunch and @scobleizer
Abdur Chowdhury / Twitter Blog:
Global pulse — During major events, people use Twitter to share news and thoughts with friends, family and followers around the world. Messages originating in one place are quickly spread across the globe through Retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. We see this behavior during everything …
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The Next Web
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Supply of Apple's white MacBook severely constrained ahead of Lion debut — Availability of Apple's current $999 white MacBook, built with hardware that is now getting long in the tooth, has become constrained, potentially signaling a forthcoming update to the entry-level notebook.
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Apple Bitch, CNET News, MacRumors, TUAW, I4U News, SlashGear and MacStories
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New MacBook Airs with OS X Lion, Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge in mid-July
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Ars Technica, BGR, AppleNApps, The Next Web, MacRumors, O'Grady's PowerPage and Mashable!, Thanks:jakeosmith
Nick Bilton / Bits:
More Secrecy in Silicon Valley — Last week I took a trip to Silicon Valley, zigzagging around to meet with start-ups, venture capitalists and the big technology companies that inhabit the area. My goal with these meetings was to get a glimpse of new themes and services consumers can expect to see soon.
Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Why the Browser Matters … Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs.
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Inside Facebook and GMSV
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Accel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social Browser RockMelt
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Digital Media Wire, All Facebook, AllThingsD, Adotas, L.A. Times Tech Blog and eWeek, Thanks:cindywaters
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple officially responds to Final Cut Pro X complaints with new FAQ website, next ‘major release’ coming with fixes — By now, most people that are interested in Apple and/or video editing have heard about the ongoing criticism towards Apple's latest professional movie making software …
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BGR, Apple, Jeffery Harrell, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacRumors, Electronista, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, SlashGear, PC Magazine, HEXUS.net, EOSHD.com, MacDailyNews, thinq_, TiPb, Geek.com, RazorianFly, Network World, Photography Bay, Tools, Edible Apple, Computerworld, PC World, Fortune, The Loop, Distorted-Loop.com, Computerworld, CNET News, GigaOM, OS X Daily and Computerworld
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AmazonFresh app debuts on Microsoft's Windows Phone — AmazonFresh, the online retailer's grocery delivery service, released a mobile app today, developed on its behalf by digital agency Metia/Seattle. Nope, it's not for Android, or even iPhone, neither of which has a full-fledged AmazonFresh app yet.
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The Windows Blog, BetaNews, SlashGear, PhoneArena and GottaBeMobile
Dan Frommer / The Business Insider:
Square Raises $100 Million Round At $1+ Billion Valuation, Led By Kleiner Perkins — Square, the mobile payments company led by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is raising $100 million in new financing, led by big-time VC firm Kleiner Perkins, the WSJ reports. — The round values Square …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, DealBook, SmoothSpan Blog, TechCrunch, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mashable!, @fromedome, VentureBeat, Bits, @jack, Reuters and FierceMobileContent
John Biggs / Gadgetwise:
A Cheaper Way to Navigate Abroad, No Costly Data-Roaming Required — A few years ago I took a trip to Europe and brought along my new iPhone for a bit of sightseeing. With international roaming charges so high I reduced my e-mail and Web browsing to a mere trickle, thinking I'd save a bit of money.
David / Signal vs. Noise:
Wizards of bulls**t: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion — Forbes is reporting that Facebook's Zuckerberg is now richer than the Google's Sergey and Larry. How did that happen? By using the most naive form of financial extrapolation and calling it fact.
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The Microsoft Blog, The Seattle Times and Worth While
Brian Oliver Bennett / LAPTOP Magazine:
Hands On with HTC Status for AT&T: Facebook Button for Easy Updates — HTC just announced its new Status smartphone for AT&T which boasts a special Facebook button. It's designed to make sharing content via the popular social network quick and easy. We got a chance to preview the device and here are our first impressions.
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, BetaNews, BGR, The Toybox Blog, It's All Tech, Tools, This is my next, IntoMobile, Android News, Rumours …, Android Phone Fans and Product reviews
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple iPhone 3GS to be free on contract following iPhone 5 launch, analyst says — Apple is set to finally hit the $0 on-contract mark with its entry-level iPhone 3GS once it launches the next-generation iPhone 5 later this year. In a note to investors on Wednesday, RBC Capital Markets …
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MediaFile, AppleInsider, CNN, The Tech Trade, Mashable!, Tech Trader Daily, iPhone Alley, RazorianFly, I4U News, Neowin.net, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, FierceWireless and PhoneArena
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Biz Stone Isn't So Sure About Twitter's Cozy Relationship With the State Department — ASPEN — Twitter has played a celebrated role in the uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa this year that have come to be known as “the Arab spring.” The social network has been one of activists …
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FT Tech Hub, ITworld.com and Digital Trends
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft hires Disney man for consumer crusade — Corporate mission: to be less stodgy — Microsoft has raided the Walt Disney Corporation to fill a position tasked with flogging Windows 8 to consumers buying PCs and tablets next year. — The company appointed former Disney director …
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Neowin.net and WinRumors
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
LivingSocial Is Talking To Bankers About Going Public At A $15 Billion Valuation — LivingSocial is talking to bankers about going public at a $10 billion to $15 billion valuation, CNBC reports. LivingSocial started its life as a Facebook app, but it eventually evolved into the very most successful Groupon clone.
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Deal Journal, Reuters and @katekellycnbc
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Accel Puts $34 Million In Online Payments Platform Braintree — It's no secret that Accel is making major investments in the online payments space, funding both Wonga and e-payments company Yapstone. And today the venture firm is announcing a $34 million Series A investment in Chicago-based online payments company Braintree.
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Online Payment Systems … and PE Hub Blog, Thanks:arjkumar
