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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won't Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market — With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn't want to flood the market with any more stock, so it has cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash …
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Fortune, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Mashable!, CNET and Tech Trader Daily. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Mark Cuban / blog maverick: |
Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right — Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the NY Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong. — Have you ever been to an auction where the selling party told …
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
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| Alexandra Scaggs / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers — The FBI has shot down today's claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.
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| Aldo Cortesi: |
The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe — 04 September 2012 — Something I've been worrying about for a long time has just happened: Antisec has leaked a database with more than a million UDIDs. The UDID issue has been a bit of a white whale of mine - I've written many blog posts …
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple announces special event for September 12 — Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00 am.
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Network World, MobileSyrup.com, RazorianFly, Engadget, MacRumors, 9.blog, PhoneArena, The Next Web, TechCrunch, SplatF, Daring Fireball, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, The Verge, iPhone BlogiPhone Blog, Business Insider, GadgeTell, BGR, CNET, Apple Fan Site, NBC Bay Area, Washington Post, IntoMobile, MacStories and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @viticci
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Leaks accurate, this is what the new iPhone will look like — iMore has learned that recent parts leaks and dummy phones are accurate representations of what the new iPhone (iPhone 5,1) will look like when Apple announces it on September 12, 2012. Almost identical in design to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S …
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| Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog: |
Accountability on Kickstarter — Yesterday, NPR's “All Things Considered” asked, “When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?” The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow through on its promises.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuttered after virtual heist — Nearly a quarter million dollars worth of the peer-to-peer currency was stolen by accessing unencrypted backup wallet keys. — Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor is offline and has shut down operations while it investigates the theft …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Judge orders Oracle to pay Google $1M for court expert fees — Summary: Google wins some and loses some while the federal judge in the case gives up on trying to track down any more paid commentators in the case. — Rachel King — The federal judge in Oracle v. Google has given …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
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| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out? — This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors. — One was an argument that it'll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went like this: Facebook, Groupon …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The end of Android tablets: can Google match Amazon's success before Microsoft closes the window? — This Thursday, we expect that Amazon will be unveiling a least one new Kindle Fire alongside a new e-reader. If you believe Amazon's somewhat fuzzy math, the Kindle Fire is far and away … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
What “Xbox Games on Windows” actually means — Only a select few Windows 8 games will be branded as “Xbox Games on Windows” — As a branding exercise, the recently unveiled “Xbox Games on Windows” is more than a little confusing. The “Xbox” name has previously been exclusively reserved …
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| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
Democrats' YouTube Convention Livestream Blocked on Copyright Grounds — While First Lady Michelle Obama's speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, don't get inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube - it's been blocked by copyright claims.| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
As ed tech heats up, Desire2Learn raises $80M in its first VC round — Since launching in 1999, Desire2Learn, a Canadian ed tech company that shares a hometown with Research in Motion, has bootstrapped its way to profitability. — But after more than a decade of going it alone …
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A Key Test for Nokia's CEO — Elop Dismisses Samsung Threat as Handset Maker Prepares to Launch New Windows Phones — When Nokia Corp. launches a new series of devices running Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 8 software, Chief Executive Stephen Elop wants to send a clear message … | Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders — Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed … | Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat: |
Uber Is Close to Launching a Taxi App to Hail and Pay for Yellow Cabs in New York City — A source has informed Betabeat that Uber—the pricey, San Francisco-based request-a-ride app for black cars—plans on an imminent launch for a similar service for yellow cabs in New York City.
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New York Times, CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat
| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Chinese Knockoff Maker Reportedly Copies, Patents iPhone 5 Design — The Goophone I5 takes the upcoming iPhone's purported new look to the Android platform. Image: Goophone — A Chinese iPhone lookalike manufacturer has reportedly patented the next iPhone's design before Apple has even released the handset.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple extends Volume Purchase Program for apps, books to 9 new countries including UK — Apple has today posted a public notice to developers that its Volume Purchasing Program is available in 9 new countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom.| Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
NEC Sells Shares in Lenovo, Japan PC Joint Venture Unaffected — NEC has sold for about US$230 million shares in Chinese computer maker Lenovo it acquired last year when the companies formed a joint venture to produce PCs in Japan. — The sale, completed to an unnamed securities firm in Japan …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Galaxy S III passes Apple's iPhone 4S, becomes top selling US smartphone — For the first time since it launched last October, Apple's iPhone 4S was not the top selling smartphone in the U.S., as the newly released Samsung Galaxy S III took the top spot in the month of August.
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