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Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog:
First Look: AT&T's new HTC TITAN, Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash  —  Just a few minutes ago at the All Things D Asia conference, Windows Phone President Andy Lees gave the world its first look at AT&T's new lineup of new Windows Phones.  We talked speeds and feeds on the blog a few weeks ago …
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Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Andy Lees: Windows Phone to get NFC and ‘wider hardware choice’ next year  —  At Asia D today, Andy Lees gave a few details on the future of Windows Phone, including support for both NFC in 2012 and LTE at some point in the future.  Just as importantly, Lees made some references to other changes in the Windows Phone hardware front.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's Andy Lees: Nokia will announce ‘its Windows Phones’ at Nokia World
Discussion: LiveSide.net, X-bit labs and Neowin.net
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Jerry Yang: There Are Plenty of Options Beyond Sale  —  Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said on Thursday that the company's board continues its strategic review process, but that there are a number of options beyond just selling the company.  —  “The intent going in is not to put ourselves for sale,” Yang said, speaking at AsiaD.
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Wall Street Journal:
Silver Lake, Microsoft and Canada Pension Plan Mulling Bid for Yahoo  —  Private-equity firms are knee-deep in work on a potential buyout of Yahoo Inc., which has been weighing its strategic options in recent weeks.  —  Almost every major U.S. private-equity firm, including Silver Lake Partners …
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Bidders balk at Yahoo's “no cross talk” provision: sources
Discussion: Electronista
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant  —  Andy Rubin thinks there is a lot of potential for phones to be more useful companions, but says he is not interested in turning Android devices into personal assistants.  —  “I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Google+ Guru Bradley Horowitz On Products, Platforms and that Pesky Memo  —  While Google has struggled mightily in its early efforts to “get the social thing,” it has managed to get more than a few people to try out its latest effort, Google+.  —  But the question of just how compelling …
Discussion: Engadget and The Next Web
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Not Just Google: Siri Searches Bing And Yahoo Too  —  Earlier tonight Danny Sullivan discovered that Siri will also search Bing and Yahoo, though it searches Google by default.  If you say, “Search the web for . . .” or you ask Siri a question it can't answer it will search Google (the iPhone's default search engine).
Discussion: WinRumors
Darren Murph / Engadget:
ASUS' Jonney Shih unveils Transformer Prime Android tablet: 10-inch, 8.3mm, quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3  —  Whoa, Nelly!  ASUS head honcho Jonney Shih just revealed the “next-generation Transformer tablet” here at AsiaD!  It's the same one that we saw teased just yesterday …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Steve Jobs' biographer on 60 Minutes  —  The drumroll begins with Walter Isaacson's appearance on CBS TV Sunday night  —  This just tweeted by @60Minutes:  —  SUNDAY: Steve Kroft sits down with historian Walter Isaacson for the first look at the authorized biography of Steve Jobs.
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple pays tribute to Steve Jobs with memorial at 1 Infinite Loop [Video]
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Randi Zuckerberg, on Her Own Now  —  “WHO wants a tequila shot?”  Randi Zuckerberg shouted over the thump of “Baby One More Time,” Britney Spears's breakup anthem.  —  It was nearly midnight on a rainy Wednesday in September, and more than a dozen friends gathered by Ms. Zuckerberg …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
Google Hits Space Bars  —  Ever since Google Inc. bought its New York City headquarters for $1.9 billion in 2010, the tech giant has been dealing with a new role: landlord.  —  Google has shown it's making a big economic bet on Manhattan by gobbling up more space within the building at 111 Eighth Ave. …
Discussion: @amir_efrati
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T third quarter on target: iPhone, Android split improves  —  Summary: AT&T's diversification from its reliance on the iPhone appears to be improving.  —  AT&T's third quarter earnings were in line with estimates as the company activated 4.8 million smartphones almost evenly split between …
Discussion: AT&T, 9to5Mac, BGR and Electronista
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
If You Sold Your Apple Stock Today, You're An Idiot  —  Before I begin, two points:  —  1) I do not own any Apple stock.  I have absolutely no interest in whether the stock goes up or down.  —  2) One can make an argument that there may be other reasons to sell Apple's stock now (namely …
Discussion: asymco
Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
Nokia 800 Windows Phone's Three Colors Revealed  —  Besides adopting much of its design language from the “boutique” N9, it now looks like the upcoming Nokia 800 Windows Phone 7 will also come in the same trio of colors as its Meego-powered linemate.  New imagery, which gives us the best look yet …
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Why Do We All Praise Startups When They Receive Funding?  —  Funding announcements are very boring, both to read and to write.  —  But they're covered everyday on tech sites, whether an entrepreneur has raised $400,000 or $400 million.  —  The amount of money raised has become a way some people benchmark a startup's success.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong: Galaxy Nexus wasn't designed just to skirt Apple patents  —  Well, so much for that.  Samsung's Executive Vice President of Product Strategy — Won-Pyo Hong — didn't say a whole heck of a lot on stage here at AsiaD, but he did clarify one thing near the end of his interview …
Bloomberg:
Nokia Reports Smaller Loss as Sales Beat Estimates  —  Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) reported a smaller-than- estimated loss and forecast the handset business to be profitable this quarter as the Finnish manufacturer prepares to introduce models based on Microsoft Corp.'s software.  The shares surged.
Jon Orlin / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch TV Launches On Your TV  —  TechCrunch TV is now really TechCrunch TV.  When TCTV launched last year, the focus was on viewing our videos on the computer.  Not on TV.  Ok, we called it “TechCrunch TV” because it sounded a lot better than “TechCrunch Video”.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Apple's iPhone 4S Cracked Open, Money Spills Out  —  From the outside, Apple's iPhone 4S looks an awful lot like its predecessor, the iPhone 4.  Apple fans and investors were initially so disappointed when the phone turned out not to be a more revolutionary iPhone 5, the company's shares fell on October 4 …
Discussion: AppleInsider, Examiner and Electronista
Danielle Sacks / Fast Company:
Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble  —  Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes “again and again.”  So why do people keep giving him so much money?  —  What Bill Nguyen lacks in size at a wispy 135 pounds he makes up for in energy.
Wall Street Journal:
Groupon Plans Scaled-Back IPO  —  Groupon Inc. plans an initial public offering of less than 10% of the discount deal company at a valuation of less than $12.5 billion in light of recent market volatility and the company's missteps, according to people familiar with the deal.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Ski Lift Ticket Retailer Liftopia Raises $1.3 Million  —  San Francisco-based Liftopia, an online retailer of lift tickets and mountain resort activities, is today announcing it has raised $1.3 million in a round led by First Round Capital.  New investors in today's round also include Dave Morin …
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Khan Academy Triples Unique Users To 3.5 Million  —  Today at The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Founder of Khan Academy, Salman Khan, took the stage to share a few quick stats on the growth of his online video education platform.  For those unfamiliar, Khan Academy is …
Discussion: Hack Education
 
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