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Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink — This morning, I woke up and read Nick Bilton's weekly New York Times' column. Nick is a friend and one of the best bloggers/writers/journalists out there. But with today's column, he was way off base. — Having already said what I wanted …
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| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Anger for Path Social Network After Privacy Breach — Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users' iPhones without notifying them. — David Morin, Path's voluble chief executive …
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Guardian, Ars Technica, Singel-Minded and Interactioned
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
I'm So, So Sorry. Here's My Belly. Now Please Move On. — Don't get mad at companies because they apologize so quickly. It's the only way to survive in the Internet. — “All this social media nonsense is destroying our community,” a prominent venture capitalist told me on the phone a couple of weeks ago.| Mike Swift / Mercury News: |
Google has intriguing plans at the Googleplex — Google (GOOG) is in the midst of more than $120 million in construction projects at its Mountain View headquarters, including work on a series of new or previously secret hardware testing labs that hint at the Internet giant's expanding interest …
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Fortune, Gizmodo, New York Times, Business Insider, The Verge, Electronista, 9to5Google and CNET. Tweets: @dondodge
| Jurek Foryciarz / The Official Google TV Blog: |
New Updates to YouTube for Google TV — In the next few days we're releasing an update to your YouTube experience on Google TV making it faster and easier to find great content, adding YouTube channel pages, and giving you more control over your experience.
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AllThingsD, The Verge, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google, AndroidOS.in, Neowin.net, Business Insider, and GeekTonic. Tweets: @edbott
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage — SAN FRANCISCO — When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film. — He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
The Age of Big Data — GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking. — Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company's fast-growing ranks of data consultants.| Bill Bishop / DigiCha: |
Authorities Removing Apple iPads From Chinese Store Shelves? — So says this report (Chinese) from Hebei Youth Daily. — Apparently as a result of the Proview iPad trademark infringement verdict, some local Administrations of Industry and Commerce (AIC) have started to confiscate Apple ($AAPL) iPads they find on sale.
| Samantha Murphy / Mashable!: |
Twitter Breaks News of Whitney Houston Death 27 Minutes Before Press — Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston's death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter, reported by a man who tweeted the news out to his 14 followers.| AppleInsider: |
Steve Jobs wins posthumous Grammy, accepted by Apple iTunes chief Eddy Cue — Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was awarded a Grammy Trustees Award on Saturday, and Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, accepted the award on his behalf.
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Gizmodo, Associated Press, ringtonia.com, The Apple Core Blog, MacRumors, CNET, Electronista and WebProNews. Tweets: @jasonogrady
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple beating Samsung on its home turf as the iPad passes 1 million sales in Korea — Apple has passed the landmark of one million iPad sales in South Korea, where its tablet device is a considerable distance ahead of rival Samsung's efforts on its home turf.
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The Korea Herald, Pocket-lint, MacNN and iDownloadBlog.com
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg — But It's Just a Tremor for the Big One to Come — Yahoo's massive product unit is readying a major reorganization, which will include a new structure, a move that is being spearheaded by its Chief Product Officer Blake Irving.Sponsor Posts
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