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September 10, 2012, 10:15 PM

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Red Tape:

EXCLUSIVE: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week — BlueToad.com's CEO, Paul DeHart talks with NBC's Kerry Sanders about a security breach at the company. — NBC's Kerry Sanders — A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database …

Paul DeHart / BlueToad:

Statement from BlueToad regarding the cyber attack suffered in the recent case of stolen Apple UDIDs

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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Blue Toad Publishing Company Admits Stolen ‘FBI’ UDIDs Came From Them

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Klint Finley / TechCrunch:

GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility — According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it.

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Amid Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign — Following a day-long Domain Name Service server outage, web hosting provider GoDaddy is letting its competitor, VeriSign, host its DNS servers. — On Monday afternoon — about four hours after it was knocked offline …

More: TechCrunch, Computerworld and Naked Security

Elinor Mills / CNET:

Go Daddy says client Web sites back up

More: Computerworld and Examiner

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Got Better When Twitter Shut Us Off, Move Was “Partial Bulls**t” — LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed the removal of Twitter's feeds from its product, even though it was not their decision. — Hoffman says at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that its product …

More: The Technology Chronicles, VatorNews, TechCrunch, CNET, AllTwitter, CNET, AllThingsD, Business Insider and Business Insider

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Reid Hoffman On Investing In Facebook Now: He's Waiting For The Lock-Ups To Pass

More: blogs.ft.com and TechCrunch

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Zynga Marketing Chief Jeff Karp Is the Latest to Exit — Jeff Karp, Zynga's chief marketing and revenue officer, is resigning from the social games company. — Karp is the latest in a string of executives who have left the company in what is becoming a widespread restructuring.

More: VG247, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat and Gamasutra

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Zynga exec exodus continues as gaming company loses infrastructure CTO

More: CNET, Business Insider, fiercemobilecontent.com and Mashable!

Jason Schreier / Kotaku:

Valve Is Bringing Steam To Your TV Today. Watch Out, Consoles. — Today, Valve will launch the beta of Big Picture mode, a version of Steam designed for your television. That's right. The de facto central hub of PC gaming is now designed to run while you're lounging in your living room—and with a controller, no less.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, digitaltrends.com, Computerworld, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Technolog, Forbes, WebProNews, ForeverGeek, VG247, GamesIndustry International and SlashGear. Tweets: @gamespot

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Instagram is coming to Windows Phone, spotted in Nokia video — Instagram, a popular photo sharing app for iOS and Android, is heading to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. We're hearing from sources familiar with Microsoft's Windows Phone plans that an Instagram app will be made available …

More: PhoneArena, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile, PetaPixel, digitaltrends.com, Pocketnow and WebProNews

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

HP introduces new Apple iMac — Hewlett Packard has a long and rich history of innovation in Silicon Valley. As one of the first major computer companies to set down roots there, it has ties with nearly every maker to come after it, even Apple. Founder Steve Jobs famously contacted Bill Hewlett directly …

More: MacDailyNews, Curious Rat, joshuatopolsky.com, Marco.org, 9to5Mac, parislemon, CNET, PC Magazine, The Register and GeekWire. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community — You know the old saying about trust ... “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.” — And once destroyed it is very difficult if not impossible to repair. You need to be the guardian of your own reputation.

More: Digiday. Thanks:@mrinaldesai

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List — There are certain words Google doesn't want you to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in ‘peni...’ or ‘vagin...’ and the search giant leaves out the most obvious suggestions. This, despite the fact that these dictionary words …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, SiliconANGLE and 9to5Google

Cade Metz / Wired:

Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa — Photos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name printed on the long, thin piece of hardware.

Tweets: @pkafka and @aschmitt

Bloomberg:

Apple's Krall Leads Samsung Win in Jobs' Global Smartphone War — If Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patent litigation is the “thermonuclear war” over smartphone technology and design that co-founder Steve Jobs pledged to his biographer, Noreen Krall is its field marshal.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @ampressman

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

HP revises restructuring figures; now cutting 29,000 jobs — Summary: Computer maker HP will cut 29,000 jobs — an increase on its first estimate — as the firm continues to cut back on costs as it falls down the PC building market share rankings. — Zack Whittaker

More: BGR, Electronista, SiliconBeat, AllThingsD, eWeek, Associated Press, Forbes, TechSpot and Mashable!

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

That was fast: Amazon is already discounting settling publishers' ebooks — Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice's settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to fix ebook prices, Amazon has already begun discounting HarperCollins ebooks.

More: CNET, The Verge and Digital Book World. See also Mediagazer

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Y-Combinator Alum 42Floors Announces $5 Million Series A...Sorta — Y-Combinator Winter 2012 Alumni 42Floors set out to “hack commercial real estate...because searching for office space really, really sucks.” — Earlier today, the company posted a job listing to Y-Combinator news network …

Thanks:@jasonfreedman

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Dave Morin Says China Is Path's Second Biggest Country — Path CEO Dave Morin offered some updates on the company's growth while on-stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt. Version 2.0 of the journaling/personal networking app launched back in November, and Morin said the momentum from that launch has continued in recent months.

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOM

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Production of 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro and Updated iMacs Reportedly Ramping Up — Late last month, NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim reported that suppliers had begun production on 2560x1600 display panels destined for a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The machine has been rumored to be launching in October.

More: DigiTimes, Patently Apple, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, The Tech Report, iClarified, PC Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, Edible Apple, Macgasm, Computerworld and MacDailyNews

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Following controversies, Apple retail chief John Browett rallies troops ahead of ‘brilliant stuff’ in Q1 — Browett at an Apple Store opening (IFO Apple Store on Flickr) — John Browett, Apple's new Senior Vice President of Retail, has been the source of controversy in the Apple retail space as of late.

More: CNET and Business Insider

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Nielsen: Majority Of Mobile U.S. Teens Now Own Smartphones — Nielsen announced in May that more than half of U.S. mobile owners now owned smartphones, and today that metric has grown again, going from 50.4% to 55.5%. But the more interesting figure in the firm's release of July 2012 data …

More: BetaNews, AllThingsD, Engadget, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Nielsen Wire, AndroidGuys, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Washington Post and iDownloadBlog.com

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

iPhone design: Documents from the Samsung trial reveal more than ever about Apple's secretive design process — New documents reveal how Apple really invented the iPhone. — Like many of Apple's inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem.

More: CNET

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft goes public with plans for 32 holiday pop-up stores — Summary: Microsoft plans to open 32 holiday pop-up brick-and-mortar stores some time this fall. — Microsoft officials have gone public with the full list of its planned 32 holiday pop-up brick-and-mortar stores.

More: The Register, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, Pocketables, VentureBeat, GeekWire, AllThingsD and Gizmodo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

“I Never Wanted To Be An Entrepreneur” Says Jack Dorsey — “... I wanted to be Bruce Lee. I wanted to be a sailor. I wanted to be a tailor. I wanted to craft products and share with others.” — Speaking today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey took the audience through …

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