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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News Ends Relationship With Source of Bogus Steve Jobs Death Tweet (Exclusive) … CBSNews.com has severed its relationship with the host of a web show who sent out an erroneous Tweet yesterday saying that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had died. — The offending Tweet was sent …
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Fortune, @andrewbaron, Neowin.net, Soshable, The Loop and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
David Kirkpatrick / Techonomy:
Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution — Civilizations have clashed in an unexpected way this year, as ordinary people using Facebook and Twitter knocked down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya—and are threatening absolute rule in Syria. A so-called Arab spring brought waves of liberation to a long-oppressed region.
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Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
Report: Yahoo board not focused on finding new CEO for now — After firing Carol Bartz, directors are evaluating whether to sell Yahoo whole or in parts, the Wall Street Journal reports — IDG News Service - Days after giving Carol Bartz the pink slip, Yahoo's board of directors is focused …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AOL and Yahoo Are Not Talking About a Merger (Any More Than I Am a Yahoo CEO Candidate)
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Wall Street Journal, Beyond Search, The Tech Trade, Softpedia News, CBS News, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Mercury News, Your Money, Deal Journal, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo and Bloomberg
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Two Key Features Of Facebook Music: Scrobbling And Track Unification — Yesterday, we outlined a bit of what we've heard about Facebook's upcoming f8 conference. One big launch will be their official foray into music. Today, we've heard more about that launch.
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Business Insider, @joshconstine, Electronista and Gizmodo
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Noah Davis / Business Insider:
Here's A Great Story About The Astonishing Lengths Apple Went Through To Keep The iPad Secret — We talked to the developer of a very successful iPad app yesterday, and he told us a tale about the absurd steps he and his team went through to get an iPad before the product's launch.
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iDownloadBlog.com, TiPb, CydiaHelp, @arrington, Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, CNET News, MacRumors, App Advice and Cult of Mac
Eric Smalley / CNET News:
DIY flying robo hacker threatens wireless networks — Modify a remote-control toy helicopter (above) to carry a wireless-network-hunting computer (below), and you've got a menacing hacker drone. — (Credit: Top: Parrot SA. Bottom: Stevens Institute of Technology) — With a name like SkyNET, it's got to be scary.
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Engadget, Technology Review and Softpedia News
Economist:
Great digital expectations — Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order — TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase.
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TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TeleRead, Gizmodo and SplatF
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Windows 8 tablet from Samsung has Intel inside — A Samsung tablet expected to be shown at a Microsoft conference next week will be powered by an Intel chip, according to a source familiar with the device. — The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 currently on the market runs the Android operating system and uses an Nvidia processor.
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Electronista, Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips and nexus404
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
In Battle Over The ‘Tweet’ Trademark, Twitter Sues Twittad — You may remember that back in July 2009, Twitter made a big stink about developers using the term ‘tweet’ in their Twitter apps. Oddly enough, while Twitter has long been trying to register the ‘tweet’ trademark in the United States …
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VentureBeat and The Trademark Blog
Mary Ann Azevedo / bizjournals:
Sand Hill Road, University Avenue: Silicon Valley's most expensive streets … Want to lease office space on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park or University Avenue in Palo Alto? Be warned — the prestige of calling the two Silicon Valley streets home comes at a price.
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The Huffington Post, @georgezachary and bizjournals
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
How to surf T-Mobile without a data plan — The mother of all ingenious hacks has emerged: if you have an Android smartphone and a T-Mobile (US) unlimited messaging plan, you can now use an app called Smozzy to surf the web... for free. — Smozzy is basically just a wrapper around …
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CNET News, IntoMobile, Engadget, AndroidSPIN, TechCrunch, PC World, Lifehacker, Geekosystem, Apps, DSLreports, Geek.com and Slashdot
Dennis Fisher:
GlobalSign Says Web Server Was Hacked, But No Signs of CA Breach — GlobalSign has found evidence that its main Web server was compromised recently, but has not discovered any indications that its certificate authority infrastructure was hacked, contrary to claims by the attacker responsible for the DigiNotar CA hack.
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