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9:40 AM ET, September 8, 2011

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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)  —  Not TechCrunch editor.  Not AOL Ventures employee.  Michael Arrington is on his own.  —  It has been a very long week for AOL.  And it's about to get even longer.  —  Last Thursday, word leaked that one of its employees …
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Fred / A VC:
Whither TechCrunch?  —  The media has had a lot of fun over the past week watching AOL, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and Mike Arrington figure out how to move on.  I feel badly for the TechCrunch crew including MG, Erick, Sarah, and many others.  They are awesome at what they do and I feel …
Discussion: Betabeat
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
After Bartz, Armstrong Looks to Be Next  —  Yesterday, after two years as CEO of the ever-shrinking Internet giant Yahoo, Carol Bartz emailed employees, letting them know that she'd just been fired over the phone.  —  That call should have sent shivers down the spine of AOL's CEO of two years, Tim Armstrong.
Discussion: @rafat and Business Insider
Chadwick Matlin / Fortune:
The “end of TechCrunch”? It might not be such a bad thing
Bloomberg:
HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week  —  HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-biggest maker of smartphones, filed infringement claims against Apple Inc. (AAPL) today, using patents obtained from Google Inc. (GOOG) last week.  —  The nine patents originated with Palm Inc. …
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
HTC: We Paid for Patents We Got From Google  —  HTC told AllThingsD on Wednesday that it did pay for the patents that it recently acquired from Google and is using in its latest patent actions against Apple.  —  However, in answer to the million dollar (or $1, or $10,000) question, HTC won't say how much it paid for the patents.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
These are the patents Google gave to HTC to assert against Apple
Discussion: Electronista
Reuters:
Apple sues Samsung in Japan over patents: report  —  (Reuters) - Apple is suing Samsung Electronics in Japan, accusing it of patent violations relating to the iPhone and iPad, Kyodo news agency said, the latest salvo in a series of patent battles between the two firms.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
After the CEO, Yahoo needs to fire its board  —  There is one place Yahoo can easily finish first: the company with the worst and most ineffectual board with the spine of a centipede.  I have not been a fan of Yahoo's board for a long time and nothing really has changed my mind.
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Wall Street Journal:
Board: Bartz Failed on Many Fronts
Discussion: Digits and Business Insider
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Microsoft lines up its big swing at tablets  —  (Reuters) - Next week a high-ranking Microsoft Corp executive will stand on stage and show off a new version of Windows on a tablet computer.  —  It won't be the first time.  Chief Executive Steve Ballmer did it last year.  Co-founder Bill Gates did it 10 years ago.
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Alberto Vildosola / Android and Me:
Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Sandwich coming out in October or November  —  You can always count on Eric Schmidt to say a bit more than what he's supposed to.  At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Schmidt mentioned-intentionally or not-that Ice Cream Sandwich is coming out sometime in October or November.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
How an omniscient Internet “sextortionist” ruined the lives of teen girls  —  In the spring of 2009, a college student named Amy received an instant message from someone claiming to know her.  Certainly, the person knew something about her—he was able to supply details about what her bedroom looked …
Discussion: Business Insider
CNET News:
SF Police launch probe into iPhone search  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Police here have launched a probe into the investigation into a missing iPhone prototype conducted by Apple security personnel with the assistance of four plainclothes officers.  —  Lt. Troy Dangerfield told CNET today …
DigiTimes:
Suppliers of iPhone 5 supply chain gearing up production  —  Suppliers in the iPhone 5 supply chain in Taiwan have geared up production recently with volume shipments of the new Apple smartphones to begin soon.  Production of iPhone 5s at OEM maker Foxconn Electronics has reportedly reached 150,000 units per …
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Foxconn said to be producing 150k iPhone 5 units per day
Discussion: MacPost, I4U News and IntoMobile
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google+ API Not Close ...Unless You're “Trusted”, Then It's Ready  —  Just yesterday, we wrote that those developers waiting on a Google+ API would have to wait a while — months, even.  This disappointing information came to us by way of one eager developer based on what they were told by a project manager for Google+.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Acer and ViewSonic sign Microsoft patent deals covering Android, Chrome OS devices  —  Summary: Microsoft added two more OEMs to its list of companies agreeing to sign patent-protection deals with the Redmond vendor to cover Android- and Chrome OS-baseed devices.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Turntable.fm Is About To Rock An iPhone App; We Have Screenshots  —  For the past few months, few things on the web have been hotter than Turntable.fm.  The Stickybits pivot got so hot, so fast, that a “trough of disillusionment” was inevitable — and we've probably been seeing that the past couple of weeks.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Labor Board: Fired-For-Facebooking Employees Must Be Rehired  —  It's no secret that an employer can, and probably should, do a little check-up on your internet presence before hiring you, and possibly afterwards.  But as several unhappy people have found out, sometimes they look pretty hard …
Discussion: Inc.com
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Bigger isn't always better: Nokia Ovi Store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps  —  Apple's iOS App Store is the world's most popular on-device mobile app portal by leaps and bounds, but that doesn't necessarily make it the best opportunity for developers according to Berlin, Germany-based market research firm research2guidance.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
P2P lawyer: IP address not enough, let me search all PCs in the house  —  A file-sharing lawyer admitted this week that IP addresses don't by themselves identify someone accused of sharing copyrighted material online.  —  While an IP address can identify Internet subscribers …
Joe Fernandez / The Official Klout Blog:
100 Million People have Klout  —  Today, I am excited to announce that 100 million people now have Klout Scores.  While this is an exciting metric for our team, I think it's important to recognize the broader implications of this milestone.  One hundred million people with Klout Scores means …
 
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Los Angeles Times:
Amazon cuts deal on California sales taxes
Discussion: The Register, The Next Web and Reuters
Michael Cooney / Network World:
IBM, 3M team to glue together high-powered silicon bricks for servers, smartphones
Discussion: Electronista
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Seedcamp Expands; Adds €2 Million To Its Coffers, Partners With 500 Startups, AngelList
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Need to print from your iPhone? Breezy's app finds nearby printers
Discussion: TechCrunch
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Sarkozy Routes Around Parliament, Ditches Net Neutrality, Forces Copyright Clauses Into All ISP Terms Of Service
Paul Krugman:
Golden Cyberfetters  —  Over the past few months a number …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
How Android's fragmentation issue is slowly receding
Discussion: Beyond Search and parislemon, Thanks:kevinctofel
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
BigDoor Media acquires OneTrueFan for gamification expansion (exclusive)
Discussion: GigaOM, GeekWire, BigDoor and AllThingsD
 Earlier Items: 
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Imitation Not Sincerest Form Of Flattery, Says Twitter Mobile Designer
Discussion: TiPb and iPhone
Carolyn Kellogg / Jacket Copy:
Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart has died
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook Adds Microformats To “Download Your Info” Feature
Discussion: Softpedia News and Inside Facebook