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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Airbnb, Investor Chamath Palihapitiya Settle Differences; Employees will Get Liquidity — Former Facebook employee-and newly minted venture capitalist-Chamath Palihapitiya is back involved in a new funding round for Airbnb, after the apartment sharing company and he discussed the terms of the planned funding deal.
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Felix Salmon:
Why dividend cash-outs are evil — Investor Chamath Palihapitiya wrote a strongly-worded letter to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky yesterday, which promptly got leaked to Kara Swisher. — Palihapitiya was given the opportunity to invest in Airbnb's latest round, but declined, partly because of the way it's structured.
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@karaswisher and @eghosao
Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:
Chamath Palihapitiya's Statement On Airbnb Email Fiasco
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@eghosao, @arrington, @karaswisher, @ckd, TechCrunch and @arrington
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Email: Chamath Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb's Recent $112M Funding for Founder Control and Cash-Out
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Joe Brown / Gizmodo:
Gizmodo Exclusive: Looks Like There Will Be a Cheaper iPhone 4, Made in Brazil — Our Brazilian brothers, Gizmodo.com.br, got their hot little hands on a few photos of a new iPhone, to be announced next week. How? Well, there's a Foxconn factory in Brazil, and Pedro & co got one of their men inside.
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Examiner, T3 News, PhoneDog.com, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, I4U News, Mashable!, Redmond Pie, TechPinions, CNET News, PhoneArena, iPhone Alley, Sprintfeed, MacRumors, Geeky-Gadgets, FreakGeeks, TiPb, App Advice, Electronista, everythingiCafe, techeblog.com, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Edible Apple, Business Insider, iClarified and Daring Fireball, Thanks:kwameopam
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Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Radio Shack inventory screen pegs iPhone 5 for Sprint — Could it be? Are the rumors true? If this screenshot, apparently culled from Radio Shack's inventory system, is any indication, Sprint will indeed be among the carriers offering the iPhone 5. That lines up just right with previous reports …
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TiPb, everythingiCafe, BGR, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, PC Magazine, SlashGear and CNET News
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 4S with iPhone 4 design, dual-mode capability leaked by iTunes — While we have independently been expecting the new iPhone to feature little exterior differences from the iPhone 4, there still has been some debate over the new iPhone's design. Today, rumors of a re-design can essentially be put to rest.
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TUAW, AppleInsider, TiPb, Mashable!, Network World, Shiny Objects, everythingiCafe, Appolicious Advisor, IntoMobile, Redmond Pie, Fortune, MacRumors, App Advice, Examiner, MacPost, iPhone Alley, SlashGear, VentureBeat, @macrumors, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, FreakGeeks, PhoneDog.com, FreakGeeks, Business Insider, Electronista, MacStories, Edible Apple, iClarified and Gizmodo
Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:
Massive Security Vulnerability In HTC Android Devices (EVO 3D, 4G, Thunderbolt, Others) Exposes Phone Numbers, GPS, SMS, Emails Addresses, Much More — I am quite speechless right now. Justin Case and I have spent all day together with Trevor Eckhart (you may remember him as TrevE …
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Open Source Blog, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechSpot, Examiner, PC World, Electronista, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Geek.com, WMPoweruser and Slashdot
Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:
Facebook: Brutal Dishonesty — “Facebook does not track users across the web,” - A Facebook spokesperson on September 25, 2011 — “Generally, unlike other major Internet companies, we have no interest in tracking people.” - Facebook employee on September 25, 2011 — v.
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Soshable and appft.uspto.gov
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Google's “Interesting” Week — Let's start gingerly, with Nokia. You'll recall the indignation when Nokia threw Symbian under the Windows Phone 7 bus and osborned its existing product line. Nokia dead-ended Symbian handsets, causing sales to plunge while everyone waited for the new MicroNokia smartphones.
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Unfiltered Opinion …, GigaOM, The Next Web and Techdirt
Bloomberg:
Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday — As a coalition led by Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG), and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) presses for a tax holiday on more than $1 trillion in offshore profits, it is turning to a well-positioned lobbyist: Jeffrey Forbes, once chief of staff to Max Baucus …
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@jason, The Daily Beast, NPR, HULIQ, Electronista and @timoreilly
Horace Dediu / asymco:
The case against the Kindle as a low end tablet disruption — In an HBR article Rob Wheeler makes the case for the Kindle Fire as a disruptive innovation. I believe that it is but crucially I disagree that the Kindle Fire is a low end disruption. — My assessment of the Kindle Fire …
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Daniel Waisberg / Search Engine Land:
Google Analytics Premium: Better Support & Goodbye Data Sampling — Today Google launched a paid version of Google Analytics that processes higher volumes of page views and provides additional support. The general feature set and user experience remain the fundamentally the same as the standard product.
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UNCRUNCHED, WebProNews and Computerworld
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Will Remove the Discussions Tab App From Pages in One Month — Facebook has begun notifying Page admins that it will be removing the Discussions tab application from all Pages on October 31, 2011. The in-house app, also known as Discussion Boards, allows Pages to host simple forums.
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Friending Facebook Blog
