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Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
Gmail gets IMAP — It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment.
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Facebook Set to Introduce Major Ad Play — Social Network Could Unveil 'SocialAds' at NYC Event Next Month — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The invitation, sent to advertisers and agencies in New York, arrived carved onto a Lucite brick: — "You are invited to a discussion with Mark Zuckerberg …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Another day, another key Googler departs — Salman Ullah, Google's director of corporate development, has left the company to found a venture firm called [Copper River Partners], we've learned from a source. Ullah's LinkedIn profile confirms he is an "owner" of the firm.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ex-Googlers Ready to Start a VC Fund — The slow and steady exodus of executives from Google (GOOG) has been in progress for a while now. Today, two senior members of the corporate development team left Googleplex for good, to start a new venture fund, Merus Capital.
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Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
Tidbits from Steve Ballmer's CTIA keynote — Ballmer talks up mobile enterprise computing — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a little swipe at Google's possible plans to buy up the available 700 MHz spectrum that's up for auction in January. When asked at the end of his keynote …
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Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 41% Year over Year - Raises Financial Guidance - Expects Record Holiday Season — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2007.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yang: Being Yahoo CEO is a 'lonely job' — HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—Being chief executive of Yahoo is "a lonely job," says Jerry Yang, who co-founded the company in 1994 and was promoted to the top job in June in a management shakeup. — "It is a lonely job in the sense …
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
ONLINE FACEOFF — M'SOFT AND GOOGLE DUKE IT OUT OVER HOT SITE — Google is threatening to once again beat rival Microsoft to the deal punch, this time in the white-hot Facebook investment sweepstakes. — Microsoft and Google are each vying to take a stake of between 5 percent and 10 percent …
Doc Searls Weblog:
Too much face(book) time — Here's the problem. For me, anyway. — I believe the Net is an open place. Same with the Web. — I also believe private walled gardens on the Web are fine things. Nothing wrong with them. — My problem is when the former starts looking and acting like the latter.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TasteBook Launches With Lots Of Help From Condé Nast — New startup TasteBook launches on Wednesday morning, with a lot of help from Condé Nast: an investment from their Internet unit (CondéNet) as well as a partnership with Epicurious, a Condé Nast property.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Mapping The Southern California Fires — I'm back home (my original home) in Southern California for vacation, and to welcome me back, the Southland is on fire. Ah, just like old times. As I was keeping up with the news, I came across some maps online from Google Earth, Google Maps …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Leopard 9A581's Dock Visual Tweaks [Updated] — Apple's Gold Master (Retail) version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has at least one visual tweak over the developer seeds. It appears Apple has listened to user feedback about the visual inconsistency with dock items appearing on a 3d shelf …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Porn Set Free: Age Record Keeping Deemed Unconstitutional — Creators of porn websites have been set free of onerous confirmation of age record keeping laws, after the Unites States Court of Appeals found that the law requiring the keeping of these records was unconstitutional.
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Microsoft exec: Desktop application software is not dead — San Francisco (IDGNS) - A top Microsoft executive defended desktop application software, the source of the company's revenue for three decades, arguing on Tuesday that even services-based companies such as Google still need it.
Steven Zeitchik / Hollywood Reporter:
FunnyOrDie creators go to extremes — NEW YORK — The creators behind FunnyOrDie.com have a new idea to give their site life: death-defying sports. — The site announced Tuesday that it is launching ShredOrDie.com, a site featuring shortform video aimed at the skater …
Karl / DSLreports:
Verizon Busted For 'Unlimited' Marketing - Settles for a million dollars with NY Attorney General — For four years now, we've been discussing how Verizon Wireless's EV-DO broadband service was advertised as "unlimited," but featured an invisible download cap.
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Verizon Redefines 'Fast' With Groundbreaking FiOS Internet Service Featuring 20 Mbps Download and Upload Speeds — Service Is First of Its Kind Available to Consumers on a Mass Scale — Super-Fast Symmetrical Speed Enables Today's Most Interactive Online Experiences and Encourages Future Web Innovations
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