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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won — The Digg Townhall meeting broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 2008. Photo courtesy of Eric Magnuson, via Flickr — Having spent a major part of the week sitting on a beach, practically disconnected … | Kevin Rose / Google+: |
If you haven't heard the news, I'm thrilled to announce that Digg is now in the hands of Betaworks — (makers of bitly, chartbeat, news.me, and other great products). I've been a big fan of John Borthwick ( http://foundation.kr/11/ ) for awhile now and I'm excited to see where his team takes the product!
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| Aubrey Sabala / TechCrunch: |
Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn't A Failure, It Was A Beginning — “Don't let him climb a wall. We haven't finalized his life insurance plan.” — That was one of the first directions I was given at Digg when I started in early 2008. “Him” was Kevin Rose, the founder of the widely popular social news site, and I was on my third day.
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| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did — Yesterday's news that social media site Digg had been sold for $500K was at the same time shocking, and not surprising at all. The news was somewhat expected at some point given the site's steep decline in popularity and visitors over the past few years.| Spencer E. Ante / Digits: |
Kevin Rose: Digg Failed Because ‘Social Media Grew Up’ — In his first interview since the remains of fallen social media Digg star were sold to Betaworks, Digg's founder Kevin Rose said he sold some company shares during the its venture-capital financing rounds but “did not make a lot of money.”| Dalton Caldwell: |
Announcing an audacious proposal — The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. Without really meaning to, I touched a nerve. The responses to my post largely fell into two camps.
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GigaOM. Tweets: @semil, @hunterwalk, @gruber, @jason, @davewiner, @daltonc, @carnage4life and @mathewi
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Dalton Caldwell's ‘Alternative to Advertising Hell’: Making People Actually Pay For A Web Service — Dalton Caldwell is a very smart guy who has been a prominent entrepreneur and programmer on the Silicon Valley scene for a while now, so any time he announces a new project you can pretty much tell it is going to be newsworthy.| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
| Reuters: |
Google's Nexus tablet selling fast across retail chains — (Reuters) - Google Inc's “Nexus 7” tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed up in U.S. stores on Friday.
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
RIM hit with $147.2 million verdict in wireless patent lawsuit — (Reuters) - A northern California jury directed Research in Motion Ltd to pay $147.2 million in patent litigation over a remote management system for wireless devices, according to an attorney for the plaintiff, Mformation Technologies Inc.
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| Chance Miller / BriefMobile: |
Samsung Launches Its First Retail Store in North America, Looks a Lot Like an Apple Store — Apple often accuses Samsung of copying its devices, but Samsung has just taken it a step farther. The company has just opened its first North American retail store in Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple contacted U.S. carriers and retailers to demand removal of banned Samsung products — During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple's preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
How many Lumia phones were sold in the US? — Nielsen and comScore survey US consumers through different methodologies, however they both try to paint a picture of the smartphone patterns of ownership and consumption. — I regularly report on comScore's data as it's published on a monthly basis.| Kyle McDonald / Wired: |
When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: ‘People Staring at Computers’ — Steve Jobs, staring at the first version of Photo Booth. All watercolors courtesy of David Pierce. — I really wasn't expecting the Secret Service. — Maybe an email, or a phone call from Apple.
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ANIMAL, PetaPixel, Gawker, The Verge and ifoAppleStore
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Amazing Alex Shoots to No. 1 on First Day — Rovio doesn't need birds to fly it to the top of the app charts. Its new non-Angry Birds game, Amazing Alex, is already No. 1 in many regions, just a day after it was released, with particular strength on iOS. — The iPhone version of Amazing Alex …
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Inside Mobile Apps, SlashGear, BGR, VatorNews and VentureBeat
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
mPowa Replaces Hand Photo Allegedly Swiped From Square With Photo Of A Totally Different Hand — It looks like a titanic legal struggle has been avoided. Mobile payments startup mPowa has responded to a cease-and-desist letter from Square by taking down a photo on its home page that Square said was swiped from its site.
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SlashGear and Market Wire
| Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report: |
Ads up, games down: The ugly, profitable details about Xbox Live advertising — Xbox Live is the online platform for the Xbox 360 that allows people to play against each other online, chat across games, and manage their friend list. Xbox Live is also a for-pay service …
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