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5:00 AM ET, September 14, 2009

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Telegraph:
TMobile owner eyes multibillion dollar bid for Sprint  —  Deutsche Telekom has called in banking advisers to study a possible multi-billion dollar bid for Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile phone operator in the US.  —  The company's decision to call in Deutsche Bank comes hot on the heels …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Intel Is Said to Plot an Executive Overhaul  —  Intel is expected to reveal a sweeping management change on Monday, according to people briefed on the company's plans.  Among other changes, the chip maker will announce that Pat Gelsinger, the senior vice president in charge of Intel's enterprise group …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million  —  Intuit will acquire the free online personal finance service Mint, we've confirmed from a source close to the deal, for around $170 million.  The deal should be announced in the next few days.
Ran / Omgili blog:
Near-Real-time search on Google  —  Did you ever want to know what's happening on the internet in real-time?  Yes you say, I use Twitter!  Well good for you, I guess I can't teach you anything new since you already know everything... So go on and don't read the rest of the post because you are so smart and successful...
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
iPhone gets .Net app development  —  Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple's handheld  —  Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft's …
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Is Apple too powerful?  —  The new iPod nano is a tour de force, the Swiss Army Knife of mobile entertainment.  I'm sure there's some obscure gadget from Japan that packs more features per cubic millimeter, but I've never heard of it, and chances are neither have you.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Home Delivery: The New York Times Serves Up Some Malware  —  Here's a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its Web site.  —  The paper says “some readers” have seen unauthorized pop …
Laura Northrup / Consumerist:
MMS For iPhone Rollout Begins, 2 Weeks Early  —  Reports are showing up online that AT&T is beginning a slow rollout of official MMS functionality to seemingly random iPhone users, from Manhattan to Idaho.  The official start date is September 25, but it makes sense that the company …
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Pondering “Email Conservation” After Hitting Gmail's Storage Limit  —  Back in April, I became one of the rare people to run out of Gmail space.  Due to a glitch with Google, I was also unable to purchase more space for several weeks.  As a result, I became hyperaware of how much email space gets eaten up each day routinely.
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
WebGL: bringing native 3D graphics to your browser  —  One of the most-anticipated features HTML5 promises for the web is the canvas tag, which allows for dynamic rendering of 2D images.  If you can use HTML to draw a 2D image, can native 3D graphics be far behind?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Let's Not Let Silicon Valley Become Just Like Hollywood  —  I came across a post written earlier this week by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson titled I Will Not Read Your F**king Script.  It's worth a read because it is funny as hell.  But I also can't help thinking …
Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Solid-state drives offer new savings over disks  —  Solid-state Flash drives (SSDs ) are making inroads at both ends of the computer market - finding a place in small netbooks and also beginning to replace the traditional hard-disk drive for data storage in the enterprise.
Discussion: Computerworld
 
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Joost: Volpi Was Forced Out As Chair, ‘Investigation’ Underway
Discussion: Times of London
Katie Allen / Guardian:
Filesharing crackdown divides UK music industry
Discussion: Telegraph
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Ad Shift Throws Blogs a Business Lifeline
John Schwartz / New York Times:
A Legal Battle: Online Attitude vs. Rules of the Bar
Discussion: GigaLaw.com Daily News, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Settles Mob Wars Litigation As It Settles In To Playdom Fight
Will Park / IntoMobile:
Opera: What's next? A whole bunch of ‘shiny’
Discussion: everwas and Download Squad
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Dirt cheap: Techdirt bets on ‘free’ business models
Sean Power / Watching Websites:
An Open Letter To All TechCrunch50 2009 Startups: The TC “Bump” …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web Blog:
iPhone usage on Flickr falls dramatically - What's happening?
Thanks:zee
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Set to Unveil Massive New Marketing Campaign …
Chris / cdixon.org:
Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out
Discussion: Techgeist, Thanks:atul
 

 
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Paramount's board approved David Ellison's plan to possibly leave California, selling its 65-acre lot in Hollywood and the Warner Bros. Burbank campus

Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump announces that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her post by the end of August to spend more time with her family

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Forbes fired Chief Content Officer Randall Lane last month after finding he received ~$6M from R.J. Shook, founder of Forbes partner Shook Research

 
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