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Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
SKYPE SCANDAL: Here's How Big Bad Private-Equity Firm Silver Lake Sees The Situation — Over the past week, a minor scandal has emerged in Silicon Valley over the way a bunch of senior Skype executives were treated after the company agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $9 billion.
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CNET News and Felix Salmon
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Skype's Worthless Employee Stock Option Plan: Here's Why They Did It — Skype is being criticized for terminating employees immediately prior to the closing of the Microsoft acquisition, and people are assuming they're doing this to keep the value of those employees stock options.
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A VC, TechCrunch, Bazinga Journal, Boing Boing, @nivi, Techie Buzz, parislemon and Slashdot
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Google's SOE (Strategy of Everything) — As a Venture Capitalist, I occasionally hear entrepreneurs lay out a Strategy of Everything, a plan to be all things to all people. (SOE rhymes with TOE, the Theory of Everything, the Holy Grail of mathematical physics, only less attainable than the sacred object...)
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Google Watch, FM Blog and CNET News
Nick Ross / ABC News:
BREAKING: Anonymous picks up where Lulzsec leaves off with new hack — BREAKING: With the notorious Lulzsec hacking group having announced its retirement yesterday, the Anonymous hacking group has stepped back into the fore. — The group Tweeted: Little teaser while we work on the actual release …
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Gizmodo, New York Times and @anonymousirc
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Pearce H. Delphin / @zzap:
Brilliant! Just out: Hackers hacking hackers. Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd; identification info released http://pd.cx/e3wng
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THN, Pastebin, Electronista, i found the internet, @peaceful_anon, @peaceful_anon, Examiner, @failsec, @kencox, @b14ck4dd3r, @chatterb0xxx and The Business Insider
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
What is LulzSec afraid of? — Or stated differently …
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PC Magazine, Associated Press, The Next Web and ZDNet
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How to Bypass the New York Times Paywall In Three Seconds, Zero Hacking Required — If you're annoyed by the New York Times' stupid paywall, here's the secret trick to destroy it and read as many articles as you want. As this video shows, it only takes three seconds: — Step 1.
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@centernetworks, Fast Company and Examiner, Thanks:gizmodo
Tiernan Ray / Barron's Online:
It's Getting Awfully Lonely in PC Land — Micron, Dell, HP and others rush to emphasize anything beyond PCs. — Has the personal-computer business become too toxic to touch? — It seems as if companies can't get out of the PC business fast enough. Micron Technology (ticker: MU) …
Dave Chase / TechCrunch:
Why Google Health Really Failed—It's About The Money — Editor's note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture's healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft's Health business.
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GigaOM and HealthCamp thoughts …
Wall Street Journal:
Nokia, Siemens Fail to Find Investors for Joint Venture — Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG have shifted their focus to restructuring their joint venture in telecommunications-networking equipment, after failing to reach a deal with bidders for a controlling stake in the unprofitable business, people familiar with the matter said.
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Reuters and Electronista
Lindsey Rupp / Bloomberg:
Citigroup Says Hackers Caused $2.7 Million of Losses on Cards — Citigroup Inc., the third-largest U.S. bank, said about 3,400 customers lost about $2.7 million when their credit-card information was breached by hackers earlier this year. — The customers will be reimbursed, Sean Kevelighan …
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Computerworld
Rebecca Boyle / Popular Science:
ISS Will Broadcast First Streaming HD Video of Earth — Hurricane Ivan From Space via Wikimedia Commons — Only a lucky few have ever seen what Earth looks like from space, with human impacts all but invisible and the blackness of space just beyond the horizon.
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DVICE, ExtremeTech and Gizmag Emerging …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
BestBuy.com stops shipping MacBook Airs ahead of refresh — We've known for many weeks now that a refreshed line of MacBook Airs is incoming, starting with rumors about Airs with Sandy Bridge processors way back then, our report that the current SKUs are constrained across the globe …
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AppleInsider and Electronista, Thanks:oswdev
Riva Richmond / New York Times:
U.S. to Provide Guidelines to Bolster Computer Security — The Homeland Security Department plans to unveil on Monday a new system of guidance intended to help make the software behind many services — be they Web sites or power grids — less susceptible to hacking.
