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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Gear review — The perfect companion for your life companion? — If you've ever seen a cycling race, you'll know that leading from the front isn't always a great idea. The front runner has to cut a path through the wind and expend much more energy than the savvy followers behind him.
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Tweets: @zpower, @piercedavid and @reckless
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
FreedomPop launches its smartphone VoIP service, giving away 200 minutes each month — Mobile broadband provider FreedomPop has officially become a full-fledged mobile operator. On Tuesday it started selling its first smartphone, the HTC Evo Design, and began offering its first voice …
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The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch, DSLreports, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, eWeek, Ars Technica and Gotta Be Mobile
| Brad Feld / Foundry Group: |
Brad Feld and Foundry Group launch AngelList Syndicate, FG Angels — AngelList - Do Or Do Not, There is No Try — Yesterday, at our weekly Monday (sushi, sometimes tacos) lunch, we talked about AngelList. Over the weekend we each read blogs about how AngelList was going to transform venture capital …
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Tweets: @msuster, @jasonmendelson, @sether, @infoarbitrage, @rsarver, @hunterwalk, @danprimack and @semil
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Former Twitter Platform Chief Sarver Joins Redpoint as Partner — Ryan Sarver, Twitter's former director of platform, who left the company in May, is joining Redpoint Ventures as a partner. — Sarver joined Twitter in 2009, after working at Skyhook Wireless and, previous to that, having founded real estate startup Blue Trim.
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Fortune, GigaOM, TechCrunch and Redpoint Ventures
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @kevinweil, @rsarver, @redpointvc, @rsarver and @rsarver
| Claire Davenport / Reuters: |
Google offer may end search engine case, says EU antitrust chief — (Reuters) - Google's latest offer to modify its Internet search engine offers the prospect of ending a long-running European Union competition probe, the bloc's top antitrust official said on Tuesday.| Facebook: |
Graph Search Now Includes Posts and Status Updates — Starting today, Graph Search will include posts and status updates. Now you will be able to search for status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments to find things shared with you. — Search for the topics you're interested …
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Tweets: @caseynewton and @panzer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Michael Dell, Silver Lake Get The Green Light From Regulators On $24.9B Plan To Take Dell Private — The government may now be in shutdown mode, but not before it gave the go-ahead to Dell to go private. The embattled PC company today announced that it has received all necessary regulatory clearance …
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| Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair: |
An anecdotal look at the enabling role of social apps in the sexual interactions of teens — Friends Without Benefits — This year, 81 percent of Internet-using teenagers in America reported that they are active on social-networking sites, more than ever before.
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The Verge and Gawker. Tweets: @mbaratz, @sacca, @alitalien, @jen_mcfadden, @paul_shannon, @joshmedia, @willrich45 and @qthrul
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Google launches Android game vending machines, puts first ones in Tokyo (naturally) — In a country that has no shortage of vending machines, Google Japan has decided to join the fray. The company has announced three dedicated Google Play machines that will sell 18 different gaming titles … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T attempts to out-Google Google in Austin fiber race — The telco says it will begin offering its “GigaPower” service to Austin and surrounding areas this year, with further expansion and a 1-gigabit connection planned in 2014. But how much will it cost? — AT&T wants to get a leg up on Google Fiber.| Eric Jackson / Forbes: |
Why Alan Mulally Would Be A Terrible Choice As The Next Microsoft CEO — Kara Swisher reported last week that Alan Mulally is now a front-runner for the job as Microsoft's next CEO. — Previously, he had been rumored to be a wildcard candidate for the job but one who was unlikely to leave his current post at Ford.
Tweets: @karaswisher
| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review — I still remember the first time I held the original Galaxy Note. At that point in time it wasn't really obvious just how critical larger-display smartphones were going to be in the future, nor just how close to the smartphone market was becoming a mature one.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
YouTube Music Awards hit NYC Nov. 3, blend mainstream artists and internet stars (video) — The alternate reality of Youtube — where locally unknown but internet famous entertainers with millions of subscribers grab a spot next to widely recognizable mainstream artists … | BBC: |
Nasa plans first 3D printer space launch in 2014 — US space agency Nasa is planning to launch a 3D printer into space next year to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity. — It will be the first time a 3D printer has been used in space and could help reduce the costs of future missions.
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I4U News, ITworld.com, WebProNews, Gizmodo UK, SiliconBeat, Christian Science Monitor and eWeek. Tweets: @davos
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Verizon accepts device upgrades made during glitch, lucky customers can keep unlimited data — We have bad news: Verizon didn't mean to let website visitors buy devices at upgrade prices while preserving unlimited data. The option was a momentary “software issue,” the carrier says.
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Droid Life, Examiner, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, GigaOM, HotHardware.com News, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, MacNN and PhoneArena
| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
Why the blue screen of death no longer plagues Windows users — Summary: The dreaded blue screen of death is familiar to any long time Windows PC user, but Microsoft has been developing tools to keep the dreaded BSOD at bay. — Nick Heath — Remember the blue screen of death …
Tweets: @stevesi
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Softbank announces the Arrows A, can fast-charge a day of use in just 10 minutes — Softbank has just held its biannual showcase to reveal its new smartphone family and, as is often the case with Japanese carriers, there's a few interesting devices alongside the more predictable iPhone fare.
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MobileBurn.com, GSMArena.com, Android Community, Softpedia News, A VC, Geeky-Gadgets and Geek.com
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 review (2014 edition) — If you want your product to sound like it belongs in the future, why not name it after the future itself? Taking a page from the auto industry, Samsung named its new Galaxy Note 10.1 for the coming year, dubbing it the 2014 edition.| Ben Rooney / Digits: |
Logentries Closes $10 Million Funding Round — A Dublin company has landed one of Europe's largest “A-Round” investment deals, securing $10 million from three U.S. investors and an Irish VC, the company announced Tuesday. — Logentries, a big data company that lets users analyze the vast stores …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, GigaOM, BostInno, TechCrunch, GeekTime and venturefizz.com
Tweets: @willmcq and @logentries
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Takes Its Follow Button Outside Its Walled Garden, Lets Fans Follow Musicians And Others From Anywhere — Following the launch of its Play music-playing button last year, today Spotify took one more step outside of its walled garden: it has launched a new Follow button … | Felix Salmon: |
Dave Eggers' poor understanding of Silicon Valley and social media undermines his new dystopian novel The Circle — How Dave Eggers gets Silicon Valley wrong — Dave Eggers' new book, a dystopian fantasia about social media, is excerpted in the NYT Magazine this weekend.
| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess — The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.
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