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Jack McKenna / TechCrunch:
“Deciding” To Move On — AOL has issued the following statement: “The TechCrunch acquisition has been a success for AOL and for our shareholders, and we are very excited about its future. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch has decided to move on from TechCrunch and AOL to his newly formed venture fund.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
It's Official: Arrington Out at AOL; Schonfeld New Editor — Here is a statement that just was put out by AOL: — “The TechCrunch acquisition has been a success for AOL and for our shareholders, and we are very excited about its future. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch …
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Silvio Gulizia / @silviogulizia:
@arrington on stage at #tcdisrupt? yeah! ( #tcdisrupt live at http://t.co/R3EkJBS)
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious — SAN MATEO, Calif. — Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have some experience with turning a small Web site into Internet gold. In 2006 they sold their scrappy start-up YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion. — More recently they picked an unlikely candidate …
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Focus Taiwan:
HTC mulling purchase of operating system: report — Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) Cher Wang, chairwoman of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp., said the company is considering buying an operating system (OS), but is in no rush, according to a recent news report. — After the global PC heavyweight …
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Technology Review:
Groupon's Hidden Influence on Reputation — A Groupon deal might boost sales but, it can also lower a merchant's reputation as measured by Yelp ratings, say computer scientists who have analyzed the link between daily deals and online reviews. — One of the biggest internet phenomena …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Report: Groupon Grew Its Revenues 13% In August, Gained 2% Marketshare — In light of reports that the company was canceling its investor roadshow and postponing its IPO, daily deals aggregator Yipit has some positive information about Groupon's trajectory in August, namely that it had a banner month revenue-wise.
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IDC:
IDC: More Mobile Internet Users Than Wireline Users in the U.S. by 2015 — By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices. As smartphones begin to outsell simpler feature phones, and as media tablet sales explode …
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GigaOM, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, Internet2Go, Between the Lines Blog, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Telecompetitor and Mass High Tech
Bloomberg:
Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain: Tech — Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) — When Facebook Inc. set out to build two new data centers, engineers couldn't find the server computers they wanted from Dell Inc. or Hewlett-Packard Co. They decided to build their own.
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LAUNCH:
A Horribly Unimpressive List of Products Yahoo Launched under Carol Bartz — [ Carol Bartz just after she became Yahoo CEO. Photo by Yahoo social media team via creative commons license. ] — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got the boot this week, but we wanted to review the products that launched during …
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Dave Reisner / ls /etc/ | more:
Google Bought Me! The First Two Days — For the past several months, I've been playing Operations Developer for Zagat Survey, taking care of the production website infrastructure, expanding our internal development environments, acting as liason to our hosting provider …
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Christopher Beam / New York Magazine:
Bubble Boys — Out in Silicon Valley, the last bastion of full employment, the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future are staying up all night writing code in dorms. — Feross Aboukhadijeh likes to tell the story of how he got famous. It happened last fall, as he was beginning his junior year at Stanford.
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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash, HTC Titan headed to AT&T with Windows Phone 7 Mango on-board — Timed to coincide with Microsoft's much-anticipated BUILD event happening this week, word has just hit the streets that Samsung will be launching two new Windows Phone devices — both running version 7.5 …
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Hacker Rattles Internet Security Circles — He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and despises dissidents in his country. — He sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
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Euan Rocha / Reuters:
RIM, Dolby set licensing deal; lawsuits dropped — (Reuters) - Dolby Laboratories said on Monday it has withdrawn its patent infringement lawsuit against Research In Motion after the BlackBerry maker inked a licensing deal to use of some of Dolby's technologies.
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate Magazine:
How TechCrunch changed startup culture. — A few months ago, Michael Arrington heard a tip that Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, was starting a new company. Ordinarily, this would have been enough for Arrington, the founder of the blog TechCrunch, to bang out a post with details about Fake's new firm and her backers.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
In This Episode of “As the AOL Turns”: Will Arrington Appear at TechCrunch Disrupt?
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Edward Moyer / CNET News:
IBM's Watson to offer medical advice to doctors — IBM has inked a deal with health insurer WellPoint that will let WellPoint use the technology behind “Jeopardy"-playing computer Watson to suggest patient diagnoses and treatments. — The arrangement, which marks the first time the Watson technology …
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Alana / Nielsen Wire:
Social Media Report: Spending Time, Money and Going Mobile — Social media not only connects consumers with each other, but also with just about every place they go and everything they watch and buy. Nielsen's new Social Media Report looks at trends and consumption patterns across social media platforms …
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Zee Kane / The Next Web:
Amazon reportedly in talks to launch a Netflix for books — BREAK THE NEWS! — In February, Amazon.com launched its long-awaited subscription video-streaming service as part of Amazon Prime, setting itself up to be a serious rival to Netflix. If we're honest, it's yet to take off but let's …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Rule on GPS Surveillance, Addressing ‘Big Brother’ Claims — WASHINGTON — The precedent is novel. More precisely, the precedent is a novel. — In a series of rulings on the use of satellites and cellphones to track criminal suspects, judges around the country …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Sequoia Leads $20 Million Round In MongoDB Big Data Database Provider 10gen — 10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen's other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures.
