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July 24, 2012, 1:25 AM
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon  —  Everyone agrees that one of Marissa Mayer's most urgent tasks at Yahoo will be hiring great managers and product people.  Yahoo's talent pool has been reduced to puddles, as the best techies have gone elsewhere and promising newcomers have come down with colorblindness when it comes to purple.
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
VMware buys Nicira for $1.05 billion  —  VMware said Monday that it will buy Nicira in a deal valued at $1.05 billion in cash.  Nicira specializes in open source software for network virtualization.  VMware will also assume $210 million in unvested equity awards.  The deal is expected to close in the second half of the year.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple, Samsung chiefs disagree on patent values - source  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook and top Samsung Electronic Co Ltd executives disagreed last week on the value of each other's patents at a settlement conference ahead of a high profile U.S. trial, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Australia Judge Calls Apple-Samsung Dispute Over 3G ‘Ridiculous’
David Barnard / App Cubby Blog:
The Sparrow Problem  —  We've all read stories about and been enthralled by the idea of App Store millionaires.  As the story goes... individual app developers are making money hand over foot in the App Store!  And if you can just come up with a great app idea, you'll be a millionaire in no time!
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Apple will provide an adapter for the new, smaller Dock connector set to debut with the iPhone 5  —  While this seems like this should go without saying, because of all the questions we've been getting, and posts we've been seeing, iMore reached out to the original sources that gave us …
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Amazon's mobile ambitions grow  —  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to expand its mobile platform and broaden its offering of devices beyond e-readers and the Kindle Fire tablet, analysts, developers and retail partners said ahead of results next week from the world's largest Internet retailer.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Hacker Will Expose Potential Security Flaw In Four Million Hotel Room Keycard Locks  —  Brocious demonstrating his unlocking tool on an Onity lock in a New York City hotel.  —  The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door.
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Ed Bott / ZDNet:
Why does the IT industry continue to listen to Gartner?  —  Summary: Another day, another provocative research report from Gartner, which has a long track record of spectacularly wrong predictions.  I've collected some of their greatest hits.  Er, misses.  —  Follow @edbott
Vivek Wadhwa / Forbes:
The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry  —  There is great concern about China's real-estate and infrastructure bubbles.  But these are just short-term challenges that China may be able to spend its way out of.  The real threat to China's economy is bigger and longer term: its manufacturing bubble.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wants ‘a world where people build into Twitter,’ not off of it  —  In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has reiterated many of the storylines we've been watching from the social network for some time.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Referly Gets More Social, Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program  —  Some more developments for Referly, the Y-Combinator/500 Startups company co-founded by Twilio's ex-head of marketing, Danielle Morrill.  In what may be a hat-tip to the adept use of APIs at her former employer Twilio …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Justice Department slams Apple, refuses to modify e-book settlement  —  The Justice Department released a document today that characterized criticism by Apple and publishers of a controversial price-fixing settlement as “self-serving” and ill-founded.  The Department also pointed to recent ventures …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Fairfax Financial Doubles Down on RIM  —  Research In Motion's downward spiral has sent investors fleeing into the woods over the past year.  But not Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial.  The Toronto-based investment firm has been quietly buying up shares in the beleagured BlackBerry maker for months now …
Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com:
4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook launching July 31st, will retail for $550  —  Here it is!  The much talked about launch of RIM's 4G LTE-enabled BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is upon us.  This tablet was originally announced back at Mobile World Congress in 2011, but subsequently delayed.
Ben Austen / Wired:
The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?  —  Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn't delivering spare parts fast enough.  The shipper said it couldn't do better, and it didn't have to: Apple had signed a contract granting it the business at the current pace.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Seattle approves plan to lease fiber network to private firms  —  Mayor Mike McGinn chats with former City of Seattle CTO Bill Schrier in Pioneer Square last year.  —  Seattle will now be able to lease unused fiber optic cabling throughout the city to private companies …

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