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Reuters – Australia’s dominant phone company, Telstra Corp, will be $5 billion better off working with the government’s new high-speed broadband network than competing against it, an independent expert said, paving the way for shareholder approval.

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Reuters – Google Inc promoted a Groupon-like daily deals offer on its home page on Wednesday for the first time, a rare instance of the Internet giant using its prized online real estate for advertising.

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Mashable – The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
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AP – Online reviews site Yelp is making a change to the way it allocates its sales force to the online deal service it launched last year. The move comes less than a week after Facebook shuttered a similar program that failed to gain traction in a market dominated by Groupon.

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Reuters – Software maker Openwave Systems filed a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion on Wednesday, alleging infringement of five of its patents relating to mobile Internet technology.

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Appolicious – There are a whole lot of people using mobile apps, and a whole lot of mobile apps available. There’s so many, in fact, that mobile market analyst Flurry Analytics expects that mobile advertising inventory is on pace to surpass that of online web advertising, despite the web ad business being about five times older.

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Reuters – Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, well known for creating controversy and raising eyebrows, has revealed her sexual frustration in a series of blog and Twitter posts, much to the amusement of her followers.

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Mashable – With the rise of in-flight Wi-Fi, today’s jetsetters no longer have to forgo Internet connectivity at 35,000 feet.
How are we using this modern convenience? Researchers at Gogo — the in-flight Wi-Fi provider for American, Delta, United, Virgin and other airlines — sought to find out. Gogo analyzed its network data and has shared its findings with Mashable in infographic form.

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Reuters – FAIRFIELD, Conn./CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (Reuters) — Google Inc’s blockbuster acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc will bring an unusual stable of tax and accounting benefits to the search-engine giant, already one of Corporate America’s most savvy users of such perks.

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Mashable – Internet users in Pakistan might have a harder time protecting their information — from authority interception and crooks alike — after a ban on virtual private networks (VPNs) takes effect.
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority sent a legal notice to the country’s ISPs, ordering them to turn in customers who use VPNs, The Guardian reports. According to the notice, anyone who wants to use a VPN needs to ask for special permission.

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AP – Experts say the Iranian government may have been behind a hacking attack, allowing it to read Google email from dissidents who thought they were using secure connections.

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AP – Police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating a 14-year-old girl for making threatening comments about the Caribbean country’s prime minister in an Internet video.

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Appolicious – When iOS 5 finally hits the Internet this fall, it’ll include a number of cool new services from Apple. The biggest, clearly, is iTunes in the Cloud, which takes the entirety of Apple’s iTunes software and turns it into a cloud service. One portion of that – Apple’s cloud music service – is called iTunes Match.

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Reuters – Russian internet investment group Mail.ru raised its full-year revenue growth forecast to 50 percent from 40 percent on Wednesday after sales and profit rose at its social network, online gaming and e-mail activities in the first half.

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Reuters – eBay Inc expects sales from large exporters in China to maintain growth at 30-40 percent annually, with the e-commerce giant seeking acquisition opportunities as part of efforts to expand its footprint in the fast-growing market.

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Reuters – Harvard regained its top spot on a list of most talked-about U.S. universities on the Internet, beating its rivals just in time for a return to fall studies, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

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Mashable – Tumblr, the simple sharing service and blog alternative, continues to attract a record number of visitors each month.
According to comScore, Tumblr scored 13.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. in July — up 218% from the same time last year.

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AP – The accelerated public disclosure of tens of thousands of previously unreleased State Department cables by the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy organization has raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential U.S. embassy sources and is proving a source of fresh diplomatic setbacks and embarrassment for the Obama administration, current and former American officials said Tuesday.

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NewsFactor – Music lovers who have been anticipating Apple’s cloud music service will have to wait a little while yet — though perhaps not too much longer.

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Appolicious – As it turns out, booking airfare doesn’t have to be a horrendous headache. Skyscanner — All Flights for Android is a very handy tool that will save you time conducting Internet searches and will ultimately save you some cash, too.

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Reuters – Google Inc’s board of directors faces a lawsuit for previously allowing Canadian pharmacies to advertise prescription drugs to U.S. customers via the Web search leader.

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Mashable – Students who buy or rent a textbook from Chegg will no longer need to wait for it to arrive in the mail before they can start their homework.
The online textbook vendor is launching a new “read while you wait” feature on Tuesday night that gives its customers access to an ebook version of some books while the paper versions ship.

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AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Aug. 29, 2011:

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AP – Three of Sweden’s biggest newspapers are changing their websites to monitor instant, anonymous comments from readers — a move designed to crack down on Internet expressions of racism and hatred.

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Reuters – British scientists have devised a way of using graphene, the thinnest material in the world, to capture and convert more light than previously, paving the way for advances in high-speed Internet and other optical communications.

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AP – Looking for a fresh place to collect stock tips? A University of Kansas research team suggests looking at data from online search engines.

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Mashable – CNN has acquired iPad newsreading app Zite, the company announced Tuesday.
Like AOL’s more recently launched iPad newsreading app, Editions, Zite creates a personalized, magazine-like reading experience by filtering stories from your Google Reader, social networks and self-defined preferences. The more you read, the more finely tailored it becomes. It keeps note of the kinds and length of stories you click on, how long you’re reading them for — and, just as importantly, the stories you don’t click on.

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Appolicious – Need a music fix this week? Check out today’s Fresh iPhone Apps: Campout, which lets you stream tracks from indie music selling site Bandcamp over an Internet connection, and Zeppelin Air, which makes use of Apple’s Airplay software to allow users to stream music between devices. In games, get in the football season spirit with the release of Madden NFL 12, the latest in the monster football game series. If sneaking around is more your thing, you’ll enjoy SPY mouse, a game from the makers of Flight Control about helping a mouse get cheese and avoid patrolling cats.

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Mashable – Facebook may be the default platform for sharing — and over-sharing — just about anything. Now Foodily’s new Facebook app, launched Tuesday, gives cooking enthusiasts a streamlined feed for recipe sharing on the social network.
The recipe search engine pulls its content from a wide range of sources across the web, indexing recipes by ingredient. Its new app gives you a dedicated, real-time feed of the recipes your friends save on the site and allows you to see your friends’ recipe boxes. When you save a recipe, the friend who initially shared the dish is notified.

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Reuters – China’s state-run news agency demanded on Tuesday that Internet companies, regulators and police do more to cleanse websites of “toxic rumors,” adding to signs that the ruling Communist Party wants to tame the explosion of freewheeling microblogs.

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Reuters – Australia’s competition regulator voiced objections on Tuesday to the terms of the proposed split of dominant phone company Telstra Corp, threatening to delay an historic reform designed to wire up the entire nation to high-speed broadband.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc may sell as many as 5 million tablet computers in the fourth quarter, making the largest Internet retailer the top competitor to Apple Inc in this fast-growing niche of the consumer PC market, Forrester Research said on Monday.

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Mashable – MTV’s 2011 Video Music Awards (VMAs) were a huge hit on TV and online.
According to Twitter’s global PR team, Beyonce’s baby reveal at 10:35 p.m. ET gave Twitter a record bump of 8,868 tweets per second.

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Mashable – Jonathan Rick is a social media strategist in Arlington, VA. You can follow him on Twitter @jrick and read his blog at JonathanRick.com.
In business, definitions are everywhere. They’re your first line of defense in mission statements, job descriptions, expense accounts, statements of work, accounting principles and the like. If you fail to define the parameters and jurisdiction of a tool or concept, you’ll be left with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous but ultimately vague application: “I know it when I see it.”

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AP – China’s most popular microblogging site is cracking down on what it says is the spread of false rumors after the ruling Communist Party told Internet companies to tighten control over information online.

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Appolicious – Apple is constantly at war with “jailbreakers,” or hackers who break down the defenses of the Apple’s iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad and remove the restrictions the company places on them. Jailbreaking allows people to use iPhones on otherwise-unsupported carriers, download non-iTunes App Store apps and support a host of other functions that Apple doesn’t necessarily want iPhone owners doing with its hardware.

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AP – Below the streets of New York City, a network of pipes, cables and tunnels up to 200 feet deep transports power, gas, water, Internet traffic, trains, sewage and more. When Tropical Storm Irene hit the city Sunday, this underground network was largely protected from major damage.

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AP – A Communist Party leader has told China’s Internet companies to tighten control over material online as Beijing cracks down on dissent and tries to block the rise of Middle East-style protests.

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Reuters – Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) said it had not been cutting jobs at its U.S. arm T-Mobile USA in anticipation of the unit’s sale to AT&T , as reported by a German online magazine on Friday.

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Reuters – Justice Department investigators believed that Google Inc’s Chief Executive Larry Page knew about improper online pharmacy ads that Google carried, and allowed the ads for years, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Reuters – “Modern Family” fans will no longer have the option to rent or buy — at least when it comes to iTunes.

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Mashable – Anne Driscoll is the vice president of business operations at Ning, where she is responsible for marketing, communications, creative services and human resources. Prior to joining Ning, Anne led communications and brand initiatives at Google.
“Social action” comes easy to those who understand the value of service, helping others and devoting themselves to making the world a better place despite challenges. The trick is turning that personal motivation into a widespread and impactful movement. Grassroots communities are a way to get actionable success even with limited budgets and resources.

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Mashable – Apple has axed its TV rental program within iTunes.
The company introduced the ability to rent certain episodes of television programs for $0.99 each last September, in conjunction with the rejiggered Apple TV.

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Appolicious – Get ready for the weekend with our Fresh iPhone Apps today. Dramatic Black & White is a photography app that’ll help you take artsy photos of your weekend adventures, and if you’re looking for something a little more low-key to do, Movie Night Out makes planning a movie night out extremely easy. In games, there’s a brand new time-sink massively multiplayer online game from the makers of Pocket Legends, called Star Legends, that’ll give you plenty to do indoors this weekend. …

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Mashable – In its first earnings announcement as a publicly traded company, Pandora revealed that its Internet radio service now accounts for approximately 3.6% of all radio listening in the U.S.
That’s based on the roughly 1.8 billion hours its 100+ million users spent listening to the service during the second quarter, which was up 125% from the same period in the previous year.

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Reuters – The blogging service Tumblr is close to raising $75-$100 million in venture capital, implying a market value of $800 million, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Reuters – Online radio service Pandora Media Inc reported results that beat expectations on strong advertising sales in its fiscal second quarter.

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Reuters – AOL Inc shares rose nearly 9 percent on Thursday as the Internet company — long seen as a merger candidate — confirmed it has an investment banker and a law firm on retainer.

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