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Joshua Topolsky:
This is my next project — As you may have already heard (or read), there's some activity going on in the world of Joshua Topolsky. Earlier this evening, David Carr published a piece in the New York Times about a new project that I'm embarking on... and I want to just say a few things about it.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech Site, As AOL Zeroes in on New EiC — Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had left the huge tech site amid tensions recently, in order to start a new gadget property.
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New York Times, Guardian, Nilay Patel, broadstuff, everwas, VentureBeat, Geekosystem, SAI, @futurepaul, @benhuh, @danshanoff and @dannysullivan, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Bailey / ConceivablyTech:
Firefox 5: Social Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer, Tab Apps — Details about the next version of Firefox are slowly emerging. The browser will receive significant UI revisions and feature updates that will make Firefox more social and adopt several features that are already working well in Google's Chrome browser.
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Yahoo! News, MacHackPC, Techie Buzz and Slashdot
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft's Windows 8 recipe: Hint of Office, dash of Xbox, ounce of Windows Phone — Microsoft has already hinted that it wants to make Windows more like Xbox by supporting the Kinect sensor technology and adopting elements of the Xbox Live interface for Windows-based games.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 8 Explorer teases file syncing and web sharing
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LiveSide.net, Microsoft News, Download Squad, SuperSite for Windows, WinRumors, Windows 8 Beta and GeekSmack
Mark Milian / CNN:
Why Nintendo isn't making a phone — Playing Super Mario on a Nintendo phone will remain a pipe dream. — Although Microsoft and Sony — Nintendo's rivals among the “Big Three” gaming companies — have branched into mobile phone development, Nintendo isn't planning to build a phone …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
How We All Missed Web 2.0′s “Netscape Moment” — (Editor's note: This is the third installment in a series about the late stage, secondary investing craze sweeping the venture capital business. For the first two installments go here and here.) — On May 26, 2009 Mike sat down with Yuri Milner …
B.L. Ochman / AdAge:
Most Fortune 50 Brands Still Hiding Their Social Media — Looking for Facebook or Twitter Icons on Corporate Websites? Keep Looking — Surely, as we head into the second quarter, the Fortune 50 — if not all big companies — are now at least involved in social media and want us to find them everywhere they have an online presence.
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James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's Larry Page must mend image of firm, self — Tackling Google's mounting public perception challenges should sit high on the “to do” list as co-founder Larry Page steps into the CEO role on Monday, observers say. — A series of antitrust probes, privacy blunders and regulatory slaps …
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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Larry Page set to take over as Google CEO starting Monday
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library — Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? — Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has derailed Google's bold plan to build the world's largest digital library and bookstore.
Kansas City Star:
KCK courted Google Internet project quietly, cautiously — The order for 500 large cupcakes and 300 iced sugar cookies came with a mystery. — MeMa's Bakery owner Loraine Waldeck was told that treats for an event last week would need to be custom-decorated, but just how was a secret.
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iOS 5 packs Photo Stream social feature into Photos.app? — We already told you that Apple has a photo-based social component called Photo Stream up its sleeve and now glimpses of this feature are appearing in customer's iPhones. 9to5mac reader Mario Piombo spotted references to Photo Stream albums in his iOS 4.3 iPhone 4.
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Matthew Campbell / Bloomberg:
Vivendi to Purchase Vodafone Stake in SFR for 7.95 Billion Euros — Vivendi SA said it agreed to purchase Vodafone Group Plc's 44% stake in SFR for 7.95 billion euros ($11.3 billion), giving the French company full control of its largest unit. — Vivendi expects the deal to be completed …
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Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Google profile in China shrinking — BEIJING - A year after a public spat with Beijing over censorship, Google Inc. says its business with Chinese advertisers is growing even as the Internet giant's share of online searches in China plunges. — A major Chinese portal announced last week …
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