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Randall Stross / New York Times:
What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness — THE saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation's mythology: he's the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship and built it into one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg's Most Valuable Friend — EVERY Monday a bit before 10 a.m., Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, dashes off a quick e-mail to her boss, Mark Zuckerberg. “We have a routine,” Ms. Sandberg says. “I e-mail, ‘Coming in?’ He replies, ‘On my way.’ ”
Thanks:atul
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Shocking: Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store — Apple is known for the stringent guidelines it applies when deciding which software to allow into their App Store - BitTorrent is one of the things on their ban list. However, one developer who carefully avoided the dirty word …
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Softpedia News, App Advice, The Next Web, Startup Meme, Redmond Pie and Neowin.net
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Adidas Gives Up On Apple's iAds Because Steve Jobs Is Too Much Of A Control Freak — Scuttlebutt — Apple has lost another advertiser for its “iAd” mobile advertising business — this time Adidas, the athletic apparel giant — according to scuttlebutt we have heard from two mobile industry execs.
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MacRumors, Erictric, MacStories, MacNN and iClarified
Adam Rifkin / TechCrunch:
How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today — Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision?
Thanks:atul
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At — At the Tahoe Tech Talk this weekend, someone from the audience introduced themselves as a representative of Wheretheladies.at, a domain whose extreme ridiculousness piqued my interest a) because it is actually real and b) …
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Feld Thoughts and The Web Life Blog
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Google's CEO: ‘The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists’ — Watch the full video of this session — “The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum.
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Sharad Goel / Yahoo! Search Blog:
What Can Search Predict? — This week research scientists at Yahoo! Labs published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examines the possibility of using web search data to predict consumer behavior. Their results have captured the public imagination …
Evgeny Morozov / Wall Street Journal:
Rise of the Online Autocrats — It turns out that the enemies of free expression are adept at the Internet, too. — The tweets started arriving in August, and they did not mince words. One of the first accused the South Korean government of being “a prostitute of the United States.”
Thanks:digiphile
Brian Proffitt / bproffitt's blog:
Time to Move On From The Desktop? — The idea of open source on the desktop may no longer be viable. — I like it! — It's a good thing I'm not a conspiracy theorist. — Even though I don't think they meant to do it, no less than three noteworthy open source community members came …
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Psst. Sprint 4G is Lit up in San Francisco — You folks in Silicon Valley who are waiting for Sprint to light up the 4G network are going to like what I have to tell you. I've been in San Francisco for four days and have tested the 4G coverage all over the SOMA (south of Market Street) area.
Thanks:jkendrick
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Debunking the Myths About Facebook's Stock Split — What is it about a stock split that sets off speculation? It is one of the most mundane and technical developments in the stock market, with little or no impact on a company's fundamental performance, and yet news of a split can set a stock's valuation soaring.
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Inside Facebook, The Next Web and Silicon Alley Insider
